LinkedIn, the business social network, hopped on the platform bandwagon this time last year by opening up its network to developers. It was a move I was excited to see Reid Hoffman’s crew make. LinkedIn, unlike some of the other professional networks that came before it, is actually very useful. It’s a great way to reach people within large companies, and an even better tool for recruiting and finding like-minded business people. Any extension of such a platform, therefore, was great news in my book. So how has it fared thus far?

Let me put it this way: The LinkedIn platform is no different than the Florida real estate market — neither have any building going on. And that is why it gets a solid D from me. D is for disappointing, by the way.

LinkedIn opened up its platform using Open Social and called the effort InApps. (It remains in beta.) It had half a dozen partners, among them SlideShare, Box.net, Tripit and SimplyHired.

How many new partners have launched apps on LinkedIn since then? How about none! And how many apps are there? I just counted again — there are eight approved apps on the web. Eight. And no, that doesn’t include the ones made by LinkedIn itself, including the recently launched SAP Community Connection. A new Twitter-focused app tentatively called TweetIn is likely to make its debut soon. The only other two major developments that I have seen are partnerships with BusinessWeek and The New York Times.

From what I hear, third-party developers have had a tough time working with LinkedIn; an inability to link to the company’s data set is a big issue, according to my sources. The moribund nature of the LinkedIn platform should be a warning to every single developer out there: For companies, sometimes opening up a platform is little more than an easy way to get cheap press.

LinkedIn is looking to make some changes. Last month, when it announced that it had 50 million professionals on its network, our friend Marshall Kirkpatrick quipped that it was still a roach motel. In response, Adam Nash, VP of search & platform products at LinkedIn, left a comment saying: “I think you’ll be quite happy with our plans for improvements to our APIs. Stay tuned.”

Apparently those plans include the recent poaching of Paul Lindner from Hi5, a social network that’s going through an identity crisis of its own. Lindner is a contributor to Apache Shindig, the OpenSocial back end used by everyone except MySpace.

To me, what’s most incredulous about LinkedIn’s open platform fail is that it’s all taken place under the leadership of CEO Jeff Weiner, who was one of the key proponents of social search when he was at Yahoo (back when Yahoo still had search). Even then, he was open to the notion of open platforms and social networks — in other words, he had the right ideas. With LinkedIn, he had the right platform. Too bad the company hasn’t been able to make it truly social.

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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) [ISPConfig 2]

This tutorial shows how to set up an Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Ubuntu
9.10) server that offers all services needed by ISPs and hosters:
Apache web server (SSL-capable), Postfix mail server with SMTP-AUTH and
TLS, BIND DNS server, Proftpd FTP server, MySQL server, Courier
POP3/IMAP, Quota, Firewall, etc. In the end you should have a system
that works reliably, and if you like you can install the free
webhosting control panel ISPConfig 2 (i.e., ISPConfig runs on it out of the box).

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The Perfect Server – Ubuntu Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) [ISPConfig 2] originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on November 6, 2009.

A few months ago, Anton Isaykin in collaboration with the company 2comrades discovered a serious security problem that is quite typical of big projects (we do not name names here). To test it, they obtained the file structures and even the source code of about 3320 Russian websites and some major English-language websites. Serious problems like this aren’t supposed to exist nowadays. Every serious or visible exploit is found and fixed quickly. But here we will show you something simple and ordinary yet quite dangerous.

What Is It?

Almost every developer has used or is using a version control system such as SVN. SVN is an advanced tool for managing source code and is used by teams consisting of anywhere from two to hundreds of developers. In its architecture, SVN stores some meta data in a hidden sub-directory (called .svn) of every directory. One of the files in there, named entries, is a list of all of the files and directories contained in the folder where .svn is located.

It also has a link to the repository itself, developer log-ins, file sizes and dates. That’s a problem right there, isn’t it? So, if a project was developed using SVN, we could go to draftcopy.ru/.svn/entries and see the project’s root file structure, with all of this information.

And we could go even further. In the same .svn directory are some text-base directories containing the latest versions of all project files. Moreover, these files carry the non-standard extension .svn-base (for example, index.php.svn-base). So, the files are not run in PHP, Ruby, Python or Perl but are displayed outright!

http://draftcopy.ru/.svn/text-base/index.php.svn-base

We should note that not all websites use SVN this way. We were not able to get the source code in every case.

When we realized that this problem has persisted for almost nine years, we decided to create a crawler to check websites with Russian top-level domains and major .com websites to collect some statistics. But before we report this, let’s go over how to prevent such a thing from happening to your own project.

How To Defend Yourself

You can solve the problem in different ways. The simplest solution is to deny access to SVN meta data directories from port 80 using a Web server configuration.

Solution for nginx

location ~ /.svn/ {
    deny all;
}

nginx has no global location support, so we have to apply this solution to every server section. For the solution to stick, you have to apply it before any other locations with regular expressions. In most cases, you can use the first location.

Solution for Apache

<Directory ~ ".*\.svn">
    Order allow,deny
    Deny from all
    Satisfy All
</Directory>

Apache is simpler. Just add the lines above to httpd.conf, which will secure all of your projects.

Solution Using SVN

The cure for the problem is to use the Web server. Every doctor will tell you that prevention is easier and cheaper than treatment. The best solution, then, is to not let .svn in your Web root. To do this, use svn export. It’s a common good developer’s practice, but apparently in many cases some developers do not follow it.

Let The Robot Do The Work

As we said, we decided to check the Russian-language Internet for this problem. We established proxy servers, developed a crawler and got a list of .ru domains.

The first crawler version ran for two weeks, getting websites one by one in a thread. When it was finished, we found about 3000 websites affected and had about 100 GB of source code. The problem was that the crawler downloaded every resource, even if the HTTP response code was 500 and not 200, including images and JavaScript. Also some servers responded with a 200 code even when files were not actually there.

The second version was faster. It was multi-threaded and launched from two servers. Also it could work with HTTP response codes and check meta data syntax. This time, the entire .ru zone was covered in four days. Next, we wanted to check .com, but that would have taken about two years with our resources (there are more than 700,000,000 .com domains, compared to only 2,000,000 .ru domains).

So, we partnered with a good C developer, Andrey Saterenko, who implemented a really fast daemon that could do the job 200% faster. Unfortunately, the summer ended and we had jobs to do. We decided not to check the entire .com domain. So, we picked the top websites based on Alexa statistics and threw in some famous websites that we really like.

We had to alert the developers involved in all of these affected projects before we published this article. We first sent letters to the major Russian services, such as Yandex, Rambler.ru, Mail.ru, Opera.com, Rbk.ru, 003.ru, Bolero.ru and habrahabr.ru. Then the remaining 3000+ Russian websites received their letters. After that, we sent emails to the top .com websites.

Some Numbers

• Domains checked: 2,253,388.
• Projects affected: 3332.

We have no detailed statistics on how many projects have been fixed since our report. Perhaps we’ll publish that information in two weeks. We received replies from six major Russian projects. One .com project sent us thanks. We got an email from Wikimedia, and Rasmus Lerdorf of PHP.net emailed us (immediately!). Both projects are open source, so their source code couldn’t be “stolen,” but we emailed them just in case. Ten projects ignored our emails, and four fixed the problem without replying.

Fun fact: approximately 10 websites with “hack” or “secure” in their domain name are actually not secure.

Credentials

All of the source code was printed and then burned. Don’t ask us to sell it or publish it. We don’t have it anymore. Please check if your favorite website is affected. If it is, write a letter to its support team, with a link to this article. If this article has helped you find and fix the problem, please send an email to sam [at] rmcreative [dot] ru. We’ll be glad to read it.

About the authors

The original Russian article was written by Anton Isaykin in collaboration with the company 2comrades that specializes in Web project analytics, development and support.

Anton Isaykin is professional PHP/Python developer in Russia who specializes in high-load projects and architecture. Translated and adapted by Alexander Makarov, professional Russian Web developer, who is behind RMCreative, a Russian blog dedicated to Web developers, designers and everyone interested in how the Web is built.

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In this article we will look at tools that can help those of you who want to develop websites on a Linux platform, from powerful text editors to desktop and system features. How do you edit files remotely without FTP plug-ins? What are package managers, and why they are cool? In which Web browsers can you test your applications?

I wish I could cover many more topics: using the command line, basics of Vim, Nautilus features in detail, Nautilus scripting, neat command line tools, basic server configuration and many others. But if I addressed all of the issues that arise from time to time on the Internet, this article would turn into a small book. This isn’t an article on “How to do X or Y on Linux” or “How to use [insert app name here].” And we cannot cover more comprehensive IDEs such as Eclipse and NetBeans, each of which requires separate articles.

You probably already have some idea of how to find and install applications for your favorite distros. However, we will point you to the right place anyway to download, for example, scripts and plug-ins.

So, let’s begin!

1. Our Tools

Below, for your quick reference, is a list of tools that we will mention or explain in this article.

Text Editors:

• Gedit
• Geany

Browsers:

• Opera
• Mozilla Firefox
• Epiphany (with the WebKit engine)
• Chromium (for some other WebKit examples)

General and command line tools:

• FUSE
• SSHFS
• Vim
• Parcellite

2. Gedit

Gedit is the default and simplest text editor for the GNOME environment. The default installation already comes with some good resources, although not all of them are activated by default. It is bundled with some plug-ins; however, you can add many more plug-ins to make it a nice simple IDE. If you go to Edit > Preferences > Plugins, you’ll see which plug-ins are installed by default. There, you can configure and activate them. On the same screen, you can configure other elements of the text editor, such as indentation, line numbering and current line highlighting.

Your default installation probably won’t have many plug-ins by default other than those. Check if your distro has a package to automatically install a set of plug-ins. The package would be named gedit-plugins. I recommend installing it because it adds at least five helpful plug-ins: bracket completion, color picker (quite helpful with your CSS), session saver, smart spaces and terminal. These are all of the plug-ins installed with the package:

• Bracket completion
• Charmap select
• Code comment
• Color picker
• Join and split lines
• Session saver
• Smart spaces
• Show tabbar
• Terminal

See the plug-ins section for a fuller overview of them.

Let’s look at the most useful of these basic plug-ins for developers and see how we can configure them, in needed.

Snippets

Snippets inserts frequently used pieces of text quickly. To configure it, check it on the plug-in tab and hit “Configure Plugin.” You can edit existing snippets, add new ones, import and export snippets and create global snippets. It is also possible to add tab triggers, shortcuts and drop targets. To activate a snippet, you must be editing a file with a corresponding snippet (e.g. if it is a Python snippet, you should be editing a Python file). If it is a blank pure-text file, just change its syntax on View > Highlight Mode. Many good snippets are on the Internet; some that I use are Django and RoR snippets.

External Tools

External tools executes external commands and shell scripts. As with snippets, you can configure those that ship with the plug-in or create your own. For more complex tasks, you will need some knowledge of shell-scripting and how to use some of the shell tools. We won’t go into how to master Gedit and its amazing plug-ins (we recommend reading Gedit manuals for that), but we will give you links to some scripts that you can play with.

Modelines

If you use Vim or Emacs in your daily work, you may know what modelines are. If you wish you could import them to other text editors, modelines lets you do exactly that.

For those who aren’t familiar with them, modelines are “definitions” of tabbing, spacing, line ending, tabbing level and so on.

The basic and gedit-plugins packages are the ones I use most often. Some other functionality can be added only through third-party plug-ins, which you can find all over the Web; GNOME Live’s Gedit section is a good start. Have a look at AutoComplete, Better Python Console (the Python Console that ships with Gedit is only useful for developing gedit plug-ins), ClassBrowserPlugin and Autosave editing sessions.

Finally, you can customize the look of Gedit with color themes. Gedit comes with a few, but you can find many more.

Further Reading

• Modelines:
  Modelines page at GNOME library website.
• Gedit Plug-ins
  Gedit plug-ins repository at GNOME Live
• External Tools Plug-in
  External Tools plug-in page at Live GNOME.
• Text-mate like Gedit in a few steps
  
  A guide with resources for making Gedit look more like Text-mate.
• Using Gedit with Django:
  A guide to using Gedit for Django programming
• Django Snippets:
  Snippets for Django.
• RoR Development with Gedit
  A guide to using Gedit for Ruby On Rails programming.
• RoR Snippets
  Snippets for Ruby On Rails. There are also more snippets here.
• RHTML integration:
  A guide to integrating RHTML in Gedit.

3. Geany

Unlike Gedit, Geany is more of a general purpose “minimalist” IDE than text editor. It already comes with such resources as an embed terminal, compiler tab, messages tab and note-taking tab (Scribble). You also have a side-pane listing of file symbols (i.e. classes and methods in Java files, sections and sub-sections in LaTeX files) and documents that can be extended to include a tab with file browsing. In addition, Geany comes with a simple completion tool, color picker, finder, simple project builder and tools for some languages. Its search tool is capable of searching the whole session or only the current file, with or without regex, and a “Find in files” option if the browser files plug-in is on.

Yet one of the nicest features of Geany is its Compile and Execute buttons. Based on the file you are editing, Geany tries to find the corresponding compiler/interpreter. So, if you are editing a Java file, you can compile it with javac and run it right after the compilation ends. At the same time, you can compile a LaTeX file and preview it in a really simple DVI viewer without having to change any configuration parameters. For interpreted languages, you don’t even have to run the compiler: just hit “Execute.” Of course, if your executable has a different name (let’s say, ruby1.8 instead of ruby), it will fail and report that it couldn’t find ruby. But you simply need to configure that to make things work wonderfully again.

Another interesting aspect of Geany is its built-in tags information. You can create *.tags files for a language or framework that Geany does not support by default, as well as add support for auto-completion and call tips. Consult Geany’s documentation for more details

Finally, you can extend Geany with plug-ins (find the plug-ins manager in the Tools menu) and themes. Or simply configure everything the way you want: just go to “Preferences” and adjust things to your taste, from the browser to your shortcuts.

Further Reading

• Geany snippets
  A collection of snippets to use with Geany.
• Integrating with SVN/Git:
  How to use Geany with SVN or Git version control systems.
• Geany extras
  Extra goodies to extend Geany.

4. What About Remote File Editing?

Nowadays, things are pretty easy, and you almost don’t need to install plug-ins to access FTP and SSH accounts or to edit files, because most modern distros comes with FUSE. And if you have GVFS installed, GNOME integrates it so that you can use it on Nautilus.

“But what is it?” you may be asking. In short, it allows you to mount a virtual file system on your system and work there just as you would in common directories.

You would just click on a file and start editing it. When you’re finished, just save and everything is done. A big advantage of this method over the FTP plug-in method is that you make things available to more than one application.

Note: since my server has only SFTP access, I’m not sure how stable this is with simple FTP, but it works flawlessly with SFTP. Nevertheless, when I need to edit a remote file, I prefer to connect via SSH using a terminal and use Vim to edit the file, only because the method reminds me that I’m not working locally and to be careful.

Further Reading

• Mounting FUSE file system
  A quick guide to mounting a FUSE system and adding it to fstab.
• Creating file systems with Ruby and FUSE
  Using FUSE with Ruby

5. File Browsing FTP and SSH, Natively

In more recent versions of Nautilus, the GNOME file browser, you have native access to network protocols, such as WebDAV, FTP, SSH and Windows shares. You can add other protocols, like SVN, or extend it through its plug-ins and scripts. (Unfortunately, I cannot cover this topic here but only point you to an extensions and scripts website.)

You can browser different servers at the same time on different windows, which can be really helpful for transferring files from one server to another.

Of course, you don’t need to be stuck in the graphical portion of Linux. You can use the command line to perform most of these tasks.

Further Reading

• SVN on Nautilus:
  Nautilus SVN integration project page.
• Nautilus subversion integration tool. Execute SVN commands with Gnome scripts
  A tutorial on how to integrate and use SVN on Nautilus.
• Nautilus File Manager Scripts
  A page with a good collection of Nautilus scripts.
• Nautilus on GNOME Live
  Nautilus page on GNOME Live.
• Extending Nautilus
  A guide on how to write scripts and extensions for the Nautilus File Browser.

Web Browsers

Linux has a lot of Web browsers to play with, from Mozilla’s family to console-based browsers. All of them have their pros and cons. But most of the time, we need only a few for testing, probably Firefox, Opera and one with the WebKit/KHTML engine.

Because I’m covering the GNOME environment, I chose Epiphany, with the WebKit engine (Epiphany’s project developers switched from Gecko to WebKit in the latest versions). Epiphany with WebKit is named epiphany-webkit on Debian and probably on some other distros

If you are on KDE, though, Chromium would probably suit you better because it does not depend on GNOME libraries or even use Konqueror (KHTML).

Note: I’m no specialist on rendering engines, so I can’t say for sure whether testing on more recent versions of Konqueror (which uses KHTML) would be sufficient for WebKit tests. I do all my testing on Epiphany.

If you really need to test your website in Internet Explorer, you can use the Wine library with Wine Tricks. Or use VirtualBox images, which is provided by Microsoft itself. For now, IE8 on Wine is still too buggy. But IE7 can run on Wine: check the “Further Reading” section below for more information. Running them on VirtualBox should work flawlessly.

Further Reading

• Chromium
  Chromium project page.
• Epiphany WebKit
  Epiphany WebKit page at GNOME Live.
• IE 7 on Wine
  How to run IE7 on Wine.
• HOWTO: run IE6, IE7, IE8 on Linux in VirtualBox
  How to use VirtualBox to run Microsoft browsers. Another guide is here.
• Wine Tricks
  Wine tricks page at Wine HQ wiki.

Package Manager: Your Best Friend

If there is one thing I really love on every Linux distro I have used, it is the package management. Okay, some are better than others, but generally speaking you need only the command line to take control of your system applications. Package managers help you find, install and keep track of security updates and new versions of your applications. And you can install more than one application at a time, even if they are not related.

Depending on the package manager, when you search for and install new applications, others that might work well with the ones you have found are suggested to you, such as GUIs for configuring and managing an FTP server.

Some bundles for installing AMP include too many applications (even on Linux) or are strict in what they have packed. But when using a package manager on Linux, installing a server environment can be easier and flexible: you can tailor your installation more efficiently, choosing only what you need. Why would you install PHP if you are not a PHP developer? Why install MySQL if SQLite serves your needs? You probably don’t need an FTP server or an email service either. Nevertheless, you can install any of them easily if you need to in future. Also, you needn’t be restricted to Apache if you plan to use, say, lighttpd.

Open-source version control systems are available for Linux and, even better, in distro repositories. For Debian, you have Git (as git-core), Mercurial, CVS, Subversion and Bazaar all in the official repository (though Bazaar is over the backports and unstable). No need to go to a bunch of different websites.

Further Reading

• The Perfect Server: Debian Lenny
  Tips and instructions on how to set up a complete server on Debian
• Debian lighttpd
  How to configure a lighttpd server on Debian
• Gentoo Tutorials
  A collection of tutorials at Getoo Wiki. Could be useful for others distro, too.
• CrossFTP Server
  An FTP server with an LDAP/database back end and GUI configuration/monitoring.
• GAdmin ProFTPD
  GAdmin module for administrating ProFTPD servers using a GUI.
• PureAdmin
  PureAdmin is a user and server administration for the pure-ftpd.

Native Multi-Paste And Multiple Desktops

I started using Linux seriously at the end of 2003, when I got sick of Windows 98 SE freezing after 20 minutes of use and having to be reinstalled after 2 weeks.

After installing Debian and exploring KDE features, I discovered how cool and useful the virtual multi-desktop concept was. Now when I use other operating systems, this is what I miss most. But really understanding how it can help you organize your windows and work takes some time.

Another thing I find really helpful and miss in every other system I use is being able to buffer two things on the clipboard with any external tools. (Okay, I know when using Vim you have as many buffers as keys, but I’d need a whole book to talk about Vim!) All I need to do is highlight a piece of text and press the middle button to paste it. And if I have something in the buffer (loaded previously with Control + C), I won’t lose it.

You have plenty of options for controlling multiple buffers in the clipboard. KDE already comes with Klipper, which is great. GNOME comes with no such tool, but you do have some good options (I use Parcellite).

One little thing I miss is a native way to call programs without having to click on their icons or menu entries or call them through the terminal. GNOME and KDE both have a native application runner that you can call by pressing Alt + F2. Then, just start typing and it shows your options. Even though QuickSilver, and programs like it, does something similar and even better, you have to install it.

Further Reading

• X Window System Multiple Desktops
  Wikipedia entry about multiple desktops on X Window System
• Glipper
  A GTK clipboard manager.
• Parcellite
  Another GTK clipboard manager.
• GNOME Launch Box
  A QuickSilver-like tool for the GNOME environment.
• GNOME Do
  Another tool inspired by QuickSilver.
• Katapult
  KDE’s tool inspired by QuickSilver.
• GNOME Deskbar
  Deskbar is an applet the comes bundled with GNOME with the goal of providing a common search interface.

A Note About KDE

Linux is a rich world and has many variables to experiment with. I have never used any of KDE’s specific tools. For programming, I use NetBeans. I have used KWriter for simple edits but never for programming (nor Kate). Though I haven’t used KDE4, I can say by experience that, for file browsing, Konqueror is a killer app: integrated preview for many file types, native access to SSH, (S)FTP and other network protocols, extensible, tabbed file browsing and many other great features.

Conclusion

We have seen a lot of simple tools to play with, a rich environment for building testing and development servers and a good range of tools to improve your workflow. Although Linux isn’t the most popular OS for desktops, it is not necessarily ill-suited to most kinds of development work — and it may even be better than more popular OS’s. It is up to you now to try it if you are not satisfied with your current environment.

Further Reading

• Vim
  Vim official page
• Vim doc
  A Vim documentation project, with references, tips, FAQs and tutorials. A good resource for any Vim user.
• Shlomi Fish’s Vim for begginers
  A good place to start if you want to learn Vim.
• VIM for Django
  Tips, plug-ins and scripts to make Vim more suitable for Django.
• Vim for Rails
  A plug-in to enhance Vim for Ruby On Rails.

Related posts

You may be interested in the following related posts:

• CSS Editors Reviewed
  This review includes JustStyle CSS Editor, CSSED and other CSS editors for Linux.
• 35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed
  This review includes Komodo Edit, Aptana Studio, Screem, Quanta Plus, Emacs and other editors for Linux.

About the Author

Ricardo is a systems information student from Brazil. He works as an intern at a local company developing JSF applications that help people keep track of many Brazilian companies’ stocks on BM&FBovespa. He is also starting a new website with some friends to talk about comics, video games, films, TV series and RPG in a way different from most Brazilian websites. You can contact him on Twitter or through vox.

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How To Develop Websites On Linux originally appeared on Shai Perednik.com on August 29, 2009.

With all the hullabaloo lately relating to tr.im‘s closure and reopening most people are opting to setup their own shortning service.

There’s Lessn and Yourls.  Both are great but Yours takes the cake for the admin panel and more detailed info.   I followed the LifeHacker Tutorial, but couldn’t get mod_rewrite working.  With the help of this post I figured it out.

change the following line in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default

 DocumentRoot /var/www/
        <Directory />
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride all
        </Directory>
        <Directory /var/www/>
                Options FollowSymLinks
                AllowOverride all
                Order allow,deny
                allow from all
        </Directory>

then restart apache

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Theres also a bookmarklet for Yourls from twitter.com/jarbro but I’m still working on getting past the “Unknown” error.

UPDATE: The unknown error is normal.  You just need to drag the links to the bookmark bar.

I have to install php5-curl just to get the curl_init() function installed

sudo apt-get php5-curl

sudo  /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Hopefully this helps someone

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