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One of the hottest conferences recently was the Web 2.0 Summit, held
November 7-9 in San Francisco. Portions of this year's event are available
as both audio and video podcasts, enabling you to grab a front-row seat.
In the first segment, Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle look back at their original
notions of the concepts that make up Web 2.0, then preview many of the sessions
that you can download in the coming weeks.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/17/web-20-summit-opening-session.html

To catch the action, all you have to do is subscribe to the podcast and
enjoy. It's definitely worth a look.

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*** Featured Articles ***

Virtualization and the POWER5 Architecture
Virtualization is a trendy topic in the server room now, especially as
commodity computers begin to support features that mainframes have had for
decades. Mainframes aren't standing still, however; IBM's POWER5
architecture supports powerful virtualization features on AIX... and
Linux. Ken Milberg describes some of the benefits of the recent work on
this platform.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/22/power5-virtualization.html

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Music and Metadata
Chris Mitchell offers an interesting take on music and the Semantic Web,
using metadata to find a club with the right style of music.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/11/22/music-and-metadata.html

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Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 1
In this excerpt from Java Generics and Collections, authors Maurice
Naftalin and Philip Wadler show how to make the switch to Java 5.0
generics, not by expecting you to flip a switch across your whole code
base, but by having you gradually work generics into your code while
maintaining compatibility.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/javagenerics_chap05/index.html

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Peter Green's Modded Macs
Giles Turnbull recently visited hardware hacker and composer Peter Green
to check out his homemade Mac laptop and tablet computers. Learn what
inspires Green and how he made these machines, along with images and video
of these inventive Mac mods.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/11/21/peter-greens-modded-macs.html

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Using Offline Files
Mobile users need access to their personal files, even when disconnected
from the network--and offline files let them do just that. Mitch Tulloch
and Chris Sanders show you the ins and outs of setting up and using
offline files.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/21/using-offline-files.html

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Web 2.0 Summit Opening Session
The week we begin with the opening session from program chairs Tim
O'Reilly and John Battelle. They look back at their original notions of
the ideas that make up Web 2.0 and preview many of the sessions that you
will see in the coming weeks. This first episode is sponsored by the Intel
Software Partner Program (www.intel.com/partner).

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/17/web-20-summit-opening-session.html

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Code for and by the people
We've got two pieces this week that originated with conversations that
O'Reilly editor chromatic recorded at this year's FOO camp. In the first
he talks with Allison Randall and James Duncan about source code and how
you can tell that at least half the target audience are humans. He then
talks about the Apache Software Foundation with Greg Stein. (DTF
11-20-2006: 24 minutes, 15 seconds)

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/20/distributing-the-future.html

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Caching Dynamic Content with Apache httpd
Dynamic websites tend to be easier to manage than large collections of
similar static files, but they often get many times more reads than they
do writes. Every database hit and page generation can eat up precious CPU
cycles. Rich Bowen shows off mod_cache, which trades disk space or memory
for CPU and can help improve performance on your servers.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/11/16/apache-mod_cache.html

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Reshaping IT Project Delivery Through Extreme Prototyping
Why should the benefits of short iterations and a tight feedback loop be
limited to the agile methodologies like Extreme Programming? In this
article, Satya Komatineni explores the idea of Extreme Prototyping--the
staged, ongoing development of a web app prototype that emerges into a
final product. He shows how it can eliminate common design and project
management errors.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/11/15/reshaping-it-project-delivery-through-extreme-prototyping.html

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How to Deploy Software Using Group Policy
Deploying software needn't be a chore for network administrators. You can
leverage the power of Group Policy and Intellimirror, as Mitch Tulloch and
Chris Sanders show you.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/11/14/how-to-deploy-software-using-group-policy.html

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Subspace Networks: Hiding Circuit Switched Networks in a Packet Switched
Network
Brian McConnell describes a trick that he calls "subspace networking,"
which can be used to embed circuit switched networking within packet
switched LAN hardware, while applications are unaware that this is going
on behind the scenes.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2006/11/14/subspace-networks.html

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How to Write a Cocoa Web Server
Learn how to use NSSocketPort, NSFileHandle, and Cocoa notifications to
write a server application without having to create a multi-threaded
application. Jürgen Schweizer also shows how to use Core Foundation APIs
to deal with the low-level details of the HTTP protocol in this working
example of building a Cocoa web server.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/11/14/how-to-write-a-cocoa-web-server.html

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An Introduction to Salesforce.com's AppExchange
Tony Stubblebine dives into the Salesforce.com developer program and
introduces the basics of working with the powerful Salesforce.com
AppExchange platform.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/13/an-introduction-to-saleforcecoms-appexchange.html

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Degrees of Openness
"Open" is a word too important to apply merely to source code. Although
open source code is important to free and unfettered computing, openness
encompasses far more components of a computing system. Adrien Lamothe
explores other degrees of openness and their implications.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/11/09/degrees-of-openness.html

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Cracks in the Foundation
Micah Dubinko takes aim at the legion of annoyances caused by XML
namespaces.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/11/08/cracks-in-the-foundation.html

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Advanced Java Content Repository API
First presented in "What Is Java Content Repository," JSR-170 offers a
standard means for content management systems to present their persistent
data stores to Java applications. In this article, Sunil Patil explores
some of JCR's optional features--namely, the very useful concepts of
versioning and observability.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/11/08/advanced-java-content-repository.html

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