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Lately, I’ve been spending a lot of time with Cacti on my Ubunto 8 install. Cacti as we all know is a (great) PHP wrapper application around the rrdtool command. Cacti and rrdtool are typically used by network/systems administrators for graphing network conditions, churning out great looking graphs for various SNMP data.

I’ve been investigating whether I could use Cacti to graph other kinds of data like my website loading time etc. And, it does, brilliantly, but that’s another story for another day.

In any case, after getting Cacti running smoothly on Ubuntu, I decided to try the Cacti Plugin Architecture to see if I could learn how to build some plugins for Cacti. And it wasn’t so straightforward.
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If you’re a Blogger blogger, you’re in for a treat. It’s now possible to add Google Gadgets straight into your blogspot site to spice things up.

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