1. What are great open source projects to see Rail’s best practices and code standards?
2. Is there a list of all Linux system call, with the instructions?
3. What’s the best way to start/control a background process in a PHP application?
4. What are the good books about developing state machines in C?

While it is evidently valuable for every project manager, I found that a lot of what is said can also be of great help for a software developer.  The schedule games she describes can be prevented with the help of the team, and if you notice of those games running, you too can help stop it.  All the chapters about estimation, multitasking, and planning would be valuable for software developers too.

At least, if it simply makes you better understand what your project manager’s life looks like, what he have to deal with, that can only improve the relationship.

Here’s the chapter list :

1. Starting a project
2. Planning the project
3. Using life cycles to design your project
4. Scheduling the project
5. Estimating the work
6. Recognizing and avoiding schedule games
7. Creating a great project team
8. Steering the project
9. Maintaining the project rhythm
10. Managing meetings
11. Creating and using a project dashboard
12. Managing multisite projects
13. Integrating testing into the project
14. Managing programs
15. Completing a project
16. Managing the project portfolio

All in all, I will recommend this book to all software developers, testers, and project managers.  It will help everyone working on a software development project.

Still today, most people on LinkedIn are there because they received many invitations.  They then decided to join the wave and dropped their resume, then wait.  That’s sad, since LinkedIn offer many benefits, for free :

1. External communication : Forget wrong e-mails, CRM, and mass e-mail software – LinkedIn simplified and integrated it all.
2. Internal communication : Start a group reserved for your employees.  This way, you benefits from their contacts, share yours, and be informed of any changes.
3. Business development : Increase your visibility and be found by millions of users.  Find new clients and partners.
4. Job : Target businesses, be informed of job opportunities, or reach recruiters or anybody else inside the targeted businesses.
5. Expertise : LinkedIn is a great source of experts.  Thanks to advanced research, find a specialist on anything, any subject, sector, business, or region.
6. Formation : Get answers to your questions, read comments from members and get contents from your contacts.
7. Business intelligence : Stay informed of your competitor’s job openings and your industry’s news.  Ask questions to your contacts, members of your groups, or your concurrent’s previous employees.
8. Recruitment : More than 80 % of recruiters are using LinkedIn. Nothing surprising since this tool gives you the resume of millions of candidates.

I’m inviting you to listen to this LinkedIn online training (in french), the most consulted in the french world :

1. Why use LinkedIn? (in french)
2. How to fill your LinkedIn profile? (in french)
3. How to create your LinkedIn network? (in french)
4. How to optimize your LinkedIn presence? (in french)
5. How to search on LinkedIn? (in french)
6. How to manage your privacy? (in french)
7. How to find a job on LinkedIn? (in french)
8. How to find clients on LinkedIn? (in french)

More about the author

Founder of Linked Québec, Simon Hénault is a LinkedIn trainer (training in business development, recruiting solutions, and community development). He coaches professionals and B2B enterprises in the creation and implantation of web business development strategies, specially by creating contents and publishing it on LinkedIn.

1. How to launch an independent process in PHP from httpd?
2. What is the best way to handle out of memory situation in C and C++?
3. What were the languages used for developing OSes before C was used?
4. How to programmatically get the address of the heap in Linux?
5. How to call C++ class methods from C?

Here is how to create both .deb packages (source and binary) from the .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, and .debian.tar.gz files.

1. Create a directory to work from
   • mkdir newpackage && cd newpackage
2. Download the .dsc, .orig.tar.gz, and .debian.tar.gz files for the software you needed.
3. Create the source directory
   • dpkg-source -x <packagename_version>.dsc
4. Get into the package source directory
   • cd <packagename-version>
5. Build both source and binary .deb
   • dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
6. Verify the binary package’s content
   • dpkg –contents ../<packagename_version_platform>.deb

1. Has the use of C to implement other languages constrained their designs?
2. Is there a Linux distribution with a pure HTML interface?
3. Problems with manually creating an ELF file.

Cascade in not a simple subversion client.  The main part of it is the Cascade File System (CFS), which is used to interact with a either a Perforce, Subversion, or Alienbrain repository.  On top of that, there’s the Cascade Proxy which create an easy and effective way for remotely accessing the repository.  Then, there’s the Cascade Manager that does automated builds and tests when changes are committed to the repository.

While this suite of tools is very interesting and seems to offer great functionality rarely found in free tools (Cascade isn’t open source, but it’s free for personal use), I didn’t reach the point of trying it.  The reason is, you need to install it as root, which isn’t great for a subversion client.  I’m sure that it would be possible for them to make it so it allow an installation from a non root user.

But if you want to, checkout the manual, and get yourself an idea of Cascade.  It looks really interesting, if you are a business.  For personal use, the requirements and installation procedure are too cumbersome.  Get yourself an open source Subversion client instead.

For a brief overview of what GlusterFS is, from wikipedia :

GlusterFS is a general purpose distributed file system for scalable storage. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. GlusterFS is based on a stackable user space design without compromising performance. From the ground zero days it has found a variety of applications ranging from Cloud Computing, Biomedical Sciences to Archival Storage.

• How does the Linux kernel handle new file creation?
• How to set a shell environment variable in C?
• What file system is used for the swap in Linux?
• Can you use more than the standard STDOUT, STDIN, and STDERR file descriptors to interact with the shell from your program?

1. Should temporary variables declarations be out of loops in C?
2. How to detect the memory page size, in C or C++?
3. Advantages of upgrading to Java 6?
4. Most efficient way of finding a list of words in text, in Python?