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Even though you'll be receiving this on the 2nd of April, it is being
written on the evening of the 1st. So is there an April Fool's joke in the
newsletter? Maybe there is, maybe there isn't... you'll just have to read
it all in minute detail to see, won't you?

We had two articles on somewhat similar topics appear this week, but
dealing with different technologies. For the devoted SQL junky, Stéphane
Faroult had the first of a two part series on how to emulate the analytic
functions that come with most commercial database product in MySQL. We'll
be running the second half of this series on the 12th, so keep an eye out
for it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2007/03/29/emulating-analytic-aka-ranking-functions-with-mysql.html

Meanwhile, Raju Varghese took a look at a new way to analyze your HTTP
server logs, using Gnuplot to look at trends and other data in 3-D. If
you've ever gotten mired down trying to find meaningful data in a sea of
logfile entries, this article will be of use!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/03/29/a-new-improved-visualization-for-web-server-logs.html

Before we descend into the land of blogs, here's a peek at what's coming
up this Thursday. Bill Lubanovic will give us an overview of the lightttpd
and compare it to Apache, while Mulyadi Santosa will shed some light on
what those optimization flags in gcc really do to the resultant assembler,
as well as looking at some of the other useful gcc options.

We start the week with a passel of Port 25 blogs, Matt Asay started off by
looking at the failure of MSN to grab any significant share in the online
advertising market.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/microsoft_tough_slog_online.html

Todd Ogasawara suggests that open source and proprietary software need to
learn to get along, and respect each other's strengths and weaknesses.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/cathedral_bazaar_maybe_a_simpl.html

Mr. Asay came back with his own take on the Cathedral versus Bazaar
analogy's continued validity.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/is_microsoft_the_cathedral_is.html

Continuing his salute to GNU/Linux system utilities, chromatic offers
words of thanks to "find."

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/thank_you_gnu_find.html

It's always good news when the bad guys get a new exploit tool to attack
our helpless systems with, right? Nitesh Dhanjani let us know that
Metasploit has a new version out.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/point_click_root_metasploit_fr.html

By Tuesday, Matt Asay was back with more on Microsoft, looking at an
article from BusinessWeek and Microsoft's ability to remain agile in the
face of new challengers.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/finding_microsofts_soul_in_sea.html

Jeremy Jones served up a heaping portion of Python sorting operations
using closures, cooked using the Recipe of the Week.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/recipe_of_the_week_sorting_wit.html

On Wednesday, chromatic gave us his take on the TAP::Parse CPAN module,
intended to replace Test::Harness.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/cpan_module_review_tapparser.html

How's your eyesight? Mike Hendrickson give us quite an eye chart in his
blog this week, looking at a comparison of book market share between the
various programming languages (hint, right-click it and do "view image").
Any shock that Ruby is one of the big gainers?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/language_dimensionsdementia.html

chromatic finished out his week by discussing how to make agile
programming work in widely geographically distributed teams.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/distributed_agility.html

Rounding out our weekly Tour de Blog, Ann Barcomb dipped into the Perl 6
mailing list, and came up with all the golden nuggets for us.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_27.html

So, did you find the April Fool's joke? No? Sure you looked really hard?
Well there wasn't one, bwahahaha. I made you read the whole newsletter!
April Fools!

Yah, it's lame, but I've only been on the job three weeks, and it take
time to work up a really good prank. I pledge to do better for 4/1/08!

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com

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