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Edd Dumbill posted an interesting article on his blog about his development infrastructure: In search of agile infrastructure for web applications.

He makes extensive use of

• Ubuntu/Debian cause of their stability and ease of setup.
• Virtualization with Xen, VMWare and Parallels cause it allows him to run multiple test/staging servers on one piece of hardware. Plus it allows him to scratch and rebuild a server with minimum fuss.
• .deb packaging his web apps cause it makes deployment and upgrades nice, neat, and easy.
• SVK or BazaarNG for source control in order to take advantage of their distributed development capabilities and easier merging.
• avahi for mDNS (also known as Rendezvous / Bonjour / ZeroConf) - to make temporary DNS setup dynamic.

Thanks for sharing Edd

Finally managed to find the documentation for the standard Gnome and GTK command line options. I’d been googling for this information a couple of times recently without success. Searching for ‘gnome command line options’ wasn’t bringing up the authoritative reference I expected it to. The key word missing from the search was ’standard’. When I added that the first result page lists a online man page half way down for ‘gnome-options’. Anyway now I’ve found them I’m noting this permanently.

• Standard Gnome Options: man gnome-options
• Standard GTK Options: man gtk-options

Note: I’ve linked to Andreas Gohr’s (creator of dokuwiki) man.splitbrain.org man page site as it’s got a really nice interface and lists both gtk-options and gnome-options whereas the original link I found to die.net doesn’t list both.