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on the O'Reilly Network related to free and open source software.

This just in: the Southern California Linux Expo has issued a call for
papers. The conference will take place February 10 and 11, 2007, in Los
Angeles. (LA in February is usually pretty nice, compared to almost
everything north of there.) Your editor recommends learning more:

http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/cfp/scale5x.txt

Software development isn't easy, especially the distributed kind. If you
participate in an open source or free software project, or if you work
with colleagues in other places, sometimes getting together in person for
a few days will increase your productivity immensely. Steve Holden
recently helped to organize such sprints for the Python world. He's
written his thoughts on what makes a development effort effective, in
"Running a Sprint":

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/10/19/running-a-sprint.html

Administering any database larger than a table takes a bit of work,
especially if you care about the data. If it's not backups or creating new
entities, it's monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing. Though the
default tools help, they're not the only utilities available; there's
plenty of help from the community to keep on top of your administration.
Baron Schwartz surveys open source tools for MySQL administrators:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2006/10/19/mysql-tools.html

One of the longest-lived and still useful web development frameworks in
existence is Perl's CGI::Application. The latest version added support for
plugins and borrowed some of the best ideas from some of the newer
toolkits. Mark Stosberg shows off the modernization available in
CGI::Application and demonstrates how easy it is to write Perl web
applications that scale from very small problems to very large ones:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/10/19/cgi_application.html

In recent podcasts, Tom Steinberg discusses election tools:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/16/distributing-the-future.html

Your editor writes a novel:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/10/09/distributing-the-future.html

Phil Torrone makes an LED pumpkin:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10/weekend_project_3.html

In weblogs this week, Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_7.html

Andy Oram pondered what Web 2.0 can do for independent authors:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/kosmopolis_and_web_20_for_inde.html

Your author scoffed at deliberately writing baby-code in the hopes that
maintenance programmers can understand important code:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/see_spot_code_code_spot_code.html

... then criticized the use of "Linux support" to mean "only 32-bit x86
Linux support":

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/10/uh_thanks_for_the_linux_suppor.html

Curt Hibbs collected a great set of weblog posts about RubyConf 2006:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/10/blogging_about_rubyconf_2006.html

Chris Tyler bragged a little about his Fedora Linux book:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/fedora_core_fedora_linux_downl.html

Jeremy Jones noted a new release of SQLAlchemy, a Python SQL toolkit and ORM:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/10/sqlalchemy_030_released.html

Tim O'Reilly spreads Larry Lessig's distinction between real and fake sharing:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/real_sharing_vs.html

... and wondered what it takes to get the market to tell the truth:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/getting_the_mar.html

Nat Torkington found the ever-entertaining Squid Labs on CNN:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/10/squid_labs_on_c.html

Now it's off to OOPSLA in lovely (and overcast) downtown Portland. What
does the future hold for object-oriented software?

Hoping Croquet goes somewhere popular,
- c

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

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