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Greetings from Chicago, Illinois, everyone. Before you start asking
yourselves "Why in the world is our fabulous editor in Chicago," it's
YAPC::NA 2006, yet another Perl conference. (See <http://www.yapcchicago.org/>).
With so much fun, your editor didn't have a spare moment to write today's Linux
newsletter until tonight, which is why you're reading it tomorrow.

If that sentence is difficult to understand, try writing it.

Regardless of this magical occasion, here's what happened in the past week
on the O'Reilly Network.

Unless you live in a little box, you've likely heard of those little music
players--what are they again?--oh yes, iPods. You've probably also heard
that oh-so-cute pun on iPod and broadcasting: podcasting. This offers the
opportunity for truly independent broadcasting, with just you and your
ideas and potentially millions of listeners, without corporate or external
interference. John Littler of Mstation.org discusses just how easy it is
to set up independent podcasting with free and open source software:

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/22/floss-podcasting.html>

If the lack of external interference sounds good to you, you'll probably
appreciate our new publication "How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your
Project." Authors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have extracted a
useful excerpt about managing up--that is, how you as a developer or
administrator can spot pending problems and help your manager make the
right decisions:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/20/why-do-projects-fail.html>

In weblogs this week, your editor reviewed the Perl module Class::MOP, a
metaprogramming system for Perl:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/cpan_module_review_classmop.html>

He also asked how a programming language stagnates:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/how_does_a_programming_languag.html>

... and offered a retrospective on the Refactoring Everything project:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/refactoring_everything_retrosp.html>

Jeremy Jones reviewed PyYaml and found that he quite likes YAML:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/pyyaml_mini_review.html>

Carla Schroder lamented the potential loss of all of the useful programmers:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/06/where_have_all_the_programmers.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien starts a long debate about which web framework to use:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/isnt_rails_supposed_to_change.html>

Curt Hibbs covered Rails Conf (see more):

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/railsconf_2006_day_0.html>

Tom Adelstein described an embedded Linux opportunity for entrepreneurs:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/06/an_new_opportunity_for_entrepr_1.html>

Chris Josephes reminded everyone about the necessity of disk layout
planning and application expectations:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/06/partitioning_and_unbundled_sof.html>

That ends another week. Check back to the ONLamp weblog for YAPC::NA
coverage, including a sober look at the problems of the success of the CPAN.

until next week,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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