DNS for dummies (me)

http://www.petekeen.net/dns-the-good-parts 

[slideshare] monitorings and metricses

http://www.slideshare.net/jedi4ever/using-monitoring-and-metrics-to-learn-in-development

slideshare: DevOps value

http://www.slideshare.net/appdynamics/the-devops-pay-raise

good slide on the concerns of on-premises v paas v saas etc.

http://webdevchecklist.com

JSON & XML pipes

alias json="python -mjson.tool"
alias xml="xmllint --format -"

git diff since merge point

git diff `git merge-base <other_branch> HEAD`

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/23008-howto-install-java-7-on-ubuntu-1204/
+  /var/lib/dpkg/info/oracle-java7-installer.postinst needs to be updated right before run

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java for java6, manual 2nd approach