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2007-06-13T16:59:00.000-07:00

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Implementing and Understanding DHCP

Setting up DHCP on tens, hundreds, and even thousands of computers can be
daunting. Chris Sanders shows how to do it easily with Windows Server
2003.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/06/12/implementing-and-understanding-dhcp.html

Is the Fix In for Microsoft at the Bush White House?
Microsoft may be getting preferential treatment from the Bush
administration's Department of Justice because one of the department's key
lawyers was a top antitrust lawyer for the firm that represented Microsoft
in the lengthy antitrust suit a few years ago. Read my blog for details.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/06/is_the_fix_in_for_microsoft_at_3.html

Hello, Windows-based Safari!
M. David Peterson has the goods about the beta of Apple's Safari browser
as it runs on Windows, including a screenshot.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/06/hello_windowsbased_safari.html

See you next week,

Preston Gralla, editor
WindowsDevCenter.com
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Linux Newsletter

2007-06-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

LINUX NEWS FROM O'REILLY NETWORK
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The Latest from http://www.linuxdevcenter.com and http://ONLamp.com

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Hard to believe we're already halfway through June, schools are getting out,
and the New Hampshire State Bird (the mosquito) can be seen in the air. As
you laze on the beach with your laptop and your 3G Internet connection, rest
assured that there will be plenty of content from the OFOW* to keep you
informed, unless a big wave comes....

Last week, we continued our commitment to covering Ruby and Ruby on Rails,
because we know there's a ton of interest in it at the moment. Gregory
Brown, one of our two Rails gurus, took a look at the built-in frameworks
for testing in an article entitled "Rails Testing: Not Just For the Paranoid."

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/06/07/rails-testing-not-just-for-the-paranoid.html

We don't neglect our old favorites, however, and we had a nice article
looking at how to implement Single Sign-On in Jifty (Perl), courtesy of
first-time ONLamp author Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/31/cas-single-sign-on-with-jifty.html

This week at The Watering Hole, bickering between the inhabitants takes a
back seat to worrying about a new threat, in The Day of the (Side-Striped)
Jackal.

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/2007/06/the_jackal_menace.html

Blogs, blogs, everywhere there's blogs. The latest victim of chromatic's
lauditory showering is our old friend grep:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/thank_you_grep_1.html

Adriano Ferreira tutors us on YAML for Java.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/yaml_for_java_1.html

Jonathan Wellons discusses how NOT to run an online political poll.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/forced_votes_how_to_ruin_your.html

Code Generation is not Metaprogramming, says chromatic. You can either take
his word for it, or read the blog and find out why.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/code_generation_is_not_metapro.html

Andy Oram directs us to O'Reilly author Sam Hiser's analysis of OOXML (the
Microsoft competitor to ODF), and why it doesn't cut it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/summary_of_opendocument_founda.html

Jonathan Wellons pities da fool who still writes his own authentication.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/the_future_of_auth_commoditize.html

chromatic likes some comments from Mozilla about keeping F/OSS projects healthy.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/wisdom_from_mozilla_on_healthy.html

And Andy Oram reports on Lowell, Massachusetts, a new hotbed of open source
adoption.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/lowell_massachusetts_greets_op.html

In the Linux DevCenter, Juliet Kemp talks about some gotchas with g77
include files. Yes, people still use Fortran....

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/06/g77_include_files.html

Jeremy McAnnally likes Gregory Brown's Ruby Project Spotlight, so he's
starting one for Rails. No word if there will be a lawsuit over theft of
intellectual property.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/06/starting_a_new_rails_project_s.html

Mr. Brown, meanwhile, ponders why if Ruby is so hot, there aren't any jobs
for Ruby programmers.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/06/why_are_there_no_ruby_jobs.html

Some mysterious guy named GSoC Proxy announced the latest Google Summer of
Code project, Geocode/R.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/06/gsoc_announcing_geocoder.html

And David Fayram says that with multicore processors the new reality in
computing, we need to ask how to make Ruby play nice.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/06/gsoc_announcing_geocoder.html

Niel M. Bornstein's essay on how to deal with machine identities in a data
center with dynamic IP addresses completes the blog roundup for the week.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/06/identity_in_the_dynamic_data_c.html

What's on tap for next week? Well, I know what was *scheduled* to run, but
since I don't have either article in hand at the moment, it may be a bit of
a potluck week. Authors, can't live with them, can't replace them with
Turing machines. Hey wait, I'm an author, too.... So check the web site on
Thursday--who knows what may be turning up there?!

* ONLamp Family of Websites, dontcha know?

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
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Perl Newsletter

2007-06-08T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Good localtime(), @perl_newsletter_subscribers. (If that doesn't make
sense to you, this isn't the Precious Gems Newsletter.) Here's what
happened in the previous fortnight of Perl.

* Perl News

Parrot's next Bug Day will be 16 June 2007. Join the Parrot hackers in
#parrot on irc.perl.org as they finish the object subsystem, add new
features to the Perl 6 implementation, and fix bugs, port to new
platforms, and help you contribute to the project.

The Perl Foundation has announced its call for venue for YAPC::NA 2008.
This means, in practical terms, that if you want to host a few hundred
Perl programmers in your city or town, you can!

http://news.perl-foundation.org/2007/05/call_for_venueyapcna2008.html

Josh McAdams and Perlcast have returned. The newest episode is a chat with
Curtis "Ovid" Poe, the hardest working Portland expat in London. The
topic? Perl testing, of course:

http://perlcast.com/audio/Perlcast_Interview_042.mp3

If you haven't seen Austin Seipp's Dive into Perl 6 yet, your editor
recommends this new weblog for its "I'm a competent programmer just
getting started with Perl 6" approach:

http://diveintoperl6.blogspot.com

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/07/0742259
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33463

* Perl at O'Reilly

Perl programmers rarely have to worry about memory management. Perl's
built-in garbage collection takes most of the pain away from managing
resources. Of course, there are limitations--but a clever technique called
"Resource Acquisition Is Initialization" not only solves those problems
but makes other features even easier. Igor Gariev demonstrates RAII in
Perl and shows how it can simplify your code:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/06/07/better-code-through-destruction.html

Hate remembering login names and passwords? Single-sign on helps you
manage identity across multiple sites. Sounds complicated, right? (If
you've ever built an SSO system, you know that it is.) Don't worry; there
are nice tools. Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp shows how to use Jifty and
Yale's Central Authentication Service to build a SSO system:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/31/cas-single-sign-on-with-jifty.html

Your editor loves the perldoc utility, but tried a local web-based version
of Perl documentation through Pod::POM::Web. The results--especially after
a quick bugfix--are quite useful:

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

Dave Cross, another brilliant Perl programmer in the U.K., recently led a
free Teach-in at the BBC in London. It was a success. Here are his own words:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/perl_teachin.html

Adriano Ferreira skims the Perl 6 mailing lists for interesting tidbits.
This week, he found a tasty tidbit on the naming of certain Perl data
structures:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/tasty_hashes.html

Your editor also compared the number of assertions in Perl, Python, and
Ruby's core test suites as just a simple point of data:

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

Finally, what happens when your camel has to testify before Congress?
Someone else might muscle in on her territory:

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Didn't see that one coming, did you?
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XML.com Newsletter

2007-06-08T15:31:00.000-07:00

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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Kurt Cagle begins a new column for XML.com; first up, he
argues, rather persuasively, that XQuery has a future as a server-side
programming language for XML-centric applications.

This is an interesting suggestion, since XQuery has become a
full-blown programming language, not just a query language for XML
data, in which XML and XML fragments are first-class entities. That
suggests that, if your project or data is XML-centric, XQuery should
at least be on the server-side language radar.

It also suggests two other possibilities: first, XQuery is too late to make
much, if any, difference to XML's future; second, XQuery might cause a
resurgence of interest in and use of XML in application development.

XQuery, the Server Language

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/06/01/xquery-the-server-language.html

The Weekly Tab Sweep
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Paul Vixie tours the complexities of DNS:

http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=481&page=1

JoCaml is OCaml extended with the join calculus:

http://jocaml.inria.fr/

If OCaml's syntax weren't so damn grotty (well, to my Pythoneer's
eyes, anyway), I'd use it a lot more often.

I want a WiFi Slurper:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/30/wifi_slurper_grabs_u.html

Theo Jansen builds very cool kinetic sculpture:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Jansen

Which reminds me that if I had to live somewhere other than the US,
I'd probably choose the Netherlands, where it seems that everyone
speaks English, works hard, and is terribly smart and liberal. Every time
I've been there, it just seems like such a godawfully civilized place.

Final Destination: Why do the archives of so many great writers end up in
Texas?

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/06/11/070611fa_fact_max

Well, land and real estate *is* awfully cheap there, especially
compared to either coast. I've been looking for just about a year for
the perfect office space in Washington, DC, and if my company were in
Austin or Dallas or Houston, I'd have found it in about 12
minutes... -sigh-

Kendall Clark, kendall@xml.com
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Open Directory and Keyboard Shortcuts for your AppleScripts

2007-06-08T15:01:00.000-07:00

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Dear readers,

This week on Mac DevCenter we're featuring an enlightening
introduction to Apple's powerful directory server, Open Directory,
and an in-depth tutorial on how to use keyboard shortcuts with
AppleScript. And with WWDC right around the corner, you can bet the
MacDevCenter bloggers are talking it up and making their predictions
for what Steve might reveal at next week's keynote in San Francisco.

Open Directory is one of Apple's best-kept secrets. Get the real
scoop on Open Directory, and learn how to configure a very basic Open
Directory system and set up an OS X Open Directory client, in Noah
Gift's "Discover the Power of Open Directory."

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/01/discover-the-power-of-open-directory.html

AppleScript automation is one of OS X's most useful features, and it
can be made even better with the use of keyboard shortcuts. Jochen
Wolters examines three ways to assign a keyboard shortcut to an
AppleScript, and digs in to FastScripts and Quicksilver in this
detailed tutorial.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/08/hit-and-run-launching-applescripts-with-keyboard-shortcuts.html

The Mac DevCenter bloggers are busy getting ready for WWDC. Drop on
by our blogs to read their predictions and add your own to the mix:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/

Bruce Stewart
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Windows DevCenter Newsletter

2007-06-06T15:41:00.000-07:00

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Developing Visual Studio Project Wizards

The real power of Visual Studio project templates becomes evident when
they are combined with Visual Studio wizards. Jim Petrusha shows you the
best way to create them:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/06/06/developing-visual-studio-project-wizards.html

Microsoft Backs Municipal Wi-Fi

In the fight over whether towns and cities should be allowed to have their
own Wi-Fi networks, Microsoft has clearly come down on the pro side. Check
out my blog for details:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/06/microsoft_backs_municipal_wifi_1.html

Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary

Todd Ogasawara is back with his weekly roundup of great free Windows
software. This week he looks at a great calculator and the latest version
of the great open source sound editor Audacity, among others:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/freewareopen_source_for_window_27.html

And The #1 Reason Why Silverlight Rocks...

M. David Peterson tells you all the reasons you need Silverlight. His blog
has the answers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/06/and_the_1_reason_why_silverlig.html

See you next week,

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Open Directory, Haskell, semaphores, and Bacula

2007-06-05T16:59:00.000-07:00

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Greetings Readers,

Our first Ignite Boston was a success with more than 200 people
gathered for the four-hour event. You can get PDFs of the presentations
here: http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog. Please keep your ears open for our
second Ignite Boston, which is tentatively scheduled for September 6. We
will be looking for a larger and more acoustic-friendly venue. Our
Managing Editor, Marlowe Shaeffer, did a fantastic job of organizing the
event. Follow these links to see what folks thought and view photos:

-- http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/igniteboston/
-- http://codeitch.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/ignite-boston-loved-the-format
-- http://slagwerks.com/blog/?p=26
-- http://prog.livejournal.com/751416.html
-- http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=553
-- http://offonatangent.blogspot.com/2007/06/halley-clarence-and-chris.html

There are some interesting reads to be found on the O'Reilly network
this week, including...

Articles
Open Directory may be one of Apple's best-kept secrets. In "Discover
the Power of Open Directory," Noah Gift shows how easy it is to use, set up,
and administer an Open Directory Network. Stay tuned to this
page--Noah has two more articles still to come in this three-part
series. If you are interested to see how Open Directory can be used in
both massive corporate installations and small home setups while
managing a heterogeneous environments consisting of Windows, Linux, and
OS X clients, start reading now and check back for the rest of the series.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/01/discover-the-power-of-open-directory.html

Adam Turoff makes a bold statement in "An Introduction to Haskell, Part
1: Why Haskell" when he states "if you are a professional programmer,
then Haskell is in your future." So, hearing that, what are you waiting
for? Find out what influences Haskell has on Java, C#, C++, Perl, Python,
and Ruby developers:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html

The idea of a Unix semaphore has been around for 20 some years, at
least. See how this old, trusted, simple mechanism helps in
synchronizing multithreaded and multiprocess-based applications. In
"Semaphores in Linux," Vikram Shukla takes you through one of the most
important aspects of interprocess communications--Linux semaphores.
You can find it here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2007/05/24/semaphores-in-linux.html

Blogs
Juliet Kemp's blog on "Backups again - Bacula" caught my eye for a
couple of reasons. First, Bacula is a cool name for back-up solution.
Second, if you've ever lost a filesystem, you know the importance
of a good tool and process built around it. Check out what she has to
say here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/backups_again_bacula.html?ref=most_discussed

M. David Peterson caught my eye with a subject that I have strong
opinions about--"On DRM and Watermarking." I think he
makes a cogent point when he prods us to back off of extreme reactions.
Think about it. Apple and EMI are doing something groundbreaking and
let's not overreact. Check out what others are saying here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/06/on_drm_and_watermarking.html?ref=most_discussed

Stats
As part of our continued effort to understand the impact of the
availability of free downloads on book sales, Tim O'Reilly shared some
data on downloads versus sales of our book "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony," by
Leif Madsen, Jared Smith, and Jim Van Meggelen. We released the book as
a free download under a Creative Commons license. Check out Tim's post
here: http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/06/free_downloads.html

You may also be interested in seeing what folks are searching for on the
O'Reilly Network. You can find this by subject area here:

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

Comments
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Linux Newsletter

2007-06-04T15:01:00.000-07:00

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Greetings all. We had our first official presidential primary debate of the
2008 season tonight here in the Granite State, a full seven months before the
New Hampshire Primary is currently scheduled (assuming another state doesn't
move theirs up, in which case we could be voting at Halloween the way things
are going...). While you can argue who won the debate, there's no debating
that it was another good week here on the OFOW*

Federico Biancuzzi had an informative and somewhat scary interview with
Joseph Kong, a BSD rootkit savant. If you weren't looking at your hard
drive with suspicion by the end of the article, you should be...

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/31/defending-against-rootkits-under-bsd.html

On a less dangerous note, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp told us about CAS+, a
toolkit for developing Single Sign-On solutions under the Jifty web
framework. SSO is a must-have in enterprise applications, so it's worth a
read.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/31/cas-single-sign-on-with-jifty.html

Over at the Watering Hole, Pearl learned that sometimes it's better to let a
case of mistaken identity stand.

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/2007/05/out_of_the_frying_pan_1.html

Of course, there were blogs as well. chromatic, always a busy beaver,
started the week with another tool salute, this time to Vim. He continued
on with another blog, expressing his worry at what he sees as a lack of
automated tests in the base Ruby package.

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

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

Chris Tyler dropped a line about the demise of the "Core" part of Fedora Core
under the new Fedora 7 release.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/fedora_7_core_no_more_1.html

If you've ever wondered why we call hashes hashes, Adriano Ferreira pointed
out a recent discussion of the same topic on the Perl mailing list.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/tasty_hashes.html

Nitesh Dhanjani took a look at the security implications of Google Gears,
the new toolkit designed to let browser applications run offline.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/google_gears_initial_thoughts.html

You may remember that a few weeks ago, Dave Cross let us know about an
upcoming Perl teach-in at the BBC. Well, it happened, and he has a report
right here.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/06/perl_teachin.html

Over on the DevCenter blog, chromatic took a look at some Parrot code with
Callgrind, and didn't like what he saw.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/gnome_218_for_vector_linux_58.html

Caitlyn Martin reported the addition of GNOME 2.18 support to the Vector
Linux 5.8 package.

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

How do the Microsoft Permissive License and the Apache 2.0 license compare
when looking at patents? Well, chromatic took a look...

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/05/patents_mspl_and_the_apache_20.html

Looking for a good backup solution? Juliet Kemp likes Bacula, and tells us why.

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

There are two blogs of note over on the Database side of the force, both by Roland
Bouman, and both about offline database support. First he looked at Google
Gears, and then he wondered about offline support under MySQL.

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/post_1.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/06/what_mysql_can_do_to_enter_the.html

Suppose you had to track down the sender of an email? Where would you look?
Probably at the logfiles, and Anton Chuvakin takes a look at one way to use
them.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/05/antons_security_tip_of_the_wee_2.html

It was a quiet week on the Ruby blog (come on folks, let's make some noise out
there). Gregory Brown is looking for innovative Ruby projects to highlight in a
new "Ruby Project Spotlight" series he wants to start. Read the details and drop
him a line.

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

I have no idea who the 2008 candidates will be, but I do know what's coming
up next week. Swayam Prakasha will take a look at how to optimize Linux
system performance, and Gregory Brown will tell us why Rails testing isn't
just for the paranoid. A new and dire threat confronts the inhabitants of
The Watering Hole, and Blogs Will Be Written.

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2007-05-30T15:01:00.000-07:00

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Microsoft Surface: Not Coming to a Home Near You

Much of the criticism of the new Microsoft Surface computing table is
misguided, for one simple reason: It's intended to be used in commercial
settings, not at home. For more details, read my blog:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/microsoft_surface_not_coming_t.html

A PC On Every Desktop? The Desktop *Is* The PC

M. David Peterson has his own thoughts about Microsoft Surface. Read what
his blog has to say--and see pics as well:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/a_pc_on_every_desktop_th.html

Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary

Todd Ogasawara is back with his weekly roundup of the best of Windows
freebies. Among his winners this week, free antivirus software for Windows
Vista:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/freewareopen_source_for_window_26.html

Using the Cryptography APIs in .NET

The .NET framework contains a number of cryptography services that allow
you to incorporate security services into your .NET applications. In this
article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use some of the common security
APIs to make your .NET applications more secure:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/22/using-the-cryptography-apis-in-net.html

Ignite Boston!

The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10pm at
Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. From 6-7pm, mingle and
talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater
Boston area. Join a MAKE challenge team and participate in building
bridges (how much weight can your bridge–-made from less than 1K popsicle
sticks-–support?) After that, there will be a special keynote address from
author Scott Berkun ("The Myths of Innovation"; "The Art of Project
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Haskell, Flex, and semaphores, oh my!

2007-05-29T17:59:00.000-07:00

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A happy Memorial Day Weekend to all of you living in the U.S.! Of course,
you won't be getting this until Tuesday, so it's more of a "I hope you had
a good Memorial Day Weekend," but time is relative, right?

Everyone, be sure to come to Ignite Boston this Thursday. It doesn't
matter if you live in Kyoto, I'm going to expect every one of you to
attend, and I'll be taking names. There Will Be Consequences!

http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/

If you're not in the states, but instead an inhabitant of the Continent,
you might want to check out the upcoming GNOME Users' And Developers'
European Conference.

http://guadec.org/

On to our roundup of the past seven days of fun and frolic on the OFOW.*

We begin with an introduction to functional programming, by way of the
Haskell programming language. If you've only had experience with
imperative programming languages (or if you don't even know what an
imperative programming language is), you owe it to yourself to check out
Adam Turoff's gentle guide.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html

Flex is Adobe's answer to the platform-independent deployment environment
question. But although the client-side may be handled using Flex, the
backend still needs to be developed in a traditional environment. Jack
Herrington uses a fictional YouTube clone as a way to demonstrate how PHP
can serve as a server-side counterpart to Flex.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/05/24/creating-mytube-with-flex-and-php.html

Finally, you may have learned semaphores years ago, or may have managed to
go your entire career without ever having to use one. But even if you're a
semaphore pro, a good refresher can't hurt. Vikram Shukla has a pretty
comprehensive guide, including a comparison of POSIX and System V style
semaphores.

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2007/05/24/semaphores-in-linux.html

Spencer Critchley led off the week in blogs with a pointer to a new book
that provides a lot of missing information for Drupal users:

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

Andy Oram looked at how Splunk is mashing up its data to help sysadmins.

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

How do you keep geeks in your organization? Nitesh Dhanjani had some
thoughts on the subject:

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

chromatic looks at coherence as an oft-overlooked feature of modern
DBMSi:

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

Jeremy Jones continued his reporting on the rewriting of the podgrapher
utility.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/rewriting_podgrabber_part_2_1.html

Your humble narrator had some thoughts on Dell's move to offer
Linux-preinstalled systems.

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

Mr. Jones returned with a pointer to some pithy PyCon podcast (your
tongue-twister of the week)

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

chromatic had two in a row, first mentioning that Microsoft is looking for
an open source guru, and then reviewing the CPAN Pod::POM::Web module.

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

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

Over in DevCenter, Carla Schroder shared her experiences and frustrations
with getting Linux to print.

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

Juliet Kemp discussed how to automount removable devices under Debian:

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

And in the spirit of the three female Indy drivers this week, Caitlyn
Martin completed our all woman DevCenter blogfest with some information on
the Feisty Fawn release of Xubuntu.

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

In databaseland, Roland Bouman debunked a common myth about the GROUP_BY
clause:

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

Brian K. Jones shares his path to sysadminosity over in the SysAdmin
blogs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/05/how_did_you_become_an_admin.html

We end this week in the Ruby Blogs, where Daniel Berger laments the lack
of bind parameters in ActiveRecord:

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

And finally, Gregory Brown starts his Summer of Code reportage with a look
at RubyLand.

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

Over at The Watering Hole, the melee is over, but Pearl is still in hot
water.

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Looking forward, always forward, never backward, we've got two articles
upcoming this week. Federico Biancuzzi has another in his series of BSD
interviews, this time looking at Rootkits. And Andrew Hanenkamp, tells us
about a single sign-on solution for Jifty called CAS+. And over in the
Watering Hole, things go from bad to worse for Pearl as she testifies
before Congress.

Until next time, remember that no matter where you go, there you are,
unless you're time-traveling, in which case there you were.

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Refreshed Unix Tips and Mac Development in the UK

2007-05-25T16:01:00.000-07:00

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This week on Mac DevCenter Brian Jepson updates an "oldie but goodie"
article on Unix tips for OS X, Giles Turnbull interviews a group of
independent Mac developers in the UK, and our bloggers provide their
usual insightful and humorous coverage of the latest Mac news and events.

If you're going to be anywhere near Boston next Thursday evening,
you'll definitely want to check out our first Ignite Boston event.
Here's your chance to mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs,
alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. Scott Berkun
(author of "The Myths of Innovation" and "The Art of Project
Management") will give the keynote, followed by other interesting
speakers talking about the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in
technology today. During intermissions, get a cold beer and chat with
speakers, sponsors, and O'Reilly's own editors. Ignite Boston will be
held on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10pm at Tommy Doyle's in Harvard
Square, Cambridge, MA.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog

From starting up to shutting down, there are big differences between
Mac OS X and Unix machines. Brian Jepson, coauthor of "Mac OS X for
Unix Geeks" offers 10 tips he gathered while working on the book. If
you're a Unix geek moving to Mac OS X, these tips will help smooth
the way. We noticed that this five year-old article continues to get
a lot of attention, so we recently asked Brian Jepson to update the
sections that have become dated. Here's his update.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/macforunix.html

Giles Turnbull interviews a group of UK-based indie developers to ask
them a little about their lives, how they stay in touch with Apple,
and why international exchange rates make such a difference to them.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/05/24/indie-mac-development-in-the-uk.html

The Mac DevCenter blogs have covered a wide range of topics this
week. From the latest gadgets to Apple improving support for
developing on OS X in languages other than Objective-C with projects
like BridgeSupport, our crew of expert bloggers are discussing the
issues that matter to Mac developers. Drop by and let us know what you think.

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog

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ONJava Newsletter

2007-05-25T15:31:00.000-07:00

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Hello again readers,

It has been a busy few weeks for conference attendance--first
JavaOne, then O'Reilly's RailsConf...and next week is the first
Ignite Boston conference. If you are into tech and anywhere near the
area, you owe it to yourself to check it out. Mike Hendrickson has a
blog entry on the conference and its contents:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/

OnJava has a couple of new articles up since our last newsletter;
first, at JavaOne I had a chance to interview Bob Brewin, Sun's CTO.
We talked about the announcements of JavaFX Script, the new
streamlined "consumer" JVM, and some other neat stuff from JavaOne:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/10/an-interview-with-robert-brewin.html

Marcin Maciukiewicz and Daniel Owsianski contributed this article
about using the Lucene Query Parser without using all of Lucene; they
write an adapter to provide sophisticated search capabilities with an
existing database through Hibernate. If you have a legacy database
for which you need better search capability, this article is for you:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/24/using-the-lucene-query-parser-without-lucene.html

Over at Java.net, there is an interesting presentation by Geert Bevin
about continuations with RIFE and TerraCotta. Continuations are a
method of simplifying state management in web applications that are
used in frameworks like SeaSide. It is exciting to see their use in
the Java space:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/05/25/j1-2k7-mT03.html

Java.net is also featuring this article by Sangeetha S. and
Subrahmanya S. V. on the use of Annotations in the Java EE 5.0
platform. The use of annotations to represent concepts best
described by declarative programming really simplifies development
for the Java EE platform.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/05/22/using-annotations-in-java-ee-5.html

Over at BEA's Dev2Dev is this article by Emmanuel Proulx introducing
the SIP API for Java ME. SIP is the standard connection protocol for
mobile carriers; if you want to learn to write connected Java apps
for the huge market of mobile devices, this intro should get you started.

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2007/05/sip-javame.html

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

The UI wars just started - yet again! - Shashank Tiwari
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/the_ui_wars_just_started_yet_a.html

Sun: Finally Updating the BugParade, Looking for New Infrastructure - Tim O'Brien
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/sun_finally_updating_the_bugpa.html

JavaFX: Sun isn't sure about the license - Tim O'Brien
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/javafx_sun_isnt_sure_about_the.html

Maven 2 and Checkstyle - Gerald Nunn
http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/gnunn/archive/2007/05/maven_2_and_che.html

BEA's Virtualization Demo at JavaOne - Arvind Jain
http://dev2dev.bea.com/blog/arvindjain/archive/2007/05/beas_virtualization_demo_at_ja_1.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/

In the opening, I mentioned that I was just at RailsConf.... So why
would the editor of a Java newsletter be at a conference promoting a
web framework for another language? Rails is one of the most exciting
things I (as a Java developer) have seen in quite some time, and
the possibilities with JRuby make it a legitimate player in our
space. JRuby is going to be a major player in all of our futures.

If you are a Java developer, there are compelling reasons to learn
about Rails--if nothing else, you can rapidly prototype web
applications that you intend to write in the framework of your
choice. From an educational standpoint, it is interesting to see new
ideas and how they are influencing the evolution of Java frameworks.

If you are a Ruby/Rails developer, the ability to deploy your
application on the Java platform gives you features like real
threading support, internationalization and localization, and a huge
amount of library code to draw from. And the ability to deploy Rails
apps as a standard WAR file will open doors that Rails otherwise
couldn't get into.

The future of Java is the platform; give me my tried-and-true Java
syntax, give me another great syntax with Groovy, give me some
domain-specific languages (like Java FX Script for building rich apps), and
give me access to all the great stuff happening in languages like
Ruby and Python, and give me the ability to use it all together so I
can solve a problem with the tool that fits the best.

Many languages, many operating systems, common platform. What an
exciting future that will be.

Please join us again next week.

David Bock
Editor, ONJava.com

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2007-05-25T15:01:00.000-07:00

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Here's what's new this fortnight.

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Parrot 0.4.12 escaped. This version has a pun in the title, a literary
quote in the release announcement, and is faster and uses less memory. If
you're not careful, you might have to port your favorite language to
Parrot this summer. (As of a few minutes ago, the development version of
Parrot is even faster still.)

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/24/1812230

OSCON 2007 registration is open:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/register.html

Gnat is particular pleased with the schedule:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/whats_new_with_1.html

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33302
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33346

* Perl at O'Reilly

Perl has a history of copious and useful documentation--not just of core
modules, but of the best CPAN modules as well. Yet even the venerable
perldoc utility is not the only way to read, or browse, documentation.
The Pod::POM::Web module provides a different way to find information
about the modules you have installed. Here's how it works:

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

Perl 5.10 is on its way, especially now that pumpking Rafael Garcia-Suarez
has returned from his honeymoon (congratulations!). Why is this release
important? Besides fixing plenty of bugs and including several
performance improvements, it has a wide list of new features. Adriano
Ferreira discusses good reasons to help get a shiny new Perl out the door:

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

...but Adriano is not content to let Perl 5 get all the attention. Recent
(and recurring) debates over readability and maintainability made their
way to the Perl 6 language mailing list. The focus was, get this, on the
use of semicolons:

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

Your editor jumped into the fray as well, only to rephrase his favorite
law of maintainable programming: don't hire monkeys. This time, he
wonders if certain programming languages force people to write bad code:

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

...and then poked the "I writed a DSL!!" kids with a stick:

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

* Other Interesting Tidbits

Jimmy Gutterman asks if you work better when you work for free:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/do_you_work_bet.html

Tim O'Reilly announced a Real World Haskell book:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/real_world_hask.html

Mike Hendrickson analyzed the entire computer book market in Q1 2007, related
to programming languages (buy more Perl books):

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html

Nitesh Dhanjani wondered how to retain smart people in your organization:

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

Now back to hacking Parrot to make Perl 6 even better,
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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

O'Reilly in Cambridge, MA, is getting behind Ignite Boston, which is
a techie event where people give five-minute pitches about some
innovative or up-and-coming technology. This event includes a talk
about innovation myths by Scott Berkun.

Good stuff if you're in the area. Details:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog

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An Introduction to Haskell
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html

Reducing User Interface Friction
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000866.html

In my day job we're starting a new project with text classification
requirements. The state-of-the-art is the Support Vector Machine
algorithm, and I found two very interesting libraries:

LIBSVM
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm

SVM Light
http://svmlight.joachims.org

I give the early nod to LIBSVM because of its language bindings,
including Python.

I'm increasingly drawn to explore various SVN alternatives; flavor o'
the week is git:

http://git.or.cz

I'm *not* generally interested in the GTD or personal productivity
stuff. I got through three degrees without being personally organized, so
I figure I'm doing good enough.

Then I founded and started managing a software company; holy crap, now
I'm *so* disorganized! :>

Since I prefer low-tech solutions, I started carrying a date book for
the first time in my life. That's pretty good.

But I need a bit more, so I'm using Org mode in Emacs these days, and
I really love it; I'm not doing the Full GTD Monty, as described here:

http://members.optusnet.com.au/~charles57/GTD/orgmode.html

But I like that it's extensible to that level of nuttiness, if I
have to become that nutty.

As always, thanks for reading! And happy Memorial Day!

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Half of 2007 is almost here and gone

2007-05-23T16:59:00.000-07:00

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Greetings readers,

Can you believe how quickly this year is flying by? We are a little
less than 40 days away from being half way through the year. Have you
kept all those resolutions you made in January? Did you teach yourself
something new this year? Hopefully we have some content that can help
you tackle whatever you have planned for the second half of 2007.

Next week we are having our first Ignite Boston event in Cambridge, MA.
You can find out more about the May 31st event at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/.

Another event you should be aware of is our Tools of Change (TOC)
Conference. If you are involved at all with content, media or
publishing of any kind, you should check out our TOC Conference being
held June 18-20 in San Jose, CA. Take a look at the keynotes, speakers
list, and tutorials here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/toc.

The speakers presenting at this conference are amazing. Be sure you
catch Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) speak about "Free Culture and the
Future of Publishing." If you would like to attend, please reference
this code and receive our special O'Reilly Network Member discount of
40% off: toc07orn

>Articles
In our first recommended article for the week, we have a very
interesting piece on "Cookin' with Ruby on Rails" by Bill Walton. Go
check out how Bill shows you a quick way to build Rails apps with
planning, migrations, and unit tests.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/05/17/cookin-with-ruby-on-rails---may.html

So if you are a programmer and you target the .NET platform with any of
your applications, you need to read Wei-Meng Lee's article "Using the
Cryptography APIs in .NET." It will give you insight into how to use some of
the most common security APIs. Read it and start making your .NET apps more secure today:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/22/using-the-cryptography-apis-in-net.html

In today's development environments, there are more geographically
distributed teams trying to build software together. Geographically distributed development (GDD)
offers a number of rewards as well as challenges. Check out "Tools for
Geographically Distributed Software Development" by Ryan Bagueros and see what technologies
and tools you can use to get significant gains out of GDD, within the context of
the challenges posed by GDD. Check it out here:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/17/tools-for-geographically-distributed-software-development.html

>Blogs
The top blogs for the moment are found here http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs

and include two posts on JavaFX and two posts by chromatic that are thought-provoking.
Go check them out and get into the discussions by offering your thoughts in the comment
sections. If you want to kick the tires of JavaFX, you need to read
Timothy M. O'Brien's post on "JavaFX: First Steps - "Hello OnJava" App."

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/javafx_first_steps_hello_onjav_1.html

>Stats
The final post in my four part series on the State of the Computer Book
Market was posted and now lives here. It contains links to the other three as well:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html

You may also be interested in seeing what folks are searching for on the
O'Reilly Network. You can find it by subject area here:

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

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2007-05-23T14:59:00.000-07:00

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Using the Cryptography APIs in .NET
The .NET framework contains a number of cryptography services that allow
you to incorporate security services into your .NET applications. In this
article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use some of the common security
APIs to make your .NET applications more secure.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/22/using-the-cryptography-apis-in-net.html

Ignite Boston!
The first Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 31, from 6 to 10pm at
Tommy Doyle's in Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA. From 6-7pm, mingle and
talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater
Boston area. Join a MAKE challenge team and participate in building
bridges (how much weight can your bridge--made from less than 1,000
popsicle sticks--support?). After that, there will be a special keynote
address from author Scott Berkun ("The Myths of Innovation" and "The Art
of Project Management"). Then onto guest speakers who'll catch you up on
the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today. During
intermissions, get a cold beer and chat with speakers, sponsors, and
O'Reilly's own editors.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog

Silverlight Will Sell A Lot of Macs
Well-known O'Reilly author Jesse Liberty came back from Mix, and
immediately bought a Mac, installed Windows on it using Parallels, then
formed a new company to do consulting for Silverlight. Get more info in
his blog.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/silverlight_will_sell_a_lot_of.html

Mashups for the Rest of Us
Mashup fans: You don't need to know how to write a line of code if you
want to create your own, customized mashup. Check out my blog for
details.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/mashups_for_the_rest_of_us.html

Microsoft Developers Ponder the ALT.NET Credo
Is the growing availability of open source, free, and third-party tools,
as well as the passion of their users, finally getting the attention of
.NET developers? Or to ask the question differently, can any .NET
developer these days afford to ignore a solution like Rails or a tool like
NHibernate? For answers to these and more questions, read O'Reilly editor
John Osborn's blog.
http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/microsoft_developers_ponder_th.html

See you next week,
Preston Gralla, Editor
WindowsDevCenter.com
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Linux Newsletter

2007-05-21T15:59:00.001-07:00

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True parenthood is standing out in the pouring rain watching your kid play
lacrosse. True geekdom is doing that in the morning, editing ONLamp
articles all day, and writing this thing late Sunday night. To quote a
certain Dr. Smith, "Oh, the pain, the pain..."

But we spare no expense here at the Linux Newsletter. Vestal Virgins
hand-pick the bits from our lavish bit-fields to make up the characters
that go into our articles and blogs. So here without further adieu, the
week that was.

Ryan Bagueros has spent a lot of time managing software projects with team
members scattered around the world. He distilled the wisdom he's gathered
into a dandy article titled "Tools for Geographically Distributed Software
Development."

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/17/tools-for-geographically-distributed-software-development.html

Bill Walton, meanwhile, began a new series that builds off his previous
"Rolling with Rails" efforts. Time to dig out your pots and pans and do
some "Cookin' with Ruby on Rails. " The first subject on the menu,
migrations.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/05/17/cookin-with-ruby-on-rails---may.html

Week three of "The Watering Hole" came out. You'll laugh, you'll cry,
you'll see last week's newsletter under the comic! Jokes with animals, new
every Thursday!

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog

chromatic stared us off blogwise with a salute to NoScript, one of his
favorite FireFox plugins.

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

Adriano Ferreira gave an excerpt of an interesting thread in the Perl
world right now. Just why *do* lines end with semicolons?

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

Is any programming language truly immune from bad coding practices? Well,
chromatic sez there's no such beast.

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

Mike Hendrickson announces the upcoming Ignite! Boston. I'll be there,
giving a hopefully inflammatory talk titled "Less is More--Why the World
Doesn't Need Your Idea." Come throw tomatoes.

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

chromatic, who evidently never sleeps, announces the latest release of
Parrot.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/parrot_0412_of_the_caribbean_r.html

He also provided a handy checklist to determine if you've got a DSL or an
API on your hands.

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

Rounding out the ONLamp blogs, Jeremy Jones discusses how he rewrote the
Python-based podgrabber package.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/rewriting_podgrabber_part_1.html

Anton Chuvakin is mad, mad I say. He claims that anyone who has ever
bought software must be.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/05/are_you_mad_are_we_all.html

Over in Rubyland, Gregory Brown announced the 1.0 release of Rupurt, his
pride and joy.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/post_1.html

Curt Hibbs gives a pointer to a YouTube video that gives the Apple/PC ads
a Ruby/Java spin.

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

Finally, Mr. Brown returned at week's end to announce that the Google
Summer of Code will be reported on our own Ruby blog. Can't wait to see
what gets cooked up!

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

Also, there's an event you should be aware of: the O'Reilly Tools of Change
(TOC) Conference. If you are involved at all with content, media or publishing of some kind, you should check out the TOC Conference being held June 18-20 in San Jose, CA. Take a look at the keynotes, speakers list, and tutorials here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/toc.

The speakers presenting at this conference are amazing. Be sure you
catch Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) speak about "Free Culture and the Future of Publishing." If you would like to attend, please reference this code and receive a special O'Reilly Network Member discount of 40% off: toc07orn

Upcoming this week (Lord willing and the dam don't burst), an in-depth
examination of Semaphores from Vikram Shulka, an introduction to the
Haskell programming language from Adam Turoff, and a look at integrating
Adobe's Flex with PHP from Jack Herrington. Plus, a new comic and blogs a
plenty. Right here at the OFOW*.

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XML object parsers and more

2007-05-21T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week's issue features the second part of our series on XML parser
performance, which is focused on XML object parsers.

XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 2

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/05/16/xml-parser-benchmarks-part-2.html

Also, there's an event you should be aware of: O'Reilly's Tools of Change
(TOC) Conference. If you are involved at all with content, media or
publishing of some kind, you should check out the TOC Conference being
held June 18-20 in San Jose, CA. Take a look at the keynotes, speakers
list, and tutorials here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/toc. The speakers
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catch Jimmy Wales (of Wikipedia fame) speak about "Free Culture and the
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The Weekly Tab Sweep
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I initially thought that I wanted an iPhone, since my primary need for
a new cellphone is one that will sync *easily* with my Mac mini and
Powerbook. But now I'm not so sure...maybe I want one of these
instead:

http://www.helio.com/page?p=devices_heat#devices_ocean

I stole some good ideas from this recently:

http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element

FWIW, I think the Wufoo interface may be the best one I've ever seen
in a web app.

If you work in any technical field, this will come in handy:

Field Guide to the Loner: The Real Insiders

http://www.psychologytoday.com/rss/pto-20070320-000001.html

I'm something of a Linda and TupleSpaces devotee; hence PyLinda
(http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~aw/pylinda) is probably worth a look.

As always, thanks for reading!

Kendall Clark, kendall@xml.com
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Windows DevCenter Newsletter

2007-05-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Managing Printing in Your .NET Application
The .NET Framework makes it easy to support printing. In this article,
Wei-Meng Lee shows you the basics of printing in .NET 2.0, including how
to configure page setup, print multiple pages, preview a document before
it is printed, as well as let users select a printer to which to print.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/15/managing-printing-in-your-net-application.html

Microsoft's Mistake with Windows Home Server
I've been using the beta of Microsoft's Windows Home Server, and I'm a
fan. But Microsoft is making one big mistake with it: it won't sell the
software to people like you and me. See my blog for details.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/microsofts_mistake_with_window.html

Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary
Todd Ogasawara has this week's roundup of freeware for Windows. On tap: an
open source utility for reading Mac OS X drives, a set of well-designed
icons, and more.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/freewareopen_source_for_window_24.html

See you next week,
Preston Gralla, editor
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Joost, JavaFX, and Tools of Change

2007-05-15T16:59:00.000-07:00

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editions, and provoke discussion at her presentation at the
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Greetings readers,

I would like to begin by inviting all New Englanders (or anyone in the
area) to our first Ignite Boston event in Cambridge, MA on May 31st.
You can find out more about the event at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/

You can also sign up to present something new or interesting to your
local contemporaries.

Another event you should be aware of is our Tools of Change (TOC) Conference.
If you are at all involved with content, media, or publishing of some kind,
you should check out the TOC Conference, which is being held June 18-20 in San Jose, CA.
Take a look at the keynotes, speakers list, and tutorials:

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/toc/

The speakers presenting at this conference are amazing. Be sure you
catch Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia fame, speak about "Free Culture and the
Future of Publishing." If you would like to attend, please reference
this code and receive our special O'Reilly Network Member discount of
40% off: toc07orn

>Articles
In our first recommended article we have another Perl 6 piece. Hmm...
the increase of Perl 6 articles in the last couple of months must mean
that that we are getting closer to the Perl 6 release. Grab the prototype
implementation of Perl 6 (called Pugs), read Jonathan Scott Duff's article
on "Everyday Perl 6," and dig into Perl 6 now. The article provides an introduction to the changes in Perl 6 and shows how these changes are good and useful:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/05/10/everyday-perl-6.html

In our second article, OnJava Editor David Bock interviews Sun's CTO
Robert Brewin, who is strategically involved in, if not outright
responsible for, some of the major announcements from Sun, including the
open sourcing of the JDK, embracing scripting languages like Ruby,
and most recently JavaFX Script and the JavaFX Mobile platform.
In "An Interview with Robert Brewin," Dave asks some thought-provoking questions
that elicit interesting and insightful answers from Brewin. Check out the interview here:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/10/an-interview-with-robert-brewin.html

>Blogs
On the blog front, I finally decided to find out what Erica Sadun's
"Joost

Invites" was all about. So I got an invite and installed Joost. I think
it's a very cool TV application running on your Mac or PC. If you look
at our current top 10 blogs, you'll find three Ruby posts,
two about Joost, and two Java FX blogs.

So, for a blog that isn't product-oriented, but has real content, you've
got to check out James Turner's piece on "Looks like Microsoft is ramping
up for Son of SCO." This is a great read if you can parse through the
numerous bleep characters (*) James uses to keep his post PG-13. Read it, enjoy it!

You can find all the top blogs here: http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/

>Stats
So, the four-part series I am publishing on the O'Reilly Radar is almost
complete. I have one more release coming this week on programming
languages. I have been in technical publishing/training for more than
20 years now and one thing that is clear to me is that when you ask
developers which programming language is the best, most useful, or
easiest to learn you'll get almost as many different answers as the
number people you ask. Stay tuned for the new post this week as I cut
to the facts, not the emotion or zeal found with discussing programming
languages. The first three "State of the Computer Book Market" posts can
be found here:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_6.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_7.html
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_8.html

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Migrating PHP to Ajax, Rails ActiveRecord, and distributing Linux as SaaS

2007-05-14T15:59:00.000-07:00

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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
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Building Custom iQuiz Data and Using AppleScript with Python

2007-05-11T16:31:00.000-07:00

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This week Mac DevCenter has new articles on customizing Apple's iQuiz
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walks us through creating custom data sets for iQuiz so you can
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AppleScript and appscript with Python to combine the power of Python
scripting with the high-level OS X features of AppleScript. And our
bloggers mix things up with coverage of the latest Mac news and events.

iQuiz is a brand new, flashy iPod game from Apple that allows users
to create custom games and run them using the iQuiz interface. In
this tutorial, Erica Sadun shows how to create custom iQuiz files and
provides sample code and files.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/30/building-custom-iquiz-data.html

Noah Gift introduces the major concepts behind using AppleScript with
Python and provides some fun working examples in this hands-on article.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/05/08/using-python-and-applescript-to-get-the-most-out-of-your-mac.html

The Mac DevCenter blogs have covered a wide range of topics this
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XML parser performance and more

2007-05-11T15:59:00.001-07:00

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

Back in the day, XML parser performance was a hot topic. Before that,
I can recall how important parser implementation effort was. The first
sales pitch I can remember hearing about XML, well before it was made
a standard, was that someone other than James Clark should be able to
implement an XML parser. In fact, the claim was more that a competent
CS undergraduate student could implement one.

Today it's not so much that that's wrong as that it's just...odd.

But we do still have to care--for some kinds of application--about
XML parser performance, and since that scene changes more often than
we cover it, it's about time for an update.

This week we start a two-part series on XML parser performance. Check
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XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/05/09/xml-parser-benchmarks-part-1.html

XML.com Weblogs
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Rick Jelliffe, Design Tips for Interchanging Forms
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/design_tips_for_interchanging.html

Keith Fahlgren, DocBook Elements in the Wild
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/05/docbook_elements_in_the_wild.html

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DocBook in the Wild: A Look at Newer Content
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/05/docbook_elements_in_the_wild_a.html

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Not much this week since the power company decided to deprive us of
electricity overnight--in the middle of the big city!

Insanely cool:
http://hacketyhack.net

Perhaps even cooler:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spime

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What should we buy? Replies to kendall@xml.com greatly
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Practical Perl 6 for Perl 5 Programmers

2007-05-11T15:59:00.000-07:00

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With your free subscription, you get a free newsletter sent straight to
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* Perl News

The theme for YAPC::Europe is "Social Perl". If you have something to say about
this, submit your proposals now! Hackathon proposals are due on Sunday May 13.
Papers are due before the end of the month:

http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfh.html
http://vienna.yapceurope.org/ye2007/cfp.html

The Perl QA wiki (perl-qa@perl.org) has moved, thanks to Andy Armstrong and his
anti-spam measures:

http://perl-qa.hexten.net

Bob Free (who you should remember from the most recent Perl Lightning Articles) has announced
a new site for Perl and OpenGL developers. Don't worry; you don't have to solve matrix
transformations in your sleep (or even know what that means) to participate and use Perl to make pretty 3D graphics:

http://www.opengl.org/news/comments/graphcomp_launches_pogl_perl_opengl_developer_site_today/

If you're in the London area, there's a free Perl Training session led by veteran Perl guru Dave Cross on June 2, 2007. Unfortunately, it's full. Fortunately, more demand will make it more likely that this will happen again!

http://london.pm.org/teach-in

The Nordic Perl Workshop has gathered material for its talks:

http://conferences.yapceurope.org/npw2007/wiki?node=Talks

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33245
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33246

* Perl at O'Reilly

The previous link indicates that the work of various Perl 6 implementations
has started to converge, from various little Perl 6-like languages living in
various states in the Pugs tree to the Perl 6 implementation on Parrot.
With that in mind, Jonathan Scott Duff started to explore the practical
aspects of Perl 6 that you can use right now through the Pugs implementation.
Here's how everyday Perl 5 concepts translate into clearer and more powerful Perl 6 code:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/05/10/everyday-perl-6.html

The BBC sponsored the free Perl training mentioned earlier. Here are the words from Dave Cross himself:

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

Why did the Beeb do this? Like many other companies in London, they're having trouble
hiring high quality Perl hackers. Curtis Poe, an American goth in London, analyzed the
situation and why the problem came about:

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

Your editor found a face-slapper in one of our books:

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

... then revealed that some people in the Python world wanted Perl 6 Roles in
Python 3000:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/traitsroles_in_python_3000.html

James Turner launched a comic strip featuring, among other animals,
A Very Familiar Camel:

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

That wraps it up for this week. Remember, though--you can use everything in Scott Duff's Perl 6 article right now!

Now back to hacking Parrot to make Perl 6 even better,
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Our take on MIX 07 and more

2007-05-10T15:59:00.000-07:00

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MIX 07: Wrapping Up and Returning to Earth

O'Reilly editor John Osborn spent an intense 72 hours at MIX 07, and has a
lot to tell you about the event. Check out his blog for the highlights and
to see what the future holds for you--especially when it comes to
Silverlight.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/mix_07_wrapping_up_and_returni_1.html

Windows Live Hotmail: Still Not as Good as Gmail

Microsoft's revamped Web-based mail service is an improvement over
previous incarnations. But as I explain in my blog, Gmail is still far
superior.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/windows_live_hotmail_still_not.html

Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup

Todd Ogasawara is back with the weekly news about Windows Mobile. Up this
week: how to use a great Windows Mobile Pocket PC feature called Word
Completion, as well as plenty of other tips and news.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_35.html

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Teeny Tiny Solar Robots & Maker Faire!

2007-05-09T18:09:00.000-07:00

Teeny Tiny Solar Robots & Maker Faire!

May 9, 2007

In this issue: Create Teeny Tiny Solar Robots plus Maker Faire Is Almost Here!

Couple things this week, friends, and first up is our latest video. Learn how to make little, teeny, tiny robots called beambots that are powered by the sun! We also make a beambot from a kit. Kits are always a good way to break into a genre of making. We have a sponsor (Microchip), so if you're inclined, check them out -- it helps MAKE make things!

Next up, Maker Faire is almost here -- crazy! Check out our Maker Faire section AND the Maker Faire site for all the latest and greatest.

We'd like to thank our sponsors, media sponsors, and exhibitors. Here are just some of the folks you'll see at Maker Faire in addition to over 200 makers and a lot of surprises!

Sponsors:
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The next time you hear from us will be from Maker Faire, wooo!

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mp4|mov|hd-appletv|3gp|3g2|itunes This weekend, make little teeny tiny robots called beambots that are powered by the sun! In the podcast, I made the solar-roller, and the instructions for that are right in the PDF! I also made a beambot from a kit. Kits are always a good way to break into a genre of making. Both solarbotics.com and pagermotors.com have some nice kits for you to get started, including the one that I bought. If you get into it, make sure to pick up JunkBots, Bugbots, and Bots on Wheels, a book worth reading if you get into making little teeny tiny robots! One of the great things about these little bots is that you can make them from scavenged materials. Use parts from broken electronics and bring them back to life as little robots! This week we're excited to welcome Microchip as a sponsor of the weekend video podcast. You can check out the clickable ad at end of today's video and companion PDF. Help support MAKE and visit our sponsor Microchip! Here's the link at the end of the video - Link Here's the link at the end of the PDF - Link Get the podcast and PDF downloaded automatically in iTunes. - Link

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Reminders, Puffy, and Java FX

2007-05-08T16:01:00.000-07:00

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Each spring as the foliage and blossoms return, we have a visual indicator
that reminds us that summer is just around the corner. But who or what reminds you
about what you might have forgotten to administer with your computers?

In our first article, Tom Adelstein discusses a few things that
System Administrators seem to forget. Tom puts together a list of what
he and his colleagues have decided are the "Top 7 Things System
Administrators Forget to Do." Check out what you may be forgetting:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/05/03/the-top-7-things-sysadmins-forget-to-do.html

Our second article takes the form of an interview with several
developers in "OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again" by Federico Biancuzzi.
You probably know that OpenBSD 4.1 has just been released. But do
you know about all the new features for networking, active porting
efforts (landisk and UltraSPARC III), work on SMP, and the improvements
in spam fighting? Check it out here:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html

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Blogs

The blog with the most traffic this week is "Ruby and Women," by Gregory
Brown in Opinion. I think it is pretty self-explanatory. You can find
it here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/05/ruby_and_women.html?ref=most_discussed

Another one not to miss is "The World of Junk Patents Implodes," by Rick
Jelliffe in Opinion. Rick is on to something here, and you should find
out what it is. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/05/the_world_of_junk_patents_impl.html?ref=most_discussed

In case you haven't heard of anther RIA scripting language/extension,
check out the blog on Java FX. You can find it here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/java_fx.html

Stats

The first of a three-part (plus an additional post) on the State of the
Computer Book market was posted on Monday. You can find it on our Radar
site at:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_6.html

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Good morrow, gentles. Prithee, doest thou require news of the day, of that
most wonderful of operating systems which doth bear the sign of the
flightless Antarctic bird? Wouldst thou know what hath transpired for yon
these seven days, of the written comments of our most insightful bloggers?
Then hearken, for this be your weekly Linux Newsletter.

First off, news so big I can't leave it 'til the end of the newsletter.
You've heard about it, you've gotten sick of me promising it would be
coming Any Time Now. And now, it is here, a day you will want to remember
so that you can tell your grandchildren about it. Yes, ring the church
bells and let the doves fly, the comic strip has launched!

Ok, maybe it's not world peace, but it is a new weekly webcomic that we
hope will at least mildly entertain you (this, I'm told, is called
lowering expectations...) Check out the first episode of "The Watering
Hole," titled "The Savannas of Sebastopol." If you don't find it
enjoyable, simple returned the unused portion for a full refund. New
strips every Thursday!

http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/

Meanwhile, despite this earth-shaking news, life proceeded apace on the
ONLamp Family of Web sites (OFOW). Two new articles this week, the first
of which is Federico Biancuzzi's latest pre-released OpenBSD interview, a
series he's well know for. This time around, it's the 4.1 release
approaching, and Frederico made sure to ask all the right questions of all
the right developers.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html

Zachary Kessin took a more reflective attitude, at least as far as PHP
goes. His article, "Code As Data: Reflection in PHP," shows how you can
use the relatively new reflection functionality in PHP to, among other
things, produce automated unit tests.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/04/26/code-as-data-reflection-in-php.html

In blog-land, O'Reilly editor Andy Oram is looking for some people who
have prepared and filed actual patent applications.

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

chromatic suggested that it's time to break the perceived connection
between math and computer science, a position I've held for a long time.

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

Short but sweet, Jonathan Wellons ponders a trend he's seen, geeks working
out. Is the skinny, pasty-faced developer a thing of the past?

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

Dave Cross reports that free Perl training will be available in London on
June 2nd.

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

chromatic returns to talk about the idea of replacing abstract base
classes in Python with traits and roles.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/05/traitsroles_in_python_3000.html

Over in DevCenter, Caitlyn Martin mentions rx320, a package for Linux that
lets you tune a shortwave radio.

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

Juliet Kemp offers some pointers on what can go wrong with Linux sound,
and how to fix it.

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

chromatic, the man of a thousand blogs, questions the wisdom of porting
Microsoft's Silverlight to Linux.

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

Finally, Brian K. Jones takes some time to consider why books targeted at
system administrators may be on the way out. His idea? Sysadmins are
becoming coders.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/sys_admins_books_and_trending.html

In the coming week, we have the following articles coming up. Gregory
Brown will complete his two-part tour of the Rails persistence layer,
"Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails."
George Belotsky will be "Rethinking the Linux Distribution," and Bill
Lubanovic will show us how to doll up an application in "A Web Makeover
with jQuery."

Until then, enjoy the spring while it lasts, and did I mention we have a
new comic strip?

James Turner
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ONJava Newsletter

2007-05-07T14:01:00.000-07:00

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JavaOne is upon us! Expect to see some great updates from the show at the
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http://www.onjava.com

Articles of interest to Java developers:

Timothy O'Brien sat down with Tim Bray last week for this interview. Tim
and Tim discuss Atom (the syndication format and publishing protocol),
JRuby, and Sun:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/03/interview-with-tim-bray-atom-jruby-and-the-ecumenical-sun.html

At JavaOne this year, there will certainly be a buzz at the Java.net
community booth; there are more than 20 mini-talks scheduled by community
members. In this podcast, Chris Adamson has compiled some of the best
talks from last year. Talks from this year will also be available as a
podcast feed:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/05/03/pre-j1-2k7-2006best.html

In this podcast, Daniel Steinberg reports on the Sun Tech Days in Brazil,
and interviews Bruno and Lucas, project owners of the Marge Project.
Marge is a Java Bluetooth Framework that helps you create
Bluetooth-enabled applications:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/05/01/mobileandembedded-podcast2.html

In this article at BEA's dev-2-dev, Andy Piper, Eric Hsiao, Rod Johnson,
and Chris Wall discuss Spring 2.0.1 and BEA WebLogic Server 9.2 Integration:

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2007/04/spring-2-weblogic-server-9-integration.html

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

Shashank Tiwari - Beyond the beginner's books - Adobe Flex & Java
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/beyond_the_beginners_books_ado.html

Tim O'Brien - Acegi OpenID, Wicket Roadmap
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/blogroll_acegi_openid_wicket_r.html

Dejan Bosanac - Scripting and asynchronous messaging
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/scripting_and_asynchronous_mes.html

Krishna Srinivasan - EJB 3.0 and WebServices
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/ejb_30_and_webservices.html

Tim O'Brien - Stack It: ohloh.net
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/stack_it_ohlohnet.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog

I'm excited to be going to JavaOne this year. If you're interested in
writing an article for O'Reilly, come by our booth and hunt me down. I'll
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2007-05-02T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Greeting readers,

This week we have some blogs that you've got to read. In case you missed
it last week, James Turner's piece on "The Virtues of Monoculture" is a
good read with lots of comments. Check it out--it's our most visited and
commented on article for the second week.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture.html

Articles

In our first recommended article, "Why Do ASP.NET Programmers Need to
Learn CSS?" by Dan Hurwitz and Jesse Liberty, the authors discuss how most
ASP programmers have historically generated the elements of a web page but
not layout, design or display elements. By learning a bit of CSS,
developers can put themselves ahead of the rest of the pack and deliver
better looking web apps. Find out what they think here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/01/why-doaspnet-programmers-need-to-learn-css.html

In our second recommended article, Ron Aitchison talks about a crucial
piece of software that handles receiving every email, accessing a web
page, making a VoIP call, or completing many other web/Internet tasks--the
DNS. In his article, "Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS," you'll
start thinking about the things you can do to make sure your DNS is in
good shape and not causing problems for the rest of the Internet, which,
by the way, also includes you. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html

Blogs

On the blog front, we have "Repartitioning on the fly, and disk space
for /" by Juliet Kemp, which discusses partitioning strategies for
partitioning and space requirements. Check out what she has to say here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/repartitioning_on_the_fly_and.html

The next blog is really two blogs in one. Preston Gralla blogged on
"Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop" and followed it up with
"More Reasons Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop." Check out why
he thinks that there are too many Linux distributions and other factors
that make it difficult or impossible for Linux to overtake Windows. Start
here and you will get a link to the other blog as well:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/more_reasons_why_linux_will_ne_3.html

Other

James Turner is starting a new feature (actually a couple more are on the
way too) with "The ONLamp Ombudsman Wants YOU." Let him know what you want here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_onlamp_ombudsman_wants_you.html

Stats

We have created a tag cloud to show some organic search terms, which means
it is driven by keywords people type into search engines like Google. So,
while these terms reflect what we have to offer as much as they reflect
what people a looking for, they still provide some insight into what
people are looking for online. Here's the link:
http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/widgets/organic_search_tagcloud/

Oh, yeah. The title of this newsletter is CSS, DNS, and RSS but I've only
talked about the first two. Did you know that all of our content is
available in RSS? I read all the blogs in my Thunderbird and never have to
leave the comfort of my email client. To subscribe, you can use the bottom
of the left nav bar on the main O'Reilly Network page and click there, or
click this: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/31. I suggest going to the
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2007-05-02T14:01:00.000-07:00

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Why Do ASP.NET Programmers Need to Learn CSS?

ASP.NET has not been great at controlling the layout of elements on a web
page. Dan Hurwitz and Jesse Liberty show you how to gain precise control
over presentation with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). They argue that
programmers who embrace CSS as their own, rather than thinking of it as an
esoteric skill of designers, place themselves ahead of the pack.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/01/why-doaspnet-programmers-need-to-learn-css.html

Is Vista More Secure than Mac OS X?

Smug Mac lovers who point to Windows vulnerabilities now have something to
worry about: A top security researcher claims that Windows Vista is more
secure than Mac OS X. Check out my blog for details:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/is_vista_more_secure_than_mac_1.html

MIX 07: Two O'Reilly Publications for the Show

Just in time for MIX 07, we've released two new online publications that
should appeal to attendees and those who plan to listen in on MIX sessions
over the Web.

"Getting Started with Silverlight" is written by Microsoft MVP and
Silverlight insider Shawn Wildermuth and provides a succinct introduction
to one of the technologies that will be in the spotlight all week at MIX:

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510688/?CMP=ilc-home1&ATT=9780596510688/

We also figure that this is a good time to unveil the Rough Cuts Edition
of "Programming ASP.NET AJAX" by ASP.NET MVP and JavaScript guru Christian Wenz:

http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596514242

Windows Vista Doesn't Run Any of My Software! Oh, Really?

Todd Ogasawara wants to know which of your programs won't work with Vista:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/05/windows_vista_doesnt_run_any_o.html

See you next week,
Preston Gralla, Editor
WindowsDevCenter.com
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Linux Newsletter

2007-04-30T14:31:00.000-07:00

LINUX NEWS FROM O'REILLY NETWORK
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Good evening Mister and Missus Open Source, and all the ships at sea. This
is your plucky Linux reporter, bringing all the news of the day (or at
least all of it that happened in the ONLamp Family of Websites.) We begin
our panorama of stories with three fast-breaking articles in the news
this week.

DATELINE: Washington. The House Committee on irresponsible network
administrators opened a hearing today into lax DNS practices. Those
testifying could have used a look at Ron Aitchison's article on "Five Basic
Mistakes Not to Make in DNS." From making sure to reverse-map your private
address space to checking your domain for lame delegation, this article can
serve as a model to domains everywhere!

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html

DATELINE: India. Noted Yogi Iama Opensourcefantatic demonstrates his
amazing abilities of meditation and self-reflection. He credits Zachary
Kessin's article, "Code As Data: Reflection in PHP" with his supernatural
abilities. Kessin shows how to use the reflection capabilities of PHP 5 and
beyond to create automated test suites.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/04/26/code-as-data-reflection-in-php.html

DATELINE: Chicago. A rare total eclipse of the sun distracts patrons at
this museum opening of priceless gemstones. Deepak Vohra is inspired by the
event to write "Ruby on Rails Meets Eclipse." Vohra takes the reader on an
in-depth walkthrough of how to install the RDT and RadRails toolkits on the
Eclipse IDE.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/04/26/ruby-on-rails-meets-eclipse.html

OK, I've official exhausted my abilities to channel Walter Winchell, and now
return you to your regularly scheduled newsletter. Your humble editor
managed to ignite a bit of controversy this week with an ONLamp blog entry
that offered a possible reason that the Microsoft development platform
continues to be so popular. Is more choice a bad thing?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture.html

Staying with ONLamp, chromatic picked Wifi-Radar as his app-of-the-week in
his continuing "Thank You" series.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/thank_you_wifiradar.html

Apart from raising hackles with my monoculture essay, I also saw an
encouraging sign for desktop Linux during a local trip to a CompUSA to buy a
new laptop. Details in:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/two_signs_of_the_time_1.html

One of the benefits of being a leading technology publisher is that
O'Reilly gets the inside dope on trends in geek book buying. Mike Hendrickson
crunched the numbers, and doesn't like the way that system administration
seems to be heading:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/where_are_the_sys_admins.html

Jeremy Jones gives a useful pointer to where a growing library of audio and
video from PyCon 2007 can be found:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/pycon_2007_videoaudio_update.html

brian d foy is calling for nominations for the yearly White Camel award,
which honors non-technical achievement in Perl:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/2007_white_camel_nomination_pr.html

And finally, chromatic has a pointer to an article on the availability of
Perl programmers in London, and a few thoughts of his own:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/more_on_recruiting_perl_progra.html

Juliet Kemp, patron saint of Linux DevCenter, walks us through how to resize
your root partition on the fly, and wonders if the default 5GB value she's
been using is large enough anymore:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/repartitioning_on_the_fly_and.html

A busy, busy week on the Ruby blogs. Gregory Brown must not sleep much, as
he had not one, not two, but four different blogs this week. He started off
with a status report on Rupert, a Rails reporting engine:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/ruport_goes_rc1.html

The next day, he was back to blog on the Gotham Ruby Conference:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/gotham_ruby_conference_2007.html

Timothy M. O'Brien broken up his streak with a piece on Capistrano 2.0,
which he argues is not just for Rails. Capistrano is a tool for automating
remote system administration tasks. Or at least that's what the website
says; I had never heard of it until Timothy mentioned it:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/capistrano_20_not_just_for_rai.html

Gregory wasn't a man to take this lying down. He struck back with an
interview with Ruby Queue author Ara T. Howard, in his Digging Deep series:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/digging_deep_evil_packaging_tr.html

Finally, Mr. Brown shows us why a flaky system clock may cause camping to
break, at least if the file you're reloading has a mod date after the
current time:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/campers_beware_of_time_warps.html

Niel M. Bornstein, usually a blogger in XML Land, has joined the SysAdmin
team, and starts with an essay on data center automation:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/data_center_automation.html

Looking ahead, three articles to choose from this Thursday (you did know
that ONLamp articles run on Thursdays, didn't you?) My trusty Rails-based
tracking system shows Tom Adelstein on the radar with a piece entitled "The
Top 7 Things Sysadmins Forget to Do." OpenBSD fanatics can look forward to
the Federico Biancuzzi interview with key OpenBSD developers on the upcoming 4.1
release. And Kevin Bedell looks at techniques for managing and working with
truly huge datasets.

ONLamp is always looking for new bloggers! If you have a unique viewpoint
on the topics we cover, we'd love to hear from you. Drop me a line at
turner@oreilly.com, with BLOGGER in the subject!

Wrapping up this week's newsletter, and in a blatant attempt to build some
viral internet buzz around the upcoming ONLamp comic strip, here's a first
public peek at "The Watering Hole," exclusively for Linux Newsletter
subscribers (and your relatives, and your coworkers, and your paper boy,
and...). The strip is going to launch Any Day Now.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/images/RejectedCover.png

James Turner
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
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Idiomatics

2007-04-30T14:01:00.000-07:00

Perl.com update
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Hello, Perl fans. This is the Perl newsletter, a short and quick mailing sent
to tens of thousands of your closest friends in the Perl community. Here's
what's new for your education, entertainment, and edification.

Perl News

Flavio S. Glock (famous among other things for MiniPerl 6) wrote a report
of the YAPC::SA hackathon in Porto Alegre, Brazil:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/18/1747255

The videos from YAPC::Asia 2007 are online:

http://tokyo2007.yapcasia.org/sessions/

brian d foy requested nominations for the 2007 White Camel awards, which
recognize non-technical achievements in Perl:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/26/0434232

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/33024

http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/33031

http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/33056

http://use.perl.org/~kudra/journal/33063

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design meetings:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33129

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/33130

Perl at O'Reilly

Some of the largest databases and data sets in the world are part of data
warehouses--huge sets of information so poetically mined for trends. This
can lead to pretty charts and graphs, so it's important. Sam Tregar
explains the basics of data warehousing and walks through an example that
he and his colleagues created. There's Perl, of course:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2007/04/12/building-a-data-warehouse-with-mysql-and-perl.html

Like a natural language, Perl is malleable. You probably have an accent
in written Perl just like everyone has an accent in a spoken language
(except good old midwestern Americans such as your editor, whose accent is
as distinguishable and as impressive as plain oatmeal). Uniqueness is
fine and quirkiness is great, but clarity is as important in written
communication through source code as it is in spoken language. brian d
foy, a fellow iconoclast of capitalization, shares Five Ways to Improve
Your Perl Programming:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html

Plato and Democritus might have disagreed about how many unique components
you can remove from and replace in LAMP before it loses the ineffable LAMP
essence, but Apache is merely the Texas Hold'em of poker--dominant but not
invincible. There are plenty of other options of well-tuned and
LAMP-appropriate web servers, including lighttpd. Bill Lubanovic
describes this option in prose much less purple than in this paragraph:

Your editor decided to stress-test the Parrot by generating nearly
meaningful nonsense algorithmically:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/perplexing_parrots_parser.html

Mike Hendrickson beat the bushes to find system administrators (we know
you're reading this):

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/where_are_the_sys_admins.html

James Turner experimented with a monoculture to find any lurking appeals:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture.html

Curtis Poe called down the wrath of the XML gods for his TAP-loving heresies:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/xml_versus_tap.html

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Maker Faire Preview, Fire Truck, and Open Source Hardware

2007-04-27T17:49:00.000-07:00

Maker Faire Preview, Fire Truck, and Open Source Hardware

April 27, 2007

In this issue: Maker Faire Video Preview Posted, the New MAKE Fire Truck Name and Mod, and Exploring Open Source Hardware

Why, hello there,

Spring is here, and sometimes, late at night, I walk around the deserted caverns of New York City. There are piles of garbage everywhere, all containing the same things it seems (some good raw materials too!). But what you never see is something handmade. Sure some of the stuff we all make might actually come from trash, but like expensive items or something well-designed, it rarely ends up in a landfill. So here's to making more stuff to keep this spring!

MAKER FAIRE
We're gearing up (literally) for the first of this year's Maker Faires. The Bay Area Maker Faire will be on May 19 & 20 at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. You can get your tickets in advance now, avoid the lines, and save a few bucks.

Bre and I put together a special video featuring just a few of the hundreds of Makers who will be at Maker Faire. We hope you enjoy it.

MAKE FIRE TRUCK
Now on to the burning question! MAKE now has has a fire truck! We need to mod it (of course) and we also need to name it. If we use your suggestion(s) or mod we'll send you some cool stuff from the Maker Store!

OPEN SOURCE HARDWARE
Last up, we've used the term "open source hardware" for quite a while at MAKE, and in this newsletter, we dive in to define what it is and show projects you can start working on right away!

Read on to check it all out!

Cheers,
pt

Phillip Torrone
Senior Editor, MAKE magazine

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Maker Faire Video Preview (YouTube)

Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up and feast your eyes on this short video preview of the Second Annual Maker Faire! All the fun, thrills, and excitement is coming on May 19th and May 20th! This video will show you but a mere smattering of the Makers and projects that will be in San Mateo! Filled with anticipation? Get your tickets now! - Link

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MAKE Fire Truck - Help Us Mod It, Hack It and Name It!

MAKE now has a 1981 Mercedes Benz 508D Diesel Doka fire truck! It has 47,274 kilometers, a heavy duty military/commercial grade 6-cylinder diesel with a 5-speed manual transmission. It has two bucket seats up front, 7 seats in the back seating area, tons of storage racks and bins, and the roof is covered in diamond plate and accessible by ladder. It can go up 55 miles per hour and can carry 9 passengers. You'll see it at Maker Faire, but we need your help! We need to mod it (of course) and we also need to name it. If we use your suggestion(s) or mod(s), we'll send you some cool stuff from the Maker Store!
More: MAKE Fire Truck (photos) Link.
Note: The truck is at MAKE HQ; we'd never actually park it like that.
How to help:

Post your suggestions for naming and mods in the comments and/or in the MAKE forums - Link.
Post your sketches, drawings, 3D models, clay models, whatever in the MAKE Flickr photo pool - Link.

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Open source hardware, what is it? Here's a start...

Open source hardware is a term we've used here on MAKE & CRAFT for describing some of the projects featured as well as some of our electronics kits. It was also the subject of a talk we participated in at the SXSW conference, but what is it? There are a few definitions, some of which come from "open source software," which is usually considered software's "source code under a license (or arrangement such as the public domain) that permits users to study, change, and improve the software, and to redistribute it in modified or unmodified form." So how does this translate to hardware? Electronic hardware can be divided up into layers, each of which has different document types and licensing concerns.
Hardware (Mechanical) Diagrams Dimensions for enclosures, mechanical subsystems, etc. For 2D models, preferred document type is vector graphics file, with dimension prints, DXF, or AI, etc. Example: Motor-driven screw block from the RepRap 's thermoplast extruder head, an open source 3D printer. Schematics & Circuit Diagrams Symbolic diagrams of electronic circuitry, includes parts list (sometimes inclusively). Often paired with matching layout diagram. Preferred document type is any sort of image (PDF, BMP, GIF, PNG, etc). Example: 3.3V and 5V regulator schematic from Chumby, the open source information device.
Parts List What parts are used, where to get them, part numbers, etc. Example: Parts List from the open source Roland 303 MIDI synth clone, the x0xb0x.
Layout Diagrams Diagrams of the physical layout of electronic circuitry, including the placement of parts, the PCB copper prints, and a drill file. This is often paired with a schematic. Preferred distribution is Gerber RS274x and Excellon (for drills). These are like PostScript for printers but the primitives aren't text and arcs, they're lines of solder and components. Example: Board (.brd) files for the MAKE: Daisy Open Source MP3 Player.
Core/Firmware The source code runs on a microcontroller/microprocessor chip. In some cases, the code may be the design of the chip hardware itself (in VHDL). Preferred distribution: text file with source code in it, as well as compiled 'binary' for the chip. Example: Open core 8080 compatible CPU code snippet from executing the 8080 instruction set.
Software/API The source code that communicates or is used with the electronics from a computer. Example: A screenshot of the Arduino IDE showing a simple example program.
Each level can be open sourced, but the exact nature of what it means to open it varies. In practice, not every layer is fully open. Often only a subset of the layers are released, documented, or open source.
For example, the WRT54GL wireless router only has the firmware open sourced (GPL).
The Roomba robot vacuum has an "open" API (interface).
The Ambient Orb (information device) is not open source, but the schematics and parts list are documented and available for people to tinker with and possibly build their own. There are ongoing efforts from a variety of groups and people who are trying to figure out how an open licensing of hardware might work too:

Open-source Hardware License - Creative Commons-like license - Link.
Open hardware licenses - Link.

Projects Projects are the the fun part: what are people actually doing? Here are a few examples (some previously noted) of projects that are close to "pure" open source hardware projects:
Arduino physical computing platform (just shipped 10,000!) - Link.
Chumby 'glancable' information device - Link.
MAKE: Daisy MP3 Player - An open source MP3 player - Link.
RepRap / Fab@Home - Open source 3D printer - Link.
Open Cores - A collection of VHDL cores for FPGA chips ("often cited as the first example of true OS hardware") - Link.
OpenEEG - An EEG design that is OS & available as a kit - Link.
x0xb0x - Roland 303 clone MIDI synth - Link.
Some of these projects don't provide everything in the most ideal way, or might use a non-open-source tool to modify, but it's a start -- this is all pretty new.
At MAKE & CRAFT, we're trying to foster this nascent hardware movement by encouraging our kit makers to consider open source hardware and a license that makes sense when developing kits with us. So far it's worked out, and we're looking forward to providing not only more open source hardware kits, but electronics that are more "open" than what's out there now.
Why is this a good thing? The most obvious one for MAKE & CRAFT is the educational benefits: an open source hardware project or kit allows makers to build something completely from scratch (etching boards, etc) or assembling a kit almost IKEA-style, but unlike assembling furniture, new skills and understanding of how things actually work can be learned. One could say the building of the electronics is the "compiling" portion of the project, similar to software. Events like dorkbot and our Maker Faire are places for participation, and online, Instructables.com is a great place to look.
What else? Fixes -- new features and the "peer production" of the electronics projects/kits usually lend themselves to better kits, communities, and for some makers making real businesses selling kits - Link.
All this being said, the pace is slow and steady; hardware moves slower than software now: fabbing, which may decrease but is unlikely to fully go away. And hardware seems to be in the same state software was in the 1980s; lots of commercial developers, very few open source developers (or like 1970s when only a few had computers at all). We'd like to see the world of hardware when there are millions of developers.
This is a start. We're interested in your feedback and thoughts, so post up in the comments!
Special thanks to Limor Fried, Nathan Torkington & Eric Wilhelm for their help on this overview.

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Digging into TextMate and wxPython

2007-04-27T14:31:00.000-07:00

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This week Mac DevCenter has published articles on two important
technologies for Mac developers. TextMate is one of the most popular
text editors for Mac development work, and we have an interesting
example of how to customize TextMate from the guy who literally wrote
the book on the subject, James Edward Gray II. If you use TextMate,
or have been considering giving it a try, check out James' article to
get a taste of how powerful this editor is. And for the Python
programmers out there, Jeremiah Foster presents an introduction to
wxPython in the first article in his series examining graphical
toolkits for OS X.

TextMate is very popular among Mac developers, in part due to how
much you can customize the powerful program. James Edward Gray II
recently wrote "TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac" and presents
this article on creating an RPN calculator in TextMate as an example
of how to do complex TextMate customizations:

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/11/customizing-textmate.html

In this new MacDC series, Jeremiah Foster presents an overview of
graphical toolkits for Apple's OS X. This first article looks at
wxPython, including installation instructions and breaking down some
sample code. If you've been wanting to use your Python programming
skills to develop for OS X, you'll want to learn about wxPython.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/24/graphical-toolkits-for-apples-os-x-wxpython.html

The Mac DevCenter blogs have been active and interesting. Follow the
details coming out about WWDC, learn the latest hacks available for
AppleTV, and help Erica pick a new programming language to learn.
Drop by and let us know what you think:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog

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XML.com Newsletter

2007-04-27T14:01:00.000-07:00

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week I was knocked flat by a nasty illness, so XML.com took the
week off without a new article. But the weblogs were aflutter, and I
somehow managed to amass enough Firefox tabs to send out a few URLs.

XML.com Weblogs
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Rick Jelliffe, Validating concurrent and interrupted elements in XML with Schematron
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/validating_concurrent_and_inte.html

Kurt Cagle, Chaos Storms and Metamagicians
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/chaos_storms_and_metamagicians.html

The Weekly Tab Sweep
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I'm not a Perl guy; in fact, I rather loathe Perl. That said, this
video of a talk by Audrey Tang about Perl 6 is quite fascinating:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3876155376103839772&hl=en

I *am* a Mac guy (after spending 1995 to 2003 as an everyday Linux
user), so when I learned about TextMate, I jumped on board. Now, a few
years later, I've gone back to my first love, Emacs. Two fun, useful
Emacs blogs I've been reading to get my chops back into shape:

http://www.emacsblog.org
http://emacs.wordpress.com

One thing I'm loving about OS X this week is how easy it was to
(finally) remap my keyboard to change the (useless) caps lock key into
something more useful for Emacs. I've been typing since high school, so
it's going to take some time to remap those muscle memories, but it's
already worth the effort.

We've been enjoying the last Sopranos episodes on HBO lately, and we
honeymooned in Italy, including a week in Sicily, this summer, so this
was an interesting read:

The chief of the FBI's organized crime unit on the history of La Cosa Nostra
http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/april/mob.php

Computers? Well, I hate them, really, but what are you going to do?
What truly makes me happy is a great ink pen -- why didn't anyone tell
me about JetPens? Very cool:

http://www.jetpens.com

As always, thanks for reading!

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Displaying Master-Details Relationships in ASP.NET 2.0

One of the common tasks in manipulating databases is displaying
master-details relationships. Wei-Meng Lee shows how you can use the
GridView and DetailsView controls to display records in the authors and
titles tables.

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/24/displaying-master-details-relationships-in-aspnet-20.html

More Reasons Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop

My last blog entry, "Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop," got a
lot of pushback from Linux folks. Now I'm back with more reasons why Linux
will never overtake Windows.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/more_reasons_why_linux_will_ne_3.html

Todd Ogasawara is back with his weekly roundup of news about Windows
mobile technology. High on this week's list: Streets & Trips 2007.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_33.html

IronPython v1.1 Is Now Available

M. David Peterson has the inside scoop on the latest release of IronPython.

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/msftironpython_ironpython_v11.html

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Virtues, Languages, and Choice

2007-04-24T14:01:00.000-07:00

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This week we have some very interesting reading. Start with James
Turner's piece, "The Virtues of Monoculture," and you'll see what I
mean. If you are an open source person you have to ask yourself this: do
we need marginally different projects for no apparent reason
other than that "we can"? I am all for free choice, but doing something only for
the sake of doing it can divide the OSS community. Do you
think Microsoft does this in its product design teams? Check out what
James has to say here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture.html

Articles

In the spirit of our choice-is-important viewpoint, each article this week
has used a different programming language for example code. Choice
*is* important.

The first article is about how data warehouses support complex ad-hoc
querying by end-users. In "Building a Data Warehouse with MySQL and
Perl," Sam Tregar describes the basic parts of a data warehouse and
outlines how to create one with Perl and MySQL. Data warehousing is a
deep topic, and this article will hopefully pique your interest to roll
your own. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2007/04/12/building-a-data-warehouse-with-mysql-and-perl.html

In our second article, Thakur Thribhuvan describes how temporary
destinations are a useful tool in message-driven architectures in his
piece, "Designing Messaging Applications with Temporary Queues." In
this article, Thakur looks at the benefits and drawbacks of using
temporary destinations in an enterprise healthcare system. He also
looks at design perspectives for using temporary queues as an
alternative to static queues and explores some design strategies using
synchronous requests and replies. Check it out here:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/04/10/designing-messaging-applications-with-temporary-queues.html

In our third article, "Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction
to the Heart of Rails (Part 1)," Gregory Brown shows how the Rails web
framework is well suited for the "M" of Model View Controller (MVC).
You don't have to be a Ruby or Rails guru to understand this tutorial. The
first part of the article walks you through Object Relational Model
(ORM) fundamentals using ActiveRecord by example. The second part builds a
small but functional application to show how ActiveRecord
works within its setting and in concert with the other toolsets Rails
provides. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/04/19/understanding-activerecord-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-heart-of-rails-part-1.html

Blogs

The top three blogs at the moment are listed below. They all have
something in common. They, too, are talking about choice. They have
plenty of comments as well. Go see what they have to say:

1. Erica Sadun's "Blog bleg: Help me pick a language"

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/blog_bleg_help_me_pick_a_langu.html

2. Curtis Poe's "XML Versus TAP"

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/xml_versus_tap.html

3. Preston Gralla's "Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop"

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/why_linux_will_never_take_over_1.html

Podcasts

We don't exactly have a new podcast this week, so I thought I would point
out a new Video service available from our friends at Safari.

Safari's integrated collection of online books, videos, and article
content is available from no other source. The online training videos in
the Safari Library cover a wide range of topics. Check out a sample at:

http://safari.oreilly.com/video

Stats

Well, I have some interesting data to report on. Where are all the
sysadmins? I did some analysis of our book-purchasing audience. This
is a time-oriented graph. If you notice the spikes on the "Consumer"
trend line, those represent the end of each year. Consumer purchasing
reaches a peak at the end-of-the-year holiday period. Consumer means
people who buy computer-oriented books like Ipod, Digital Photography,
etc.--books that are not for software developers, system
administrators, or other computer science types. So look at the decline
for system administrators. That is certainly interesting to me. Could
it be that there are no really new IT admin tools or technologies to
explore?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/where_are_the_sys_admins.html

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2007-04-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

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Core 2 Duo notebook. Love of the latest web development frameworks. And
this week, the ONLamp family of products (OFOP) has a lot of geek love to
share with you.

Articles? Articles? You want articles? Well, we got 'em, starting with
Gregory Brown's first installment of a two-parter on ActiveRecord, the
object relational guts that live inside Ruby on Rails. If you want to
learn more about how to make Rails live well with your database
infrastructure, you could do worse than to start with "Understanding
ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails":

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/04/19/understanding-activerecord-a-gentle-introduction-to-the-heart-of-rails-part-1.html

Continuing on the database theme, have you ever thought about the
differences between a highly relational database that aims to maximize
normalization, and a highly denormalized one that incurs redundancy for
speed? Sam Tregar takes a look at the advantages of the second approach in
"Building a Data Warehouse with MySQL and Perl":

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2007/04/12/building-a-data-warehouse-with-mysql-and-perl.html

Articles not enough for you? Well, we got blogs too, lotsa blogs. This
week, to be different, I'll break 'em out by authors. ONLamp veteran
chromatic has the next installment in his "Linux tools to be greatful for"
series; this time it's KMail in the spotlight:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/thank_you_kmail.html

He moved on to report on a potentially hazardous intersection between
case-insensitive file systems and Perl pragma:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/when_strict_isnt_strict_enough.html

He considered the value of using brown-bag lunches to explore specific
aspects of software development, in the same way that an Étude is used to
develop specific musical skills:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/how_do_you_get_to_cmu.html

He finished the week looking at how to use the Perl MarkovChain package to
generate nearly correct input to test parsers for potentially fatal bugs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/perplexing_parrots_parser.html

Our other prolific ONLamp blogger this week was Ann Barcomb, goddess of Perl
Posts, who had not one, not two, but three Perl 6 Mailing List summaries to
offer up:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_29.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_30.html

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_31.html

Jonathan Wellons looks at an effort to model how open source developers
interact, as attempted by CVS logs of some popular projects:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/agentbased_simulation_of_open.html

How can you advocate for the use of Python without becoming a zealot?
Jeremy Jones points us to an essay that attempts to answer that question:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/on_python_advcocacy.html

Ending up the week on the ONLamp blogs, Curtis Poe takes a swing at XML,
which he argues is overly complex, poorly understood, and implemented poorly
by many toolkits:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/xml_versus_tap.html

Juliet Kemp reports on the release of Debian etch (4.0), over at Dev Center.
She upgraded to it, and has a report from the field on how it went:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/debian_etch.html

For a quick hit of SQL goodness, check out Giuseppe Maxia's little gem over
at the Databases blog. He looks at how to handle a multiple dataset select
from MySQL using Perl:

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/04/handling_multiple_data_sets_in.html

Do you CEE what I CEE? Anton Chuvakin does, and lets us know about the
Common Event Expression, a new log format that is just emerging from its
shell, over in the SysAdmin blog:

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/finally_common_event_expressio.html

One new blog this week in the Ruby/Rails world comes from Timothy M. O'Brien
about how Rails responds to criticism of missing features. Lots of good
links in a short post:

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/rails_scaling_to_multiple_data.html

What's coming up next week? Three juicy new articles for your reading
pleasure, each one of which should inform and delight you.* If you're a
Rails fan, Vohra Deepak looks at the Ruby on Rails development environment
under Eclipse. PHP more your style? Zachary Kessin discusses how to use
reflection under PHP. Still not happy--want something a bit more sysadminy?
Let Ron Aitchison alert you to the Five Biggest DNS Errors you can make.

Also on the horizon, the previously threatened comic strip is poised, poised
I say, to make its debut in the next few weeks. What can I tell you about
it? Well, not to give away too much, I'll say it's called "The Watering
Hole," and features characters named Pearl, Ruby, Pye, Phillip, Linus,
Bonita, and Cecilia. Look for a link to it soon off the ONLamp main page.

Finally, I'm going to try to launch a new ONLamp feature, the ONLamp
Ombudsman. Do you have an issue with a technology covered by ONLamp
(including RoR, Databases, and Sysadmin?) Have you tried the mailing lists
and forums to no avail? Send 'em to me--care of the address at the end
of this newsletter, with the term OMBUDSMAN in the subject--and I'll select
a couple a month to track down and bring back the answers. I can't
guarantee yours will be answered, but if it's of general enough interest, it
stands a good chance!

Until next week, this is your ONLamp roving reporter, signing off.

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

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not read while operating heavy machinery. If delight lasts longer than four
hours, seek the advice of an Architect or Administrator, as it may be a
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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Michael Day asks an intriguing question: which XML technologies
are beautiful? I agree totally with one of Mike's answers, namely, RELAX NG.
It's a joy to use and is conceptually elegant. Very nice.

Do you think beauty is a useful criterion for judging technologies?

I'm curious which answers the XML.com audience will give -- check out the
comments section of the article.

Which XML Technologies are Beautiful?

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/04/18/which-xml-techologies-are-beautiful.html

In lieu of the browser tab sweep that usually appears here, I want to say
a few words about the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech on Monday.
VT is about four hours southwest of Washington, DC, where I live and work,
and a real part of the DC community. We all know people who go and have
gone to school there -- friends of friends, the children of coworkers, family members.
VT has always been of interest to me, as well, since it has a fine technical reputation.
The company I outsource my corporate email to is located on the VT campus!

I have no idea what to say about this tragedy, except that I hope we can
wring some good from it. I have tried to be more patient and understanding of
people this week, especially those who seem like they might have trouble fitting in.
Of course that won't prevent a sick person from hurting others, but we can never
know whether our small acts of kindness keep others from reaching some awful,
inward tipping point.

Some political pundit, who isn't worth naming here, suggested yesterday that those
among us who profess no religious faith were missing from the public square after
tragic, painful events, since we have no God or gods to which to pray.
Since I count myself among the secular, I cannot say in truth that I will pray for the
families and friends of the victims.

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natural ebbing, if not cessation, of the pain of their loss. And I stand with them
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Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop

For my next book, "The Big Book of Windows Hacks," I've just written a
hack about how to run Ubuntu inside Windows Vista. Great fun, great hack,
and it's great to be able to run Linux on a Vista machine. But it's
convinced me more than ever that Linux will never take over the desktop.
Check out my blog for details:

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Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary

Todd Ogasawara is back with his weekly roundup of great free software for
Windows. Among them, PowerShellIDE:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/freewareopen_source_for_window_21.html

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2007-04-17T14:01:00.000-07:00

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Articles

Hooray, Perl 6 is here! Let everyone know, Perl 6 is here! OK, so I am
two weeks late on my April Fool's joke, but when is Perl 6 coming? Well,
if you want to start using some of the features being built into Perl 6,
you don't have to wait: start by reading "Lightning Strikes Four Times," by
Shlomi Fish, Bob Free, Mike Friedman, and brian d foy. They explain that
good software design principles tell us that we should work to separate
unrelated concerns. Ideally, it's possible to replace any one of your
MVC components without breaking the whole system.
Other concerns are difficult to separate. See what they have to say:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/04/12/lightning-four.html

In "Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming," brian d foy explains
that inside every tangle of obfuscated Perl code is a clean,
well-architected gem struggling to emerge from its cocoon. A
well-designed program can simplify testing
because you've broken the code into distinct parts that lend
themselves to unit testing. You can test the parts without running the
entire program. Check out what brian has to say:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html

Blogs

On the blog front, we have Chris Adamson's provocative piece on
"Leviathan's Ipod." The post has brought out partisan groups supporting
and denouncing the ideas. When a blogger gets folks to argue
passionately on both sides of a topic, I think he's done an
excellent job. Go see for yourself:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/leviathans_ipod.html.

Speaking of passionate, you have to read Bruce Stewart's post on "Apple
Postpones Leopard Release Until October." The cult of Mac folks has
come out. I wonder when another major hardware/software manufacturing
type of company will build such a strong brand and product loyalty as Apple has.
See what I mean:

http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/04/apple_postpones_leopard_releas.html

Podcasts

In "Distributing the Future," hosted and produced by Daniel H.
Steinberg, the latest installment is "Finding Your Voice." There are
three pieces that center on this theme. Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks
to John Battelle about the corporate voice that Google has taken on.
Moshe Cohen is a clown who performs using his voice but no words.
In many of his missions, including Clowns Without Borders
USA, he cheers people up but also leaves them with a deep lesson. Finally,
there's a remixed piece by David Battino from the Digital Media Insider
that looks at how much computer voices have improved.
Check it out:

http://www.oreillynet.com/future

Stats

Well, in the stats area, we have a couple of things to show you. One is
a blog I wrote a couple of weeks ago that has garnered a few
comments. It is about language dimensions and dementia. Basically, I
think folks are crazy about their language, regardless of how highly it is
ranked on some scale. Check it out here:

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

And if you want to see what people are looking for on each of our
centers, you can get that data here:

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

As always, if you have any ideas, questions, or something you want to
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It is a dark and stormy night... As I write this on Sunday night, the wind
outside is whipping the trees around and whistling through the telephone
wires. I sit before the glow of my trusty computer, putting my faith in my
new UPS and hoping that this isn't the third week in a row I'll end up
sitting in the dark listening to its plaintive beeps.

At least I can warm my soul with the bountiful selection of articles and
blog entries that crossed the threshold of the ONLamp family of websites
this week. Article-wise, Stéphane Faroult finished his two-part series on
emulating SQL analytic functions under MySQL. Stéphane certainly knows his
way around a query, and I hope to have him back to enlighten us again.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2007/04/12/emulating-analytic-aka-ranking-functions-with-mysql.html

The other article this week was from Perl powerhouse brian d foy. brian,
who along with chromatic causes Outlook to throw a hissy-fit of
capitalization every time I try to type their names, has distilled some of
his wisdom from Mastering Perl (coming out soon), and presents it here for us.
If you aren't using these Five Ways to Improve Your Perl
Programming, you're missing out on some good stuff.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html

We'll start this week's visit to exotic blogsville with our Ruby contingent.
Daniel Berger has a hilarious and also enlightening tutorial on the
truly evil things you can do with the Ruby class system.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/ruby_code_that_will_swallow_yo.html

Gregory Brown, who will grace our pages this week with a Ruby article, is
getting drowned in Ruby support questions on the RubyForge support forum.
Stop that!

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/a_gentle_reminder_rubyforge_fo.html

Last summer, Ruby Central participated in Google's Summer of code. Austin
Ziegler has a look back at who participated, and what they did.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/ruby_central_and_the_google_su.html

Short but sweet, Gregory Brown has the last Ruby word this week with a
two-liner that will escape HTML in a document.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/trivial_scripting_with_ruby.html

Monday morning opened bright and early with chromatic's next installment in
his "Thank You" series, this time awarding the gold statue to Screen, the
poor man's X11.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/thank_you_screen.html

Jonathan Wellons took time to pose the question, what are the crucial two
things you'd say about LAMP if you were asked? The "Two Things Meme"
reminds me a lot of what we used to (and still) call "the elevator pitch,"
what you'd say about your company or product if you had the space of an
elevator ride to do it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_two_things_about_lamp.html

The next day, he was back to ask if FOSS has its own version of 1984's Newspeak.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/1984_wasnt_just_the_year_richa_1.html

The Python Recipe of the Week is how to use a decorator to check method
signatures. Jeremy Jones gives us a pointer to it.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/recipe_of_the_week_decorator_f.html

How do you maintain a FOSS project? Many die on the shoals, never making
it out of the sea to evolve into greatness. "Chromatic".toLower() wants us to
look at a good essay on the subject, relating to Gtk+.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/improving_the_maintainability.html

Mr. Wellons poses a number of computational brain teasers, the kind where
there might be a better approach than brute force. Give them a try and see
if you can find a way to crack them.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/what_do_7_77_and_168_have_in_c.html

In a few months, if all goes well, schoolchildren in a number of developing
countries are going to start getting their hands on Linux-powered laptops,
courtesy of the OLPC project. Brad Fuller gives us a peek at the Sugar UI
that will ship with them.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/nigerian_school_kids_use_linux.html

Linux Geekette Juliet Kemp is looking for good tools to improve workflow in
Linux. Got one handy? Drop her a line.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/workflow.html

A nice nugget of SQL from Giuseppe Maxia over on the Database site, showing
how to handle multiple datasets in MySQL from Perl.

http://www.oreillynet.com/databases/blog/2007/04/handling_multiple_data_sets_in.html

Brian K. Jones suggests that source control favorite CVS actually stands for
Coding Versus Sloth. He has a long discussion of why checking in your
little admin script hacks into CVS is a smart move in the long run.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/cvs_coding_versus_sloth.html

Anyone who works in the industry knows that the amount of time you actually
spend coding can sometimes be a frighteningly small percentage of your time.
Jonathan Wellons closes out the week in blogs by asking, "What is your text
to code ratio?"

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/whats_your_text_to_code_ratio.html

If you've made it all the way to the bottom with your sanity intact, your
reward is a peek at what's coming up this week. The final mix is still in a
bit of flux, but I'll definitely be able to present, for your reading pleasure,
the first half of an in-depth introduction to the Rails ActiveRecord ORM, by
RubyMaster Gregory Brown, and "Building a Data Warehouse with Perl and MySQL,"
courtesy of Sam Tregar. Coming your way on Thursday, as always.

James Turner
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Hopping to it... now!

* Perl Events

Linuxfest Northwest 2007 will take place on April 28 and 29, in
Bellingham, Washington. Allison Randal, Tim Maher, Brad Fitzpatrick, Brian Aker, and
your editor (he thinks) will all present:
http://linuxfestnorthwest.org

The Toronto Perl Mongers have announced a hackathon on April 28:
http://rakudo.org/hackathon-toronto

Parrot's monthly bug day is also tomorrow. Join #parrot on irc.perl.org as
the core developers prepare for the monthly release, squash bugs, add new
features, and guide newcomers to contributing documentation, suggestions, tests,
fixes, and patches:
http://rakudo.org/parrot/index.cgi?Bug%20Day%2C%202007-04-14

Registration has opened for YAPC::NA 2007, in Houston:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/0445246

* Perl News

The Perl Foundation awarded Phil Crow the second Perl 6 microgrant. Phil
plans to write a tool to convert Java declarations to Perl 6:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/06/1148214

YAPC has announced a call for venue for YAPC::EU 2008:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/05/1952240

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design minutes:
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32837
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32977

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/31/148237
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/03/2143229

Note that Ann is still looking for an assistant; if you'd like to
contribute greatly to the world of Perl 6 and are willing to gather a weekly summary
(using some powerful tools), please contact her.

* Perl at O'Reilly

OpenGL is a powerful API for 3D graphics programming. Perl programs using
OpenGL can outperform C programs using OpenGL in some cases. Bob Free
explains.

Aspect-oriented programming is a powerful, if complex, idea for
separating design concerns from an inherited object hierarchy. Perl's subroutine
attributes can help you achieve AOP concerns. Mike Friedman demonstrates.

Keeping test counts up to date in Perl test programs under active
development can be tedious. The Test::Count module is one approach to managing this
complexity. Shlomi Fish explores its use.

Perl can be pretty loose about which arguments you pass to which functions
and why. Sometimes you need to know more about what you've received, but how
can you check an object's type accurately without getting false positives or
negatives? brian d foy walks through the possibilities.

Yes, that's right--it's time again for Perl Lightning Articles:
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/04/12/lightning-four.html

In other news, Jonathan Wellons solicits your two facts about LAMP:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_two_things_about_lamp.html

Matt S. Trout has begun to write a new Perl REPL:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/writing_a_modern_perl_repl.html

A new Perl-only Google search engine has appeared, thanks to Andy Armstrong:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/a_perlonly_google_search_engin.html

That sums up the week. Next time, how about reviews of B::Concise and
App::SVNBinarySearch?

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Hacking Apple TV and Inside Google Desktop for the Mac

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device, pried it apart, and are rapidly coming up with all kinds of
interesting hacks and applications for Apple's set top box. Erica
Sadun too has been hacking away on the new Apple TV and presents our
"State of the Hacks" roundup of what people are doing with their
Apple TV boxes. Discover what kinds of mods are out there and whether
they're the right fit for your needs and abilities.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/27/upgrading-apple-tvs-hard-drive.html

Meanwhile, Google finally released a Mac version of its popular
desktop search product and Giles Turnbull didn't waste any time in
putting the new app through its paces and reporting back for us.
Learn what Google Desktop can do for you, how it does it, and why it
needs to install itself with high-level permissions on your system,
in this in-depth look at Google Desktop for the Mac.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/09/introducing-google-desktop-for-mac.html

The Mac DevCenter blogs have been hopping with more Apple TV hacks,
some Joost news, and a heated discussion of Michigan's plan for
government-sponsored iPods in schools. Drop by and let us know what
you think.

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2007-04-13T15:31:00.000-07:00

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

As a follow-up to David Orchard's recent article about versioning XML
vocabularies, Marc de Graauw shows us how to implement some of David's
ideas in a practical sense, including plenty of XSLT code to maintain
forward and backward compatibility across revisions of an XML vocabulary --
something that will become increasingly important as XML matures further.

A Smoother Change to Version 2.0:

http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/04/11/a-smoother-change-to-version-20.html

Recent XML.com Weblog Highlights
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Kevin Farnham, Wishing I Could Program XIM...

http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/04/wishing_i_could_program_xim_1.html

Yet Another Weekly Tab Sweep
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http://grok.zope.org/

grok is a new web framework built on top of Zope 3. It's interesting
enough that I may have to take a look at it; my own "Python web framework"
story begins with Bobo, the precursor to Zope -- now that was back in the day...

Bringing fabrication to the desktop:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/fabathome.ars

Wanna play with the OLPC? You can using emulation on (at least) OSX:

http://www.edgargonzalez.com/2006/11/21/emulating-the-olpc-xo-on-a-mac-osx/

Finally, how about some guidelines for rational discussion?

A Code of Conduct for Effective Rational Discussion:

http://www.ukpoliticsmisc.org.uk/usenet_evidence/argument.html

As always, thanks for reading.

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ONJava Newsletter

2007-04-12T14:01:00.000-07:00

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Hello OnJava Readers,

JavaOne is coming up next month...are you going? I'm sure O'Reilly will
have some coverage of the event, and we will make sure to link to some of
it in our "weblogs of interest." And perhaps I will see you there. Until
then, you can continue to find some great technical content right here at
OnJava.

Articles of interest to Java developers:

The methods people commonly think of for controlling threads were
deprecated long ago, and are not safe to use. In this article, Viraj
Shetty shows the appropriate techniques for starting, pausing, resuming,
and stopping activities taking place in a multithreaded application:

http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/04/06/controlling-threads-by-example.html

When I was working on JSR-270, there were a lot of decisions to make; one
of the easiest was the inclusion of JSR-221, JDBC 4.0. With the release of
Java SE 6, JDBC 4.0 is now a standard part of the platform. This article
by Sharad Acharya gives you an overview of all the changes to JDBC you
need to know about:

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/04/10/whats-new-in-jdbc-40.html#more-apis-become-available

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

Tim O'Brien - Blogroll: Seam Adoption, FreeMarker Experience, JRuby Progress
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/blogroll_seam_adoption_freemar.html

Steve Anglin - What Should be in Java EE 6?
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/post.html

Tim O'Brien - Sun Licensing Causing Problems for Apache Harmony
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/sun_licensing_causing_problems.html

Krishna Srinivasan - The Java 6.0 Compiler API
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/03/the_java_60_compiler_api.html

Hari K. Gottipati - Sun SPOT Java Development Kit available now
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/sun_spotssmall_programmable_ob.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog

Are you aware of your local technical user groups? I'm lucky enough to
live and work in an area with a Java user group of over 1,800 people, a
Ruby user group of over 200 (and growing rapidly), a .Net user group, an
XP user group, a chapter of the International Association of Software
Architects, a chapter of the Agile Project Leadership Network, and
probably a half dozen other groups that are directly related to my career
goals.

Do you know what's happening in your area? Getting involved in groups
like these is a great way to gain knowledge and make connections in your
industry. If you can't find a group, you can always start one! All you
need is a meeting place and a way to find a few other interested
individuals.

Please join us for next week's edition,

David Bock, Editor
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2007-04-11T15:01:00.000-07:00

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What exactly is service orientation, and what does it mean for the future
of the software industry? What are the principles that should guide any
developer using it? In this excerpt from Programming WCF Services, Juval
Lowy explains what it's about and offers practical principles for its use:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/10/the-logic-of-service-orientation-plus-14-so-tenets-and-practical-principles.html

Does Your Vista Boot Slower than XP?

Microsoft support forums are abuzz with people complaining that Vista
boots and launches applications far slower than XP--even though Microsoft
said a primary Vista goal was faster boots. Have you noticed Vista booting
slower than XP? Ready about my experiences, and let me know yours:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/does_your_vista_boot_slower_th_1.html

Is All of Microsoft Dead? How About a Community Report Card?

Paul Graham made a simple statement that is stirring up a lot of
commentary on the Net: Microsoft is Dead. Todd Ogasawara weighs in on the
controversy:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/is_all_of_microsoft_dead_how_a_1.html

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lighttpd, gcc, and more

2007-04-09T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Having spent the day searching all my software for Easter Eggs, I've got a
basket full of goodies for you to hunt for, scattered around the articles
and blogs in the ONLamp empire. The previous strained metaphor brought to
you by the Chocolate Bunny Marketing Board.

We start our hunt with the new articles on the site this week. Bill
Lubanovic provides a concise comparison of the lighttpd web server against
Apache, including examples of how the configuration is different. He also
discusses reasons why lighttpd might be the right server for you.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/05/the-lighttpd-web-server.html

You may be a C or C++ wiz, but there's always more to learn about gcc, the
humble compiler that turns your golden lines of code into bite-sized
pieces of machine language. If you've ever wondered what those intriguing
optimization options to gcc really do, Mulyadi Santosa can show you just
what a -O2 will do to the resulting binary.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/03/getting-familiar-with-gcc-parameters.html

Turning to the ONLamp blogosphere, we start the week with chromatic's
continuing homage to the many little tools that make our life easier, this
time giving a shout-out to Email::Filter.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/thank_you_emailfilter.html

Over in sysadmin land, Brian K. Jones reports on his increasing seduction
by Python. Watch for the movie on the Spice channel later this year.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/im_slowly_being_seduced_by_pyt.html

Meanwhile, Anton Chuvakin argues persuasively that if you're not keeping
your server logs around for a while, you're leaving yourself open to all
sorts of problems.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/top_11_reasons_to_collect_and.html

And Chris Josephes reminds us that just because you can't find a
precompiled package for your favorite software doesn't mean you can't
install it. Remember, you do have a compiler...

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/it_wouldnt_hurt_you_to_use_the_compiler.html

Todd Ogasawara, prolific Port 25 contributor, reports on IronPython.
Microsoft assimilated Jim Huginin, the author of IronPython a while back,
and Todd has pointed to an interview with him.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/ironpythons_jim_huginin.html

We turn now to the enchanted land of Ruby (and yes, ONLamp now officially
has dominion over Ruby, part of my global plan for language domination,
bwahahaha!) Gregory Brown has another of his NubyGems, this time talking
about child classes.

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/04/nubygems_be_kind_to_your_child.html

The good news: we got the Perl Mailing List summary early this week. The
bad news is: Ann Barcomb has to give up doing them. Like to help? Read on:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_28.html

Todd was back midweek talking about a recent interview with Michael
Koziarski about Ruby on Rails, and in particular the questions he thinks
they should have asked:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/interview_with_michael_koziars_1.html

chromatic gave an update on Parrot, and an invite to participate in the
Parrot monthly bug day on the 14th.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/april_parrot_progress.html

Not content to leave the praising of utilities to chromatic, Chris Tyler
shot back with an essay of the virtues of OpenSSH.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/thank_you_openssh.html

Your humble editor got in a blog entry this week, discussing the fact that
just because you bought a UPS doesn't mean that it's going to protect you
for ever, especially once the batteries get old.

http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2007/04/in_praise_of_the_electron_and.html

Port 25 celebrated its first birthday last month. Todd completed his
hat-trick of blogs for the week by wishing it a happy birthday and asking
if Microsoft is finally drinking the open source Kool-Aid.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/belated_happy_birthday_to_port.html

In the obscure programming language category, chromatic has a stumper out
of "Programming in Haskell":

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/list_incomprehensions.html

Twitter is the hot young Web 2.0 stud on the block. But according to
Nitesh Dhanjani, both it and jott can be hacked by SMS or caller id
spoofing:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/twitter_and_jott_vulnerable_to.html

The week ended with a pair of posts from chromatic, reporting on a
Perl-only search engine, and commenting on the current state of digital
rights management for music.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/a_perlonly_google_search_engin.html
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_solution_to_piracy_1.html

Looking ahead to next week, we have a killer article from "Mastering Perl"
author Bill Lubanovic, with "Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Application,"
and Stéphane Faroult wraps up his look at emulating analytic functions in
MySQL.

James Turner
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2007-04-06T15:59:00.000-07:00

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Dear Reader,

Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Bob DuCharme offers the second, and final, part of his
introduction to RDFa, which is a serialization of RDF's data model
suitable for embedding in XHTML. In my more pessimistic moments, I think
that RDFa is at least three years too late. But the rest of the time, I
keep telling myself that everything takes longer than we think...

Introducing RDFa, Part Two
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2007/04/04/introducing-rdfa-part-two.html

Recent XML.com Weblog Highlights
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Michael Day, Which XML technologies are beautiful?
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Kurt Cagle, XForms v. Ruby -- a rebuttal (sort of)
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/xforms_vs_ruby_a_rebuttal_sort.html

Yet Another Weekly Tab Sweep
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How to punctuate a sentence
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-punctuate-a-sentence.html

Okay, editors who rant about writing are really annoying; but being able
to write clear, correct English prose is probably the easiest way to become
a better software developer.

The absolute moron's guide to Capistrano
http://www.softiesonrails.com/2007/4/5/the-absolute-moron-s-guide-to-capistrano

As I mentioned last week, I'm using a Rails app, Radiant CMS, these days,
and I really like it. Capistrano is a Ruby app that eases the woes of
deploying Rails apps on servers. Useful stuff.

I suspect my heart will always belong to Python, and I don't *really* care
for Ruby, but I'm glad others do and there's *another* alternative to Java
for building web apps.

Not that everything in the Ruby world is that well done:

Ruby threads considered worthless...
http://ciaranm.org/show_post/110

Lately I've included, well, drool targets in the newsletter; that is,
things that I really *need*, but I'm not gonna ever get... I hope the
8-core Power Mac ain't one of them:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130396-c,cpus/article.html

Oh, momma!

Speaking of Apple, I got an Apple TV like two weeks ago, and I haven't
even set it up yet and already people have hacked (in the good sense) it
to pieces...I don't think this is what the Lazy Web means. :>

Apple TV: State of the Hacks
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/27/upgrading-apple-tvs-hard-drive.html

How to Protect a JSON or JavaScript Service
http://getahead.org/blog/joe/2007/04/04/how_to_protect_a_json_or_javascript_service.html

My newest Epigram of Technology seems somehow appropriate here: Every
technology solution eventually becomes a new technology problem.

Holy crap this is cool:

Human Computer Interaction in Science Fiction Movies
http://w5.cs.uni-sb.de/~butz/teaching/ie-ss03/papers/HCIinSF/

Finally, my friend Paul Ford just spent 18 months rebuilding Harpers.org
using RDF and Semantic Web stuff; the site is great, and, as a long time
Harper's subscriber, I'm really excited to look at some of those
historical issues -- they've got Harper's issues going back to 1850 online. Cool.

http://harpers.org/

As always, thanks for reading.

Kendall Clark
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2007-04-06T14:31:00.000-07:00

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Greetings OnJava readers,

We have a lot of content for you this week! Make your coffee a venti
and treat yourself to an extra article or two.

Using Groovy to Send Emails

Groovy is one of the more popular dynamic languages for the JVM. It
has a familiar syntax, reduces large amounts of scaffolding code, and
integrates seamlessly with Java. Learning Groovy means gaining access
to all of the richness emerging in the dynamic language world while
still leveraging the skills, infrastructure, and libraries you
already have from the Java world. This is a quick tutorial by Paul
King showing 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

Single sign on (SSO) is becoming increasingly important in enterprise
environments. This tutorial by Alex Rykov describes a simple SAML SSO
scenario between Microsoft Internet Information Services Server (IIS)
and BEA WebLogic Server 9.

http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2007/02/saml-iis.html

For years, the Java 2D team has been encouraging developers to move
away from JDK-1.0-isms like Image.getScaledInstance() and onto more
modern APIs. It often makes blanket statements like, "oh, you don't
want to do it that way--here's a better approach" and hope that
developers take their word for it. It's a great strategy--that is, until
the inevitable follow-up question: "But why?". This article by Chris
Campbell answers that question.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/04/03/perils-of-image-getscaledinstance.html

Cell phones, like computers, have a well-defined internal file
structure to store information. Phone books, images, music, and even
applications are stored in various folders under a root directory.
However, the classes in the core Java ME packages cannot fully use
these folders and files. JSR 75 provides an optional API that enables
MIDlets to access the internal directories and files in a mobile
phone. In "Working with the Java ME FileConnection API on Physical
Devices," Biswajit Sarkar demonstrates this API.

http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/03/29/working-with-java-me-fileconnection-on-physical-devices.html

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

Dejan Bosanac - Can Servlet containers scale?

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/04/can_servlet_containers_scale.html

Robert Cooper - Speechless

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/03/speechless.html

Krishna Srinivasan - Portlet MVC Framework in Spring 2.0

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/03/portlet_mvc_framework_in_sprin.html

Timothy M. O'Brien - Reactions to the GPLv3 Revisions

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/03/reactions_to_the_gplv3_revisio.html

Bill Snyder - Java desktop frameworks: Where are we headed?

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/wsnyder6/archive/2007/04/where_are_we_he.html

Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/

Finally, I'd like to add my two cents to a controversy that has been
dogging the blogosphere for the past few weeks - the death threats
and other inappropriate comments against Kathy Sierra. She discusses
them here on her own blog:

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/as_i_type_this_.html

Whatever led to this controversy, this crossed way over the line
typically referred to as "trolling." In her most recent post, Kathy
says "But these stories should not be about me... I am simply one of
a gazillion examples about what's happening today both on and offline."

Kathy has since coordinated a post with Chris Locke, whose blog was
also involved in the controversy:

http://www.rageboy.com/statements-sierra-locke.html

This story has been picked up by larger media outlets, including CNN,
and has led to a very active discussion in the blogging community
about the need for a "bloggers' code of conduct."

A simple look at the hundreds of comments on any slashdot article will
tell you that there appear to be more trolls out there than people with
something intelligent to say. Whatever your thoughts on a bloggers'
code of conduct, if you are reading OnJava, you probably consider
yourself a software engineer in some capacity. If so, you should be
aware of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics:

http://www.acm.org/serving/se/code.htm

While there is nothing in the code that explicitly references a
situation as extreme as this one, there are several areas of the code
that relate specifically to professionalism toward colleagues.
Having and following a code of ethics can raise our entire industry.

Kathy and Chris have both expressed a desire to have something good
come of this controversy. While a bloggers' code of conduct may be
debatable, wider awareness of our code of ethics would be a good
thing indeed.

Until next week,

David Bock, Editor
ONJava.com

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time-saver. Jim Aspinwall shows you how to do it:

http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/03/pc-deployment-with-imagex.html

Vista Branding Suit: Why Microsoft Is Wrong

Microsoft is being sued for deceptive practices for branding PCs as being
"Windows Vista Capable," even though those machines can run only Windows
Vista Home Basic--which doesn't include the most important parts of the
new operating system. Check out my blog to see why I hope the suit wins:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/vista_branding_suit_why_micros.html

OpenDocument News, February-March 2007

Jean Hollis Weber is here with a roundup of important news about the
OpenDocument open source standard:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/03/opendocument_news_februarymarc.html

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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!

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Welcome to another issue of XML.com.

This week Erik Wilde introduces us to XIPr, an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet that
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document inclusion is a core XML processing technology, particularly for
publishing, but in other fields, too, and an implementation as an XSLT
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XInclude Processing in XSLT
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Recent XML.com Weblog Highlights
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Michael Day, Pattern Matching with XML
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Kurt Cagle, Re-starting the HTML Engine
http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/03/restarting_the_html_engine.html

I have to say, parenthetically, that with 223 members (and counting?), I'm
so glad *not* to be part of this W3C Working Group. Scary...

Yet Another Weekly Tab Sweep
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http://radiantcms.com

I'm a recent convert to the goodness that is the Radiant CMS -- while it's
not quite read for prime-time, in my view -- it's not too small, not too
big, but just right. I'd prefer a Python-based CMS, since I don't really
like Ruby all that much, but I haven't really needed to read much source yet.

If the developers can make a big hardening push to 1.0 release, and
improve the docs, it will become one of my very favorite tools.

Insanely dynamic photo portfolio
http://flickr.com/photos/stuckincustoms/sets/72057594049344877/

NYPD used Web to spy on citizen's groups at 2004 GOP Convention
http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/12874

That sucks. Period. The end.

Next time I need to deploy an HTTP accelerator -- after many years of
fruitful Squid use -- I'm choosing Varnish:

http://varnish.projects.linpro.no

Using Mercurial? Miss Trac?

http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracMercurial

Have I mentioned here lately how much I [heart] Trac?

My wife and I have been watching this great HDTV series, Planet Earth,
which was produced by BBC Bristol and the Discovery Channel (sidenote:
last time I was in Bristol I had dinner at an Indian place very close to
the Beeb office...Bristol's lovely!) -- it's stunning and not to be missed
if you have HD and cable.

Of course the whole thing puts me in rather a conservationist mindset;
and, in that mood, I lament this headline particularly:

Five years to save the orang utan
http://environment.guardian.co.uk/conservation/story/0,,2042325,00.html

Finally, Python is a dynamic OOP language, but not based on message
passing. That said, I still want something like HOP for Python -- supah
ke3L!

http://kbullock.ringworld.org/2007/3/26/higher-order-messaging

As always, thanks for reading.

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Skip to the next paragraph. Ready? Go.

Okay. Now you're reading the Perl newsletter, a bi-monthly mailing
intended to remind you that the O'Reilly Network loves Perl almost as much
as you do.
Here's what's going on in camel-land lately.

* Perl Events

Want to go to Houston this summer? Now you have a good reason--YAPC::NA
will take place from June 25-27. If you've considered speaking, you
have less than two weeks to submit your proposal. If you're Michael G.
Schwern,
you have one week:

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Want to go to Vienna this summer? You have until midnight on the 31st to
register for YAPC::EU at the early bird price:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/2119226

* Perl News

The Perl Foundation has begun to award a series of small microgrants
designed to improve and spur on Perl 6. The first grant has gone to Steve
Peters
to improve the portability and correctness of Parrot (yay!):

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/22/1542235
http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/26/1745205

Here's a fun project, if you want a nice example of the Catalyst
framework.
Website in a Box is a CMS for small- and medium-sized projects:

http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/21/0939245

Your editor minuted the Perl 6 design minutes:

http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32825
http://use.perl.org/~chromatic/journal/32837

Ann Barcomb summarized the week in Perl 6:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_26.html

Note that Ann is looking for an assistant; if you'd like to contribute
greatly to the world of Perl 6 and are willing to gather a weekly summary
(using
some powerful tools), please contact her.

Parrot 0.4.10 came out, with Parrot::Embed allowing you to use Parrot
from
Perl 5 programs:

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/parrot_0410_released.html

* Perl at O'Reilly

When your editor first met Sean Burke, this brilliant linguist was
writing
a book called "Perl & LWP." Several years later, we've made the book
available as a wikibook. That means that you can read it for free but,
more
importantly, you can make your own annotations and contributions:

https://www.wikicontent.com/wiki/index.php/Perl_%26_LWP

Your editor once looked at the oldest Perl distribution he could find
(from 1988, when there was still a wall in both Berlins). It included a
test
suite and a test harness. Nowdays, there's a distribution called
Test::Harness
that interprets test runs. The code has a certain... lineage... however.
Now
a successor has started to appear in the form of TAP::Parser. Your editor
put it through its paces:

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

Mike Hendrickson reviewed competitive programming language market shares
based on book sales:

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

Curtis Poe winced at the pseudo-OO design behind the AuthenticationFairy:

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

Dave Cross found an interesting use of Perl to generate newspaper
headlines:

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

Curt Hibbs suggested that Rails was only possible in full due to Ruby.
Agree?

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/03/why_was_rails_only_possible_wi.html

Next week, Perl.com will explore the highly-underused feature of
subroutine attributes.

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This week, Mac DevCenter is featuring an exclusive interview with
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If you didn't get an opportunity to escape your winter weather and head
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Also, there is a very interesting thread on our blog pages about open
source and its role in proprietary companies, like Apple. More about
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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:

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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:

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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.

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Dear Readers,

Nature is binary! I have proof. In the series of seven days in New
Hampshire, we had 12 inches of snow, a series of 60-degree days, another
snow storm, and it will be 65 tomorrow. Who ever keeps flipping the switch
from Winter to Spring and back again, stop it!

While I've been pondering the binary nature of meteorology, life continues
apace over at the ONLamp Family of Web Sites. If you want to offer a
search engine on your web site, but don't want to go to one of the "Big
Three" search providers, Michael Douma offers a rundown of the top search
engines available that are implemented using PHP.

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

The bloggers, when not sunning themselves or shoveling snow, have had a
busy week. Juliet Kemp points the afflicted at a solution for ghosting
cursors under Gnome.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/cursor_ghosting_on_x.html

Caitlyn Martin takes Fedora Core to task for what she sees as a poor
record on package management.

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/03/where_fedora_went_wrong.html

Microsoft going open source?!! Maybe not for everything, but Matt Asay
reports on Redmond's move to place FoxPro into open source.

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

chromatic continues his salute to obscure Linux packages with a hat's off
to Gnumeric.

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

Don't we all just have those days when nothing will do but a hex-dumping
network proxy server? Ok, maybe most of us don't but Jeremy Jones did, and
has a recipe of the week to handle it

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

Todd Ogasawara has a pointer to a free e-book from MIT that compares open
versus closed source programming incentives.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/free_pdf_book_from_mit_press_p_1.html

According Larry Wall, Perl isn't developed using the waterfall scheduling
methodology, but a whirlpool, and as he says, "a whirlpool sucks." Just
one of the many gems that Ann Barcomb culled from the Perl Mailing List
this week.

http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/03/weekly_perl_6_mailing_list_sum_26.html

Matt Asay continues his take on Microsoft and open source with a
suggestion that they embrace the GPL. Bill Gates and Richard Stallman
together? That would be a sight to see.

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

Chris Tyler asks in light of Dell's investigation of pre-installed Linux:
do people want pre-installed Linux or device drivers that work with more
than one distro?

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

Remember those classic Grimm's Fairy Tales, where the evil factory class
is outwitted by the humble but brave persistence layer? No? Then you won't
have heard the tale of the AuthenticationFairy, so let Curtis Poe tell it
to you.

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

Next week, there will be two new and exciting articles to look forward on
Thursday. Stéphane Faroult will take us through the first part of a
two-part series on implementing analytical functions in MySQL, and Raju
Varghese shows us how to do 3-D visualizations of logfiles using Gnuplot.

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

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