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Building Photo Uploaders with XAML
Who says Windows can't play nice with open source applications? Jack
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appealing and user-friendly image uploading application for getting
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http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/29/building-photo-uploaders-with-xaml.html

Vista Pricing Revealed
Want to know how much Vista will cost when it's released? Microsoft isn't
talking, but if you check out the Amazon pages for Vista, you'll find the
pricing revealed, in black and white. Check out my blog for details.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/vista_pricing_revealed.html

Why Governments Should Support OpenDocument
It's good for all of us if governments publish and accept documents in the
ODF format, says Jean Hollis Weber. Her argument is backed up in a white
paper published by The OpenDocument Fellowship. Read about it in her blog.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/why_governments_should_support.html

See you next week.
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glimmers of where we may be headed.

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Building Photo Uploaders with XAML
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Using IPFW Rulesets with BSD Firewalls
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The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax
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Eclipse RCP: A Platform for Building Platforms
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Hello, readers. Your editor is in a hotel room in Birmingham, England
right now. The UK is lovely, but the same words mean different things;
fries are chips, chips are crisps, and if you want to find an elevator
look for a lift. The same goes for the Linux newsletter: it's about all
things free and open source software. Here's what the O'Reilly Network
said about all of that this past week.

Managing a database full of information can be a lot of work, especially
if trends and statistics are important. The O'Reilly Research department
faces that every day. Exploring the data effectively can save a lot of
time and energy. O'Reilly's Ben Lorica recently reviewed the Tableau
visual analysis and reporting tools; these allow you to generate pivot
tables and cross-tabulations from your database. Ben's opinion? Favorable!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/08/24/tableau_review.html

A nice, quiet, small BSD box makes a wonderful Internet device--especially
a low-power, low-noise box in the corner. Yet the FreeBSD handbook's
section on using IPFW for firewalling can be a little dense. This week,
Dennis Olvany has provided the framework for a working, usable firewall
for you to customize and explore:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/08/24/ipfw-for-firewalls.html

One of Apple's biggest draws is the iTunes software. One of the biggest
untapped benefits of Mac OS X is that it's scriptable. Should you have to
learn AppleScript to do useful things, however? Of course not! Matthew
Russell demonstrates how to unify and synchronize iTunes libraries across
machines and platforms by using Python:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/08/22/synchronize-itunes-libraries.html

In this week's "Distributing the Future" podcast, Tim O'Reilly talks to
Brian Behlendorf about lessons from Apache and CollabNet, and Danese
Cooper discusses open source at Microsoft with Bill Hilf:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/08/21/distributing-the-future.html

In weblogs this week, Sam Griffith, Jr. ponders the best personality
traits of developers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/re_best_personality_traits_of.html

Brad Fuller revealed the name of the device for the OLPC project:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/post_1.html

Jason Cole introduced himself and his desire to talk about open source
in education:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/new_onlamp_poster_1.html

Curtis Poe asked people to stop using Perl 3 and its techniques:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/please_stop_using_perl_3.html

Your editor likewise republished Rich Bowen's opinion that ancient
software should just go away:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/please_let_your_zombie_softwar.html

... then ranted about designing a language to prevent average developers
from making mistakes:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/language_design_for_9to5_cogs.html

... and found an interesting post about MySQL moving unmaintained storage
engines into plug-ins:

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2006/08/from_storage_engine_to_plugin.html

Andy Oram explored the efficacy of using mailing lists for documentation assistance:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/doityourself_documentation_res.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/doityourself_documentation_res_1.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/doityourself_documentation_res_2.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the Perl 6 activity for the past week:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum.html

Andy Lester announced a Chicago Perl hackathon in November:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/announcing_the_chicago_perl_ha.html

Ming Chow praised a new release of Lego Mindstorms RCX firmware:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/lejos_30_release_candidate_ava.html

Jeremy Jones tried to return a faulty Dell battery:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/my_dell_battery_experience.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/us_postal_service_and_dell_bat.html

Chris Josephes suggested a technique for scheduling Perl scripts outside
of cron:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/08/scheduling_perl_scripts_outsid.html

Anton Chuvakin posted a security tip of the week on log rotation:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/08/antons_security_tip_of_the_wee.html

Tom Adelstein lamented the Microsofting of Linux administrative tools:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/08/fedora_directory_server_anothe.html

Pat Eyler reviewed RubyConf*MI, a regional Ruby conference:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2006/08/rubyconfmi_in_review.html

That's all for this week. It's 2:25 a.m. in your editor's time zone, which
is precisely where he isn't. Tune in next Tuesday to see if he has shifted
west by eight hours successfully.

Probably not,
- c

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This week Lindsey Simon describes XSLDataGrid, an approach to dynamic
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The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax
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Greetings...

Your editor is probably a bit of an odd duck in the Java world for being
more of a desktop developer than a server-side programmer. Oh sure, I've
worked with most of the EE API and written more quick-and-dirty,
HTML-emitting raw servlets than I'd care to admit, but most of what I code
ends up in a desktop window. And it's interesting to note the difference
between the carefully managed environment of application servers to that
of the desktop application. Whether you're writing servlets or some other
kind of server-side code (JSPs, EJBs, Struts actions, Spring, and so on),
you can generally rely on a fairly well-defined application life-cycle,
and the handling of many environmental issues, from threading off separate
requests to inversion-of-control schemes to let the container make
decisions the web app need not be responsible for. But back on the
desktop, what do we have? It's not like AWT or Swing provides an
"Application" class to extend, or a framework to provide consistent
services needed by applications. Instead, you get started from "public
static void main (String[])" and then it's off to the races with whatever
you can pull together from the various Java SE APIs. If that seems
somewhat aimless or potentially anarchic, you might be in need of a
genuine application platform. And this week, we look at one well-known
and well-tested option.

Strip away the syntax-highlighting, incrementally compiling details from
the Eclipse IDE, and at its core, you'll find a platform, the Eclipse Rich
Client Platform to be precise, that could be reused for a wide variety of
applications. In the feature article "Eclipse RCP: A Platform for
Building Platforms," Wayne Beaton says "...although it is actually an
inappropriate use of the term, Eclipse RCP can be considered middleware
for building rich-client applications. It provides the infrastructure that
your application needs, which allows developers to focus on core
application functionality, not the plumbing. Don't reinvent the wheel: use
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http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/08/23/eclipse-rich-client-platform.html

Clusters distribute work among their nodes, and the round-robin strategy
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the default in WebLogic. But it's not always the right choice, as
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predictable. However, this strategy does not react according to the
varying loads on the servers. For example, if one server in the cluster is
under heavy load, it still will continue to participate in the
round-robining scheme, like the other members in the cluster, so work may
pile up on this server." In the dev2dev article "Creating Custom
Load-Balancing Schemes Using MBeans," Francesco shows a strategy for
tracking and managing your resources, and using that to allocate tasks
more efficiently.

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/07/custom-load-balancing.html

In this week's feature article from java.net, Brian Agnew takes a look at
"Java Object Querying Using JXPath:" "JXPath is a little-known component
of the Apache Commons library that simplifies querying of sets of Java
objects by using an XPath-based syntax. This article demonstrates how to
use JXPath to replace complex Java code with simple expression-based
queries, and how to make use of this in practical scenarios such as JSPs,
templates (such as Velocity), and monitoring/management applications."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/08/03/java-object-querying-using-jxpath.html

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

Paul Browne - Back to the Future with Java and Retroweaver
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Dejan Bosanac - Will we have closures in Java 1.7?
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Microsoft Offers the Peace Pipe to Firefox
Microsoft has invited Firefox developers to attend the Windows Vista
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Thunderbird email clients work properly under Vista. Read why I think this
is good news not only for Firefox users, but for Microsoft as well.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/microsoft_offers_the_peace_pip.html

Putting Lawyers to Good Use
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http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/putting_lawyers_to_good_use.html

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http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/change_in_detecting_next_versi.html

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todo list service built with Perl and Jifty (of course):

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/08/0249201>

Chip Salzenberg released Parrot 0.4.6, featuring a resurrected Cardinal
(Ruby on Parrot):

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/10/1724250>

Ars Technical picked up the release announcement and made it part of a
nice little story on virtual machines:

<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060810-7462.html>

Ann Barcomb summarized the activity on the Perl 6 lists for July 2006 in
two parts:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/13/1853228>
<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/13/1851229>

Bleadperl pumpking (that means "person in charge of producing and
releasing the next major version of Perl") Rafael Garcia-Suarez released
Perl 5.9.4, a development version for testing:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/15/1611254>

Chicago.pm adopted a camel:

<http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/18/1812235>

YAPC::Europe is a week and a half away. Make your way to Birmingham, U.K. soon!

Perlcast resurrected its Perl News Summary series with guest anchor Randal Schwartz:

<http://perlcast.com/2006/08/16/perl-news-2006-08-14/>

* Perl Jobs

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.

The RT queue (<http://xrl.us/owsd>) for the Parrot Cage Cleaners contains
a few starting points:

* #39878 -- always include timezone information in generated files

* #39877 -- fix some incorrectly succeeding MANIFEST tests

* #40032 -- fix a missing prototype error in C code

* #40059 -- namespace external functions and variable names in C code

* #40072 -- allow the use of SVK in maintainer utilities

Contact andy@perl.org if you are interested.

Remember, you don't have to know C or Perl 6 (yet) to help.

* Perl on ORN

Handling text is easy; a file is just a big blob of characters, and what
works on one platform works on all platforms... right? Even such a simple
concept as a newline is complex if you look at it from the computer's
point of view. Perl does a lot of magic underneath to help you read a line
at a time from a file, but sometimes it can only guess. Xavier Noria's
"Understanding Newlines" will help you figure out what's really
happening--especially if you want your code to work across platforms:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html>

Your editor borrowed a great tip from David Golden on the Perl QA mailing
list about making it trivial to update your .vimrc file:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/make_your_vimrc_trivial_to_upd_1.html>

Kevin Shockey reminisced about his experience speaking at OSCON:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/post_oscon_i_the_darker_side_o.html>

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Curtis "Ovid" Poe:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/people_of_perl_ovid.html>

The same Curtis "Ovid" Poe argued that sometimes you cannot afford not to
fix bugs:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/why_expensive_bugs_are_cheap_t.html>

... and then worked through the Jifty Tutorial, documenting his thoughts
as he went along:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/hey_thats_pretty_jifty_er_nift.html>

Packing his passport and finding some Euros,

- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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*** Featured Articles ***

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>

***

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>

***

FEAR-less Site Scraping
Many web programmers talk about "domain-specific languages" as if defining
functions and methods were a new discovery. A real domain-specific
language provides concise syntax and symatics for a particular purpose,
such as Yung-chung Lin's FEAR::API. He explains how this toolkit allows
you to scrape, modify, store, and re-present web data easily, effectively,
and economically.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html>

***

Charting Data at the Bottom of the World
Alex Gough has a curious job. He's the only programmer for 500 miles at a
remote Antarctic research station. His problems are like your problems
too, though--gathering, manipulating, recording, and displaying data.
Here's how he uses several CPAN modules to make pretty charts and graphs
with almost no work.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/05/04/charting-data.html>

***

Unraveling Code with the Debugger
Reading other people's code can be difficult, especially if you have no
idea what happens when and where. Understanding code flow is vital to
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>

***

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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Most attendees agree that the keynote announcements at WWDC were
predictable. It's true, for the most part. We were confident that we'd
see the completion of the transition to Intel with the MacPro desktop
computers and the official unveiling of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. And we did.

But there's a subtext to the event that has larger ramifications. In our
recent Mac DevCenter article, "The Three Faces of Steve," Daniel Steinberg
notes that Steve Jobs shared the stage with Bertrand Serlet, Phil
Schiller, and Scott Forstall. As these Apple heavy hitters made the
various announcements that Steve often handles, I couldn't help thinking
that Apple once again is planning ahead. Steve Jobs won't be CEO forever.
Others are going to have to share the heavy lifting.

WWDC 2006 was about Apple's future. And based on what I saw, Apple is
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Until next time,

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*** Featured Articles ***

The Three Faces of Steve: WWDC 2006
After welcoming the audience of developers at WWDC, Steve Jobs let the
audience know that others would help him on stage. This, in and of itself,
was unusual. There are often supporting roles in the WWDC and MacWorld
keynotes, but only one featured artist. Not only did Jobs share the stage
with Bertrand Serlet, Phil Schiller, and Scott Forstall, but he allowed
them to make many of the morning's announcements. In a way they
represented the three faces of Steve. Daniel Steinberg reports.

<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/08/15/wwdc.html>

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Understanding the NSTableView Class
This article will provide you with an in-depth introduction on how to use
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how to add an instance of that class to your application project using
Interface Builder. Then, you will learn how to properly implement the
data-source process used to retrieve the data to be displayed by the
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Greetings...

Is it still all about speed? It seems like almost ten years ago that I
remember a big diagram in Byte magazine assessing various tactics for
getting more performance out of Java, from just-in-time compilers
(obviously, this was before the HotSpot era) to specialized Java chips to
execute JVM instructions in highly optimized hardware. And the approach
that had the best balance of practicality and results was, unsurprisingly,
writing better code. Of course, that's a lovely concept to talk about,
but once you've pruned out the stupid code (like repeatedly concatenating
Strings with the + operator instead of using a StringBuffer), what are you
really supposed to do to write better code? In a big project, how are you
even supposed to know where you can make a difference? This is where tools
can make a big difference, to show you what's going on at runtime,
discover memory leaks and other subtle problems, and expose which parts of
your code are used the most, and thus offer the greatest potential payoff
for optimization. This week's ONJava takes two looks at two products that
can help accelerate your code.

Among the many pieces of the Eclipse "Callisto" release, one of the most
exciting is the Test and Performance Tools Platform (TPTP). John Ferguson
Smart takes a look at these tools in "Profiling Your Applications with
Eclipse Callisto," in which he writes, "TPTP provides a comprehensive
suite of open source performance-testing and profiling tools, including
integrated application monitoring, testing, tracing and profiling
functionalities, and static-code analysis tools. Profiling tools are
invaluable aids for localizing and identifying performance issues in all
sorts of Java applications. In this article, we will look at how you can
use TPTP to guarantee high-quality and high-performance code, even during
unit and integration testing."

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/08/16/profiling-with-eclipse-callisto.html>

Apache's JMeter is another interesting performance-testing tool, allowing
access via HTTP or FTP and supporting extensive scripting features--highly
appealing features for the web service developer. Dmitri Nevedrov takes a
look at using JMeter in the dev2dev article "Using JMeter to Performance
Test Web Services." He writes, "JMeter is a flexible tool that not only
allows you to test the HTTP servers but also to load-test Web services. A
skilled developer can write his or her own scripts to simulate or
customize the client requests or add a customized visualization of test
results. Web service and SOAP samplers are new features of JMeter;
hopefully they will evolve as Web services gets a wider acceptance in
industry and among developers."

<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/08/jmeter-performance-testing.html>

In this week's feature article from java.net, Peter Becker unveils
critical flaws in common-sense thinking about Java's concepts of equality.
In "You Are What You Is: Defining Object Identity," Peter shows how the
common use of equals() in collections like Set, which don't allow
duplicates, can be thrown off by something as simple and common as a
set...() method. He writes, "the notion of 'identity' seems trivial at
first but it can be important for the design and, consequently, the
correct behavior of an object-oriented application. Through implementing
equals(), the Java programmer has the option to define a specific type of
identity, a very powerful but dangerous thing to do."

<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/07/27/defining-object-identity.html>

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

Dejan Bosanac - Java open source roadmap
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/java_opensource_roadmap.html>

Hari K. Gottipati - Java to support Visual Basic
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/java_to_support_visual_basic.html>

Robert Cooper - Phoning the Shark
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/phoning_the_shark.html>

Mike Loukides - Hibernate 3.0 Shortcut out!
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/hibernate_30_shortcut_out.html>

Timothy M. O'Brien - Upgrade Rails Now: Critical Security Bug
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/08/upgrade_rails_now_critical_sec.html>

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
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Please join us again next week.

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With over 400 new features to inspire creative code, the difference is
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Sometime within the next several weeks, Microsoft is expected to come
out with the next beta of Windows Vista--and there's a chance that this
one will be a release candidate. If so, that means Vista is getting very
real, indeed.

To help you prepare, I've put together this special edition of the Windows
DevCenter newsletter, with a compilation of some of the best Vista
coverage we've offered over the last few months. More Vista coverage is on
the way for its final release, but for now, you'd do well to delve into
some of the articles we've published already, to help you be prepared.

Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools
Vista comes with a great suite of diagnostic tools for helping your PC run
better and avoid crashes. Mitch Tulloch gives you the rundown on what they
are and how to use them.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/06/20/inside-vistas-new-diagnostic-tools.html>

Ensuring Application Compatibility in Vista
What should you do if your enterprise has mission-critical,
line-of-business apps that simply must continue running properly once
you've upgraded your desktops to Vista? Mitch Tulloch offers insight
and advice.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/25/application-compatibility-in-vista.html>

Two Cheers for Vista's RSS Handling
Vista embraces RSS in a big way--subscribing to feeds is built into IE,
and there's a nice gadget for displaying feeds on the desktop as well.
It's too bad, though, that the tools aren't more powerful. Check out my
blog for more info.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/05/two_cheers_for_vistas_rss_hand.html>

Symantec's Sour Grapes About Vista
Symantec has just come out with a report claiming that Vista may introduce
a host of network security holes, even as Microsoft labors to make the
operating system more secure than XP. Symantec is wrong here--and I tell
you why their response is sour grapes.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/07/symantecs_sour_grapes_about_vi.html>

An Overview of UAC in Windows Vista
Vista's User Account Control represents a big step forward for system
security. But it's not that easy to understand. Mitch Tulloch, author of
"Windows Server Hacks," shows you how it works, and offers tips for making
it better.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/04/uac-in-windows-vista.html>

Windows Vista Beta 2 Up Close and Personal
What's good and what's bad about Windows Vista Beta 2? Wei-Meng Lee takes
it for a test drive and gives you the full rundown.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/05/30/whats-good-and-bad-with-vista-beta-2.html>

Vista Is Hacked Already
Bad news for those concerned about Windows security: At the Black Hat
security conference last week, a hacker managed to crack into the
system--and this before it's even released. What does it mean for Vista
security? Check my blog for details.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/08/vista_is_hacked_already.html>

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=Renegade Crafters! MAKEs Sister Zine, CRAFT, on Newsstands October 17=

From the team who brought you MAKE, CRAFT is a quarterly, project-based magazine
dedicated to the renaissance occurring within the world of crafts. Our vision with
CRAFT is to unite, inspire, inform, and entertain a growing community of highly
imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts
with unconventional, unexpected, and sometimes renegade techniques, materials, and
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CRAFT is written for and by creative, free-spirited DIY enthusiasts, tech-savvy
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Learn how to:
* Embroider a skateboard
* Make and program a light-up tank top
* Convert an old pair of shoes into chic knitted boots
* Weave with pixels
* Create an iPod cozy through the ancient art of felt-making

CRAFT goes on sale October 17, 2006 and we anticipate a very quick sellout (as was the
case with the inaugural issue of MAKE). Avoid the crushing disappointment of an empty
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And be sure to check out our new blog:
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=MAKE Japan=
MAKE is coming to Japan! It will have a lot of our content from the pages of MAKE,
but will be specifically for Japan. We'll be shipping at the end of August.

<http://www.oreilly.co.jp/books/4873112982/>

You can also download a sample MAKE 01 (Japanese PDF) here:
<ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/download/make01_sample.pdf>

We've started a MAKE Japan photo pool, and we plan to add fun and interesting gadgets
and projects from our makers in Japan!
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MAKE: Video!
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=MAKE Video Podcast: Weekend Projects - Make a Pinhole Camera and Darkroom=

In this week's MAKE Video Podcast Weekend Project, Bre Pettis teaches how to make
a pinhole camera, turn your bathroom into a darkroom, and make contact prints. Make
sure to read the instructions for this post if you're interested in shooting some
DIY photographs!

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/>

MAKE: Blog
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try at home. Each day we post dozens of stories, projects, hacks, and mods sent by you,
makers!

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This Week on the MAKE: Blog

=Carl & Jerry - Adventure in Electronics=
In the 50s and 60s, John T. Frye, W9EGV/Popular Electronics published a series of
fiction stories called "The Carl and Jerry Stories." In each story the pair acquired
new skills, got their ham radio licenses, and used their knowledge of electronics to
get out of a jam or solve a mystery. There isn't a complete collection of all the stories
that I know of, but there are some scans/text online. The stories are entertaining, fun,
and I can imagine how many engineers, scientists, and makers got their start from reading
these wonderful tales.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/carl_jerry_adventure_in_electr.html>

=Balloons on a plane, word-counting pen, and a phone that turns off music=
Each week we like to read Modern Mechanix to see what makers were up to in the 30s,
40s, and 50s--clever solutions for problems, using the modern technology of the
time--always inspiring and usually entertaining.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/balloons_on_a_plane_word_count.html>

=The Two-Can Stirling Engine (preview)=
Here's a excerpt from MAKE 07: The Two-Can Stirling Engine by William Gurstelle.
The Stirling engine has long captivated inventors and dreamers. Here are plans for
building and operating a two-cylinder model that runs on almost any high-temperature
heat source.

<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/the_twocan_stirling_engine_pre.html>

MAKE: Flickr Photo pool
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Plasma & High Voltage Sparks - shocking photos of high voltage + everyday objects!
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/rmcybernetics/sets/72157594182019271/>

Open source MP3 player in a sewing box - right here:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/pmtorrone/tags/opensourcemp3player/>

Houston Art Car Parade 2006:
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/24224037@N00/sets/72157594233947606/>

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Building Photo Uploaders with XAML

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Breaking Into the IT Field

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Friday, August 25, 2006

The XSLDataGrid: XSLT Rocks Ajax

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Richer clients, smarter clusters, and pithier paths

How to Remove Startup Programs

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Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Have You Seen Craft?

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Files: Not as Simple as You Might Think.

Friday, August 18, 2006

Newlines: Not as Simple as You Might Think

The Between the Lines Announcement at WWDC

Thursday, August 17, 2006

An accelerated look at performance tools

Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

MAKE NEWS No. 43 -- Renegade Crafters, MAKE Japan, Make a Pinhole Camera!

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Out of Pocket

Monday, August 14, 2006

Everything is the Network

Friday, August 11, 2006

Solr: Indexing XML with Lucene and REST

Thursday, August 10, 2006

WWDC News

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Windows XP File Sharing Mysteries

Monday, August 07, 2006

The Ten-Minute Firewall

Friday, August 04, 2006

Shiny New Perl.com

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