Reencoded has recently posted an article featuring 10 tools help designers to layout a grid using CSS. This should be a time saver for those creating a layout from scratch and want to free of table-based layout. Who uses that anyways? No, really I wanna know because everywhere I look people are using css for the layout of their pages.

See Part I of this article

This is Part II of Setup Ubuntu Server in the Cloud series.

4. Install and configure a firewall
Having a firewall in your system is mandatory. Configuring it correctly is even more important. I use 'iptables' for that matter and here is the command to install it, and then check its configuration which, at this time is empty:

dambrosio@XXXCNN4730:~$ sudo apt-get install iptables
dambrosio@XXXCNN4730:~$ sudo iptables -L

I just bought a server in the Cloud to run my development tools (i.e. SVN, JIRA, MySQL etc.). It is a 8.04 Ubuntu server with root access. So I need this server to work the way I want it, so here are the steps I took to prepare it:

1. Change the .bashrc file
I am so used to typing 'll' in the command line as alias for 'ls -lsa' that the first thing I changed was the .bashrc file to have the standard aliases enabled.

Type:

root@XXXCNN4730:/# vi ~/.bashrc

A few weeks ago I wrote another article explaining how to install and run Atlassian JIRA in Ubuntu. Well, I was not quite satisfied with the results, so I tried another approach and it seems to be working better now as my previous JIRA installation was extremely slow and crashed due to Out of Memory errors.

So here are the steps:
1. Install Java

Sometimes people use self-generated certificates to use SSL for staging and QA servers, not to mention the ones that use those certificates in production environment.
I would suggest that instead of using those certificates - which generates alarms in most recent browsers - that you generate your own free SSL Certification.
One option is to use Startcom's free certificate as a legitimate certificate which is recognized by default by IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome.

I use Atlassian JIRA as a tool to control my software development process, registering issues, tasks and bugs and planning development cycles.
So now that I switched to Ubuntu as development platform, I need to setup JIRA on my new Linux machine. I wrote down the steps I followed to achieve this.

1. Install Java
First of all, of course, install Java in your Ubuntu server and test the installation:

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on how to install Subversion and Apache in a Windows environment and another article about how to install those in a Linux environment.

A few weeks ago I wrote an article on how to install Subversion and Apache in a Windows environment. Today I decided to use Ubuntu as my development environment and somehow I felt that it would take many more steps to configure those in Linux than it took in Windows, so I wrote them down for future reference. Here are those steps:
1. Install apache2

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 (the Karmic Koala, as they call it) at my home Desktop. First thing I tried was to check whether my ssh daemon was running, and it wasn't. I did have the ssh client but not the scripts to start the server, but no panic. It is quite fast to fix this. Jut open a terminal window and type the following to install OpenSSH.

sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

I did not need the client as I had it installed already. Here is the result from the command above: