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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nitesh Dhanjani points to the Month of Apple Bugs:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ann Barcomb summarized December in Perl 6 development:

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

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

Curtis Poe started doing 99 exercises in Perl 6:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rael Dornfest opened registration for the Emerging Technology conference:

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

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

Year of the Tarsier,
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chromatic
chromatic@oreilly.com
Technical Editor
O'Reilly Network

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