Exclude Directory from Tar

In order to exclude, skip, ignore a directory from a TAR archive do the following: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” -czvf tarball.tgz dir/ To exclude, skip, ignore multiple directories with TAR: tar –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash” –exclude=”dir/excluded_dir_no_slash_2″ -czvf tarball.tgz dir/ This answer in the question from … Read More

An Article on Frameworks

These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems … Read More

How to Identify a Font

Here’s some links and information from my attempt at identifying a font. http://www.identifont.com/ http://www.whatthefont.com/ I’ve found that some of the online applications; from the question and answer service at identifont.com to the image upload service at whatthefont.com are pretty neat, … Read More

Multi-Level User Access With Joomla

It’s well known that Joomla’s core user management and access tools are lacking. I have begun using JaclPlus to provide multiple levels of access to my Web site’s content. Here’s a summary description of JaclPlus from the Joomla Extensions Directory … Read More

Internet2 – Who Needs Web 2.0

From the Web site: http://www.internet2.edu/ “Internet2 is the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium. Led by the research and education community since 1996, Internet2 promotes the missions of its members by providing both leading-edge network capabilities and unique partnership opportunities that … Read More