Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Distributing the Future
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Dear Reader,
I haven't talked about our flagship podcast for a while, Distributing the
Future, but I want to mention this week's show because of a terrific
interview with Edie Freedman by Chuck Joiner. Among other things, Edie
talks about the Photoshop Cook-Off that O'Reilly is sponsoring. Both the
contest and interview are interesting, and you might want to give a listen.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/05/distributing-the-future.html>
Distributing the Future is published weekly. I think it is one of the
easiest, most entertaining ways to keep up with O'Reilly Media hot topics.
For example, if you want to hear about the major themes and luminaries at the
upcoming Where 2.0 Conference, Daniel Steinberg, DTF host, will have plenty for
you to listen to. There's always something compelling to think about.
Until next time,
-Derrick
Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com
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*** Featured Articles ***
Photoshop Cook-Off
Today you'll meet Edie Freedman, the woman behind those funky animals you
see on the front covers of O'Reilly books. She's now working as an editor
and talks to Chuck Joiner about a Photoshop contest. Where 2.0 program
co-chair Brady Fowler talks to Josh Peterson about the 43 Places website,
which lists thousands of places people would love to visit. Google's Chris
DiBona is back: this time, he talks to chromatic about Google and open
source. (DTF 06-05-2006: 33 minutes 32 seconds)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/05/distributing-the-future.html>
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Designing Small Windows Networks
It's not as simple as you think to design a network for small
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Mitch Tulloch tells you how to do it, taking into account everything from
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<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/06/06/designing-small-windows-networks.html>
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FEAR-less Site Scraping
Many web programmers talk about "domain-specific languages" as if defining
functions and methods were a new discovery. A real domain-specific
language provides concise syntax and symatics for a particular purpose,
such as Yung-chung Lin's FEAR::API. He explains how this toolkit allows
you to scrape, modify, store, and re-present web data easily, effectively,
and economically.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/06/01/fear-api.html>
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Cloning Terminal to Ease Window Management
By using multiple copies of an app, you can hide and display each copy's
windows separately. For example, you can have multiple copies of the
Terminal available: one for generic tasks, a few for specific projects,
and one reserved as idle. Rich Morin shows you how.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/06/01/multiple-terminal-windows.html>
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Switching Back to Desktop Linux
Almost everyone at O'Reilly owns an iBook or PowerBook and almost everyone
runs Mac OS X. It's not everyone's ideal operating system, however.
Recently, free software editor chromatic explained to Mac editor Derrick
Story why he switched back to desktop Linux. Here's what he wants in a
usable Unix desktop.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/06/01/switching-back.html>
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Converting Between XML and JSON
Stefan Goessner shows us how to convert between XML and JSON, offering a
pragmatic approach to data sharing and conversion between two very popular
data formats.
<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/05/31/converting-between-xml-and-json.html>
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Working with the Google Web Toolkit
The Google Web Toolkit was the talk of JavaOne 2006, offering developers a
way to create Ajax applications by writing Java and having the toolkit
generate the client-side JavaScript, which can call back to Java servlets
through an RPC-like call. Robert Cooper offers an initial tutorial to get
you up and running with GWT.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/05/31/working-with-google-web-toolkit.html>
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