Book - New Releases: September 2006

Friday, September 29, 2006

MAKE News No. 45 -- MakeShift, RSS, Drawbots, and Steam Engines

MAKE NEWS No. 45 -- Save a man stuck in a fissure filled with toxic gas, RSS
feeds for MAKE (print), the Drawbot, steam motorcycles, toast art, and more!

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September 29, 2006
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Halloween is fast approaching, a "maker" holiday if there ever was one! Have a
great spooky project, hack, tip, costume idea, favorite material, or tool
related to Halloween? Email me.

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MAKE Senior Editor
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MakeShift: Save a man stuck in a fissure filled with toxic gas!
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Next up, let's show everyone how to win the MakeShift challenge. The creator of
MacGyver (Lee D. Zlotoff) challenges you to save a man stuck in a fissure filled
with toxic gas!

=The Scenario=
You set off on a solo backpacking jaunt one blissfully free weekend, in search
of a legendary mountain hot spring that has remained pristine thanks to the
12-plus-hour climb it takes to reach it. A well-earned sweat topped off with
nothing but silence, solitude, and hot water--what's not to like?

Just as your topo map indicates that you're within minutes of the spring, you
hear an agonized shouting from somewhere off the rocky trail. You quickly
discover a large, cylindrical fissure in the ground, about 15 feet in diameter
and about 20 feet deep, at the bottom of which lies a rather large example of
humanity, with his leg bent at such an unnatural angle that there's no doubt
it's badly broken. You yell down to the man--who is easily twice your weight--to
say help has arrived. He acknowledges you with a wave, but he seems to be fading
fast from shock, pain, or whatever. The walls of thet fissure are nearly vertical
and full of jagged rocks, but your experience tells you they're scalable. Still,
there's no way you'll be able to climb those rocks with this guy on your back.
You'll have to come up with another way to get him out of this whole.

=And then it hits you=
A noxious, sulfuric smell that says that this fissure is a vent for the same
gases that make the hot springs so warm and bubbly. If you don't quickly find
a way to get fresh air to this guy, he's not going to survive long enough for
you to rescue him.

=The Challenge=
Devise a way to keep this guy breathing while you come up with and execute a
plan to safely extract him from the fissure. Then get him stabilized long
enough that you can either get him off the mountain yourself, or hike back out
to summon more help.

=Here's what you've got=
A top-of-the-line backpack with a nested, detachable water container, a sleeping
bag, inflatable air mattress, two-man backpacking tent, a large towel, cook set,
butane stove, camping food, and a basic first aid kit. You also have 40 feet of
nylon rope, an elaborate Swiss Army knife (or Leatherman tool), a 25-foot roll
of duct tape, a small Maglite-type flashlight, your trusty, 6-foot bamboo walking
stick, and the bandanna around your neck. Any questions? Good, 'cause humanity
awaits.

Send a detailed description of your MakeShift solution with sketches and/or
photos to <makeshift@makezine.com> by October 27, 2006. If duplicate designs
are submitted, the winner will be determined by the quality of the explanation
and presentation. The most plausible and creative solutions will each win MAKE
sweatshirt. Think positive and include your shirt size and contact information
with your description. For rules and solutions to previous MakeShift challenges,
visit <http://www.makezine.com/makeshift>.

MAKE: Video!
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=Make Podcast: Weekend Projects -- Making A Drawbot=

Check out our latest project from our media maker Bre using the MAKE controller
kit: "When I saw the scribbler robot article in Make: 07, I had to make one. At
first I thought it would be easy to get some steppers and boss them around with
some software. Well that's what needed to be done, but it wasn't easy. Luckily
I got a lot of the hardware issues out of the way by finding a medical robot
that organized vials of blood off eBay to convert into my robot."

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

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 by you, makers!

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

This week on the MAKE: Blog

=A Steam-powered Motorcycle=

We're getting a lot of great submissions to add to our growing collection of
"maker made" transportation. Here's a series of photos from an early homemade
steam-powered motorcycle. Annette writes, "Ray Clift was born in August, 1912,
in Bellingham, WA, where he spent most of his growing up years and young
adulthood. Ray was an inventive fellow, as were many of his contemporaries, as
kids back then didn't have many toys. They made their toys! Ray's working years
were spent in photography, machine shop, mechanical engineering, and drafting.

"Ray and I were married in September, 1973, so I was not an eye witness to his
early endeavors. All I have are some photos he kept, his notations, and memories
of things he mentioned to me. I believe that the motorcycle was Ray's only
invention using steam power. I recall him saying that the motorcycle wouldn't go
very far.

"Ray must have sold or given the motorcycle to someone, probably before he moved
to Seattle, WA, about 1949. I remember that an old friend of his told him that
he had seen what he thought was the motorcycle, lying abandoned and rusting in
a field."

Here are the wonderful photos from Annette:

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/steam_powered_motorcycle_photo.html>

=MAKE: Toast Art=

The best art since sliced bread? Gavin Harper, our mate who has written articles
on Build Your Own Band Aid Fuel Cell, Make a Geodesic Dome, and a number of cool
tech books, met up with acclaimed "Toast Artist" Lennie Payne, who gives MAKE
readers some insight on how to make art from toast.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/make_toast_art.html>

=Public Beta: Subscribe to a Print Magazine (MAKE) via RSS=

OK makers, for those of you who use RSS feeds and also subscribe to MAKE (the
magazine + digital edition) we have an interesting "public beta" we'd like you
to try out: "subscribe to a print magazine (MAKE) via RSS." For the folks who
want to dive in, or who are in the publishing industry, you can now subscribe
(via RSS) to any term/topic/author that appears in MAKE (print magazine) and
read the articles you subscribed to (RSS) instantly with our digital edition.
In other words, MAKE magazine feeds feature page permalinks.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/public_beta_subscribe_to_a_pri.html>

MAKE: Flickr Photo Pool
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There are over 5,028 photos with 1,679 Makers from around the world posting
projects, hacks, mods and more in the MAKE photo pool.

Morgan, the wonder Atari 400/800:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/hauntedpalace/251633335/in/pool-make/>

"Old school ROV":
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_tentacle/251961099/in/pool-make/>

Get your steampunk one:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikest/247903419/in/pool-make/>

Building a simple magnetohydrodynamic propulsion craft:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/oskay/243692324/in/pool-make/>

The new Sony reader:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/tags/sonyreader/>

MAKE Volume 07!
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Volume 07: Backyard Biology

Hack your plants, extract your DNA, 70's soapbox saga, build a videocam rocket,
and head-mounted water cannon.

<http://www.makezine.com/07/>

Subscribe today: <http://www.makezine.com/subscribe>

Last up, if you're a MAKE subscriber, don't forget that you can log in right now
and see all of MAKE 07 with MAKE's digital edition.

<http://www.make-digital.com/make/vol07/>

Renegade Crafters! MAKEs New Zine, CRAFT, on Newsstands October 17!
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From the team that brought you MAKE, CRAFT is a quarterly, project-based magazine
dedicated to the renaissance occurring within the world of crafts. Our vision with
CRAFT is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly
imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts
with unconventional, unexpected and sometimes renegade techniques, materials and
tools.

CRAFT is written for and by creative, free-spirited DIY enthusiasts; tech-savvy
makers & crafters; students (of all ages), teachers; the intellectually curious,
artistically inclined and environmentally aware. People who derive an innate sense
of pleasure in finding unexpected ways to repurpose, re-make and re-use materials,
art, technology, devices in their daily lives. Learn How to:

· Embroider a skateboard
· Make and program a light-up tank top
· Convert an old pair of shoes into chic knitted boots
· Create an iPod cozy through the ancient art of felt-making

CRAFT goes on sale October 17, 2006 and we anticipate a very quick sellout (as was
the case with the inaugural issue of MAKE). Avoid the crushing disappointment of
an empty newsstand, reserve a copy today by subscribing.

As a special offer to MAKE readers, visit craftzine.com/subscribe and claim an
inaugural subscription for yourself or as a gift for the crafter in your life
before October 17th, enter promotion code MAKE4CRAFT and receive the cool new
CRAFT T-shirt.

Just visit <http://craftzine.com/subscribe>

And be sure to check out our new blog:

<http://craftzine.com/blog>

MAKE Japan
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MAKE is coming to Japan! It has a lot of our content from the pages of MAKE,
but will be specifically for Japan.
<http://www.oreilly.co.jp/books/4873112982/>

You can also download a sample MAKE 01 (Japanese PDF) here:
<ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/download/make01_sample.pdf>

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reference featuring hundreds of tables, maps, formulas, constants & conversions
AND it still fits in your shirt pocket! Get one, heck two, at the MAKE store
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Thursday, September 28, 2006

Introducing WSGI: Python's Secret Web Weapon

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Weaving a Tapestry, Talking about Smalltalk

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Greetings...

Some topics seem like they would have been covered by now. Such was my
thinking when I received a proposal for an introductory Tapestry article.
Tapestry's been around for a while, so I did a quick search through our
articles and was surprised to find that we've never actually covered it on
ONJava. Being an Apache-based web app framework with many adherents and a
strong developer community, Tapestry obviously deserves more attention
both from us and from the Java community as a whole. So this week, we're
trying to make up for that oversight.

What's so great about Tapestry? "Tapestry offers advantages including a
high-performance coarse-grained pooling strategy, high code-reuse,
line-precise error reporting, and lots more. Tapestry applications can be
run on any servlet container since the apps are 100 percent container
agnostic. Adoption of the Tapestry framework eliminates writing servlets
and building URLs and query parameters to servlets, even though Tapestry
is built on top of the servlet API." Hemangini Kappla shows you how to
install and develop web apps with Tapestry in her introductory article,
"Tapestry: A Component-Centric Framework".

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/09/27/tapestry-component-centric-framework.html>

"You've decided to expand your horizons. You've been programming
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happy and productive, but you have this nagging feeling that you're
solving problems by rote rather than thinking as creatively as you once
did. Learning a new language, especially one that forces you to re-examine
some of your notions about software development, may be just the ticket."
Smalltalk is often argued to be the most object-oriented language ever
devised, and Keith Fieldhouse's "Smalltalk for Everyone Else" can help you
get started with it.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html>

This week's feature article from java.net is on "Developing Applications
with Facelets, JSF, and JSP". "JavaServer Faces (JSF) along with Facelets
and JavaServer Pages (JSP) 2.0+ promotes a new way of Java web
programming. This article introduces a rich list of useful tips to help
developers smoothly transition from the old-fashioned JSP/servlet
programming to the new JSF-style programming. It clarifies the issues and
confusion developers may encounter, and promotes best practices and
methodologies to simplify web development, improve code reuse, and make
source code more designer-friendly, as well as easy-to-maintain."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/08/29/developing-with-facelets-jsf-jsp.html>

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

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Dejan Bosanac - Multiple table generator in Hibernate3
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Norbert Ehreke - Behavioral completeness is cool, but...
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Steve Anglin - Java goes on another diet
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Steve Anglin - U.S. Daylight Savings Changes in 2007: Why should we care?
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Monday, September 25, 2006

The 20-Year Onion Project

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O'Reilly Network related to open source and free software. (If you're the
person who keeps reloading the page obsessively, first--thank you! and
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Here's what's new.

Guiding a project or a community is like raising a child. At least,
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his tenth annual State of the Onion address, Larry explains how Perl 5 is
growing up into Perl 6, as she turns 19 and heads into adulthood. Here's
the complete text and all of the images from his popular talk:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

Are you ever away from your main phone? Do you have a complex set of
locations and lists of people who you do want to talk to sometimes and who
absolutely must not ever disturb you other times? Of course Asterisk can
handle this call routing, but setting up these rules can be cumbersome.
That's OK. Matthew Gast has fixed it for himself, and now he shares his
clever solution with you in "Out-Of-Office Processing with Asterisk":

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/09/19/out-of-office-processing-with-asterisk.html

The Bluetooth protocol for almost-frictionless small device networking is
popular, but never quite took off among hackers. It's a pity too; there
are plenty of clever ideas awaiting discovery and exploitation. In the
first or two articles, Gulyhem Aznar walks through the installation and
configuration of a Bluetooth device and a Linux machine, explaining the
protocol and its ideas along the way. This sets the stage for some
clever, highly expandable fun:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/09/21/rediscovering-bluetooth.html

For every dominant programming paradigm, one or two languages exemplify
its purest form. Smalltalk is probably the pinnacle of object-oriented
purity. Though it dates back over a quarter century, it's still a powerful
language for getting things done and stretching your brain in new
directions. Learning Smalltalk well can make you a much better
programmer. Keith Fieldhouse demonstrates how programmers can easily
become productive with the open source Squeak environment:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html

This week's Distributing the Future podcast is entirely Eben Moglen's
outstanding closing address from OSCON 2006. There is nothing to say
other than "If you care about free culture, this deserves your attention."
(Your editor was there. He knows.)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/25/distributing-the-future.html

In weblogs this week, Ann Barcomb summmarized the Perl 6 mailing lists and
found some Beatles' references:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_4.html

Jeremy Jones pondered how his recent Django apps enabled code re-use
through pluggability:

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Your editor argued that the difference between good and great coders is
the ability to read code:

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... and then postulated the existence of a mysterious factor that affected
the productivity of a language or platform:

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Carla Schroder analyzed several Linux distributions suitable for
installation on tiny, cheap WAP boxes:

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Paddy Sreenivasan introduces the idea of selective database recovery for MySQL:

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2006/09/selective_recovery_of_mysql_da_1.html

Chris Josephes gives tips on writing the perfect letter of complaint (to
get the results you want, not just to vent):

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Welcome to autumn or spring, Perl newsletter subscribers. (You try writing
for a global audience and see how hemisphere-inclusive your writing
becomes.) This is the Perl newsletter, a bi-weekly newsletter about Perl.
That's why we call it the Perl newsletter.

Here's what's news in the world of Perl.

* Perl Events

The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop is tomorrow--23 September. It has almost
sold out. Register now:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/20/2022249

Damian Conway will be in Boston giving two free talks on Monday, 25
September:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/19/2257252

* Other Perl News

Josh McAdams and Perlcast interviewed your editor about the must-own,
must-buy, and must-review Perl Hacks. (Your editor was the lead author,
so take all of the imperatives in this paragraph very seriously.) Perlcast
will also give away several copies of the book, not that you don't have
two already.

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/1648231

David Landgren summarized the recent activity on the Perl 5 Porters list:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/09/2145224
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/127256

Ann Barcomb summarized the world of Perl 6 for the fortnight:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/10/142259
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/16/1957245

* 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.

This week, the Pugs tasks are:

Hack examples/network/evalbot/evalbot-loop and have it report on IRC
when a build fails, perhaps by sending a special message down the pipe
(see set_nick), and save the build log somewhere.

Smartlink more tests to Synopses: See
http://rakudo.org/perl6/index.cgi?smart_linking for how, and
http://spec.pugscode.org/ is the current result. (Also
http://smoke.pugscode.org/ is linked to the spec as well.)

In the world of Parrot, the RT queue has plenty of open tickets for you
to peruse:

http://xrl.us/owsd

In particular, good places to start include fixing sprintf()
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40253>
and changing Parrot's exception calls in C code
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=40392>.

Much appreciation goes to Paul Cochrane, who has completed several tasks
related to coding standards and file cleanup. Great work!

* Perl on ORN

Ever since the first Perl Conference, way back in the mists of time, Larry
Wall has given an annual address called the State of the Onion. Sometimes
they're about Perl. This summer marked the tenth anniversary of the State
of the Onion, and Perl.com has the text--and, this year, the
photographs--by which Larry explained how his teenaged project is becoming
an adult:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

Your editor found a wonderful account of going from lurker to contributor
and how Audrey Tang's Pugs project made that frictionless:

http://use.perl.org/~rodi/journal/30985

James Shore shared an experience of voluntarily and knowingly acquiring
technical debt for a good business reason, and then paying it back down
with interest:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/voluntary_technical_debt.html

Jim Thomason gave an account of taking four years to build a templating
systems--something that seems so simple, you can do it very badly in an hour:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/build_your_own_templating_syst.html

Meanwhile, Perl quality improves, bugs get fixed, new features appear, and
it's just a great time to be a programmer.

Until next time,
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Generating UML and Sequence Diagrams
Sometimes a picture can save you thousands of words of description--and
debugging. A sequence diagram shows the flow of methods and function calls
between modules. Perl lets you generate these almost automatically for
Perl code--or even Java. Phil Crow shows how to use UML::Sequence.

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

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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
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FEAR-less Site Scraping
Many web programmers talk about "domain-specific languages" as if defining
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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

***

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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Thursday, September 21, 2006

Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries, Part 2

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Confused by file sharing in XP? You're not alone. In this second of a
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XP's secrets.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/09/19/windows-xp-file-sharing-mysteries-part-2.html

Microsoft's Vista Tips Site Won't Work on Vista
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Get a Head Start on Managing Vista
If your organization wants to get a head start on learning how to manage
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Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
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Gavin Starks on Saving the World
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Metaphor
This week we look at two metaphors for open source. Scott Yara says that
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Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way
Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, and
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Confessions of a Recovering NetBSD Zealot
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Don't Let Hibernate Steal Your Identity
Hibernate has one set of ideas about how to make something unique, such as
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RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader
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Your editor is home this week, but many lucky folks are in lovely Belgium,
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what you're missing (even if you're attending, you can't be everywhere
at once!):

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/eurooscon/

If you've used an internet-capable toaster in the past few years, odds are
it runs NetBSD. This project has had a quiet focus on high-quality,
portable code. It doesn't always get all of the attention that other open
operating systems do, but that changed recently, when a founding member
decided that something needs to change. This week, Federico Biancuzzi
interviews Charles M. Hannum about the past, present, and possible future
of NetBSD, and why Hannum thinks the project management needs potentially
radical changes:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/09/14/netbsd_future.html

Do you remember the bad old days of huge, expensive PBX equipment that
required patience and phone companies and lots of hassle to maintain and
add services? Brian McConnell says that those days have changed with
VoIP, and especially the open source Asterisk PBX. Now you can replace a
six-figure installation with the equivalent of a standard web server and
get more features with less hassle. Brian's "Building Advanced Telecom
Apps on a Shoestring" praises the new platform for invention and suggests
that the future might hold some really interesting new applications built
on Asterisk and VoIP:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/09/12/building-advanced-telecom-apps-on-a-shoestring.html

This week's Distributing the Future podcast explores metaphors for open
source. Greenplum's Scott Yara compares open source to rock 'n roll,
while the always-provocative R0ml thinks that it's more like a tomato.
David Battino also peeks behind our digital media site to talk to a
songwriter and audio editor:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/18/distributing-the-future.html

In weblogs this week, Jonathan Wellons plays with math and figures a
clever way to reduce some complex fractions:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/reducing_fractions_the_easy_wa.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the latest developments in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_3.html

Ming Chow reviewed Google Code's project hosting for a system
administration tool written in Perl:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/syshogs_and_google_code_projec_1.html

Your editor found a wonderful account of how optimizing a project for fun
and ease of contribution can encourage new contributions:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/from_alien_to_citizen.html

... and an excellent account of how building a templating system can take
over your life:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/build_your_own_templating_syst.html

... and, finally, an advanced development practice of knowingly
accumulating technical debt:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/voluntary_technical_debt.html

Chris Tyler recommended the Free Software and Open Source Symposium to
anyone who'll be in Toronto in late October:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/great_fsoss_symposium_coming_u.html

Jeremy Jones found joy in a video tutorial site:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/09/showmedo_a_video_tutorial_site.html

pat eyler found another great Ruby weblog to recommend:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/reading_ola_bini.html

Steve Mallett linked to pat's interview with Leonard Richardson:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/pat_interviews_leonard_richard.html

Rob Orsini reviewed iTerm and its excellent tabbed interface:

http://blog.tupleshop.com/2006/9/14/tools-of-the-trade-iterm-faster-with-safari-like-tabs

Nathaniel Brown announced a much-improved date selector widget:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/datebocks_the_new_intuitive_da.html

Austin Ziegler and Curt Hibbs promoted the newly updated Ruby language
home page:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/ruby_language_site_updated.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/09/new_ruby_web_site_is_officiall.html

Timothy M. O'Brien interviewed Charles Nutter about the fate and goals of
JRuby, now that Sun has hired the lead developers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/09/charles_nutter_responds_our_fu.html

Marc Hedlund expanded on Cory Doctorow's critique of the Amazon Unbox license:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/09/cory_tears_into_amazon_unbox_l.html

Tim O'Reilly pondered standardized hardware for eBook readers:

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In Seattle tomorrow for the final stop of the Perl Hacks world tour,
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RSS and Ajax: A Simple News Reader
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Kurt Cagle - Wherefore art thou, SVG?
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Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hibernate identity theft and Eclipse cheating!

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It's Java identity time again, and you know what that means: properly
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appropriate to your objects. That is, if they're to be considered the
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Using Data Compression in .NET 2.0

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Why Vista Will Ship on Time
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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Short Cuts List is Growing Longer

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Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations
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Book - New Releases

Friday, September 29, 2006

MAKE News No. 45 -- MakeShift, RSS, Drawbots, and Steam Engines

Thursday, September 28, 2006

Introducing WSGI: Python's Secret Web Weapon

Weaving a Tapestry, Talking about Smalltalk

Monday, September 25, 2006

The 20-Year Onion Project

SOTO 10

Friday, September 22, 2006

Profiling XML Schema

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries, Part 2

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Digital Media Insider Podcast

Monday, September 18, 2006

Shocking Metaphor

Friday, September 15, 2006

RSS and AJAX: A Simple News Reader

Thursday, September 14, 2006

Hibernate identity theft and Eclipse cheating!

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Using Data Compression in .NET 2.0

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Short Cuts List is Growing Longer

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