Monday, April 03, 2006
April Already
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Hello, Linux newsletter subscribers. In the time it takes to read this
paragraph, you'll start to get the latest news in the worlds of free,
liberated, and open source software, as seen on the O'Reilly Network in
the past week. Ready? Go!
Ruby on Rails, that frustrating little project that launched a decade-old
language from Japan squarely into the Java versus Everyone debates,
recently celebrated its 1.1 release. Now try to install it. (Oh, it's
not so bad; your editor knows that you're quite good at system
administration. This is for your friends, though.) Because not every
tutorial shows the installation and configuration process for every
operating system, here's how to get Ruby on Rails running on Mac OS X
server:
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/03/29/rails.html>
The next time you arrive at the airport hours early for a flight and
decide to check your email, praise free wireless internet access. Then
wonder just who's on the same network as you. Ubiquitous wireless changes
the rules of security. Swayam Prakasha's "What Is Wireless Security"
introduces how to think about wireless access and where to start securing
it. (You can certainly go further, but if you've never thought about this
question, start here.)
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2006/03/30/what-is-wireless-security.html>
Science and free software have a lot in common. The near-obsessive need
to build on and improve and refine the work of others is a tremendous
benefit to both. It's also clear how free software uses the sciences
(specifically computer science), but things go the other way around too.
David Boswell's "The Science of Space Exploration" describes several space
projects that use (and even produce) free software:
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
In weblogs this week, your editor published a six-part series on "The
World's Most Maintainable Programming Language:"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html>
Python 2.4.3 came out.
<http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.3/NEWS.txt>
Sid Steward shares his excitement about WebDAV:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/webdavs_day.html>
Jeremy Jones reports on the addition of an incredible amazing
best-of-breed plugin for the TurboGears Python web development toolkit:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/04/how_turbogears_will_win_the_we.html>
Roger Weeks found a silly bug related to Apple Mail and SSH tunnelling.
Warning: the responses contain IPv6 comments:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/sysadmin/blog/2006/03/ssh_tunnelling_apple_mail.html>
That's it for the week. Next week your editor will be back home after
discovering that sunny California, for the time being, isn't.
Looks like home though,
- c
chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. Ajax on Rails
XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As
you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs
explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need
to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html>
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2. Apple's High-Water Mark?
Apple's latest moves have impressed observers, but the environment is
about to change drastically, with Apple likely facing its greatest
challenges. Where do the company and its users face competition? IBM,
Sony, and ... Linux? Adrien Lamothe explores the computing landscape of
2006.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/23/apple_vs_everyone.html>
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3. Secure Your Linux Server
Linux is a powerful and popular operating system kernel. That popularity
means you might be running it even if you're not a dedicated Unix
administrator or high-powered programmer. That doesn't mean that
rock-solid security is out of your reach, though. Aaron Brazell shows how
to make Red Hat 9 (and other Linux distributions) much more secure in a
few easy steps.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/03/23/secure-your-server.html>
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4. The Software of Space Exploration
Free software advocates often appeal to the open discovery, disclosure,
and discussion practices of modern science as justification for sharing
information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
free and open source software continue to grow in popularity. David
Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and usable
by armchair scientists.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
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5. PHP Form Handling
If your PHP program is a dynamic web page (and it probably is) and your
PHP program is dealing with user input (and it probably is), then you need
to work with HTML forms. David Sklar, author of Learning PHP 5, offers
tips for simplifying, securing, and organizing your form-handling PHP
code.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/08/26/PHPformhandling.html>
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