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Are you still looking for more social media plugins to help boost your WordPress site through integration with some of the most popular social networking sites around? If our previously released list containing ShareThis, AddToAny, SexyBookmarks, Sociable, and I Love Social Bookmarking didn’t do the trick, here are some similar plugins that might have the features you are looking for.

The main benefit of SSH Public Key authentication is that your website will be protected against brute force attacks, and enjoy the benefits of encrypted communication. Brute force attacks are automated random guessing of passwords in your SSH server in an attempt to access it illegally. This tutorial will show you how to use public key authentication.

In this conclusion to a four-part series on cross-platform software development, you'll learn how to handle patches and rejects. This article is excerpted from chapter three of the book Cross-Platform Development in C++, written by Syd Logan (Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 032124642X).

In this third part of a four-part article series on software configuration management, you'll learn how to set up and use a CVS server. We'll also start looking at the patch program. This article is excerpted from chapter three of the book Cross-Platform Development in C++, written by Syd Logan (Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 032124642X).

In this second part of a four-part series on software configuration management, you'll learn how to manage the complexity innherent in building cross-platform software, especially with large teams. This article is excerpted from chapter three of the book Cross-Platform Development in C++, written by Syd Logan (Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 032124642X).

If you want to use a software configuration management system to do cross-platform development, certain important considerations apply. This article, the first in a four-part series, takes an in-depth look at the requirements of an SCM system for cross-platform projects. It is excerpted from chapter three of the book Cross-Platform Development in C++, written by Syd Logan (Addison-Wesley; ISBN: 032124642X).

Joomla! is one of the most widely used content management systems (CMS) on the Internet today. It is used by tens of millions of websites and has been under constant development since it forked from the Mambo project in 2005. While Joomla! includes an impressive array of features, including blogs, categories and sections, user management, email announcements, built-in search, and over 7,500 modular extensions, one necessary feature it still lacks is a built-in backup system.

If you find it necessary to run Windows programs or applications in Ubuntu, you should take a closer look at PlayOnLinux. This program is powered by Wine to run Windows programs on Ubuntu, even if those applications are designed to optimally run on different Wine versions or settings.

WordPress is a great platform for creating and maintaining a fully-functional website. One of the best parts of WordPress is its vast catalog of plugins that increase its functionality. One such category of plugins deals with e-commerce. These nifty tools can help transform your site into an online store in just minutes. Here are five of the top free e-commerce plugins around.

You could say that spam is pretty much a fact of life when it comes to the internet. It comes in many forms, and all are irritating to different degrees. If you want to keep your site clean and free of spam, there are options. To give you an idea of what you can call on for help, here is a list of five of the top WordPress plugins to fight spam.

There are some wonderful Drupal modules that can help your site in its quest to fight spam. If you are looking to protect your email addresses from harvesting or just want to eliminate spammy posts and comments, this list is for you. Here are six of the top Drupal modules for spam prevention.

In this following XAMPP tutorial, you will learn how to install XAMPP Windows on XP or Win 7. By the end of this tutorial, you will have a fully working and configured XAMPP PHP installation on your Windows system, which will serve as your local Apache web server bundled with PHP (or PERL) and MySQL.

This is the continuation of a WordPress backup tutorial that ran last month. This part will discuss two important topics: executing the wordpressmysqlbackup project in your hosting cron, and managing backups and testing the integrity of WordPress backups in your local server. The latter is particularly important.

As of 2011, WordPress is still the most popular blogging software for websites. Due to the number of users and popularity of WordPress, it is also the most attacked blogging platform. You might hear a lot about “hacked” WordPress websites on the Internet. There are a lot of WordPress security guidelines being released. This article will examine some basic and standard tips that can still be applied today. If you are a WordPress user and a webmaster, then this guide will definitely be helpful to you.

Doing frequent backups of your WordPress website files and database is critical to your job as the owner of your website. This ensures the security and life of your blog. If you want to maintain high rankings and traffic consistently in Google and other search engines, doing frequent backups is an SEO secret implemented by the most successful bloggers using WordPress.