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Hello, Linux newsletter readers. As happens every Monday evening
or Tuesday morning, depending on when we send it and when you read
it, this weekly mailing attempts to keep you informed as to what we
think you should know about open source and free software development,
administration, usage, evangelism, and play. Here's what we talked
about this week.

Network programming has its own set of complications and patterns.
Fortunately, agile languages are efficient enough (and networks are
slow enough) that C and C++ are no longer always the languages of
choice for developing networked applications. Python has its own
advantages-a handful of great core libraries and the powerful, if
occasionally obtuse, Twisted framework. Kendrew Lau walks through
a couple of examples of network programming with Python to demonstrate
both approaches:

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2006/08/10/untwisting-python-network-programming.html>

One of MySQL's most clever features is the addition of pluggable
storage engines, allowing you to keep your data safe and accessible
in a variety of ways. The new federated storage engine makes tables
in remote servers look like tables in your local server. SQL and
MySQL hacker Giuseppe Maxia experimented with the federated engine
recently to expand upon the slim manual and avoid common pitfalls.
Here is absolutely everything you need to know:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/08/10/mysql-federated-tables.html>

In other news, your editor forgot to mention that Python hacker Alex
Martelli won the prestigious Frank Willison award for all of his
contributions to the language and the community. Congratulations,
Alex!

<http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/2006/07/willison_award_goes_to_alex_ma.html>

Our "Distributing the Future" podcast this week reviews OSCON and
features an interview with Avi Bryant, the heretic behind the
Smalltalk-based Seaside web framework:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/08/07/distributing-the-future.html>

Victor Rodriguez interviewed Curtis "Ovid" Poe about The Perl
Foundation, Perl 6, contributing to the CPAN, and the book "Perl
Hacks":

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/people_of_perl_ovid.html>

In weblogs this week, Kevin Shockey revealed the darker side of
attending a conference-speaking at it:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/post_oscon_i_the_darker_side_o.html>

Your editor stole a tip from David Golden to make it trivial to
update your Vim configuration file in place:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/make_your_vimrc_trivial_to_upd_1.html>

Then he opined on how distributing a binary Linux kernel module
could infringe the GPL even if there's no mixed source code:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2006/08/why_binaryonly_linux_kernel_mo.html>

Jeremy Jones discovered and fell in love with snippetsEmu, a Vim
extension he now cannot live without:

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/08/snippetsemu_055_released.html>

Thus ends another week. Take care of yourselves and stay warm or
cool, as appropriate.

Hoping Gatwick is less panicky than Heathrow,
- c

chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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