Monthly Archive:: January 2005

Colors are another form of data, and in light of the fact that the human eye can perceive more than ten million different colors, that's a potentially huge amount of data. Color theory helps you organize this data into manageable chunks. This chapter outlines color theory, both pigment-based theory and light-based theory.

Testing code isn't the easiest thing in the world, and it gets even more complicated when working with legacy code. This chapter explains the theory behind modular coding and how testing can be difficult in this environment.

So you want to start programming UNIX shells. You could sit down with a dense volume of coding advice, but you're a techie. You want to jump right in and start coding. This chapter will help you get started right away with shell programming in UNIX.

Learn about three new features coming to Enterprise Linux (D-BUS, HAL & Network Manager) that are designed to make hardware "just work." The technologies that make this possible were inspired by Havoc Pennington's paper on this topic.

Pieter Van den Abeele of Gentoo writes in his blog: "The Gentoo team has done an amazing job creating the most customizable meta-distribution on todays market. One of our projects codenamed Portaris, has been maintaining Gentoo Portage on top of Solaris9 and Solaris10 builds. I am pleased to announce that Gentoo is considering integrating OpenSolaris support into the machine readable knowledge base we call Portage."