Issue #169 / Dec 2014

Sometimes I'm amazed at how this column just slips out into the world and no one says much about it. One thing I do hear occasionally is that "It's refreshing that you aren't just summarizing the contents of the issue, which is what most welcome columns do." I do plead guilty to having a great many opinions, some of which I manage to share from time to time in this space. However, in this case, my opinion does point to an article you'll see in this month's issue.

Oracle Linux 7 and KaOS 2014.08

Updates on Technologies, Trends, and Tools

Google says the upcoming Android L release will be far more secure than its predecessors.

The new ECMAScript 6 language eliminates many historical problems associated with JavaScript.

Are you interested in retrieving stock quotes in machine-readable form off the Internet? No problem: After a few mouse clicks, Portia weaves a command line and wraps the data in JSON format.

The Flask micro framework emerged from an April Fool's prank, but this simple and easy web development aid is no joke.

ASCII tools can be life savers when they provide the only access you have to a misbehaving server. However, once you're on the node what do you do? In this article, we look at stat-like tools: vmstat, dstat, and mpstat.

Answers to your Linux questions.

A correction to the Migrating RAID article in issue 168 (November 2014).