Software

Remote Monitoring Enterprise Network with IPTraf

In enterprise network, you might find so many possible strange problems that you are unable to analyze off-site. I got some requests to remotely debug network problem immediately. The problem is I couldn’t be there myself. The problem I know is just the network seemed too slow. Nobody knows what happen. What I have is just an account to access a linux server in that network. The first thing I guessed to cause this problem was some computers might be downloading something big. Anyway, my problem is how to spot that machines precisely. Since I only had ssh account, it was not suitable to start X window because the network was so slow. As a result, I had to solve this problem in pure text mode.

Next Generation of Wordpress Administration Panel

Last week, someone found Wordpress Shuttle | Administration Redesign Project. It looks very cool in my opinion. At least, it gives me smell like enterprise application. Anyway, flexibility might be decreased. We have to talk about each part one by one.

  • Navigation menu - Actually, I don’t like horizontal menu at the top of the page because lacking of scalability. You can’t have too many menu items. I know that it is bad design to have lots of menu items. However, it is necessary in some cases.

Once I saw , I like it. It is a great idea to combine specific events with search keywords popularity. Though, Google Zeitgeist is limited to events chosen by Google according to its popularity accumulated through the past year. According to the popular of Zeitgeist, Google launched  to publish hourly zeitgeist on a TV channel, , and monthly zeitgeist. In addition, this idea has also been applied to .

Google Calendar seems to be the best web-based calendar right now. Though, it doesn’t support WebDAV and CalDAV but it does provide  in  (aka GData client APIs). In fact, Google Calendar data APIs has just  about 20 days ago. As of today, there are at least 2 desktop programs which recognize Google Calendar and display your events directly on your desktop.

Kid's Programming Language

I have seen a news at NewsForge about Kid’s Programming Language aka KPL. At the first glance, it is very promising since my son may learn how to program so easy. So I looked into the snapshot. Cool! KPL could create interactive games and most of them are arcade. They are beautiful games. KPL comes with its own smart IDE looked very similar to Visual Studio.