A lot of performance tools are very web-oriented these days. Here are a list of tools for simulating network traffic conditions and check throughput, delay, jitter, etc.
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The CCSDS standards can be intimidating to the uninitiated, this article covers AOS, TC, COP-1, and other protocols used in space communications, how they interact, and where to find the details.
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In a surprisingly well-kept secret, HgWeb and HgWebDir support RSS. Details below.
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I’m putting this here because it took me two days to figure this out. RHEL 5 (or CentOS 5) has openLDAP broken out of the box. It does not handle SSHA password encryption (the default for openLDAP) properly. If you want openLDAP authentication to work with PAM on CentOs 5.3 you MUST edit the /etc/openldap/slapd.conf to contain:

password-hash    {CRYPT}

If you do not then as soon as you use ldappasswd to change a password your user will no longer be able to log in. That is all.

Why is XML better than custom internal formats? Isn’t a non-standard set of XML tags basically equivalent to a custom format when using data internally to an application? Absolutely not, and here is why.
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DVSL is a fairly small, little known, product associated with the Velocity project over at Apache which takes the best part of XSLT, XPATH, and replaces the verbose and frustrating scripting of XSLT with a java-based template language instead.
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What are the differences and when should I use one or the other?
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This article expands the example from the previous two, here and here, to add more specific error information.

As always the full code from the example is available here here.

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In this article I demonstrate how to write your own check macros for the boost test library (not guaranteed to work in the future)

Full source code for this example can be downloaded here.
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