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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
Site Editor, ONLamp.com
turner@oreilly.com

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