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Cross Platform Opensource Apps

I use Fedora 20 at home and Windows 7 at work but I like to be able to have a consistent environment across my Workstations. The following is a list of productivity applications that gets installed on both Windows and Linux.  

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CakePHP Login and Authenticaton Tutorial

http://miftyisbored.com/a-complete-login-and-authentication-application-tutorial-for-cakephp-2-3/ This site is by a multi-talented developer that sometimes Blogs about CakePHP. The good thing about it is he includes listings for the structure of the database tables...

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NGinx Logrotate

When you start creating virtual hosts under NGinx and give them separate access and error logs don't forget to update the logrotate configuration otherwise your logs just keep growing. I have named my logs with .access and .error extensions instead of the default .log...

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Postfix / Mailgun Setup

For each website domain name I want to send email and make sure that it reliably delivered through a trusted relayhost. Mailgun allows you to set TXT records for each of your domains to add the mailgun smtp relay servers as trusted hosts for relaying your email from...

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