Monday, March 12, 2007
Four Point Five
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Greetings, readers. This is the weekly newsletter, which your editor has
written every week without fail (except for one or two vacations where he
convinced another editor to sit in) for the past four and a half years.
It's your editor's great pleasure to announce that James Turner has
accepted the free and open source software editorial position for the O'Reilly
Network; you may remember him from all sorts of places in the Linux and F/OSS
world including Linux Planet.
Please give him all of the support and feedback you've given me over the
past half-decade.
(For the curious, I've accepted a new position within O'Reilly researching
and promoting F/OSS; expect much more writing and development from me.)
With that out of the way, now on to the world of F/OSS on ORN this week!
PyCon 2007 is over, and the hard work of summarizing the previous year in
Python with it. Now it's time to look to the future. What's new, what
existing projects are gaining in popularity and features, and what's going
on with Python 3000? Jeremy Jones, our resident Python expert, gives his
thoughts and sat down with BDFL Guido van Rossum to discuss the upcoming
year in Python:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2007/03/08/pycon-2007-wrapup.html
If you've discussed so-called "Enterprise Software" lately and you weren't
on a battleship, you've probably heard about SOA. It's not only the province
of super-expensive partially-working consultant code; it's something that
the Apache Software Foundation can support too. Kyle Gabhart gives SOA a
second look in the context of working free software:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/03/07/enterprise-soa-apache-way.html
FUSE is one Linux project that may not have happened anywhere else--who
would have thought of writing filesystems in userspace outside of F/OSS? Like
most good ideas, it's made its way to proprietary platforms as well. Scott
Knaster demonstrates MacFUSE by writing his own file system for Mac OS X:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/06/macfuse-new-frontiers-in-file-systems.html
In weblogs this week, brian d foy released The Perl Review Spring 2007
issue (try to find the description of a new feature your editor added to Perl 5.9.x):
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/the_perl_review_spring_2007.html
Andy Oram announced a new job for ORN author whurley:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/bmcs_open_source_architect.html
Matt Asay postulated the existence of intellectual property 2.0:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/intellectual_property_20.html
Nitesh Dhanjani considered the recent Tor attacks as strengthening the
protocol:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/circumventing_yet_strengthenin.html
Todd Ogasawara wondered if a central organization can organize and manage
failure data for F/OSS projects:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/no_central_organization_to_col.html
Your editor used the meaningless FizzBuzz example to explore the Parrot
virtual machine:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/testing_fizzbuzz_in_parrot.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/fizzbuzz_in_parrot_part_two.html
... and warned against making a cult of perpetual novices:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/the_cult_of_the_perpetual_novi.html
Juliet Kemp noticed and fixed an ssh login slowdown:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/ssh_with_gssapi_or_public_keys.html
Jeremiah Foster encouraged Mark Shuttleworth to consider the hardware
business:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/open_letter_to_mark_shuttlewor.html
Gregory Brown automated Ruby gem fetching:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/when_you_just_need_a_bunch_of.html
Jim Alateras revealed interesting gems (not that kind) on Rails menus:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/navigational_menus.html
Brady Foster shared a five-minute video on power consumption:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/5_minutes_on_power.html
Tim O'Reilly rethought the Semantic Web after seeing organic ontologies:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/different_appro_1.html
... and commented on the Distributed Proofreaders project:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/distributed_pro.html
Dale Dougherty found the idea of owning personal air space compelling:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/this_is_my_spac.html
Next week: James takes over!
Starting research in three-two-one,
- c
chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network
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