Friday, June 30, 2006
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Happy 4th of July from MAKE!
"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."
--Albert Camus
MAKE: Video Podcast!
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MAKE's Media Maker Bre Pettis is filming up a storm! Here are some of the latest
videos from the MAKE video podcast:
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Make Podcast: Tikva Report -- Reconnect Sweatshirt >>
Kate Hartman made a sweatshirt that vibrates when you complete a wearable circuit.
Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang's Steambots >>
After interviewing I-Wei, I told him that his robots reminded me of Miyazaki's
animation work, and he told me that he was in fact an animator by day and
steam-roboteer at night. He also said he found inspiration with Miyazaki's work.
Make Podcast: CPT's Arca Musarithmica Experimental Musical Instrument and Artbot >>
I found CTP in the artbot section of Robogames with his Arca Musarithmica. Check
out his photoset of it and watch the video.
Make Podcast: Survival Research Labs Walkthrough >>
While in San Francisco, I was invited to videotape a walkthrough of the Survival
Reasearch Labs. SRL has been making industrial-sized remote-control machines and
performing with them around the world since 1978.
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/>
MAKE, Volume 06!
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MAKE, Volume 06 -- Build a pair of electronic insects. LED throwies. Rodent-powered
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Greetings from the Post-YAPC Hackathon, everyone.
This week has been interesting. YAPC::NA is always worth your time
(<http://www.yapcchicago.org/> has what you may have missed this year);
it's full of interesting people, interesting projects, and interesting
ideas.
This year's trends included inside-out objects, Perl 6 implementations
(way more on that later), web frameworks, and plenty of discussions on
how to take advantage of other technologies, including JSON and Ajax.
* The State of Perl
Of course, gathering some of the leaders in the Perl community always
leads to discussions of the state and future of Perl, both Perl 5 and
Perl 6. (Then again, Michael Schwern, your editor, and Allison Randal
have all hacked on parts of Perl 1 over the past couple of years, so
perhaps the world is larger than you may have imagined.)
Looking at all of the interesting and useful things people are doing--and
the fact that a significant portion of the 400+ attendees this year have
never been to a Perl conference before--the future looks bright.
That doesn't mean that the future is easy, however. The Perl
implementations need more hackers. Perl needs much better evangelism,
not just to attract existing Perl programmers to the vibrant Perl
communities available (Perl Monks, Perl Mongers, Perl conferences, et
cetera), to contribute to useful and free Perl projects (Perl 5, Perl 6,
Pugs, Parrot, and the CPAN), but to promote Perl as a useful and vibrant
language and platform.
That's where you come in.
TPF president Bill Odom is looking for case studies. TPF public
relations manager Andy Lester is looking for success stories. Your
local Perl Mongers group is looking for new members, and there are
dozens of wonderful projects in various stages of ideas and completion
that could use a couple of hours of attention every month.
If you use Perl successfully, tell your friends! Tell Bill
(<wnodom@tmtowtdi.com>) and Andy (<pr@perlfoundation.org>). Find a
Perl mongers group!
If you (or your friends and colleagues) want an interesting technical
challenge, Parrot and Perl 5 and Pugs can always use hackers. You
could implement your own language (PGE and TGE already look like
best-of-breed tools), resurrect an old machine for smoke-testing on
exotic platforms, or even learn how to work on a large project by
volunteering with a janitor project.
Another recurring thread of discussion is the exotic and, in retrospect,
obvious work of porting some of the wonderful new features of Perl 6
to Perl 5. In particular, Stevan Little's Class::MOP and Moose provide
a workable and usable metamodel for Perl 5 and will probably form the
metamodel for Perl 6.
They're usable today. They're only some of the excellent features
making their way to Perl 5 today. Perl 5.10 will include plenty of
other features (defined-or, smart-match, lexical pragmas). You can
start to play with Perl 6 features today even without using Pugs or
Parrot!
Your editor took copious notes on several interesting projects and
discussions, but due to the state of the wireless network didn't
have a chance to publish them yet. Don't fret. They'll be online soon.
* Perl on ORN
Database and Perl hacker David Wheeler recently benchmarked some
Perl code versus stored procedures in PostgreSQL. It turns out that
PL/pgSQL can be fast and maintainable and clear and even correct.
Here's how to manage many-to-many relationships by marring Perl and
PostgreSQL stored procedures:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/29/many-to-many-with-plpgsql.html>
Your editor has finally finished his 30-post series (yep, still crazy),
which documents his work refactoring the legacy Perl system. Here's
what the project taught him.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/refactoring_everything_retrosp.html>
He also reviewed Class::MOP. Ooh, synergy:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/cpan_module_review_classmop.html>
Then he gave two different thoughts on the continued viability of Perl
5 and Perl 6:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/come_back_zinc.html>
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/how_does_a_programming_languag.html>
Nat Torkington attended both YAPC and the Rails Conf. Here's what
he thought:
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/06/a_week_in_chicago_with_rails_p.html>
Jeremy Jones ported a "Perl Hacks" hack from Perl to Python. Cool:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/hacking_a_perl_hack_for_python.html>
A good name for a project is Pomegranate,
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The recently rediscovered Ajax technique makes the client side of
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Perl is so good at handling plain text files that it's seductively
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Callisto's Eclipse
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Dejan Bosanac - Parsing form-data multiparts
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Robert Cooper - SOA Anti-patterns
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Greetings from Chicago, Illinois, everyone. Before you start asking
yourselves "Why in the world is our fabulous editor in Chicago," it's
YAPC::NA 2006, yet another Perl conference. (See <http://www.yapcchicago.org/>).
With so much fun, your editor didn't have a spare moment to write today's Linux
newsletter until tonight, which is why you're reading it tomorrow.
If that sentence is difficult to understand, try writing it.
Regardless of this magical occasion, here's what happened in the past week
on the O'Reilly Network.
Unless you live in a little box, you've likely heard of those little music
players--what are they again?--oh yes, iPods. You've probably also heard
that oh-so-cute pun on iPod and broadcasting: podcasting. This offers the
opportunity for truly independent broadcasting, with just you and your
ideas and potentially millions of listeners, without corporate or external
interference. John Littler of Mstation.org discusses just how easy it is
to set up independent podcasting with free and open source software:
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/22/floss-podcasting.html>
If the lack of external interference sounds good to you, you'll probably
appreciate our new publication "How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your
Project." Authors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene have extracted a
useful excerpt about managing up--that is, how you as a developer or
administrator can spot pending problems and help your manager make the
right decisions:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/20/why-do-projects-fail.html>
In weblogs this week, your editor reviewed the Perl module Class::MOP, a
metaprogramming system for Perl:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/cpan_module_review_classmop.html>
He also asked how a programming language stagnates:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/how_does_a_programming_languag.html>
... and offered a retrospective on the Refactoring Everything project:
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Jeremy Jones reviewed PyYaml and found that he quite likes YAML:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/pyyaml_mini_review.html>
Carla Schroder lamented the potential loss of all of the useful programmers:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/06/where_have_all_the_programmers.html>
Timothy M. O'Brien starts a long debate about which web framework to use:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/isnt_rails_supposed_to_change.html>
Curt Hibbs covered Rails Conf (see more):
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/railsconf_2006_day_0.html>
Tom Adelstein described an embedded Linux opportunity for entrepreneurs:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/06/an_new_opportunity_for_entrepr_1.html>
Chris Josephes reminded everyone about the necessity of disk layout
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A Web-Only Existence
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Dear Reader,
We've been talking around the water cooler about Google's recent calendar
product, and it's led to a broader discussion about web apps in general. I
find the concept fascinating. All of my tools living on the network,
enabling me to access my applications and data at any time from any
computer. Email, word processing, photo management, spreadsheet, calendar,
audio files, and everything else stored on servers distributed across the
web. Is this really possible?
I posed the question to one of my ace writers on Mac DevCenter: Giles
Turnbull. I challenged him to live a "web app only" existence for 24
hours, then write about his experience. Giles did extensive research about
all of the web apps out there, tested many of them, then published the
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discussion about security and backup. It's really a terrific piece of
work. And if you've been wondering about the possibility of living by web
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Apple vs. the Bloggers: How It Unfolded and Where It Stands Now
When AppleInsider and PowerPage published apparently purloined
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who inside the company was leaking. This set into motion a series of court
proceedings that helped define the rights of bloggers and privacy for
those who use the Internet. Richard Koman reports.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/06/13/apple-vs-the-bloggers.html>
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Aging PowerBook Upgrade by a Linux/OS X Geek
Many Mac users railed against chromatic's recent article, Switching Back
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Greetings...
Any chance you've got some really old JDBC code? Really, really old?
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old? Maybe wrapped up in a representation class so you never have to
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functionality you can pick up for free, if you know what's available and
how to apply it to your code base. In this week's ONJava, we'll take a
look at a JDBC interface that's particularly handy for moving back and
forth between database records and XML representations.
"Until recently, converting data back and forth between database and XML
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<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/21/making-most-of-jdbc-with-webrowset.html>
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the Java Portlet Toolkit. The article will also explore some of the tools
that come with the Java Portlet Toolkit, such as the PortletBean and
portal-specific JSP tags."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/05/java-portlet-tools.html>
Integrating with other members of your team, or other teams, is a task
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Paul Browne - Real-World Rule Engines
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Steven Anglin - The Definitive Guide to JBoss Seam 1.0
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/the_definitive_guide_to_jboss.html>
Steve Anglin - JBoss World 2006: Sessions Attended
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/jboss_world_2006_sessions_atte.html>
Timothy M. O'Brien - What Web Application Framework Should You Use?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/isnt_rails_supposed_to_change.html>
Steve Anglin - JBoss World 2006: News
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Paul Browne - Three things not to forget ... that I did.
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Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools
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Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools
Vista comes with a great suite of diagnostic tools for helping your PC run
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Who's Worse: Computer Repair Shops or Used Car Dealers?
It's the eternal question: who's less trustworthy--computer repair shops
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The Pain and the Discipline of Running as Non-Admin
Running your computer as a local administrator has numerous hazards, but
unfortunately it can be painful trying to run as an ordinary user if you
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Don't Let Your Boss Sink Your Project
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Playing with Location
We've just returned from the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, California.
Next week, you'll hear parts of some of the sessions. This week, you'll
hear an interview with the Platial team about their "people's atlas" site,
we visit the Where fair the second night of the conference and speak with
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Build Your Own AIM Answerbot
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Brady Forrest on Where 2.0
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will be the conference chair next year. Here's Brady's take on what stood
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Hello, everyone. Before the Linux newsletter starts, your editor must
reach into the mailbag and credit reader A. M. "Todd" Sabuncu for catching
the word "metonymy" misspelled in last weeks newsletter. (Your editor
knows what it means, though he often confuses it with synecdoche. He just
cannot spell it, at least not as easily as squamous.)
With that bit of mischief out of the way, here's the tiny slice of the big
pie of F/LOSS that ONLamp covered last week.
If you've ever worked tech support (or seen The IT Crowd), you know that a
monkey with the proper three-question script could answer four out of five
questions. Making monkeys do that job might violate animal cruelty laws,
but why not a robot? If your users can use AIM or another chat system,
you may be able to set up a bot as your front line of support to answer
frequently asked questions. Don't get lost in the thought of natural
language parsing and schemas; reuse some of the work Robert Treat and
others have done to "Build Your Own AIM Answerbot":
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/15/aim-answerbot.html>
Last week was our Where 2.0 Conference, dedicated to all of the
interesting and useful information in the emerging open location
information space. Our conference coverage is available, including plenty
of smooth-voiced Daniel Steinberg interviews:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/where_20/>
In weblogs this week, Tim O'Reilly shares information on the O'Reilly
anti-spam system:
<http://feeds.feedburner.com/oreilly/radar/rss10?m=1005>
Your editor called for public use of the google.com domain (it's satire):
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/open_up_googlecom.html>
Then he found a long thread on the Perl 5 development list about the
not-imminent not-death of Perl 5:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/come_back_zinc.html>
Dave Cross lamented all of the bad ways people store date information in
databases:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/storing_dates.html>
Bruno Pedro tried to enable accent-insensitive fulltext indexing in
MySQL:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/accentinsensitive_fulltext_ind.html>
Jeremy Jones played with Tabblo, a photo-sharing site built with Python
and Django:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/06/tabblo_a_django_site.html>
Lyz Krumbach reviewed Google Earth, which now runs on x86 Linux:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/06/google_earth_for_linux.html>
Juliet Kemp upgraded to Apache 2 and ran into index issues:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/06/apache2_issues_indexhtmlold_mu.html>
Caitlyn Martin has a new favorite Linux distribution: Xubuntu:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/06/meet_the_newest_member_of_the.html>
Gregory Brown wonders what skateboarding has to do with Rails:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/a_skateboarder_though.html>
Pat Eyler interviews RubyQuiz master James Gray:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/rubyquestions_for_the_rubyquiz.html>
Geoffrey Grosenbach dissected the metaprogramming in why the lucky stiff's
Camping framework:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/06/wild_and_crazy_metaprogramming.html>
Tom Adelstein decided that, job-wise, the Linux desktop has not yet
arrived:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/06/not_yet.html>
That's it for this week, except for a plea. Do you remember The Perl
Conference before it was OSCON? Do you have any photos, memorabilia, or
stories to share? If so, please contact your editor (chromatic at oreilly
dot com).
Even TPC after OSCON is good,
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The Ultimate Free Windows Toolkit
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From the Windows DevCenter Blogosphere
Why Microsoft 'Live' Is Brain Dead
Brand-happy Microsoft is slapping the word "Live" on just about every new
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PowerShell: Shell Scripting Done Right
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Dear Reader,
The Where 2.0 Conference in San Jose, California is wrapping up (this
event brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge
into the location-based technology frontier). An incredible amount of
information has been disseminated over the two-day gathering. I was just
reading the Conference News website, and I am slightly blown away by the
depth and breadth of the posts. Here are just a few examples:
Lauren Gelman on Privacy
Gelman works out of the Center for Internet Society at Stanford University
and she is very knowledgeable about the new technologies being discussed
at Where 2.0, and how they will be pushing the boundaries of existing
privacy law.
A Lot There at the Where Fair
After a mind-bending day of talks and demos, and then a lively and packed
exhibitor hall reception, the hands-on Where Fair event still did not disappoint.
Zopto: An Addressing Scheme That Makes Sense
Ben Nolan from Projectx Technology showed off the company's unique and
simple Zopto location addressing scheme to a very favorable response at
the Where 2.0 conference.
And it goes on and on from there. If you couldn't attend the event in
person, I highly recommend you stop by Conference News to get up to speed.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/where_20/>
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Natural Language Game Programming with Inform 7
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Returning Like Some Unsung Hero
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Greetings, readers. The Linux newsletter has returned from vacation (now
there's a metonomy for you). Hopefully the mini hiatus has merely
sharpened your appetite for the latest free, libre, and open source
software news and opinions from the O'Reilly Network.
Here's what happened recently:
Failure is a part of life. Wisdom and knowledge grow out of learning from
failure. Unfortunately, computers don't learn that well and software
rarely recovers from failure gracefully. There are ways around that
though. For example, Greg Retkowski recently combined a couple of useful
and well-known system administration systems: Nagios and Cfengine. Here's
how you can make your network heal itself:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/05/25/self-healing-networks.html>
Though it seems like all network-service code should use C or C++ to give
optimal speed and to twiddle bits effectively, it's possible to write
useful, powerful, and speedy network applications in higher level
languages. Zed Shaw does this in the Ruby world. He's the author of the
popular Mongrel webserver. In a recent interview with the O'Reilly
Network, he explains how he builds reliable code:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/05/post.html>
Almost every time your editor pulls out his trusty PowerBook in public,
someone leans over, blinks, makes a face, and asks "Ewww, why are you
running *Linux* on Apple hardware?" After explaining things for the
umpteenth time, he recently wrote an opinion piece about why Mac OS X just
didn't work out as a Unix on his desktop. (He doesn't think less of you
for liking it; he just works better this way.)
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/01/switching-back.html>
Some people claim that mere APIs and libraries are domain-specific
languages. Perhaps they are, but when you can rearrange the very syntax of
a language to make common operations trivially easy to write and to
understand, then you're closer. Yung-chung Lin recently released a set of
CPAN modules called FEAR::API to make web programming, screen scraping,
and data manipulation exceedingly easy. Here's how a domain-specific
language for web clients works:
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html>
Tags and folksonomies help organize data in lightweight, bottom-up ways.
They're an important part of new user interfaces built in the Web 2.0
style. They don't have to be distracting or flashy and thinking about them
can help focus your mind on other useful interface presentations and
decisions. In an excerpt from a new PDF, "Building Tag Clouds in Perl and
PHP," author Jim Bumgardner gives several suggestions on building
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/08/designing-tag-clouds.html>
If you can read this paragraph, you can read the Inform 7 programming
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programming may have come from the world of interactive fiction. Inform
developer Graham Nelson recently released a new version of his programming
environment; Liza Daly explores how it enables and encourages new and,
perhaps, better ways of programming computers:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/08/inside-inform-7.html>
In recent podcasts, your editor interviewed Brad Fitzpatrick, creator and
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/05/22/distributing-the-future.html>
Your editor also lamented the lack of the world's most perfect programming
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/05/15/distributing-the-future.html>
Finally, he interviewed Chris DiBona as Google's 2006 Summer of Code
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In weblogs, Juliet Kemp restricted rsync to run over ssh:
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Carla Schroder solved some printing issues after an upgrade to Ubuntu's
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Then Caitlyn Martin found herself in RPM hell yet again with yum and pup
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Your editor almost finished his 30-day project of refactoring a large Perl
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Curtis Poe pondered the question of whether Perl belongs in LAMP:
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Steve Mallett slimmed down the default Mac OS X install:
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Jeremy Jones did not gush over the Ubuntu Dapper Drake installation:
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Ming Chow reviewed Google Spreadsheets:
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Allison Randal announced release candidates of the Artistic License
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and creating nice reports. LWP and WWW::Mechanize are still the gorillas
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syntax and access. Yung-chung Lin recently created a new set of modules
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<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html>
Folksonomies and tag clouds provide interesting ways to structure and present
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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.
XML lives in a slightly different world these days, one where there are,
generally, more alternatives for data representation. Whether or not JSON
is a legitimate replacement for XML across the board, it is certainly a
viable and legitimate alternative for the more data-centric uses of XML.
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Converting Between XML and JSON
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/05/31/converting-between-xml-and-json.html>
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Rick Jelliffe, First Impressions of Open XML
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Thursday, June 01, 2006
Taking Google's "red pill"
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Lots of projects don't live up to self-consciously "cool" code names, but
Google's "red pill" just might do so. Now known as the "Google Web
Toolkit," this remarkable development kit lets you code Ajax sites in
Java--it takes care of the JavaScript, the browser compatibility, and all
of the other ugly problems for you. It even gives you a way to make
RPC-like calls back to your servlet. For the server-side Java developer
who wants to add Ajax functionality without learning a whole new skillset,
this could be a real breakthrough. We're happy to be able to offer an
introductory tutorial on this week's ONJava.
"The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) was rolled out for JavaOne 2006 at an
innocuously titled session. Due to what I assume was a timing
miscommunication, the Google Blog scooped the presentation, but the impact
was no less felt." With that understatement, Robert Cooper kicks off his
introduction to the project that was THE talk of JavaOne, in "Working with
the Google Web Toolkit." His introduction shows you how to build an Ajax
table with GWT, wire it up to a server-side data source, and handle user
interaction on the client side.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/05/31/working-with-google-web-toolkit.html>
Offering another Java-friendly approach to Ajax, this week's feature
article from java.net takes a look at "Using Dojo and JSON to Build Ajax
Applications." Zarar Siddiqi writes, "In this article, I will show how to
build Ajax-enabled applications using Dojo and JSON--two very different
but complementary technologies that can significantly enhance the
interface and usability of web applications."
<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/27/building-ajax-with-dojo-and-json.html>
Need to parse XML in your Java application? In a dev2dev article, Jacob
Danner and Raj Alagumalai take a look at XMLBeans 2.0 in "XMLBeans 2.0: A
Java Developer's Perspective." "XMLBeans is a
100-percent-schema-compliant, XML-Java binding tool you can use to access
the full power of XML in a Java-friendly way. The XMLBean solution is
unique because it provides a dual view of the XML data. XMLBeans maintain
the original XML document with no change in information and structure, and
also provide a Java-based view of the XML data."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/05/xmlbeans-2.html>
Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:
Robert Cooper: "On The 'Web 2.0' Flap"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/on_the_web_20_flap_1.html>
Steve Anglin: "SpringOne 2006 in Two Weeks"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/springone_2006_in_2_weeks.html>
Amir Shevat: "Still Waiting for True Interoperability"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/still_waiting_for_true_interop.html>
Dejan Bosanac: "XAP Proposal in Apache Incubator"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/xap_proposal_in_apache_incubat.html>
Paul Browne: "Is O'Reilly One of the Good Guys? Maybe."
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/is_oreilly_one_of_the_good_guy.html>
Steve Anglin: "JBoss World 2006 is Coming"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/jboss_world_2006_is_coming.html>
Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
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Please join us again next week.
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Are You Secure?
Microsoft has a useful tool to help businesses evaluate their current IT
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Two Cheers for Vista's RSS Handling
Vista embraces RSS in a big way--subscribing to feeds is built into IE,
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