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Highly Recomended Book Resources

Effective C++, Second Edition, by Scott Meyers

More Effective C++, by Scott Meyers

Scott Meyer's website contains links to many publications, presentations, books, and other information from Scott: http://www.aristeia.com/

Open Databases

On Linux, there are two open database platforms do almost anything you would ever want a database to do. Both are extremely reliable.

(The openData abstraction library available on this site provides a common interface to both of them, so you can switch from one to the other painlessly.)

• PostgreSQL
• MySQL

Images

The Image Magic API is the easiest and most full featured library for manipulating images for resizing and filtering.
We use ImageMagick to automatically generate thumbnail images from the fullsize images as they're uploaded.

Example code:

      try 
      {          
        Image image; 
        // read the image in
        image.read(imgPath);
        // set the scaling geometry   
        Geometry geom( boundX, boundY );      
        // only scale images that are greater in size
        geom.greater(true);      
        // do not change the aspect ratio
        geom.aspect(false);            
        // use sampling method to resize
        image.sample(geom);      
        // write the small image out
        image.write(smlPath); 
      }
      catch( Exception &error_ )
      { 
        script << "Error creating thumbnail - Exception caught: " << error_.what() << endl;      
      }

• ImageMagick API's
• ImageMagick C Class Library
• The GIMP

Building a web site from scratch? You need to know how to manage the Linux system.

• Apache Web Server Reference
• Apache Directive Quick Reference
• CERT Security Guidelines for Unix

How to set your Linux computer's time to the Atomic Clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)...

1. Login as root or issue the su command.
2. Run the following command to set you system clock:
   rdate -s time.nist.gov
   Suse:
   ntpdate time.nist.gov
3. Run the following command to synchronize your hardware clock with your system clock:
   /usr/sbin/hwclock --systohc
   Suse:
   /sbin/hwclock --systohc
4. You may Verify correct time by going to the NIST Web Site.