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Greeting readers,

If you didn't get an opportunity to escape your winter weather and head
to the place where there is no winter, so to speak -- San Diego, where our
ETECH conference is running this week -- you can read the
reports, news, and announcements here:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/52/news.html

Also, there is a very interesting thread on our blog pages about open
source and its role in proprietary companies, like Apple. More about
that below.

Articles

So you probably know by now that Groovy is a popular dynamic language
for the Java Virtual Machine. If you're considering giving Groovy a run,
check out what Paul King has to offer in "Using Groovy to Send Emails."
This is a quick tutorial on how to send emails from Groovy using Java libraries.

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/03/23/using-groovy-to-send-emails.html

Our second featured article, from Michael Douma, is about "PHP
Search Engine Showdown." So who doesn't like a good search experience
when visiting a site? Are you ever frustrated with the results you
receive? If you want to incorporate good search into your site with
PHP, you should start here first. Michael says that although there is no ideal
PHP search engine, Sphider and MnogoSearch are the best contenders. In general,
Sphider returns more accurate hits, and MnogoSearch is easier to set up.
Go ahead and check it out at:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/02/16/search-engine-showdown.html?page=1

Podcasts

Podcast maestro Dan Steinberg brings us a new podcast this week with
"Web 2.0 Podcast: Disruption Opportunity - Broadcast." In this podcast,
John Battelle moderates a panel about the disruption opportunity in
broadcasting. His panelists are Beth Comstock, president of Digital
Media and Marketing Development for NBC Universal; Blake Krikorian,
cofounder of Sling Media; and Jason Zajac, GM of Social Media at Yahoo!.
You can find the podcast here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2007/03/21/web-20-broadcast.html

Blogs

In the blog space, our most active post is Jeremiah Foster's polemic
piece about "Apple Failing to Understand Open Source." This is a topic
that I think is at the heart of a growing movement in our industry.
Many of the proprietary companies understand that it will be easier to
build Web 2.0 apps if they embrace more open activities, thinking, and
development. The whole software ecosystem will benefit if we can engage
the proprietary folks in an open exchange. A tipping point perhaps...
Read Jeremiah's post and the comments here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/03/apple_failing_to_understand_op.html

Hopefully, our friends at Apple are reading this too, and thinking
about how much better their company and products would be if they
engaged in more open source activities. To quote from the post, "There
is a cost for not being a good Open Source citizen and that cost is loss
of goodwill in the community. That loss is more expensive in the long
run than Apple realizes."

Our second featured blog, by Caitlyn Martin, is about "Where Fedora Went
Wrong." This is a doozy, too. Caitlyn reflects on a few of Eric
Raymond's recent postings to the Fedora developer's list and how she
sees the views/rants offered. There are plenty of good follow-up posts
that represent a variety of perspectives.

Stats

You can check out the stats in the form of tagclouds here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/widgets/organic_search_tagcloud

Ideas

We are thinking seriously about what we want to offer in the way of
content on the O'Reilly Network going forward. What do you want? More
blogs? More articles? More rich media/podcasts? More code? If you
have five minutes to jot it down, please do. We will not use your information to
contact you or litter your inbox with unwanted replies.
If you have an opinion and want to share it, send it to
ideas@oreillynet.com

Mike Hendrickson
General Manager, The O'Reilly Network

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PostgreSQL on Windows: Technical Resources from Port 25

Get help and guidance configuring PostgreSQL 8.2 on Windows
from Port 25. Important options in the postgresql.conf and
pg_hba.conf will be covered, as will database creation in
PgAdmin III. Port 25 is a Microsoft community website designed
to facilitate a deeper dialogue around the interoperability
issues surrounding Windows, Linux, UNIX and Open Source Software

Learn more at: http://www.oreilly.com/go/onlamp-port25

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