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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Call For Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2007

January 31, 2007

In this issue: Maker Faire 2007 and The Bloggies

In this special edition of the MAKE newsletter, we're announcing our Maker Faire 2007 dates and our call for entries. We're extremely excited to have two Maker Faires this year, and we hope to see you as a Maker, an attendee, or both!

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Call for Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2007

Dear Makers,

We are pleased to announced Bay Area Maker Faire 2007! Organized by the staff of MAKE and CRAFT magazines, Maker Faire is a newfangled fair that brings together science, art, craft, and engineering in a fun, energized, and exciting public forum. The aim is to inspire people of all ages to roll up their sleeves and become Makers. This family-friendly event showcases the amazing work of all kinds of makers--anyone who is embracing DIY and wants to share their accomplishments with an appreciative audience. Last year, we had 20,000 people at Maker Faire.
Maker Faire Bay Area will take place May 19-20, 2007 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. We are also adding Maker Faire Austin for October 20-21, 2007 at the Travis County Fairgrounds. This call is primarily for Maker Faire Bay Area but you can indicate if you are interested in participating in Maker Faire Austin.

We encourage you to join the fun and propose a maker exhibit, performance, or workshop. You can submit a proposal through the web using the link described below or you can come show us your work at a Maker Faire "audition" on Saturday, February 24 at TechShop in Menlo Park, Calif.

Proposals: We invite proposals for Maker workbench exhibits, workshops, presentations, and performances for the Maker Faire. We are interested in proposals from individuals as well as from groups such as hobbyist clubs and schools.
Maker Workbench: Our standard setup for Makers is a six-foot-long workbench. You can use this workbench to display your work and/or demonstrate how you make something. Some Makers don't need workbenches, typically because they have a large object or they set up outside. Please provide a short description of what you make and what you will bring to Maker Faire. Please link to photographs or videos of what you make. Let us know about any requirements you have, such as electricity, internet, ventilation, etc.
Interactive Performance: We're seeking performances that will engage and entertain the attendees and enable them to interact in a fun way. The performances may be tied to a stage or roving through the fairgrounds as a kind of street theatre. Performances could be musical or theatrical, but they could also be a collaborative building process. For example, you might work with attendees to put something large together in an hour.
Presentation: These includes audio-visual presentations intended for showing a project (or process) that cannot be brought to the Faire, or a special project that requires AV resources. These presentations are limited to 20 minutes. Please describe the topic of your presentation and what kind of media (audio/video) that you will have. As a general rule, PowerPoint presentations are not appropriate for this event unless they are unusually entertaining.
Demonstration Workshop: A demonstration workshop is a show-and-tell session on how to make something. We're looking for Makers who can demonstrate (and teach) particular skills, techniques, or processes. You should start off by explaining your materials and tools and then step-through a build process, sharing your knowledge and interacting with the audience. Sessions should be under 30 minutes in length and may be repeated on the program. Please describe the subject of your workshop and what kind of setup you need for it.
Application Form: Please go to the following URL and fill it out to apply for participation as a Maker.
http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2007/proposal/
All proposals will be reviewed and we will notify Makers of acceptance via email by March 19, 2007.

NOTE: Presenters whose talks are accepted will receive free registration to Maker Faire. We cannot pay for travel and accommodations. (We do make exceptions under some circumstances.)

If you have any questions about participating in Maker Faire, please contact Natalie Villalobos by email: info@makerfaire.com. Please let Natalie know if you plan to come to the audition at TechShop.
Key Points:

Maker Proposal Due: Midnight (PST): Feb. 27, 2007
Maker Faire Bay Area Audition: Saturday Feb. 24, 2007
Notification of Acceptance: March 19, 2006
Confirmation of Participation: April 2, 2007
Maker Faire Bay Area: May 19-20, 2007; Saturday 10-6 pm; Sunday 10-5pm.
Maker Faire Austin: October 20 & 21, 2007
Application Form: http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2007/proposal/

Commercial Exhibitors If you are a commercial maker or you work for a company that would like to exhibit at Maker Faire, please contact Sherry Huss sherry@oreilly.com.

Vote for MAKE - The 2007 Bloggies

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Monday, January 29, 2007

BSD Comes Back

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The sun is out outside, readers. This is a lovely way to end the month of
January in the Pacific Northwest. (It's amusing that North Bay
California weather calls for showers.) Though it may be too cold (or wet or foggy) to
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With the AT&T lawsuit in the early 90s, it looked like the long-lived BSD
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has watched and reported on the development of PC-BSD, a desktop
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she's interviewed some of the people responsible for the recent 1.3
release. Keep an eye on this one:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/25/inside-pc-bsd-13.html

Ruby on Rails 1.2 came out recently. It's forgivable if the noise around
that caused you to miss the release of Prototype 1.5. Prototype, of
course, is a powerful and popular JavaScript library with top-notch
JavaScript support. Scott Raymond explores the new features (what should
have been in JavaScript from the start):

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/24/whats-new-in-prototype-15.html

What motivates someone to create free software? Often it's personal utility.
That's understandable. What motivates someone to create community
documentation, however? O'Reilly editor Andy Oram invites your comments:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/why_do_you_contribute_to_commu.html

In weblogs this week, Rick Jelliffe announced that Microsoft had
approached him to edit Wikipedia. People reacted:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/01/an_interesting_offer.html

Tim O'Reilly questioned Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest policy:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/what_actually_i.html

Nitesh Dhanjani found an old prediction that Google's antiphishing Firefox
extension would be problematic:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/googles_antiphishing_extension.html

Todd Ogasawara found Vista's PowerShell nearly as capable as a Unix
command line:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/microsoft_powershell.html

Andy Oram reported on a patent reform project attempting to recruit a
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Jeremy Jones asked if the concept of "interfaces" matched Python well:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/python_wellzope_interfaces.html

Juliet Kemp documented how to enable LDAP replication with Kerberos:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/ldap_replication_with_kerberos.html

Caitlyn Martin praised the release of Xfce 4.4.0:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/xfce_440_released.html

Gregory Brown introduced the RubyForge forum:

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Rob Orsini was glad to see the release of his Rails Cookbook:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/rails_cookbook_released.html

Surj Patel argued that OpenMoko-based phones are now what the iPhone wants
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/fancy_an_open_i_1.html

Tim O'Reilly pondered one-person businesses:

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Brady Forest covered the release of Amazon's Amapedia:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/amazon_plunges_further_into_wikis_with_amapedia.html

Dale Dougherty reported on a panel discussion about feeling bad about
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/good_grief_1.html

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Friday, January 26, 2007

OOXML Wikipedia Controversy and Prototype 1.5

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Modding Apple Sample Code

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Thursday, January 25, 2007

Stripes, Effective Exceptions, and Client-Side Derby

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Has the freedom to configure become the burden of configuration? That's
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http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/01/24/java-web-development-with-stripes.html

In an article from dev2dev, Barry Ruzek makes a case for "Effective Java
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patterns that will help your design. Finally, it discusses exception
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This article will help you do that."

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You may have seen David Van Couvering at one of several recent conferences
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The concepts around synchronization are fairly straightforward once you
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possible and achievable, and can provide great value to your customers."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/01/16/synchronizing-web-client-database.html

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

Paul Browne - Java and those pesky Google APIs
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Shashank Tiwari - 1 in every 10 Java developers is learning Flex?
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Shashank Tiwari - Google Spreadsheets - for the enterprise?
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Robert Cooper - Sun Tech Days Atlanta
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Hari K. Gottipati - Is Java more efficient than Ajax for advanced web apps?
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

New Stripes, Prototype, and Open Source Windows Tools

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The theme on the O'Reilly Network for January has been frameworks,
libraries, and tools. And these topics are being read and written about
this week as well. We have Stripes from the frameworks area, Prototype from the
library angle, and an article that provides insights for using more than 170 open
source tools for Windows developers.

Did you know that there are free and open source tools, frameworks,
utilities, and widgets for Windows development? James Avery and Jim
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frameworks, such as the Enterprise Library and Mono, to tiny gadgets that do only
small tasks (but do them very well), such as Unlocker or Cropper.
Check out "The Case for Freeware and Open Source Windows Tools."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/01/19/the-case-for-freeware-and-open-source-windows-tools.html

Another open source tool you should check out is the Java framework
called Stripes. See why Mark Eagle feels that Stripes distinguishes
itself from other action-based Java Web frameworks by offering some of
the simplicity available in Rails. Check out "Java Web Development with
Stripes."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/01/24/java-web-development-with-stripes.html

And from the library angle, you should read "What's New in Prototype
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user base, beyond the Rails community-from dozens of Web 2.0
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http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/01/19/the-case-for-freeware-and-open-source-windows-tools.html

Windows Developer Tools Day

More than 30 bloggers took part in our self-proclaimed Windows Developer
Tools Day on January 19 by writing about one or more of their favorite
tools. To see what they had to say, check out the home page for "Windows
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Secure Wireless Networking with IAS and RADIUS

Perhaps the best way to secure your wireless Windows network is to use
RADIUS authentication. Chris Sanders walks you step by step through the
RADIUS setup so you'll be able to lock down your network in no time.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/01/23/secure-wireless-networking-with-ias-and-radius.html

Why Doesn't Microsoft Get Web 2.0?

IBM is bringing Web 2.0 into corporations via its new Lotus Connections
and Lotus Quickr applications. Why can't Microsoft do the same? See my
blog for details.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/why_doesnt_microsoft_get_web_2.html

OpenDocument vs. Microsoft's Office Open XML

The office documents standards war (between Microsoft and just about
everyone else) is well into a new phase, as Microsofts Office Open XML
challenges the OASIS OpenDocument format as the only ISO standard for
office documents. Why should you care? Jean Hollis Weber gives you the
lowdown.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/opendocument_vs_microsofts_off.html

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Monday, January 22, 2007

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This weekly mailing always leads off with an apology for using the name of
a very specific operating system kernel to trick you in to reading about
all sorts of free and open source projects. That's okay though. Here's
what's new this week.

The history of programming has demonstrated a gradual (if inexorable)
progress from low-level changes to higher and layered levels of abstraction.
Flexibility demands more flexibility, however. Brian McConnell recently
stopped coding due to frustration with our current models. Now he's
written about why--and what modifications to existing programming languages
(specifically Python) could make programming much more fun:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2007/01/18/why-i-stopped-coding.html

The volume of spam is going up again. If you run a mail server, this is no
surprise. A nicer surprise may be that greylisting--delaying potential
spam through standard SMTP means--can protect your users and bandwidth. Even
better, you can perform this greylisting at the firewall level, before it
even reaches your mail server. Dan Langille demonstrates how PF can slow spam:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/01/18/greylisting-with-pf.html

Ruby on Rails aims at making database-backed web sites easy to use. It
usually, but not always, produces HTML. There's no reason you can't
produce any other document format, however. Deepak Vohra shows how to produce
valid XML with the Rails library Builder. Don't type angle brackets yourself:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/01/17/making-xml-in-a-rails-app-xml-builder.html

If your colleagues (or worse, friends) have to stay put on the Windows
platform, give them a chance to explore the freedom you enjoy. James Avery
and Jim Holmes have written a short apologia for using free software on Windows.
Pass it on:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/01/19/the-case-for-freeware-and-open-source-windows-tools.html

In weblogs this week, Andy Oram pondered what's missing in online
documentation:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/online_documentation_whats_mis.html

... and suggested that redefining the calendar is easier than switching to
open document formats:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/a_most_ingenious_paradox_make.html

Tom Adelstein thought through why Microsoft administrators might need to
learn Linux System Administration:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/oreillys_linux_system_administ_1.html

Nitesh Dhanjani exposed how cross site request forgeries work:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/the_unfortunate_prevalence_of.html

Todd Ogasawara found an interview with the authors of RubyCLR:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/sam_ramji_interviews_john_lam.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_20.html

Your editor highlighted good thinking about The Big Rewrite:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/considering_the_big_rewrite.html

Shashank Tiwari wonders if Google Spreadsheets can sink Java enterprise
applications:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/google_spreadsheets_for_the_en.html

... because Paul Browne wondered if they would kill Java as a whole:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/google_spreadsheets_mean_the_e.html

Timothy M. O'Brien calls design patterns "powerful and dangerous":

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/ask_onjava_patterns_are_you_a_1.html

Daniel Steinberg wants Java on the iPhone:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/java_to_the_iphone_can_you_hea.html

Juliet Kemp found and fixed a strange localhost problem with Debian:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/debian_and_localhostlocaldomai.html

Caitlyn Martin discussed the Linux Distribution Proliferation Problem:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/so_many_distros_so_little_time.html

Nathaniel S. H. Brown explained the PHP to Ruby on Rails evolution of a
web developer:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/php_vs_ruby_on_rails_an_evolu.html

pat eyler praised all of the Ruby implementors for working together:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/lots_of_rubies_all_playing_nic.html

Gregory Brown showed how to replace multiple inheritance with mixins:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/digging_deep_mixing_it_up_or_i_1.html

That's it for this week. Go out and do good things.

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Friday, January 19, 2007

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Even more than usual, this year's Macworld announcements have been widely
covered in the media. If you don't know about the iPhone by now, you must
be living under a rock. Naturally, were covering Macworld 2007 from all
angles here on Mac DevCenter.

For a detailed report on Steve's keynote, don't miss Daniel Steinberg's
article, "Macworld 2007: 1984 All Over Again"
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/01/12/macworld-keynote-coverage.html

Daniel also recorded a podcast interview with myself and assistant Mac
DevCenter editor Chris Stone about our impressions of the keynote.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/01/16/macworld-podcast-keynote.html

Adam Goldstein searched the expo floor for interesting and innovative
products, and provides a close look at Indigo's home automation system.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/01/18/my-favorite-macworld-product-indigo.html

And our blogging crew filled in the gaps, looking at everything from the
specs of the iPhone and Apple TV devices, to the lack of computer and
developer announcements made at this year's show.
http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog

We're also featuring the second part in Matthew Russell's latest Cocoa
programming series, Building a Game Engine in Cocoa.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/01/05/building-a-game-engine-with-cocoa-part-2.html

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Thursday, January 18, 2007

Making XML in a Rails App

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Deepak Vohra shows us how to generate XML in a database-backed Rails
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Making XML in a Rails App
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Rick Jelliffe, Fake real-time blog from XML 2006: Job Bosak's closing
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While he's trying to type in gloves between sneezes, here's what's new in the
world of free and open source software.

The high quality, extensive portability, and low cost of developing devices
with an embedded Linux kernel and runtime means that there are more of these
devices around. An excellent example is the Fritzbox, an all-in-one home
network device popular in Europe. It offers DSL and VoIP, and it's also very
hackable. Guylhem Aznar dissects one of these devices to replace a huge mess
on his home network:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2007/01/11/fritzbox.html

DNS may seem like an old topic, but it's still vital and there's invention
going on around the edges. Cricket Liu surveys the state of five DNS
extensions--the Sender Policy Framework (SPF), IPv6 support, Internationalized
Domain Names, ENUM, and the DNS Security Extensions. What's new? What's
seeing progress? What has stalled? Here's the state of DNS as of early
2007:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/01/11/dns-extensions.html

For everyone who does LAMP development on Windows, installing dependencies can
be a source of immense pain. This is true even for dynamic languages.
ActiveState's ActivePerl has a useful solution: the noble PPM. Josh
Stroschein shows off what he learned about using and installing PPMs as well as
maintaining his repository. All other languages... remain jealous:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/01/11/painless-ppm.html

In weblogs this week, Jeremy Jones announced the release of Twisted
2.5.0:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/twisted_250_released.html

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_19.html

Curt Hibbs found surprising the scope and appearance of Ruby on Rails training:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/01/ruby_on_rails_training_off_the.html

Allison Randal built the open source Second Life client on Mac OS X and Ubuntu
GNU/Linux:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/building_second.html

Brady Forrest summarized the functional requirements for Firefox 3.0:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/firefox_30_requ.html

Tim O'Reilly linked to his IBM DeveloperWorks interview discussing the business
of O'Reilly (do you know our motto?):

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/developerworks.html

That sums up another week. Next week: firewall-side greylisting with OS
fingerprinting and thinking about simplifying programming in a world of small
devices.

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developers who do their work on the Windows platforms. Blog about your
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Also, O'Reilly is launching a new title, "Windows Developer Power Tools,"
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Rule engines, single-sign-on, and state management

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One of the things we try to do when editing feature articles is to make
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that's useful to many developers in many situations. That's certainly the
case with the first article on this week's ONJava, which began life as a
piece on using the Drools rule engine for mortgage underwriting
decision-making. The thing is, with that as a title and stated focus,
pretty much everyone who doesn't work in underwriting would run away. And that would be a
shame, because the point of the article is that moving your business logic
out of your classes and into a rule engine's flat files is a strategy
with much to recommend it. So while the example is still about mortgage
underwriting, the point is more about the value of using a rule engine,
and how to make it work.

As author Birali Hakizumwami writes in "Building Enterprise Services with
Drools Rule Engine," "this article goes into detail on how to architect
and build a service that uses Drools to provide business decisions. This
service can be part of the overall enterprise SOA infrastructure. As such,
it can either be a standalone service that is consumed in a one-to-many
model by all contracted consumers, or part of a composite service that
provides a complex business functionality."

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/01/17/building-enterprise-services-with-drools-rule-engine.html

Another common problem, single-sign-on, is addressed in a recent dev2dev
article by Vikrant Sawant, "Configuring Single Sign-On Using SAML In
WebLogic Server 9.2." "This tutorial provides step by step instructions
to configure the single sign-on capability between two simple Java EE Web
applications running on two different WebLogic domains. The SAML
configuration for single sign-on is performed using the WebLogic Server
9.2 Administration Console with no programming involved. The tutorial also
briefly introduces the basic interactions between WebLogic containers, the
security providers, and the security framework during the single sign-on
process."

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/12/sso-with-saml.html

In this week's feature article from java.net, Sharfudeen Ashraf offers a
solution for "Transparent State Management Using the Decorator Pattern."
"In the context of a Java EE web application, the term transparent state
management refers to a mechanism that is capable of maintaining state
across multiple requests, at the same time remaining completely invisible to the
underlying components that make use of it. [...] The article explains
where transparent state management would be useful, and discusses a
reusable solution to implement transparent state management."

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/01/04/transparent-state-management-using-decorator-pattern.html

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

Paul Browne - Google Spreadsheets mean the end of Java
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/google_spreadsheets_mean_the_e.html

Chris Adamson - Draw or Discard: A Java Media Application Considered
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/draw_or_discard_a_java_media_a.html

Daniel H. Steinberg - Java to the iPhone: Can you hear me now?
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/java_to_the_iphone_can_you_hea.html

Steve Anglin - CodeMash Conference this week
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/codemash_conference_this_week.html

Steve Anglin - Sun leads open source in Europe
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/sun_leads_open_source_in_europ.html

Robert Cooper - Notes on NetBeans Day Atlanta
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/notes_on_netbeans_day_atlanta.html

Dejan Bosanac - Java and JSON
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/java_and_json.html

Timothy M. O'Brien - Java's "Operations" Problem
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/javas_operations_problem.html

Timothy M. O'Brien - Wicket - (another) Java Web Framework: My First Impressions
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/wicket_another_java_web_framew.html

Shashank Tiwari - cafebabe?
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/cafebabe.html

Robert Cooper - 5 Things
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/01/5_things.html

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

Chris Adamson, Editor
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Build a .NET App for Google Checkout

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Symantec: We'll Fix Vista's UAC Annoyances
Good news for anyone who hates Vista's exceedingly annoying UAC prompts:
Symantec has said it will develop a Vista add-in that delivers UAC-level
security without UAC-level annoyances. Check out my blog for details.
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The Best Windows Freeware and Open Source Software
Todd Ogasawara is back with recommendations for the best free software for
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Check out Google Checkout

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and improve the overall usability of our board game by highlighting
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Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen talked with Web 2.0 Summit program chair Tim
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Monday, January 08, 2007

Pretty Pictures about Mail Servers

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Rumor has it that free and open source software made the Internet
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MailChannels recently surveyed as many public mail servers as it could
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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/01/05/fingerprinting-mail-servers.html

In the two years since its public unveiling, Ruby on Rails has created a
new category of its own. The software hasn't stood still, either. Bill
Walton and Curt Hibbs have finished revising Curt's seminal Ruby on Rails
tutorial; this week, part two of Rolling with Ruby on Rails Revisited
demonstrates how easy it still is (perhaps even easier) to start using
Ruby on Rails to build new database-backed web sites:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/01/05/revisiting-ruby-on-rails-revisited-2.html

In weblogs this week, Nitesh Dhanjani discussed the Adobe Acrobat
JavaScript security bug:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/adobe_acrobat_javascript_execu.html

brian d foy finally announces the Learning Perl Study Guide:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/learning_perl_study_guide.html

Jonathan Wellons summons shell users by asking for the contents of their
Bash history files:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/whats_in_your_bash_history.html

Tom Adelstein reveals that he's finally finished "Linux System Administration":

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/our_new_book_on_linux_administ.html

Your editor finds a nice reminder of what all free software developers
have in common:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/the_single_intersection_of_all.html

Juliet Kemp links to a Vi on Solaris cursor key fix:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/vi_on_solaris_cursor_keys.html

Caitlyn Martin revisits Linux on Atticware laptops:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/atticware_updates_more_memory.html

... and reviews Vector Linux:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/new_releasecool_canadian_distr.html

Todd Ogasawara summarizes more free and open source software for Windows:

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Gregory Brown explores Ruby's Camping framework:

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Curt Hibbs congratulates TIOBE's programming language of the year:

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Derek Sivers and CD Baby sponsor 20 developers to attend RailsConf 2007:

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Anton Chuvakin dissects log entries from a defaced website:

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Tim O'Reilly starts a debate on the features of Programming 2.0:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/programming_20.html

... and considers Asterisk an underappreciated F/OSS success:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/asterisk_an_und.html

Brady Forrest points to video from Ignite Seattle:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/ignite_seattle_2.html

Next week: the future of DNS and a look at a hackable Linux
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Considering GPS32X game programming,
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Friday, January 05, 2007

The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

To start the new year right, Simon St.Laurent -- one of my favorite XML
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particular eye toward the XQuery story, which may finally become a market
reality this year.

The XQuery Chimera Takes Center Stage
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Also worth reading this week:

Rick Jelliffe, David Orchard's Theory of Compatible Versions
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Kurt Cagle, Through a Glass Darkly: Predictions Past and Future
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Build Snippets with Code Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005

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Build Snippets with Code Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005
Want to create code snippets for Visual Studio 2005, but don't want to get
your hands dirty? Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to do it by using the Code
Snippet Editor for Visual Basic 2005, a shared source project developed by
the Visual Basic developer community.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/01/02/build-snippets-with-code-snippet-editor-for-vb-2005.html

Windows OS and Cars Shouldn't Mix
Microsoft and Ford are about to announce a new software suite for
cars--Sync, which will offer navigation, as well as the ability to talk
hands-free on your cell phone, check your email, and download music. Check
my blog for why I think this is a very bad and dangerous idea.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/windows_os_and_cars_shouldnt_m.html

The Best Windows Freeware and Open Source Software
Todd Ogasawara is back with recommendations for the best free software for
you. This week, he has a media player, a password manager, and more.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/12/freewareopen_source_for_window_5.html

O'Reilly Releases Windows Developer Power Tools
Just in time for the new year, O'Reilly has released a new and
encyclopedic guide to more than 170 free and open source tools,
components, and frameworks for Windows, ASP.NET, and .NET developers.
Written by two Microsoft MVPs, James Avery and Jim Holmes, Windows
Developer Power Tools is the most comprehensive guide ever published to
the world of tools that lies beyond Visual Studio. Contents range from
such well-known tools as Dotfuscator, TortoiseSVN, and the free Microsoft
Visual Studio Express editions to lesser-known gems such as WiX and Trac.
The tools are sorted into 23 chapters according to their role in the
development cycle, and each chapter begins with a "quick pick" list to
help readers gain an overview of what's available in a given category.
Many of the articles are written by the creators of the tools they describe.

Scott Hanselman, who maintains his own list of favorite tools at
<http://www.hanselman.com/tools>, writes in his Foreword, "James and Jim have
done a massive amount of work for us, applying their years of development
expertise and enthusiasm for great tools into the creation of [this book]."

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<http://www.larkware.com/> says, "James Avery and Jim Holmes have done
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here.... The half dozen that make their way into your daily process will
more than repay the time that it takes you to read their work."
For more information, check out <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527549/>
as well as the new Windows Developer Power Tools website maintained by the
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Goodbye 19106

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Greetings, Perl.com newsletter subscribers. Here's the latest news from
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* Perl Events

JT Smith of Plain Black will speak to the Madison, Wisconsin Perl Mongers
about his WebGUI CMS; WebGUI uses such tools as Perl, POE, and mod_perl:

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* Perl News

The Parrot team had a Bug Day on 16 December 2006. It went quite well:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/12/2115227
http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?bug_day_december_dec_16_2006

The core developers and several newcomers addressed old bugs and added a
few new features:

http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?completed_on_bug_day_16_dec_2006

The 2006 Perl Advent Calendar is still available:

http://perladvent.pm.org/

As is the 2006 Catalyst calendar:

http://www.catalystframework.org/calendar/2006/

David Landgren has summarized the weeks in Perl 5:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/07/2357206
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/15/228230

Ann Barcomb has summarized the weeks in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_13.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_14.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_15.html

Your editor has minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31845
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31963
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/31990

* Perl on ORN

Most serious databases provide bulk loader programs to insert lots and
lots of data very quickly. However, if you need to mangle and munge that
data, you might prefer doing your import in Perl as well. SQL Server
users have a good option in the form of Win32::OLE; Colin Goddard shows
how to drive a Windows service with Perl to gain the benefits of
flexibility, clarity, and speed:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/12/21/dts-imports.html

The Java language has many... peculiarities, but it also has a huge set of
standard and optional libraries. Perl's pragmatic enough to borrow when
it's appropriate. Sometimes the easiest way to get your job done is to
use Java classes from Perl. Inline::Java makes that easy. Andrew
Hanenkamp demonstrates just how easy (and a few spots where it's not so
easy but still doable):

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/12/21/using-java-classes.html

Your editor reviewed XML::Atom and, though the documentation had a few
gaps, found it very usable and useful:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/cpan_module_review_xmlatom.html

... and found Guido van Rossum's "Not Perl 6!" arguments for Python 3000 amusing:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/dear_python_3000_bdfl.html

Curtis Poe started to port 99 Problems in Lisp to Perl 6, with great success:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/99_problems_in_perl_6.html

... and wondered at the differences between integer division in popular
dynamic languages:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/silently_discarding_informatio.html

It's almost time to write "The Year in Perl",
- c
chromatic@oreilly.com
Editor, Perl.com, et cetera

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HTML::Template is a templating module for HTML made powerful by its
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Most explanations of hashes use the metaphor of a dictionary. Most
real-world code uses hashes for far different purposes. Simon Cozens
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http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/11/02/all-about-hashes.html

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Perl has a wealth of good web frameworks. One of the season's toolkits,
CGI::Application, has recently seen a bout of new development to make
building web apps faster and much easier. Mark Stosberg demonstrates these
new features and how to use them.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/10/19/cgi_application.html

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The State of the Onion 10
In Larry Wall's tenth annual State of the Onion address, he talks about
raising children and programming languages and balancing competing
tensions and irreconcilable desires.

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/09/21/onion.html

***

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

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The Glue of 2007

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Hello, subscribers to the Linux Newsletter. We hope you enjoyed any
holidays or vacations or even brief interludes of not-work over the past
fortnight. This long-delayed newsletter is the first of 2007. We plan to
continue to bring you insightful and applicable news and information
related to free and open source software.

Here's what you might have missed while visiting family, friends, or the
big blue room outside at the end of 2006.

Conventional wisdom argues that static languages will always have better
IDEs than dynamic languages, because static analysis is more complete than
dynamic analysis. (Too few people know Smalltalk.) There are good IDEs
for dynamic languages, however; ActiveState's Komodo is one of them.
Michael J. Ross evaluated Komodo 3.5 for Perl and PHP programming and
found it quite helpful and useful. Ruby, Tcl, XSLT programmers may also
find it valuable.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/12/21/komodo-35-for-dynamic-languages.html

Bulk-loading is often the fastest way to import a huge amount of data into
your database, yet if you want to process or filter that data, you need
extra steps and may not be able to use the vendor-supplied bulk loader.
SQL Server users have another option, however. A little-known service is
available through OLE automation to enable bulk loading. Colin Goddard
shows how to run this process through Perl to filter and process bulk data
and insert it at nearly full speed:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/12/21/dts-imports.html

The Java platform has a wealth of APIs and interfaces. Using them doesn't
mean writing everything in Java, however (or whatever Java flavor runs on
the JVM). Using Java APIs from more dynamic languages is fairly easy; it's
even better in Perl thanks to the Inline::Java modules. Andrew Hanenkamp
demonstrates how to wrap a full Java API to call from Perl programs:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/12/21/using-java-classes.html

In weblogs this week, Erica Sadun considers the curious case of the
disappearing iPod drives:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2006/12/disappearing_ipods.html

Steve Anglin offers his view of the winners and losers of Java Technology
in 2006:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/12/2006_java_technology_winners_a.html

Nitesh Dhanjani points to the Month of Apple Bugs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/youre_the_pc_now_mac.html

Andy Oram finds a fun bug in setting your calendar ahead to look up dates:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/fun_bug_department_the_antivir.html

Carla Schroder made a wish list of most-wanted computer things:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/01/wish_list_for_the_new_year.html

Caitlin Martin found and reported an Xfce4 crasher bug in Xubuntu Edgy:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/how_to_crash_and_break_xfce4_i.html

Your editor expressed the pragmatic concerns about using binary-only drivers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/pragmatic_questions_about_bina.html

... and pointed to a fund drive for the Nouveau open source NVidia video driver:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/12/pledging_to_fund_nouveau.html

Suzanne Axtell announced the call for participation for OSCON 2007 in
lovely downtown Portland:

http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/12/oscon_2007_call_for_participat.html

Ming Chow announced a couple of games from his game development course:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/games_from_my_game_development.html

Ann Barcomb summarized December in Perl 6 development:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_17.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_16.html

Curtis Poe started doing 99 exercises in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/12/99_problems_in_perl_6.html

Brady Forrest reported on using cabs to map cell phone coverage:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/using_cabs_to_f.html

Allison Randal proposed a technique to use market share to wedge open
drivers from manufacturers:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/binary_drivers.html

Nat Torkington reminded the Internet not to count out innovation from newspapers:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/dont_count_out.html

Nikolaj Nyholm mentioned that the open telephony company Wengo has
launched a marketplace for voice service providers:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/wengo_services.html

Marc Hedlund resurrected important privacy stories buried in the wasteland
of holiday news:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/where_news_stor.html

Rael Dornfest opened registration for the Emerging Technology conference:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/registration_is.html

Now you're up to date. Come back next week for a fascinating survey of
Internet mail servers. (Seriously; fascinating.)

Year of the Tarsier,
- c

chromatic
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

After five years of waiting, it's here!

Monday, January 29, 2007

BSD Comes Back

Friday, January 26, 2007

OOXML Wikipedia Controversy and Prototype 1.5

Modding Apple Sample Code

Thursday, January 25, 2007

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

New Stripes, Prototype, and Open Source Windows Tools

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Monday, January 22, 2007

The World's Next Programming Language

Friday, January 19, 2007

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Build a .NET App for Google Checkout

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