The IRC (Internet Relay Chat) protocol lets you program bots as automatic helpers. In this month's column, we let a bot log a session and store the results in a database.

This month we look at some alternative web servers and show you some smart Apache techniques.

The fast and practical Nginx web server is easy to configure and extend.

We show you how Zotero can turn Firefox into the ultimate research tool.

The free Java search engine Apache Lucene is available in version 2.9. The release provides numerous new features and API enhancements.

If it were to go by Project Boot.kernel.org, practially all distros in the foreseeable future would boot off the Internet.

Although spam filtering and blocking is helpful for the end user, it doesn't stop the production of spam. KnujOn strikes spam at the source.

FreeSWITCH is a powerful and versatile telephony platform that can scale from a softphone to a PBX and even to a carrier-class softswitch.