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Hello, world.

Your editor has just returned from the first ever standalone Perl
hackathon <http://hackathon.info>. If you remember Steve Holden's recent
ONLamp.com article about sprints, this was similar. It was a long weekend
(full of travel mishaps for some) with much useful code and discussion.

After you send out mail saying "Hey, why not have a hackathon or sprint in
$YOUR_TOWN_HERE for $YOUR_FAVORITE_PROJECT," pass the time to wait for
responses with the latest O'Reilly Network thoughts on free and open
source software.

Some consider the word "free" in "free software" an ambiguous term,
certainly more so than "open" in "open source." However, open can mean
many things, and it's especially easy to make a system that you can call
open while making it proprietary in other important ways. Adrien Lamothe
explores the philosophical and practical approaches to openness and gives
ways to examine a system's potential for freedom:

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

The Python world recently adopted a single standard for developing web
Applications--no, not a single framework, but a standard for developing
frameworks. This is WSGI, sort of a sensible and easy to understand
servlet specification for Python. Jason Briggs explains how it works, why
it's necessary, and how to use it even under mod_python:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/11/09/getting-started-with-wsgi.html

LDAP is a powerful and useful way to store certain types of data. Yet it
can be impenetrable to novices. How does it store information? What kind
of information can you store? How do various applications query it for
various types of data? The central notion you must understand is the LDAP
schema. This week, Brian Jones turned his demystification ray on LDAP data:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/11/09/demystifying-ldap-data.html

In recent podcasts, Daniel Steinberg and Distributing the Future looked at
the past--that is, the Web 2.0 conference from 2005. See what the future
held in 2005!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/11/06/distributing-the-future.html

Of course, the future of 2006 is even different. We also have a summary of
this year's Web 2.0 summit:

http://downloads.oreilly.com/network/2006/11/10/web2-look-ahead.mp3

In weblogs this week, Sam Griffith wonders if the Java language designers
have the Next Big Thing in mind:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/language_syntaxs_performance_p.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6 development:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_10.html

Kevin Shockey wondered if Sun's Web 2.0 advertisements were remotely realistic:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/is_sun_brain_dead.html

Andy Oram found new ground for clusters and grids to explore:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/clusters_and_grids_cleversafe.html

Jeremy Jones wondered if political shifts in the US Congress would benefit
the world of technology:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/is_a_democratically_controlled.html#comments

Your editor found the world's worst justification for software complexity. Ever.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/the_lamest_justification_for_j.html

... and then an ironic message about the future of the free desktop from 1997:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/11/the_future_of_the_free_desktop.html

Robert Cooper noticed the Sun GPL Java story early:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/11/java_gpled_1.html

Anton Chuvakin demonstrated how browsing Sendmail logs can alert you to
interesting problems:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/11/anton_security_tip_of_the_week_1.html

Paddy Sreenivasan linked to the specification for the MySQL online backup APIs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2006/11/mysql_online_backup.html

Curt Hibbs found an interesting, if flawed, comparison of open source code
language choices:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/11/ohloh_says_php_eats_rails_for.html

Carla Schroder found a fast, cheap, and good backup system:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/11/easy_network_backups_for_small.html

That's all for this week. Next week--more on GPLd Java.

Until then,
- c

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

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