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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week we have an interesting piece from David Orchard, in which he
describes a "theory of compatible versions," that is, a theory for the
conditions under which two different versions of a language will be
compatible. This work applies to any XML-based language or vocabulary, and
includes the interesting conclusion that the first version of such a
language must include an extensibility mechanism.

A deep read for the holiday season!

A Theory of Compatible Versions
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/20/a-theory-of-compatible-versions.html

Semantic Wikis and Disaster Relief Operations
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/13/semantic-wikis-and-disaster-relief-operations.html

Also worth reading this week:

Announcing the Tools of Change Conference
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/20/tools-of-change-conference.html

As always, thanks for reading.

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The Five Best and Worst Things About Vista
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A year ago, in January 2005, Curt Hibbs wrote an article for ONLamp about
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100,000 readers benefited from his insights. So what's Curt writing about
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revisits the subject.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited.html

Speaking of frameworks, have you read the ONJava article "Migrating to
Spring"? What can you do if your recent app was developed using some
other framework, or if you didn't even use a framework and instead rolled
your own JDBC and DAOs? Ethan McCallum provides you with great insights to
migrating your apps to the Spring Framework.

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A Theory of Compatible Versions
Creating XML languages that are compatible and extensible is a difficult
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which he describes some of the conditions for creating compatible XML languages.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/20/a-theory-of-compatible-versions.html

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Tools of Change Conference
An announcement of a new O'Reilly conference that will be of interest to
XML.com readers.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/20/tools-of-change-conference.html

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Review/Preview: 2006 and 2007 in Java
2006 will be remembered as the year that Sun open-sourced Java under the
GPL, that EJB 3.0 finally shipped, and that Google surprised everyone with
its Google Web Toolkit. But how will history record the results of these
events? For the 2006 year-ender, ONJava editor Chris Adamson looks at the
year's events through the lens of how they may play out in 2007.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/12/20/2006-onjava-yearender.html

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The Five Best and Worst Things About Vista
After five years, Windows Vista is finally here. What's good and what's
bad about it? Preston Gralla, author of Windows Vista in a Nutshell, tells
you five things you'll love and five things you'll hate about Vista.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/12/19/the-five-best-and-worst-things-about-vista.html

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Building a Game Engine with Cocoa
Matthew Russell shows how to use Xcode and a little artificial
intelligence to build a small game engine for playing board games like
Checkers and Lines of Action. This first article describes how to build a
generic, minimalist framework for setting up a board and moving pieces
around using a standard Cocoa design.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/12/19/building-a-game-engine-with-cocoa.html

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Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited
Was it really two years ago when Curt Hibbs introduced Ruby on Rails to
the world at large? In that time, Rails has grown up a lot. Curt and Bill
Walton revisit the original tutorial to bring it up to date and show off
how much easier it is to get started with the powerful Ruby on Rails web framework.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited.html

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VOIP on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet
Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet is more than a Linux-based device; a recent
software update made it a handy VOIP device. John Littler examples how the
upgrade works and walks you through setting up VOIP and Asterisk.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/12/14/nokia-770-voip.html

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Semantic Wikis and Disaster Relief Operations
Dr. Soenke Ziesche describes how to use semantic wikis to provide a kind
of queryable database of documents to support disaster response and
humanitarian efforts at the United Nations.

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/13/semantic-wikis-and-disaster-relief-operations.html

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Migrating to Spring
Sure, everyone's been talking up Spring for the last year or so, but what
if your app already uses some other framework, or if you didn't even use a
framework and instead rolled your own JDBC and DAOs? Ethan McCallum has a
case study showing how he took a web application written for another
article and converted it to Spring, highlighting what he gained in the process.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/12/13/migrating-to-spring.html

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Web 2.0 - After Dinner with Niklas Zennstrom
After dinner on day one of the Web 2.0 Summit, program chair John Battelle
invited Skype cofounder and CEO Niklas Zennstrom to discuss what the
changes are to Skype now that it is part of eBay. Zennstrom says that in
some ways Skype is run as an independent company, but there are some
constraints and advantages of being a part of the bigger company.
Zennstrom explains that Skype is not about phone calls but about
conversations and sharing content. Battelle asks if Skype is a friend or
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Greetings, Linux Newsletter fans. This is the final Linux Newsletter of
2006, as there's such a wonderful opportunity to take a few days off to
rest and relax in preparation for the Year of Free Software 2007. It's
not quite time to stop yet, however; here's what's important this week.

Was it really almost two years ago since the world first heard about Ruby
on Rails? Indeed--with Curt Hibbs's "Rolling with Ruby on Rails." As the
name implies, Rails doesn't stand still, and two years later, there's
still room for a great new introduction. Curt joined forces with Bill
Walton to revisit the initial Rails tutorial; here's the best and newest
place to start building really dynamic database-backed web sites with Ruby
and Ruby on Rails:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/14/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited.html

Clustering sounds big and scary and serious. In reality, it's just
processing a parallel algorithm in parallel. Any workload you can divide
into discrete parts you can cluster--if you have the equipment and some
quick thinking. Raimo Koski demonstrates the idea with an ad-hoc cluster
designed to rip your CDs into digital audio files, with almost no extra
setup required:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/12/14/virtual-clustering.html

As John Littler continues his trek throughout Europe, he continues to play
with the Nokia 770 Internet tablet. This time, he's convinced the
Linux-based device to run VoIP applications, including Asterisk. How does
it work as a phone? How can you turn this cool toy into the only computer
you need? (Well... until you get back home, that is.) John knows:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/12/14/nokia-770-voip.html

Sharing information quickly and effectively is important to many disaster
recovery efforts. Social networking systems help humanitarian missions,
but they rely on volunteers and human intelligence. Can merging semantic
web techniques with social networking approaches improve their usefuless?
Soenke Ziesche shares how a semantic wiki can aid disaster relief operations:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/12/13/semantic-wikis-and-disaster-relief-operations.html

In weblogs this week, Ann Barcomb quotes Larry Wall on INTERCAL:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_15.html

Your editor commemorates the 40th anniversary of the freezing of Walt
Disney's head:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/happy_40th_anniversary_of_walt.html

... praises Edubuntu for reviving old computers for disadvantaged children:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/in_praise_of_edubuntu.html

... and reviews the fantastically useful XML::Atom CPAN module:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/cpan_module_review_xmlatom.html

Curtis Poe finds the resignation of a PHP security guru troubling:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/troubling_news_for_php.html

Jeremy Jones plays with Guido van Rossum's Python refactoring tool:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/guido_announces_refactoring_to.html

Krishna Srinivasan summarizes Java 7's approach to closures:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/closures_in_java_70.html

Caitlyn Martin reviews Xubuntu's Edgy Eft release:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/xubuntu_gets_edgy.html

Christian Romney recommends all Ruby users learn about the Facets library:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/12/save_time_and_effort_with_face.html

Anton Chuvakin shares security gems hidden in Apache httpd's error_log:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/12/anton_security_tip_of_the_week_2.html

Don't fret; that's not the end of the year yet. Come back for a rare look
at combining Java with Perl.

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Greetings...

We're back on the migration topic again. You might remember a few weeks
ago when we ran a two-part excerpt from the new "Java Generics" book, we
featured a chapter that showed you how to integrate generics into an
already existing application. In this week's ONJava, Ethan McCallum is
doing the same for Spring. I think the reasoning is self-evident: Java is
sufficiently entrenched and ubiquitous that a lot of us aren't starting
brand new code-bases and writing that first "package" statement; instead,
we're doing a lot of reworking of what we already have. So, if there's a
new framework that claims to solve all your problems, one of the problems
it will have to address is how you can actually use it without starting over.

Ethan's article "Migrating to Spring" takes a web application he wrote for
a java.net article and migrates all the hand-rolled JDBC code over to
Spring equivalents. He concludes that the resulting application is
smaller, lighter, and should be easier to debug and maintain. "Another
benefit to adopting Spring is that it's not an all-or-nothing endeavor. I
was able to apply Spring to each application tier without affecting the
others, so I could have stopped at any point along the way. If I had only
wanted to leverage Spring's JDBC templates, for example, I could have
changed my DAOs and left the rest of my app untouched."

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/12/13/migrating-to-spring.html>

In an article from dev2dev, Gary Horen is "Exploring Ajax Runtime
Offerings." "This article attempts to sort through these frameworks and
map some of the characteristics by which they can be compared. The hope
is that the reader will come away with some tools to use for breaking down
the collection of Ajax offerings in ways that make it easier to understand
distinctions between them, narrowing down the subset that needs to be
looked at, and making better-informed choices."

<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/11/exploring-ajax.html>

Sun released Java SE 6 this week, and Young Yang looks at one of its key
features in the java.net article "XML Signature with JSR-105 in Java SE
6." "XML Signature technology, specified in the W3C recommendation
XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, is at the foundation for solutions of
message-level security in SOA. The universally adopted OASIS standard
WS-Security is built upon this technology (and XML encryption). JSR-105
standardizes XML Signature technology for the Java platform, and will be
part of the forthcoming Java SE 6 release. This article provides an
introduction to JSR-105 based on the release candidate version of SE 6."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/11/21/xml-signature-with-jsr-105.html>

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

Krishna Srinivasan - Spring Modules 0.7 Released
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/spring_modules_07_released.html>

Krishna Srinivasan - How is Java (6.0 Mustang and Beyond) Going to be Different
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Norbert Ehreke - yEd Graph Editor
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/yed_graph_editor.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Google Web Toolkit Now Open Source (ASL 2)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/google_web_toolkit_now_open_so.html>

Krishna Srinivasan - Google joins Eclipse Foundation
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/google_joins_eclipse_foundatio_1.html>

Krishna Srinivasan - Web 3.0 is about creating Semantic Web
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/web_30_is_about_creating_seman.html>

Krishna Srinivasan - James Gosling's Letter to the Java Community
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/james_goslings_letter_to_the_j.html>

Steve Anglin - Java SE 6 is now officially final!
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/java_se_6_is_now_officially_fi.html>

Robert Cooper - God save us from ->
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/god_save_us_from.html>

Robert Cooper - Configuration Antipatterns: Tomcat
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/configuration_antipatterns_tom.html>

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
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Popular opinion saw the X Window System as unnecessarily limiting the
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Dynamic languages such as Perl and Python and Ruby have useful and usable
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Want some egoboo? Try keeping track of commenters on your weblog. Does
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Ann Barcomb found environmentalism in the latest Perl 6 summary:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_14.html

Justin Troutman discussed cryptoviral extortion:

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Your editor praised the toolmakers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/blessed_are_the_toolmakers.html

... and then promoted two Perl advent calendars:

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Andy Oram reported from the <XML2006> conference:

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Paul Browne asked for duck typing in Java:

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Caitlyn Martin encountered installed but unsupported Hero Applications:

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Carla Schroder found a Solaris LiveCD very cool:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/solaris_livecd.html

Nathaniel Brown found Ruby's job statistics very promising:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/12/need_a_job_they_are_plentiful.html

Steve Mallett enjoyed a podcast with Matz:

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Anton Chuvakin summarized the results of his security conference poll:

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Hello, camelid tamers. You're reading the biweekly Perl.com newsletter, so
without further kerfuffle, here's what's new in the world of Perl.

* Perl Events

Vienna.pm launched the website for YAPC::Europe 2007:

http://vienna.yapceurope.org/

Midwestern Perl mongers near Madison, Wisconson, keep next Wednesday free;
Chris Dolan and Andy Lester will speak about Perl::Critic:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/27/1854252&mode=nocomment

If Wisconsin is too far to drive, consider visiting Dallas/Fort Worth
instead to see Patrick Michaud, the Perl 6 pumpking, discuss the state of
the Perl 6 compiler:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/0112221

Will you be near Germany in January? Are you a Perl web guru? The
Plat_Forms contest needs a few more Perl-wielding teams to demonstrate
that Jifty, Catalyst, CGI::Application, and our other lovely tools are
still alive and well:

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

* Perl News

The Catalyst team have begun their 2006 Catalyst Advent Calendar:

http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/

The 2006 Perl Advent Calendar is also available:

http://perladvent.pm.org/

brian d foy created a community events calendar:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/01/0043203

David Landgren has summarized the weeks in Perl 5:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/2257228

Ann Barcomb has summarized the weeks in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_11.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/11/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_12.html

Your editor has minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31725
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31780

Dave Cross, bless his refs, has reviewed "Perl Hacks:"

http://dave.org.uk/reviews/perlhacks.html

* Perl Development Tasks

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.

For Pugs and Perl 6 hackers, this fortnight's task is to log onto the IRC
channel #perl6 in irc.freenode.net and talk to Flavio S. Glock (fglock)
about how you can help him with MiniPerl6. This is a cut-down set of
features of Perl 6 that can bootstrap the full version of Perl 6.
MiniPerl6 right now compiles to Perl 5 as well as Parrot and can run at
almost full speed on a standard Perl 5 installation. Some general code
cleanup is in order.

Perl 5 hackers and people who know or are willing to learn Perl 6 can help
refine the code.

For Parrot hackers, there are plenty of Perl 5 tasks and minor C tasks.
This week's task is to download and compile Parrot, run the test suite,
and choose a file with one or more skipped tests. Investigate to see if it
passes or needs a TODO marker, and then submit a patch.

If that's not your style, see the list of open tickets at
http://xrl.us/owsd or check in on IRC in #parrot on irc.perl.org.

* Perl on ORN

HTML::Template is a long-lived and well-recommended mechanism for
separating the presentation of web sites from the business rules that
govern the templated data. Its simplicity gives it a lot of power.
However, simplicity doesn't always scale linearly to address complex
tasks. Philipp Janert demonstrates new features of HTML::Template that
allow you to reclaim simplicity and retain a strict separation of concerns:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/11/30/html-template-filters.html

Creating dynamic web sites is easy with Perl, mod_perl, and Apache httpd.
They're not always as efficient as static sites, however. That's fine;
mod_cache can serve data even faster than flat files sometimes--you just
have to know how to configure it. Rich Bowen explains exactly that:

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

Your editor learned about Perl::Critic plugins for Vim and BBEdit:

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

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/perlcritic_for_vim_users.html

... and used some Perl metaprogramming to taunt ActiveRecords:

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

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Josh McAdams, the voice of Perlcast:

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

Jonathan Wellons postulated the "Hello, World!" of CGI programming:

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

December already?!,
- c
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Hash Crash Course
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Rapid Website Development with CGI::Application
Perl has a wealth of good web frameworks. One of the season's toolkits,
CGI::Application, has recently seen a bout of new development to make
building web apps faster and much easier. Mark Stosberg demonstrates these
new features and how to use them.

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

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The State of the Onion 10
In Larry Wall's tenth annual State of the Onion address, he talks about
raising children and programming languages and balancing competing
tensions and irreconcilable desires.

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

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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
toolkit from Perl, Joshua McAdams explains how to turn any module into a
script, and chromatic removes duplication from test suites.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/07/13/lightning-articles.html

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