Book - New Releases: July 2006

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Beat the Heat

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photos, weblogs, audio links, and more.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/oscon/>

Speaking of learning about new stuff, Daniel Steinberg has posted a great
interview by InfoWorld's Jon Udell of O'Reilly CIO CJ Rayhill about Safari
U and the changing ways in which we teach and learn. Udell says that
podcasting professors should be able to use their actual class time more
effectively. Rayhill advises that we should make sure our children can
type, search effectively, and understand finance before heading off to college.

You can also listen in as photographer and author Mikkel Aaland talks
about capturing images in the RAW format. Aaland knows plenty about this
subject... he wrote the book, "Photoshop CS 2 RAW." It's all there waiting
for you in the latest episode (Going Digital - learning and shooting) of
Distributing the Future.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/future/>

What a great way to beat the heat.

Until next week,

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*** Featured Articles ***

How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the Mac?
Apple does a great job of providing elegant software for its platform. But
there are plenty of good offerings beyond the fruits of Cupertino. In this
amazing survey of proprietary and open source software, Matthew Russell
attempts to organize what's available on both fronts, and even dares to
assign grades. Has he missed anything?

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/25/software-stack-for-the-mac.html>

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An Interview with the Creator of FreeSWITCH
We talk with Anthony Minessale--the developer behind the FreeSWITCH open
source telephony project--about the status of FreeSWITCH, how it compares
to Asterisk, and Minessale's future plans.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/07/25/an-interview-with-the-creator-of-freeswitch.html>

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Registry Hacks for Servers
Need to bend Windows Server 2003 to your will? Mitch Tulloch offers great
Registry hacks that will help you get more out of your servers.

<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/07/25/registry-tweaks-for-servers.html>

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Going Digital (learning and shooting)
What are the skills that every young person should have before they go off
to college? CJ Rayhill and Jon Udell talk a bit about how schools are
changing. Mikkel Aaland talks about shooting RAW and has some surprising
stories about Ansel Adams. (DTF 07-24-2006: 27 minutes 15 seconds)

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/24/distributing-the-future.html>

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Free and Open Source Software at the United Nations
Advances in technology have revolutionized the way people live, but the
digital divide keeps vital technology out of third-world countries. As
part of a series of initiatives to end global poverty by 2015, the United
Nations is using, promoting, and creating free and open source software.
David Boswell gives an overview of the plans and progress.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/20/un_and_foss.html>

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Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet is more than a phone, according to John
Littler. It's a Debian GNU/Linux system. This makes it a prime target for
hackers. Littler explores some of the built-in utilities and some of the
other tricks you can use.

<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/07/20/nokia-770.html>

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Implementing the Atom Publishing Protocol
Joe Gregorio's latest Restful Web column implements the Atom Publishing
Protocol as a Python web service using WSGI.

<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/07/19/implementing-atom-publishing-protocol-python-wsgi.html>

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What Is Geronimo?
Geronimo is Apache's open source, Java EE-compatible application server,
based on a flexible system of interchangeable components. This makes it
ideal for a wide range of enterprise deployments. In this article, Kunal
Jaggi shows you how to get started with Geronimo.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/19/what-is-geronimo.html>

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Thursday, July 20, 2006

A fresh look at Apache Geronimo

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Greetings...

Unlike other Apache Foundation projects that are practically ubiquitous in
the Java world--think of Ant and Tomcat, for example--the Geronimo Java EE
application server is notable for its infrequent use. In our reader
survey last year, just 4 percent of ONJava readers said they were using
Geronimo. Given Apache's much-admired process and its popular license, it
does seem strange that Geronimo hasn't gained much ground on its
commercial and open source rivals. This week, we're taking a short look at
what Geronimo has going for it.

In "What Is Geronimo," Kunal Jaggi takes a look at what distinguishes
Apache's open source Java EE platform. "Geronimo fills a need that other
application servers do not. With Geronimo, components can be easily
integrated. Its key aim is to support custom builds, geared to the needs
of specific applications. Geronimo offers choices." In the article, Kunal
talks about what makes Geronimo unique, and helps you get started coding,
deploying, and testing your first app on Geronimo.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/19/what-is-geronimo.html>

"The IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is the 3rd Generation Partnership
Project's (3GPP) vision for a converged telecommunications architecture
that merges cellular and internet technologies to uniformly deliver voice,
video, and data on a single network. Currently one of the hottest topics
in telecom, IMS is rapidly becoming the architecture of choice for
operators who wish to upgrade their existing cellular and fixed-line
networks." In the dev2dev article "An IMS Application Example Based on
SIP Servlets and VoiceXML," David Burke and Darragh O'Flanagan present a
complete IMS application based on servlets and VoiceXML, which answers
calls on behalf of its owner, then attempts to contact the owner at home,
work, or on the road, and optionally connect the call.

<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/06/ims-sip-voicexml.html>

This week's feature article from java.net takes "A Dive Into the Generated
Client Code in Axis2." Author Ajith Ranabahu writes: "Axis2 is a
lightweight SOAP framework that allows faster and efficient SOAP
processing. The new code generator bundled with Axis2 supports the use of
the new asynchronous API and allows the use of multiple data binding
frameworks to be used underneath."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/22/axis-2-generated-client-code.html>

Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:

Paul Browne - JRuby: Web 2.0 in the Enterprise Java World
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Chris Adamson - Touring the Top 10 RFE's
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/touring_the_top_10_rfes.html>

Steve Anglin - OSCON Java Conference Next Week
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Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/weblog_s?x-subject=3&>

Please join us again next week.

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Monday, July 17, 2006

Vim, BSD Desktops, and Data Protection

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Greetings, everyone. You're reading the weekly Linux newsletter, which
brings you news and information related to the world of free and open
source software as seen on the O'Reilly Network. It's a big area to
cover, but we do our best. Here's what you should know this week.

One of the recurring arguments in the programming and administration
worlds is over which text editor to use. The big two are obviously vi and
Emacs, but there are plenty of graphical and console utilities for
everyone. Matthew Russell has provided a gentle introduction to the hows
and whys of Vim for people who've tried and failed to understand it, as
well as people who've never used it:

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/11/vim-is-easier-than-you-think.html>

Matthew also posted a followup explaining the all-powerful Vim macro:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/07/more_vim_save_time_with_macros_1.html>

Dru Lavigne's well-loved FreeBSD Basics column returned this week with
something for desktop users: DesktopBSD. DesktopBSD is a fully packaged,
user-friendly, easily installable distribution of FreeBSD suitable for
user desktops. This time, Dru demonstrates how to install and configure
the system for comfort and productivity:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/07/13/FreeBSDBasics.html>

If your data is important, what are you doing to protect it? Backing up a
database used only 9-5 on weekdays is easy; stay late one night. Backing
up a whole cluster of databases used 24/7/365 is more difficult. It's no
happy coincidence that LAMP provides plenty of good solutions for
protecting valuable MySQL and PostgreSQL data; Paddy Sreenivasan explains
"Data Protection for LAMP Applications:"

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/07/13/lamp-data-protection.html>

In weblogs this week, your editor reported on The Perl Foundation
president Bill Odom's plans for the state of Perl and TPF:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/bill_odom_and_the_state_of_the.html>

Jeremy Jones solved his Flash/Ubuntu audio problems:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/audio_problem_from_flash_video.html>

Jeremy also expanded on an interview with Django's Adrian Holovaty on the
subject of tight framework integration:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/django_gets_the_big_picture.html>

Gregory Brown explained Ruby's inject method to newcomers:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/nubygems_inject_is_functional.html>

Caleb Tennis recommended highly the Pragmatic Ruby Studio:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/a_studio_just_for_ruby.html>

Pat Eyler interviewed the JRuby developers:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/interviewing_the_jruby_develop.html>

Brian Jones was very happy to discover the Fedora Directory Server over
plain old OpenLDAP:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/07/a_new_favorite_fedora_director.html>

Caitlyn Martin argued that fully licensed DVD player software is a huge
key to Linux on the average desktop. Readers weren't so sure:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/07/a_fully_licensed_dmca_complian.html>

Don't forget, OSCON is now only one week away. Things will be busy here,
so check back on ONLamp.com and the conferences page for a deluge of data.

Now knows the difference between buffered and unbuffered RAM,
- c

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Friday, July 14, 2006

State of The Perl Foundation

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Hello, readers. This is the Perl.com newsletter, sent out bi-weekly in a
transparent attempt to keep you somewhat up to date with the latest news
in the increasingly diverse Perl community.

Did you know that the country with the second-largest number of Perl.com
readers is India? That's right! Greetings to everyone on the
subcontinent; tell your friends about us.

Here's what's new in the world of Perl this fortnight.

* Perl News

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is yet another example of local, low-cost,
community-lead conferences to promote Perl and the Perl community. If
you'll be on the east coast in late September, here is your chance to
help:

<http://pghpw.org/>

David Golden has released versions of both Vanilla and Strawberry Perl.
These are self-contained distributions of Perl, a compiler, and useful
modules for Windows users. Yes, that means you can install modern Perl
modules from the CPAN with (relative) ease:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/148200>

Ann Barcomb revived the Perl 6 summaries with help from Audrey Tang and
Yuval Kogman. This first version covers February 2006:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/12/145233>

Andy Lester issued a call for Parrot Cage Cleaners (more on that in a few
paragraphs):

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/095244>

The Perl Foundation issued a call for the next round of grant
applications:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/11/0832229>

Audrey Tang and the Pugs hackers released Pugs 6.2.12 and the Perl 5
modules v6 (you have to see it to believe it):

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/07/1532235>

amoore gave excellent suggestions on how to sneak testing into your
development team's routine:

<http://use.perl.org/~amoore/journal/30215>

Josh McAdams, fresh from organizing YAPC::NA and moving, interviewed the
Pragmatic Programmer Andy Hunt for Perlcast:

<http://www.perlcast.com/audio/Perlcast_Interview_031.mp3>

* Perl Jobs

The Pugs and Parrot projects each maintain a small list of tasks for
programmers interested in spending an hour or two helping out. You often
don't have to know much about either project or much beyond Perl 5.

Audrey Tang suggests a few tasks in the Pugs repository
<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/>:

* Go through examples/ and see if any of the examples fails to run; if
so, seek advice at #perl6 to get them fixed. Along the way, write
regression tests for those examples; currently only a handful of examples
are tested under t/examples/.

* Harness Pugs's interactive shell with perl5's IPC::Run (or something
else) and produce a web-based evalbot, similar to
http://tryruby.hobix.com/. Remember to set the PUGS_SAFEMODE environment
variable to true--use &Pugs::Safe::safe_getc, &Pugs::Safe::safe_readline,
and &Pugs::Safe::safe_readline for interaction with the user, if needed.

* Check in the current http://pugscode.org/ home page to the repository
and merge it with the docs/feather/, and reorganize the home page a bit to
make e.g. downloads easier to locate.

* Look over test files in t/bugs/, especially the fixed ones (they lack
:todo), and move them into other more descriptive directories under t/.

Join #perl6 on irc.freenode.net for more information.

Andy Lester suggests a few Parrot tasks:

* As we search for automated ways to check code quality, splint looks
really good. It's also really picky and pernicious. It won't be perfect
from the start, but it's an improvement. Take us to a decent splint or
lint target in the Makefile.

* Change all of the Perl 5 files from using -w to use warnings.

* Any of the CAGE tasks in Parrot's RT are up for grabs:

<http://xrl.us/owsd>

Contact andy@perl.org if you are interested.

Remember, you don't have to know C or Perl 6 (yet) to be a big help.
There are plenty of small tasks for an afternoon or evening--you could be
the next person praised in the Perl.com newsletter! (Thanks to Andy,
Audrey, Ann, Jerry Gay, and Will Coleda so far.)

* Perl on ORN

It's been a while since the last batch of lightning articles. These short
pieces are practical tidbits of knowledge ready for you to absorb and
reuse in your world. Steven Philip Schubiger demonstrates how to convert
crufty MakeMaker installation scripts into shiny pure-Perl installers;
Phil Crow demonstrates the use of Java's powerful Swing UI toolkit from
Perl; Joshua McAdams explains how to turn any module into a script; and
your editor removes duplication from test suites:

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/07/13/lightning-articles.html>

In other news, your editor summarized Bill Odom's "State of The Perl
Foundation" talk at YAPC:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/bill_odom_and_the_state_of_the.html>

Andy Oram suggested a change in focus for producing community-created
documentation:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html>

Meanwhile, OSCON is a week and a half away. Are you ready?

Storing up sleep and food,
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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Still More Perl Lightning Articles
Perl lightning articles are short, direct, and full of electrifying
practical information. This time, Steven Philip Schubiger demonstrates how
to convert crufty MakeMaker installation scripts into shiny pure-Perl
installers, Phil Crow demonstrates the use of Java's powerful Swing UI
toolkit from Perl, Joshua McAdams explains how to turn any module into a
script, and chromatic removes duplication from test suites.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/07/13/lightning-articles.html>

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FEAR-less Site Scraping
Many web programmers talk about "domain-specific languages" as if defining
functions and methods were a new discovery. A real domain-specific
language provides concise syntax and symatics for a particular purpose,
such as Yung-chung Lin's FEAR::API. He explains how this toolkit allows
you to scrape, modify, store, and re-present web data easily, effectively,
and economically.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html>

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Charting Data at the Bottom of the World
Alex Gough has a curious job. He's the only programmer for 500 miles at a
remote Antarctic research station. His problems are like your problems
too, though--gathering, manipulating, recording, and displaying data.
Here's how he uses several CPAN modules to make pretty charts and graphs
with almost no work.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/05/04/charting-data.html>

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Unraveling Code with the Debugger
Reading other people's code can be difficult, especially if you have no
idea what happens when and where. Understanding code flow is vital to
maintenance and bug fixes, but littering code with print and debugging
statements is tedious and prone to error. There's another way: use the
debugger! Daniel Allen demonstrates how to pinpoint a problem with Perl's
debugger.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/04/06/debugger.html>

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Using Ajax from Perl
The recently rediscovered Ajax technique makes the client side of web
programming much more useful and pleasant. However, it also means revising
your existing web applications to take advantage of this new power.
Dominic Mitchell shows how to use CGI::Ajax to give your Perl applications
access to this new power.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/03/02/ajax_and_perl.html>

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Advanced Subroutine Techniques
Subroutines seem like a basic building block of code. They're simple and
easy to understand and use, right? That's true--but there are a few
advanced techniques to make your code more maintainable and robust. Rob
Kinyon goes beyond making sense of subroutines to making subroutines work
for you.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/23/advanced_subroutines.html>

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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Build a Virtual Routed Network

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There's a snide one-liner about false nostalgia: "How can we miss you if
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away. This week, I want to note how fortunate we are that two of the
previous editors of ONJava remain actively involved with the site. A few
editors back, Steve Anglin was the first person to encourage me to get
involved with writing for O'Reilly, and while he's working elsewhere now,
he remains one of the site's most active and interesting bloggers, as you
can see from the list below of ONJava blogs over the last two weeks. And
while you may currently know Daniel Steinberg as the producer and voice of
O'Reilly's "Distributing the Future" podcast, he remains significantly
interested in Java and the directions it's taking. You might have seen
him handling the daily editor's blog a few times on java.net over the last
few weeks, and this week he has an opinion piece for ONJava with a radical
plan for saving desktop Java.

What does the future hold for Java SE? Is it to be anything more than the
basis on which to build EE (and its enterprise counterparts/rivals, like
Spring)? Where is Desktop Java going? Daniel Steinberg has taken a look
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who better understands end-user desktop applications. Take a look at his
opinion piece, "Outsourcing Java SE," and see who he thinks should take
the reins of Java on the desktop.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/12/outsourcing-java-se.html>

Sooner or later, you're probably going to need to document your project in
one or more ways: Javadocs for developers who consume your APIs, JavaHelp
for the end user, and so on. But is this top-down approach really
working, or getting done at all? What would happen if you put up a wiki
and let your most enthusiastic users help you? In the ONLamp article
"Rethinking Community Documentation," Andy Oram explores its potential and
its hazards: "I care about community documentation for several reasons.
First, as a heavy user of many computer technologies (with a focus on free
and open source software), I benefit personally from amateur online
sources. Second, I'm intrigued by the culture of mutual aid this movement
reveals, and its meaning for the democratic sharing of information. Most
imperatively, this movement cuts into my living as an editor of
conventional documentation, for several reasons I desperately need to
understand."

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html>

In this week's feature article from java.net, John Ferguson Smart looks at
"Web Services Made Easy with JAX-WS 2.0": "The new version of the Java API
for XML Web Services, or JAX-WS 2.0, is an exciting part of the new Java
EE 5 platform. Using a powerful combination of Java 5 annotations and
Ant-compatible tools to mask the underlying complexity of the SOAP
protocol, JAX-WS 2.0 greatly simplifies the development of web services
and of web-service-based SOA architectures."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/06/13/web-services-with-jax-ws-2.0.html>

Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:

Steve Anglin - What do you think: "The Beginning of the End for Java
Starts(Date.Time.NOW());"?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/what_do_you_thinkthe_beginning.html>

Robert Cooper - Why I Hate Microformats
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/why_i_hate_microformats.html>

Steve Anglin - After your Java for the day, check this out...
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/after_your_java_for_the_day_ch.html>

Paul Browne - Enterprise Web 2.0 = SOA (Service-Orientated Architecture)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/enterprise_web_20_soa_service.html>

Hari K. Gottipati - Rivals under one roof: Integrating different IDE
components together
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/myeclipse_integrates_netbeans.html>

Steve Anglin - Is the new lightweight Java EE 5 light enough?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/is_the_new_lightweight_java_ee_1.html>

Steve Anglin - JRuby maturing?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/07/jruby_maturing.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Hibernate 3 ORM Patent Infringement Claim against Red Hat
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/hibernate_3_orm_patent_infring.html>

Steve Anglin - Eclipse Callisto debuts
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/eclipse_callisto_debuts.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Interview: Real-World Experience with Google Web
Toolkit (GWT)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/some_realworld_experience_with.html>

Paul Browne - Fixed Price? Don't Get Stung.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/fixed_price_dont_get_stung.html>

Steve Anglin - Open sourcing Java on the verge?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/open_sourcing_java_on_the_verg.html>

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/weblog_s?x-subject=3&>

Please join us again next week.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Lightroom Adventure in Iceland

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We've been quite interested in Lightroom, Adobe's beta photo management
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sort slides on a light box and mark the best ones with a felt tip pen, are
now achievable on a laptop.

We thought that the ultimate test for this software would be to see how it
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Adventure: Destination Iceland."

Later this month, I'll be joining a team of ambitious photographers
traveling to the pristine Icelandic landscape. We'll be working during 22
hour-long days bathed in horizontal light. Since each of us must work
around the clock, we thought this would be the perfect testing environment
for laptops running Lightroom. With this application, we can upload, sort,
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O'Reilly has launched a new site dedicated to the preparation for, and
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I'll be posting blogs on the site as I prepare for Iceland, and will share
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the adventure itself. If you are interested in how professional
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Until next week,

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<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/11/vim-is-easier-than-you-think.html>

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Build a Virtual Routed Network
Building a multi-domain, multi-site testbed network with a workstation in
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Great Location Hacks
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What Is a Wiki (and How to Use One for Your Projects)
Wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large,
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to organize that wiki to avoid lost thoughts, and encourage serendipity.
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Rethinking Community Documentation
Good documentation makes good software great. Poor documentation makes
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can communities produce it effectively? Andy Oram explores how free and
open source software projects can share their knowledge with users and how
publishers and editors fit into the future of documentation.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html>

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JSON on the Web, or: The Revenge of SML
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The Long View of Identity
Who are you online? Your digital identity is a complex bundle of
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What's New in Eclipse 3.2 Java Development Tools
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Monday, July 10, 2006

The Andy Oram Show

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Hello, readers. This is the Linux newsletter, a weekly mailing (except
for four-day weekends such as last week) reminding you to expand your mind
and invest in your future by learning more about free and open source
software. Conveniently, the O'Reilly Network has quite a few articles and
weblogs about it all....

Whatever fellow editor Andy Oram thinks is important, your editor watches.
Andy recently attended a symposium on identity. Though that one little
word sounds awfully dull, there's an amazing amount of work and thought
and potential in the whole system. For example, who online do you trust
with what information? Why? There aren't many easy answers, but there's
plenty of room for privacy and for open, information-minded people to make
the world better. Here's what's going on:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/29/the-long-view-of-identity.html>

When Andy's not attending tip-of-the-spear conferences, he spends other
time thinking about how to make good information more available to
everyone. In particular, the quality of community-written documentation
is very spotty. Some projects do well, but most do not. Are there ways to
encourage better documentation? Are there better ways to organize and
produce it? "Rethinking Community Documentation" describes the problems
very well and offers a few potential solutions:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html>

Relational theory isn't always the easiest thing in the world, especially
if you just want to put data into a database and take it back out later.
Add in complex relationships between data--many to many, for example--and
your queries can get messy. You have a couple of options: avoid these
relationships, do it all in SQL and your high level language, or push some
of the logic into the database again. David Wheeler recently experimented
with using PostgreSQL database functions to manage complex relationships.
Not only is the code simpler and safer, it's much faster. Here's what he did:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/29/many-to-many-with-plpgsql.html>

In weblogs this week, Jeremy Jones hacked a Perl Hack into Python:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/hacking_a_perl_hack_for_python.html>

... and figured out how to use Python UI libraries and threading together:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/pygtk_and_threading.html>

Curtis Poe announced the Perl Foundation's next round of grant proposals:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/call_for_proposals_perl_founda.html>

Andy Lester announced a call for recruits for the Parrot project--no
special experience necessary beyond time and interest:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/calling_for_parrot_janitors.html>

Your editor found an excellent weblog elsewhere about how to sneak testing
into your development environment:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/how_to_sneak_testing_into_your.html>

Tara McGoldrick Walsh tried Google Calendar for an extended period and
reports on her findings:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/07/google_calendar.html>

Roger Weeks looked at his phone bill and wondered exactly how mergers
benefit customers:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/07/mergers_are_good_for_customers_1.html>

Tom Adelstein wondered if impolitic Linux fans might make the job market
harder for other Linux administrators:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/07/linux_and_microsoft_taking_a_p.html>

Justin Clarke tried to make his website produce valid XHTML. It was more
work than he anticipated:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/07/the_quest_for_valid_xhtml.html>

Caleb Tennis just loves the Summer of Code-sponsored Ruby extension maker:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/mkmf_mkrf.html>

Austin Ziegler requested bug reports for Ruby Windows extensions:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/desperately_seeking_win32_exte.html>

Curt Hibbs pointed to RailsConf keynote videos online:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/railsconf_2006_keynote_videos.html>

Rob Orsini reported on a new Rails deployment scheme that makes life much,
much better:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/07/deploying_rails_with_pound_in.html>

Giuseppe Maxia demonstrated how to measure the resource consumption of a
MySQL server process:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2006/07/measuring_resources_for_a_mysq_1.html>

Carla Schroder gave up on Dapper Drake:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/07/goodbye_dapper_1.html>

Caitlyn Martin revisited the subject of Linux on old, old laptops:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/07/atticware_revisited_stepbystep.html>

Remember, OSCON is only two weeks away. Rest up for the flood of
information available then.

Going to bed early tonight,
- c

chromatic
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O'Reilly Network

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Friday, July 07, 2006

MAKE NEWS No. 41: Take Space Shuttle Pics and Make a Bench

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July 07, 2006
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As the United States celebrated its 230th birthday (hey, you don't look a day over
218, OK?), the Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121 launched. This mission, the first
after a one-year hiatus for the shuttle program, will supply and service the
International Space Station during its 12-day mission. The astromakers might be
hundreds of miles up, but you can still take their picture. Michael shows you how
to photograph the Space Shuttle Discovery and ISS with a digital camera on a tripod.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/how_to_take_photos_of_the_spac.html>

MAKE: Video!
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Look no further! Clickity click click!

Make Podcasts
Weekend Projects: Make a Workbench
Every week, MAKE's Media Maker Bre Pettis will bring you a project you can make
over the weekend. In this first podcast, learn how to make a workbench for your
garage, studio, or get your priorities straight and put it in your living room!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/make_podcast_weekend_projects.html>

MAKE: Blog
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Can't get enough MAKE? Visit the MAKE blog for a daily dose of all things you
*should* try at home. Each day we post dozens of stories, projects, hacks, and
mods sent in by you, the makers!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/>

This week on the MAKE: Blog

LED voice transmission over 104 miles:
These Tasmanian hams transmitted voice over 104 miles between mountain peaks using
Luxeon LED-powered transmitters. The circuits and pictures of the rigs are described.
Check out the old school handset being used. Of course they were dismayed that U.S.
Army heliograph operators managed 183 miles more than 100 years ago (Morse code).
Now that's old school!
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/led_voice_transmission_over_10.html>

Open source low-cost real-time eye tracking:
openEyes is an open source, open hardware toolkit for low-cost, real-time eye
tracking. The purpose of openEyes is to provide a hardware design and a set of
software tools useful for the analysis of eye movement data. The development of
openEyes stems from the recognition in the eye tracking and human computer
interaction communities that while the cost of hardware for eye tracking has
precipitously dropped in the recent past that the there is lack of freely available
software to implement even long-established eye-tracking methods.
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/open_source_lowcost_realtime_e.html>

Two-level cat bed made from an old desk chair:
Mark made a two-level cat bed from an old desk chair. We think this is a great use
for an old chair that might get tossed. Here's how you can make your own:
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/2_level_cat_bed_made_from_an_o.html>

Hpw to make your own Chewbacca puppet:
Kanja shows how to make an awesome Chewbacca puppet.
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/how_to_make_your_own_chewbacca.html>

The trackball telescope:
A ton of makers sent this telescope in. It's called the trackball telescope, and
it's public domain. Jerry writes, "...I searched the U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office database, and came up blank there, too. As near as I can tell, I have come
up with a new design for a mount that not only eliminates the pointing problems of
equatorial mounts and Dobsonian mounts, but also tracks. I call it the 'trackball'
because there's no better name to describe it. Happily, another search of the USPTO
database shows that the term 'trackball' has fallen into the public domain, so
apparently anyone is free to use it as a generic term for this type of telescope.
Many people have urged me to patent the design, but I would much rather put it into
the public domain so anybody can build (and sell) them as they wish..."
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/the_trackball_telescope.html>

MAKE: Flickr Photo Pool
====================
There are over 3,887 photos from 1,396 worldwide makers posting projects, hacks,
mods, and more in the MAKE photo pool.

Where else could you peep a Banana Jr. file server?
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/fritzgutten/176694735/in/pool-make/>

Turn on, tune in, and upload your projects.
<http://www.flickr.com/groups/make/pool/>

MAKE Volume 06!
===============
The MAKE team is busy working on Volume 07, set to hit stores the end of August,
so there's still plenty of time to delve into V06 and finish up all those cool
projects!

Build a pair of electronic insects. Make some LED throwies. Check out the rodent-
powered nightlight. Try some tensegrity. Build a humane Bug Sucker.

<http://www.makezine.com/06/>

And don't forget, if you're a MAKE subscriber, you can log in right now and see
all of MAKE 06 with MAKE's digital edition.
<http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol06/>

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"When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the
process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst
way--before one began."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

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Don't buy what you can make, and don't make what you can find!

*The MAKE Team*

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Thursday, July 06, 2006

Two Cheers for Microsoft's ODF Support

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Last week Jason Levitt showed us another way around some of the onerous
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Flash SWF. Flash is probably one of the most widely distributed and
enabled application environments on the Web today, so using it to do Ajax
requests may just be crazy enough to work.

Flash to the Rescue
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/06/28/flashxmlhttprequest-proxy-to-the-rescue.html>

And new this week, Simon St.Laurent--who's been writing about XML for as
long as anyone can remember--gives us a thoughtful little piece about the
history of attempts to simplify XML, attempts that began almost
immediately. Simon suggests that those early attempts have finally borne
fruit in the rise of JSON as, perhaps, *the* data format of Web 2.0.

This is a fun piece for me to publish and, I hope, for you to read. Simon
knows where all the bodies are buried, and I'm glad you'll get a chance to
read him again!

JSON on the Web, Or: The Revenge of SML
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/07/05/json-on-the-web-or-the-revenge-of-sml.html>

Also worth reading this week:

Dan Zambonini, Why the World is ready for the Semantic Web
<http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/06/why_the_world_is_ready_for_the.html>

Hari Gottipati, Google Checkout API
<http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2006/06/google_checkout_xml_api.html>

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Book - New Releases

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Beat the Heat

Thursday, July 20, 2006

A fresh look at Apache Geronimo

Monday, July 17, 2006

Vim, BSD Desktops, and Data Protection

Friday, July 14, 2006

State of The Perl Foundation

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Build a Virtual Routed Network

Familiar faces on ONJava

Google Web Toolkit

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Lightroom Adventure in Iceland

Monday, July 10, 2006

The Andy Oram Show

Friday, July 07, 2006

MAKE NEWS No. 41: Take Space Shuttle Pics and Make a Bench

Thursday, July 06, 2006

Two Cheers for Microsoft's ODF Support

Flash to the Rescue

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