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The First European RailsConf 2006 - September 14-15 – London

Learn why Ruby on Rails is taking Europe by Storm! Find out what’s
new cool and exciting from more than 25 leading web 2.0 experts,
including David Heinemeier Hansson - creator of Rails, Pragmatic
Programmer Dave Thomas, Rake author Jim Weirich, Why the
Lucky Stiff and more!

http://www.oreilly.com/go/railsconf_linux

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Hello, Linux Newsletter readers. This weekly newsletter requires
your editor to figure out a slightly new way to say that "Linux"
here is a marketing-hijacked term that should bring to your mind
visions of all sorts of free and open source software. Here's what
the world of the O'Reilly Network said about such software this past
week.

It's common knowledge that putting an unprotected bare PC on the
Internet can expose you to all sorts of danger. It's less common
knowledge how to build a firewall to protect your computer. Can you
believe it's possible to build a working firewall in ten minutes, on
Linux, BSD, or even Mac OS X? Dru Lavigne demonstrates in the latest
FreeBSD Basics column:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/08/03/FreeBSDBasics.html>

Think back to the most recent time you had to explain a complex piece
of code to someone else. Did you immediately head for a whiteboard,
or did you wave your hands wildly, looking for the right words?
Perhaps you had to take over maintenance of an important program, but
you just can't figure out how it works. In either case, generating a
sequence diagram can help untangle complex interactions. Drawing them
yourself takes too much time. Make the computer do the work. Phil
Crow shows how:

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/08/03/sequence-diagrams.html>

ORN whirlwind Daniel Steinberg has been busy with podcasts. If you
like to listen to smooth-voiced editors, try the OSCON 2006 preview:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/oscon-podcast-preview.html>

In weblogs this week, Curtis Poe brought up the point that people are
the most important and unpredictable factor in software development:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/project_management_by_dummies.html>

Your editor argued that open languages need open test suites:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/open_languages_need_open_test.html>

... and argued the need for better OO systems while reviewing the
CPAN module Class::Trait:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/perl_module_review_classtrait.html>

Chris Tyler gave his first impressions of Fedora Core 6:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/fedora_core_6_first_impression.html>

Jeremy Jones recommended the FLOSS weekly podcast interview with
Guido van Rossum:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/floss_weekly_interview_with_gu.html>

Caitlyn Martin asked why Firefox on Linux is so terribly broken:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_is_firefox_for_linux_so_te.html>

Lyz Krumbach attended a talk about Google Internals and has a link
to the slides:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/google_internals_talk.html>

Pat Eyler recommended a new approach to writing C extensions in
Ruby:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/08/creating_c_extensions_in_ruby.html>

Tim O'Reilly pointed out another reason for open source -- the
architecture of Unix made it necessary:

<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/open_source_architecture_or_go.html>

... then enjoyed seeing a billboard for Ubuntu GNU/Linux:

<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/first_ubuntu_billboard_spotted.html>

... and finally analyzed the growth in job postings with regard to
Ajax and Ruby:

<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/job_trends_web_20_ajax_and_rub.html>

That's it for this week. Come back next time to learn all about
federated tables in MySQL.

Until then,
- c

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

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