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Microformats in Context
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about microformats this week. He finds both good and bad aspects and
concludes that with some changes and tweaks, microformats could become
even more useful and, as important, legible.
Microformats in Context
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Ensuring Application Compatibility in Vista
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Should Microsoft Throw in the Towel for Search?
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First Official Beta of Opera 9.0 Now Available
Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Opera 9 Beta has that and more. M.
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1. Run Mac OS X on a PC
You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your
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emulator called PearPC.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html>
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2. Windows Server Hacks: Remotely Enable Remote Desktop
What to do when you need to enable Remote Desktop on a remote server?
Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, walks you through the
steps.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/04/serverhacks_remote.html>
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3. Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP
With Bluetooth support built into SP2, getting a Bluetooth headset to work
should be a breeze. But it ain't necessarily so. Wei-Meng Lee shows you
how to do it.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html>
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4. Enhancing ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript
A sprinkling of JavaScript code can enhance the reach and responsiveness
of your ASP.NET web pages without sacrificing ASP.NET's secure,
server-based model for your coding. Matthew MacDonald, coauthor of ASP.NET
in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET
web page to perform three common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing
control focus, and handling frame navigation. You can use these tricks to
quickly solve problems that have no native .NET solution.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/15/aspnet.html>
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5. ASP.NET File Uploading
File upload and download are much simpler tasks in ASP.NET than in classic
ASP, thanks to the extensive .NET Framework class library. While file
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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Maker Faire Photo Extravaganza
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Dear Reader,
The recent Maker Faire, otherwise known as The DIY Jolt for the Senses,
was a huge hit last weekend at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in Northern
California. One of the most overheard comments was "When are you going to
do this again?" What kind of activities generated such enthusiasm from
thousands of attendees? I'll let the pictures tell the story. First, take
a look at the Flickr Make Pool:
<http://www.flickr.com/groups/make/pool/>
There are more than 2,000 photos posted, and I'm guessing we'll still see
more. OK, how about a short video of Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak
scoring a goal while playing a friendly game of Segway polo?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/04/woz_shootswoz_scores.html>
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<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/25/application-compatibility-in-vista.html>
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Women in Open Source and Emergent Gaming Behavior
How do we go about attracting more women to write open source code? Danese
Cooper has been looking at different models that work and is trying to
spread the word. We also continue our conversation with Jane McGonigal
about super gaming. This week she talks about the community that surrounds
some of her games and some of the emerging patterns that she has noted.
(DTF 04-24-2006: 21 minutes 40 seconds)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/04/24/distributing-the-future.html>
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From Weblog to CMS with WordPress
Weblog software is now so easy to use that almost anyone can keep a weblog
up-to-date. In some cases, it's almost powerful enough to replace a more
traditional content management system. John McCreesh describes how he
replaced his CMS with WordPress to run a community site.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html>
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Putting REST on Rails
Rails is as hot as any web technology, and REST is heating up again. Dan
Kubb demonstrates his Rails plugin for building RESTful web apps and
services.
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html>
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Database Connection Pooling with Tomcat
You know how to open and use database connections for each user, but what
about optimizing for many concurrent users? Rather than creating and
destroying connections over and over again, established practice calls for
use of a pool of connections that can be reused. Kunal Jaggi shows how to
implement this strategy in Tomcat.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/19/database-connection-pooling-with-tomcat.html>
***
Aperture 1.1--Apple Listens
With Aperture's new features, bug fixes, and universal compatibility with
PowerMacs and Intel Macs, it's now a serious contender for top digital
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Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a
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International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference), still engenders
much disagreement. Some decry it as a meaningless marketing buzzword,
while others have accepted it as the new conventional wisdom. Tim O'Reilly
attempts to clarify just what we meant by Web 2.0, digging into what it
means to view the Web as a platform and which applications fall squarely
under its purview, and which do not.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html>
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2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that
makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the
hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even
non-Rubyists can follow.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html>
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3. From Weblog to CMS with WordPress
Weblog software is now so easy to use that almost anyone can keep a weblog
up-to-date. In some cases, it's almost powerful enough to replace a more
traditional content management system. John McCreesh describes how he
replaced his CMS with WordPress to run a community site.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html>
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4. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
***
5. Aperture 1.1--Apple Listens
With Aperture's new features, bug fixes, and universal compatibility with
PowerMacs and Intel Macs, it's now a serious contender for top digital
photo software. Scott Bourne reviews Version 1.1.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/18/aperture.html>
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REST, Replicate, and Repurpose
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Greetings, readers. This week your editor is at the MySQL User's
Conference learning how to be a database administrator. (It's not that
your editor wants to be a database administrator, but he finds it valuable
to know how database administrators think. So far, they seem justifiably
paranoid about losing data.)
Psychology aside, this is the Linux newsletter, a weekly recap of open
source and free software tutorials, opinions, and news as seen on the
O'Reilly Network.
Sister site XML.com talks occasionally about good web design practices.
(There's something about standards that makes life easier.) One such
article is "Putting REST on Rails." Dan Kubb explains how sticking with
the standards of HTTP conventions give you benefits such as caching and
scalability. Ruby on Rails does too. Here's how to make Rails
RESTful--and work with the system, not against it:
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/19/rest-on-rails.html>
If writing your own website isn't your idea of a good time, and if a CMS
is more work than you want, why not run your site as a weblog? OK, the
default chronological weblog-like view may not be what you want, but you
can customize what you get with ease. John McCreesh recently replaced a
CMS with WordPress. He bets you can't tell what actually runs the site.
He can--it's so much easier to update:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html>
Database replication and clustering are both good ways to provide high
availability and better scalability as your application needs increase.
If you run MySQL, MySQL Cluster isn't your only approach. Nor is it
necessarily the best approach even as of MySQL 5.0. Undeterrable hacker
Giuseppe Maxia has uncovered a way to produce a multi-master, recoverable,
high-availability replication system with MySQL 5.0 that can work reliably
today. Even better, he has a downloadable example system you can test.
Here's "Advanced MySQL Replication Techniques":
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/advanced-mysql-replication.html>
In weblogs this week, Austin Ziegler announced a Ruby hackathon in Toronto:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/trughat_20061.html>
Gregory Brown marveled at the language extensions possible with Ruby's
OOness, open classes, and duck typing:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/fun_with_rubys_standard_librar.html>
Dave Cross apologized for helping to write the Template Toolkit book,
which apparently is useful even to spammers:
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Your editor demonstrated how to port procedural Perl tests to the reusable
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/perls_new_license_and_contribu.html>
Sam Smith, as do many people, wondered why large companies that use
OpenSSH are reluctant to help fund OpenSSH development:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/openssh_funding.html>
Caitlyn Martin published her first impressions of Fedora Core 5:
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Weblog software is now so easy to use that almost anyone can keep a weblog
up-to-date. In some cases, it's almost powerful enough to replace a more
traditional content management system. John McCreesh describes how he
replaced his CMS with WordPress to run a community site.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/20/from-weblog-to-cms.html>
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2. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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3. Building a FreeBSD Build System
Keeping a single BSD system up to date is relatively easy. Keeping a whole
business full of servers fresh with patches and new applications and
updates is more work--unless you take advantage of the ports system. Bjorn
Nelson walks through the design and implementation of a build system
usable to push fresh binaries to as many servers as you have.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html>
***
4. PHP Form Handling
If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your
PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need
to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers
tips for simplifying, securing, and organizing your form-handling PHP
code.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/08/26/PHPformhandling.html>
***
5. Installing Software on Debian
Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux
distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable
distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of
installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and
GNU/Linux advocate, shows how to use Debian's tools to find and install
software packages.
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are doing enterprise work, which almost always involves touching a
database. Many of us use Tomcat because its reference implementation for
servlets and JSP is all but a standard, and lots of us use Solaris because
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ONJava plays to our strengths, as we feature database strategies for the
Tomcat-based web app, and some configuration tips to keep Solaris humming.
We also feature an introduction to EJB 3.0 and its many changes, and
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Beginning and intermediate developers may have heard of object pooling
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the concept to work. It's critically important in database work, given
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components to find and use the pool.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/19/database-connection-pooling-with-tomcat.html>
Do you have a stake in the startup scripts of the server your app runs on?
Well, it depends--do you want your application to run fast, and to have
expected services present? Ah, now I've got your attention. Chris
Josephes writes "In most Unix environments, the startup process consists
of a handful of autonomous boot scripts. They act independently of one
another; unaware of what scripts have already run or which ones will run
after them. When they are invoked, there is no serious error checking and
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Solaris 10's Service Management Facility (SMF), which "addresses the
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daemons after the host has booted."
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/04/13/using-solaris-smf.html>
EJB brings scalability, security, and support for transactions, but
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descriptors, implementation of rarely used callbacks, and the resulting
code is ill-suited to testing outside of a container. EJB 3.0 addresses
these complaints in a major reworking of the framework, and these changes
are described by Vimala Ranganathan and Anurag Pareek in the dev2dev
article "An Introduction to the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Specification."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/01/ejb-3.html>
In our feature article from java.net, Hans Muller introduces a compelling
JSplitPane replacement in "MultiSplitPane: Splitting Without Nesting."
"MultiSplitPane is not a general-purpose docking framework. It's a Swing
container that just supports a resizable tiled layout of arbitrary
components. It's intended to be a generalization of the existing Swing
JSplitPane component, which only supports a pair of tiles. The
MultiSplitLayout layout manager recursively arranges its components in row
and column groups called 'splits.' Elements of the layout are separated by
gaps called 'dividers' that can be moved by the user, in the same way as
JSplitPane. The overall layout is defined with a simple tree-structured
model that can be stored and retrieved to make the user's layout
configuration persistent. The initial layout, before the user has
intervened, is defined conventionally, in terms of the layout model and
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"Why Do People Hate Microsoft?"
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"Microsoft, Google, and the Death of the Internet"
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1. Run Mac OS X on a PC
You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your
own PC. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to run the Mac operating system on an
emulator called PearPC.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html>
***
2. Windows Server Hacks: Remotely Enable Remote Desktop
What to do when you need to enable Remote Desktop on a remote server?
Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, walks you through the
steps.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/04/serverhacks_remote.html>
***
3. Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP
With Bluetooth support built into SP2, getting a Bluetooth headset to work
should be a breeze. But it ain't necessarily so. Wei-Meng Lee shows you
how to do it.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html>
***
4. Enhancing ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript
A sprinkling of JavaScript code can enhance the reach and responsiveness
of your ASP.NET web pages without sacrificing ASP.NET's secure,
server-based model for your coding. Matthew MacDonald, coauthor of ASP.NET
in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET
web page to perform three common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing
control focus, and handling frame navigation. You can use these tricks to
quickly solve problems that have no native .NET solution.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/15/aspnet.html>
***
5. ASP.NET File Uploading
File upload and download are much simpler tasks in ASP.NET than in classic
ASP, thanks to the extensive .NET Framework class library. While file
upload in ASP.NET is as easy as retrieving an HTML form value, file
download is still a bit tricky.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/04/01/asp.html>
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write software for the new Intel architecture. Clearly the move to Intel
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laptops for a long time. When the next version of Mac OS X is released,
Leopard, I'm sure we'll see the dream fully realized.
If you're working with a MacBook Pro right now, you may be interested in
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We've also just published an in-depth review of Aperture 1.1, the latest
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important aspects of this release are that it's now Universal Binary so it
can run on Intel machines as well as G5s, and there's better RAW decoding
that includes the new RAW Fine Tuning adjustment window.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/18/aperture.html>
This is just a peek of things to come. With more new software and hardware
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<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/18/aperture.html>
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Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
(S)FTP has a valuable place in the hearts of web builders and developers,
and is still one of the most practical methods of getting files from one
place to another in a secure manner. In this article, Giles Turnbull
surveys six FTP clients for the Mac platform and shows you the major
characteristics of each.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/13/ftp.html>
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Macintosh Home Monitoring
Want to learn a few simple home automation techniques to have your Mac
send you a message when your mail is delivered, your kids come home, or
your dog uses the pet door to go into the backyard? Gordon Meyer shows you
how.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/04/automation.html>
***
Bringing Ruby on Rails with FastCGI into Mac OS X Server
Most of the Ruby on Rails documentation on deployment for Mac OS X glosses
over key parts of the plumbing. In this article, Luke Burton walks you
through a Rails installation on Mac OS X Server.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/03/29/rails.html>
***
*** Mac Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week ***
1. Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
(S)FTP has a valuable place in the hearts of web builders and developers,
and is still one of the most practical methods of getting files from one
place to another in a secure manner. In this article, Giles Turnbull
surveys six FTP clients for the Mac platform and shows you the major
characteristics of each.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/13/ftp.html>
***
2. iPod shuffle Tips and Tricks
The iPod shuffle is the easiest-to-use iPod to date. But that doesn't mean
you can't customize how you listen and upload music. Scott Knaster shows
you some very handy tips and tricks for the shuffle and iTunes 4.7.1.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/02/15/shuffle.html>
***
3. Top Ten Digital Photography Tips
You have a digital camera and have taken the typical shots of family and
friends. Now what? Here are ten tips to make your next batch of digital
images so impressive that people will ask: "Hey, what type of camera do
you have?" Guess what? It's not the camera.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html>
***
4. Screenshot Hacks for Mac OS X
You can use a variety of built-in tools in Mac OS X to grab images from
your screen and save them to your hard drive. But what if you want to
capture drop shadows, or include the cursor, or even capture full-motion
DVD video with sound? This article shows you how, using some nifty tools.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screenshot.html>
***
5. Getting the Video out of Your New iPod--for Cheap!
Yes, you can spend extra dollars for Apple's sleek white video cable for
TV connectivity, or you can hack your own together for cheap. Erica Sadun
shows you how.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/11/18/video-ipod.html>
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more about open source and free software administration, usage, advocacy,
and development. Here's what we have to offer this week.
Keeping a series of similar machines up to date can be easy or it can be
difficult. If you use a source-based operating system such as FreeBSD,
building your own packages as necessary with the proper compilation
options may seem easy for one machine, but try replicating that build
across your entire farm. Bjorn Nelson did. In his "Building a FreeBSD
Build System," he explains how he automated the update process on one
machine and pushes the updates out to the other machines. He's done the
hard part. Now you can enjoy the benefits. (Note that similar processes
apply to other operating systems.)
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html>
Solaris 10 changes a lot of things. One of the earliest and most visible
changes is to the startup process. While other Unixes use one or many
autonomous shell scripts, Solaris 10 introduced a new process called the
Service Management Facility. It has several advantages, but it's
different. Fortunately, Chris Josephes has written "Using Solaris SMF" to
explore the new system and to explain how it works, how to use it, and how
to add your own processes.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/04/13/using-solaris-smf.html>
How do the editors of the O'Reilly Network choose what to publish? How do
they identify good new subjects while giving solid established subjects
enough attention? Where can you learn practical information about AJAX?
Your editor answered all three questions at once (let no one say he has
little ambition!) in a recent weblog addressing our editorial policy:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/how_we_publish_and_why_an_ajax.html>
In other weblogs this week, brian d foy laments the closing of The Perl Journal:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/the_perl_journal_stops_publish.html>
Your editor continues his series on refactoring a legacy web application:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_6.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_7.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_8.html>
Juliet Kemp enables Vim keybindings in Firefox 1.5:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/04/firefox_with_vim_keybindings.html>
Lyx Krumbach explores her favorite text-based communication applications
for Linux:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/04/textbased_communication_in_lin.html>
Gregory Brown explains Ruby hash initialization and the memory
implications of using Symbols:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/nubygems_hash_initialization_1.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/04/nubygems_symbolic_starvation.html>
Note that the great weblog improvement has continued, with an update to
the venerable <http://weblogs.oreillynet.com/> page showing a better
overview of exactly what we talk about.
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1. Building a FreeBSD Build System
Keeping a single BSD system up to date is relatively easy. Keeping a whole
business full of servers fresh with patches and new applications and
updates is more work--unless you take advantage of the ports system. Bjorn
Nelson walks through the design and implementation of a build system
usable to push fresh binaries to as many servers as you have.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html>
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2. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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3. Installing Software on Debian
Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux
distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable
distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of
installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and
GNU/Linux advocate, shows how to use Debian's tools to find and install
software packages.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/06/aptitude_and_apt_get.html>
***
4. PHP Form Handling
If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your
PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need
to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers
tips for simplifying, securing, and organizing your form-handling PHP
code.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/08/26/PHPformhandling.html>
***
5. Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex
Searching and parsing text can be a messy business, especially in C++.
Instead of building your own token-based state machine, spend an hour
learning regular expressions and use a good package such as the regular
expression library from the Boost library. Ryan Stephens demonstrates how
to match, search, and parse text with Boost.Regex in C++.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html>
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* Perl News in the Wild
TPF has announced the opening of nominations for the 2006 White Camel
awards for community participation in Perl:
<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/01/025241>
Parrot pumpking Leo Toetsch released version 0.4.3, "Cold Conure:"
<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/03/0446237>
YAPC::Europe announced a call for submissions. Here's your chance to
speak in Birmingham, U.K. this summer:
<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/1932229>
brian d foy noted the closing of The Perl Journal. (Note that brian
publishes The Perl Review, so don't panic!):
<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/13/1942216>
O'Reilly Media announced the Perl track schedule for OSCON 2006, coming in
late July in Portland, Oregon:
<http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2006/print/e_trak/311>
Perl 6 pumpking Patrick Michaud checked in the first version of the Perl 6
compiler running on Parrot and using the Parrot compiler tools. He hasn't
announced it as of the time of this writing, so you're getting a scoop.
Note that subsequent check-ins have started to merge the tests from Pugs:
<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cvs.parrot/12934>
Perlcast published an interview with Bob Walsh about running very small
software companies:
<http://perlcast.com/2006/04/11/interview-with-bob-walsh/>
* Perl on ORN
Managing legacy code often requires you to be a detective as well as a
programmer. The more tools you have available to find and analyze
information, the better. One such tool for Perl is the debugger; though
shrouded in mystery and disinformation and emitting an aura of False
Laziness, if you know how to use it you can often track down just what you
need very quickly. Daniel Allen shows how the debugger can make your
coding much easier:
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/04/06/debugger.html>
Your editor started a 30-post series (yeah, he's crazy) that documents his
work refactoring a legacy Perl system. Which system? Just the one that
runs Perl Monks....
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_1.html>
Nicholas Clark is one of the underpraised heroes of Perl. Not only has he
been the maintperl pumpking for several excellent stable releases of Perl
5.8.x, he was also the Ponie pumpking working to port Perl 5 to Parrot,
and now he is the recipient of a TPF grant to improve Perl 5.8.x and Perl
5.9.x in many diverse and amazing ways. Yet who gives him the respect he
deserves? Perl.com--here's a short interview that explains why:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/people_of_perl_nicholas_clark.html>
Another hacker full of good ideas is Eric Wilhelm. He has a vision of
creating a public Subversion repository for the entire CPAN. You can
help:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/subversion_for_the_cpan.html>
There are more module reviews and interviews coming--and be sure to catch
the rest of the Refactoring Everything series. Your editor discovered one
amazingly useful technique for test code around day seven.
Amazingly useful indeed,
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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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Using Ajax from Perl
The recently rediscovered Ajax technique makes the client side of web
programming much more useful and pleasant. However, it also means revising
your existing web applications to take advantage of this new power.
Dominic Mitchell shows how to use CGI::Ajax to give your Perl applications
access to this new power.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/03/02/ajax_and_perl.html>
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Advanced Subroutine Techniques
Subroutines seem like a basic building block of code. They're simple and
easy to understand and use, right? That's true--but there are a few
advanced techniques to make your code more maintainable and robust. Rob
Kinyon goes beyond making sense of subroutines to making subroutines work
for you.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/23/advanced_subroutines.html>
***
Managing Rich Data Structures
Perl is so good at handling plain text files that it's seductively easy to
use them when you need something better. Yet sometimes using a
full-fledged database is just Too Much Work. If only Dave Baker had
written an article on using complex, persistent data structures with
MLDBM.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/16/mldbm.html>
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Debugging and Profiling mod_perl Applications
How do you use the debugger on a mod_perl application? How do you profile
an application embedded in a web server, with multiple child processes?
Don't worry. Where there's Perl, there's a way. Frank Wiles demonstrates
how to debug and profile mod_perl applications.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/02/09/debug_mod_perl.html>
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Test-Driving X11 GUIs
Is GUI testing as difficult as it seems? Maybe not, with the right testing
libraries. George Nistorica shows what X11::GUITest can and can't do to
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some real surprises, enabled by the db4o object database and its
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from relational database tables, you can move data interchangeably between
object and relational databases, and even replicate between two relational
databases, using db4o only as an intermediary. It's another case of
connecting dissimilar pieces together in novel and exciting ways.
The db4o database has advantages for certain types of applications, such
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Prototype introduces a number of development-easing shortcuts for
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<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/05/prototype-javascript-ajax.html>
The Java Persistence API (JPA) should provide EJB developers with a
welcome relief from entity beans, but it's not just about EJB's--it can be
used in Java SE, or in other EE containers. Seth White takes a closer
look in the dev2dev article "Using the Java Persistence API with Spring
2.0:" "Spring 2.0, for its part, provides an elegant facility for creating
data access objects that leverage JPA. Spring's data access architecture
makes it easy to switch between different persistence technologies without
the need to rewrite the rest of the application code."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/03/jpa-spring-medrec.html>
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"Unified Expression Language for JSP and JSF." "This article looks at the
unified expression language (EL), which has been added to the JavaServer
Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification in order to overcome
problems when integrating the JavaServer Pages (JSP) EL with the
JavaServer Faces (JSF) EL."
<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/07/unified-jsp-jsf-expression-language.html>
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Dejan Bosanac - DWR 2.0
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Timothy M. O'Brien - Red Hat buys JBoss: My Mixed Reaction
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/04/red_hat_buys_jboss_my_mixed_re.html>
Dejan Bosanac - Apache XML-RPC adapter continued
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<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/11/supporting-branch-office-environments.html>
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Boot Camp and Video Game Music
Apple's Boot Camp allows you to boot your Intel Mac into either Windows XP
or Mac OS X. We explore some of the early speculation about this new
software. Chris Adamson takes an in depth look at the world of video game
music. (DTF 04-10-2006: 29 minutes 37 seconds)
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Unraveling Code with the Debugger
Reading other people's code can be difficult, especially if you have no
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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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Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex
Searching and parsing text can be a messy business, especially in C++.
Instead of building your own token-based state machine, spend an hour
learning regular expressions and use a good package such as the regular
expression library from the Boost library. Ryan Stephens demonstrates how
to match, search, and parse text with Boost.Regex in C++.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html>
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Installing Software on Debian
Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux
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distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of
installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and
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software packages.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/06/aptitude_and_apt_get.html>
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wait()/release() to the modern java.util.concurrent package introduced in
J2SE 5.0. Bruce Wallace addresses the problem by introducing protection
for critical blocks of JavaScript code.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>
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Prototype: Easing AJAX's Pain
Bruce Perry introduces us to Prototype, a JavaScript library that makes
AJAX development faster and easier.
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/04/05/prototype-javascript-ajax.html>
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1. What Is Web 2.0
Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a
conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive
International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference), still engenders
much disagreement. Some decry it as a meaningless marketing buzzword,
while others have accepted it as the new conventional wisdom. Tim O'Reilly
attempts to clarify just what we meant by Web 2.0, digging into what it
means to view the Web as a platform and which applications fall squarely
under its purview, and which do not.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html>
***
2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that
makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the
hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even
non-Rubyists can follow.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html>
***
3. The Software of Space Exploration
Free software advocates often appeal to the open discovery, disclosure,
and discussion practices of modern science as justification for sharing
information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
free and open source software continue to grow in popularity. David
Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and usable
by armchair scientists.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
***
4. Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
AJAX programmers who come from the Java world can, or at least should, be
concerned with JavaScript's non-support for safely managing data
structures in a concurrent fashion. If one thread is changing the DOM
while another is reading it, problems are likely. Java developers can
attack this with tools from the synchronized keyword and the old Object
wait()/release() to the modern java.util.concurrent package introduced in
J2SE 5.0. Bruce Wallace addresses the problem by introducing protection
for critical blocks of JavaScript code.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>
***
5. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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Run Vista on a Mac
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What Would Sun Tzu Do?
Microsoft has just secured its 5000th patent. Is the company just trying
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1. Run Mac OS X on a PC
You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your
own PC. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to run the Mac operating system on an
emulator called PearPC.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html>
***
2. Windows Server Hacks: Remotely Enable Remote Desktop
What to do when you need to enable Remote Desktop on a remote server?
Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, walks you through the
steps.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/04/serverhacks_remote.html>
***
3. Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP
With Bluetooth support built into SP2, getting a Bluetooth headset to work
should be a breeze. But it ain't necessarily so. Wei-Meng Lee shows you
how to do it.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html>
***
4. Enhancing ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript
A sprinkling of JavaScript code can enhance the reach and responsiveness
of your ASP.NET web pages without sacrificing ASP.NET's secure,
server-based model for your coding. Matthew MacDonald, coauthor of ASP.NET
in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET
web page to perform three common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing
control focus, and handling frame navigation. You can use these tricks to
quickly solve problems that have no native .NET solution.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/15/aspnet.html>
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5. ASP.NET File Uploading
File upload and download are much simpler tasks in ASP.NET than in classic
ASP, thanks to the extensive .NET Framework class library. While file
upload in ASP.NET is as easy as retrieving an HTML form value, file
download is still a bit tricky.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/04/01/asp.html>
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"Debian has more or less all of the free software in the known world,"
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you right now, don't worry. Ryan Stephen's article explains everything
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/04/06/boostregex.html>
In the world of AJAX, a sinister, scary systems-programming issue may
lurk: synchronicity. Oh sure, A is for asynchronous, but what happens
when two asynchronous events attempt to manipulate common page elements
simultaneously? Oops! Sister-site ONJava shows how to implement AJAX
mutexes to prevent weird threading bugs:
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>
In weblogs this week, lots of things! Your editor started a new series
about refactoring a large Perl project:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/refactoring_everything_day_1.html>
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/people_of_perl_nicholas_clark.html>
Kevin Shockey reported on the SourceForge.net 2006 Community Choice Awards winners:
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Jeremy Jones pondered adaptation and protocols in the suddenly real again
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/adaptation_protocols_and_pytho.html>
Spencer Critchley opined about good and bad news in digital music sales:
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Brian Fioca analyzed the issue of PHP and shared-nothing architectures and
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/digg_phps_scalability_and_perf.html>
Giuseppe Maxia revealed how to dump the MySQL INFORMATION_SCHEMA from an
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Anton Chuvakin opened a debate about whether white hats should share their
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/04/on_log_sharing.html>
Carla Schroder inaugurated our all-new Linux weblog with a post on
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1. The Software of Space Exploration
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and discussion practices of modern science as justification for sharing
information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
free and open source software continue to grow in popularity. David
Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and usable
by armchair scientists.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
***
2. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
***
3. PHP Form Handling
If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your
PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need
to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers
tips for simplifying, securing, and organizing your form-handling PHP
code.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/08/26/PHPformhandling.html>
***
4. Installing Software on Debian
Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux
distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable
distributions. One of the reasons for its popularity is the ease of
installing and maintaining software. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and
GNU/Linux advocate, shows how to use Debian's tools to find and install
software packages.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/06/aptitude_and_apt_get.html>
***
5. Regular Expressions in C++ with Boost.Regex
Searching and parsing text can be a messy business, especially in C++.
Instead of building your own token-based state machine, spend an hour
learning regular expressions and use a good package such as the regular
expression library from the Boost library. Ryan Stephens demonstrates how
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We are absolutely blown away by the people and attractions we will have at
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VJs, slide rules, pinball restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope
.... and much, much more. Quite an eclectic collection, not to mention
Diana Eng of Bravo's Project Runway and the 50 craft booths in Bizarre
Bazaar and the Swap-o-Rama-Rama.
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robot, I had no idea what they were on about or that this visit would be
the demise of my slim cellphone. Working together like mad scientists,
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Inspired by their ingenuity and robotic daring, I'm putting together my
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you needed to prevent concurrent access to shared data models? Well, you
might well be writing an AJAX application, and discover that JavaScript is
perfectly happy to let two threads access the DOM at the same time. In
"Mutual Exclusion for AJAX," Bruce Wallace introduces a set of techniques
that allow you to set up critical sections in your AJAX code and defend
them against use by multiple simultaneous threads.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>
You may know web services, but how much do you know about the underlying
HTTP standard? With a little tweaking, it's possible to speed up your web
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authentication, and more. Joe Gregorio's XML.com "Restful Web" entry,
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Python library, but this installment is almost entirely about HTTP headers
that are easily manipulated from Java.
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/03/29/httplib2-http-persistence-and-authentication.html>
In the second installment of a series from dev2dev, Emmanuel Proulx
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extremely promising telecommunication standard, and the SIP Servlet API is
a great way to easily and rapidly develop server-side SIP applications."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/02/sip-servlet.html>
In this week's feature article from java.net, John Ferguson Smart puts
agile processes to a different use in "Agile Legacies: Using Iterative
Methods to Import Legacy Data." John writes, "Importing legacy data is an
important part of most IT projects. It should not be relegated to the end
of the project, just before the application goes into production. Instead,
the process of analyzing and importing legacy data should be fully
integrated into the project iteration cycles. Integrating legacy data
early and often will improve the development process, product quality, and
customer satisfaction."
<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/03/02/agile-legacy-data-import.html>
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Timothy M. O'Brien - Maven Registry Continues to Evolve
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Bill Siggelkow - Recursive Directory List with Ruby
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/03/recursive_directory_list_with.html>
Steve Anglin - TheServerSide Java Symposium: A Recap
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/03/theserverside_java_symposium_a.html>
Timothy M. O'Brien - Dead Time (...code, compile, wait, wait, wait, test, repeat)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/03/dead_time_code_compile_wait_wa.html>
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Microsoft's Solution to Spyware Problem: Reformat
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*** Top Five Windows and .NET Articles Last Week ***
1. Run Mac OS X on a PC
You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your
own PC. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to run the Mac operating system on an
emulator called PearPC.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html>
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2. Windows Server Hacks: Remotely Enable Remote Desktop
What to do when you need to enable Remote Desktop on a remote server?
Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, walks you through the
steps.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/04/serverhacks_remote.html>
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3. Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP
With Bluetooth support built into SP2, getting a Bluetooth headset to work
should be a breeze. But it ain't necessarily so. Wei-Meng Lee shows you
how to do it.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html>
***
4. Enhancing ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript
A sprinkling of JavaScript code can enhance the reach and responsiveness
of your ASP.NET web pages without sacrificing ASP.NET's secure,
server-based model for your coding. Matthew MacDonald, coauthor of ASP.NET
in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition, shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET
web page to perform three common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing
control focus, and handling frame navigation. You can use these tricks to
quickly solve problems that have no native .NET solution.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/15/aspnet.html>
***
5. ASP.NET File Uploading
File upload and download are much simpler tasks in ASP.NET than in classic
ASP, thanks to the extensive .NET Framework class library. While file
upload in ASP.NET is as easy as retrieving an HTML form value, file
download is still a bit tricky.
<http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/04/01/asp.html>
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Much of our good content is appearing in blog posts these days. A terrific
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World's Most Maintainable Programming Language." In this six-part series,
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Macintosh Home Monitoring
Want to learn a few simple home automation techniques to have your Mac
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your dog uses the pet door to go into the backyard? Gordon Meyer shows you
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Patterns for Communication, Moderation, and Information Processing
We're finding patterns everywhere. Clay Shirky talks about patterns of
moderation strategy, Jon Udell makes recommendations for those of us
seeking attention, and George Dyson helps us understand the present by
looking back at Von Neumann. (DTF 04-03-2006: 31 minutes 05 seconds)
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What Is Wireless Security
Wireless LANs have evolved into more affordable and logistically
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benefits, your company's wireless network needs to be properly secured.
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preventive measures to reduce the chance of attack, guidelines
administrators can follow to protect their wireless LANs, and an excellent
supply of online resources for setting up a secure wireless network.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2006/03/30/what-is-wireless-security.html>
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Bringing Ruby on Rails with FastCGI into Mac OS X Server
Most of the Ruby on Rails documentation on deployment for Mac OS X glosses
over key parts of the plumbing. In this article, Luke Burton walks you
through a Rails installation on Mac OS X Server.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/03/29/rails.html>
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Maven 2.0: Compile, Test, Run, Deploy, and More
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<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/03/29/maven-2-0.html>
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httplib2: HTTP Persistence and Authentication
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1. What Is Web 2.0
Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a
conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive
International, which also spawned the Web 2.0 Conference), still engenders
much disagreement. Some decry it as a meaningless marketing buzzword,
while others have accepted it as the new conventional wisdom. Tim O'Reilly
attempts to clarify just what we meant by Web 2.0, digging into what it
means to view the Web as a platform and which applications fall squarely
under its purview, and which do not.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html>
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2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that
makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the
hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even
non-Rubyists can follow.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html>
***
3. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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4. Maven 2.0: Compile, Test, Run, Deploy, and More
Maven is popular for bringing order, expertise, and experience to Java
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Hardin's introduction shows what Maven 2 can do for you and how to make it
work.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/03/29/maven-2-0.html>
***
5. Rolling with Ruby on Rails, Part 2
Curt Hibbs introduced Ruby on Rails by building a simple but functional
web application in just a few minutes. Does the ease of use continue? He
thinks so. In the second of two parts, Curt completes his example Rails
application in merely 47 lines of code.
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Ruby on Rails, that frustrating little project that launched a decade-old
language from Japan squarely into the Java versus Everyone debates,
recently celebrated its 1.1 release. Now try to install it. (Oh, it's
not so bad; your editor knows that you're quite good at system
administration. This is for your friends, though.) Because not every
tutorial shows the installation and configuration process for every
operating system, here's how to get Ruby on Rails running on Mac OS X
server:
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/03/29/rails.html>
The next time you arrive at the airport hours early for a flight and
decide to check your email, praise free wireless internet access. Then
wonder just who's on the same network as you. Ubiquitous wireless changes
the rules of security. Swayam Prakasha's "What Is Wireless Security"
introduces how to think about wireless access and where to start securing
it. (You can certainly go further, but if you've never thought about this
question, start here.)
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2006/03/30/what-is-wireless-security.html>
Science and free software have a lot in common. The near-obsessive need
to build on and improve and refine the work of others is a tremendous
benefit to both. It's also clear how free software uses the sciences
(specifically computer science), but things go the other way around too.
David Boswell's "The Science of Space Exploration" describes several space
projects that use (and even produce) free software:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
In weblogs this week, your editor published a six-part series on "The
World's Most Maintainable Programming Language:"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html>
Python 2.4.3 came out.
<http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3/NEWS.txt>
Sid Steward shares his excitement about WebDAV:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/webdavs_day.html>
Jeremy Jones reports on the addition of an incredible amazing
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/how_turbogears_will_win_the_we.html>
Roger Weeks found a silly bug related to Apple Mail and SSH tunnelling.
Warning: the responses contain IPv6 comments:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/03/ssh_tunnelling_apple_mail.html>
That's it for the week. Next week your editor will be back home after
discovering that sunny California, for the time being, isn't.
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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2. Apple's High-Water Mark?
Apple's latest moves have impressed observers, but the environment is
about to change drastically, with Apple likely facing its greatest
challenges. Where do the company and its users face competition? IBM,
Sony, and ... Linux? Adrien Lamothe explores the computing landscape of
2006.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/23/apple_vs_everyone.html>
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3. Secure Your Linux Server
Linux is a powerful and popular operating system kernel. That popularity
means you might be running it even if you're not a dedicated Unix
administrator or high-powered programmer. That doesn't mean that
rock-solid security is out of your reach, though. Aaron Brazell shows how
to make Red Hat 9 (and other Linux distributions) much more secure in a
few easy steps.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/03/23/secure-your-server.html>
***
4. The Software of Space Exploration
Free software advocates often appeal to the open discovery, disclosure,
and discussion practices of modern science as justification for sharing
information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
free and open source software continue to grow in popularity. David
Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and usable
by armchair scientists.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
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5. PHP Form Handling
If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your
PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need
to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers
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