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My apologizes for the lack of a witty opening banter paragraph this week,
but I just spent half an hour composing a Microsoft rant (see below), so
my creative juices are spent, you'll just have to content yourself with
the informative and provocative content that cross the threshold of the
OFOW[1] this week.

Starting, as always, with articles, you had your pick of interesting
topics to choose from. You could learn about "Migrating Web-Based PHP
Applications to Ajax" from Bill Lubanovic:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/05/10/migrating-web-based-php-applications-to-ajax.html

Gregory Brown finished his two-parter on the Rails ActiveRecord
persistence framework. Look for more Rails articles from Gregory in the
near future.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/05/10/understanding-activerecord-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-heart-of-rails-pt-ii.html

Completing our trilogy of geekdom, George Belotsky had a thought and
discussion provoking essay asking if Linux distributions need to reflect
more of the industry trend toward Software as a Service.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/10/rethinking-the-linux-distribution.html

We also had the second weekly installment of ONLamp's very own webcomic,
The Watering Hole. This week, you'll get to meet some of the other
denizens of the O'Reilly back lot.

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/2007/05/whats_in_a_name_1.html

Blog, blog, blogs, blogs... So many that I'll be brief in my summaries
this week.

Nitesh Dhanjani on a pleasant dealing with Apple's Security contact:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/pleasant_experience_with_apple.html

chromatic gives a bit shout out to Linuxfest NW:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/thank_you_linuxfest_northwest.html

Andy Oram discusses the germination of a Chinese hacker community:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/creating_the_chinese_free_soft.html

The Perl Foundation has grants to give out, Curtis Poe gives a pointer to
the application.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/call_for_proposals.html

He also discusses the shortage of good Perl programmers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/the_perl_job_market_blues.html

BRAND NEW blogger Adriano Ferreira has a profile of the Textile markup
language:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/praising_textile_1.html

Andy Oram returns to talk about the influence of the OLPC project on
desktop Linux:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/global_desktop_ancillary_gifts.html

Adriano made the most of his first week blogging, with a summary of
upcoming Perl 5 changes.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/soon_a_perl_with_new_switches_1.html

Jeremy Jones talks about the Python Cheese Shop. It's a bit runny,
though...

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/python_package_index_the_chees.html

Jonathan Wellons offers a streamlined way to use Google:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/the_optimal_google_search_is_t
.html

Your Humble Editor finished out the week lambasting Microsoft for its
patent FUD maneuver.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/looks_like_microsoft_is_rampin.html

Over at LinuxDevCenter, chromatic discusses what interoperability really
means:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/two_thoughts_on_interoperabili.html

And Juliet Kemp suggests that backing up your root partition might be a
good idea.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/backups_a_note.html

Giuseppe Maxia talks about ways to hack the MySQL log tables, over in the
Databases blog:

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/05/hacking_mysql_table_logs.html

And finishing out This Week in Blogs, Gregory Brown wonders if Ruby is a
viable language to use to teach programming in schools:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/ruby_academically_viable.html

THIS WEEK: Another installment of the Watering Hole, Ryan Bagueros will
give us an article sharing his experiences running geographically
distributed software development, and Bill Walton starts a new series,
"Cookin' with Ruby on Rails."

Do you have a better format you'd like to suggest for this newsletter? We
can't use HTML/Flash/Morse code, but if you think you know a way to make
it more readable, please feel free to send it along to me. Notes telling
me the current format sucks without a constructive alternative will incur
the wrath of the Gods...

[1] ONLamp Family of Web sites

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

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