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Greeting readers,

This week we have some blogs that you've got to read. In case you missed
it last week, James Turner's piece on "The Virtues of Monoculture" is a
good read with lots of comments. Check it out--it's our most visited and
commented on article for the second week.
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_virtues_of_monoculture.html

Articles

In our first recommended article, "Why Do ASP.NET Programmers Need to
Learn CSS?" by Dan Hurwitz and Jesse Liberty, the authors discuss how most
ASP programmers have historically generated the elements of a web page but
not layout, design or display elements. By learning a bit of CSS,
developers can put themselves ahead of the rest of the pack and deliver
better looking web apps. Find out what they think here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/01/why-doaspnet-programmers-need-to-learn-css.html

In our second recommended article, Ron Aitchison talks about a crucial
piece of software that handles receiving every email, accessing a web
page, making a VoIP call, or completing many other web/Internet tasks--the
DNS. In his article, "Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS," you'll
start thinking about the things you can do to make sure your DNS is in
good shape and not causing problems for the rest of the Internet, which,
by the way, also includes you. Check it out here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html

Blogs

On the blog front, we have "Repartitioning on the fly, and disk space
for /" by Juliet Kemp, which discusses partitioning strategies for
partitioning and space requirements. Check out what she has to say here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/04/repartitioning_on_the_fly_and.html

The next blog is really two blogs in one. Preston Gralla blogged on
"Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop" and followed it up with
"More Reasons Why Linux Will Never Take Over the Desktop." Check out why
he thinks that there are too many Linux distributions and other factors
that make it difficult or impossible for Linux to overtake Windows. Start
here and you will get a link to the other blog as well:

http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/04/more_reasons_why_linux_will_ne_3.html

Other

James Turner is starting a new feature (actually a couple more are on the
way too) with "The ONLamp Ombudsman Wants YOU." Let him know what you want here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/04/the_onlamp_ombudsman_wants_you.html

Stats

We have created a tag cloud to show some organic search terms, which means
it is driven by keywords people type into search engines like Google. So,
while these terms reflect what we have to offer as much as they reflect
what people a looking for, they still provide some insight into what
people are looking for online. Here's the link:
http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/widgets/organic_search_tagcloud/

Oh, yeah. The title of this newsletter is CSS, DNS, and RSS but I've only
talked about the first two. Did you know that all of our content is
available in RSS? I read all the blogs in my Thunderbird and never have to
leave the comfort of my email client. To subscribe, you can use the bottom
of the left nav bar on the main O'Reilly Network page and click there, or
click this: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/feed/31. I suggest going to the
nav bar first, as you may want a different kind of feed.

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