I was just browsing this site’s web statistics.
The front-runner, the piece of content that the world most wants to see is (tadaaa!): Configuring the Squid Internet Proxy Server.
This is interesting because–while I am a compentent and experienced *nix administrator–Linux is not really my core business. I consider myself a top-notch Java/J(2)EE/Enterprise Integration guy.
Strange that a paper I wrote in a day or so for a small vendor-promoted conference in 2002 should be so popular! It has always been thus, right from the time it was first foisted onto the world at large.
I have just reviewed it and it still seems relevant and accurate, so long may it reign.
I guess that no parent knows how their children will develop, and I am no different :-)
Here are some of the other old and new favourites on this site:
- Rapid Database Driven Web Development with Grails (2008)
- Java is Dead. Long Live Groovy! (2008)
- XQuery (2004)
- Linux ’sudo’ Tutorial (2003)
- The J2EE Component Technologies (2003)
- Examining the Open Source Equation (2003)
- SOAP; Simple Object Access Protocol (2001)
The Linux sudo tutorial has a curious little story associated with it: while I was preparing it (and all the materials that made up my two-day “Introduction to Linux” course courseware [for more about this course, see here, here and here; there are more courses available]) a young friend of mine asked me if he should study IT at University. My response: “Work through and proofread these tutorials for me and you will find out if you enjoy using the computer for doing more than just playing games.” Poor guy ended up so bored that he went off and took Legal Studies instead! I feel so guilty for having foisted another lawyer-type on the world :-) The materials were fine, but learning about sudo just isn’t the same as shooting down invading alien spaceships, it seems.
