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Greetings, everyone. You're reading the Linux newsletter, a weekly tour
of open source development, use, administration, and advocacy. Here are
some recent articles appearing on ONLamp.com and LinuxDevCenter.com.
Though Ruby doesn't start with the letter P (unless you think it wears a
mustache), the language itself is still powerful and capable. It's gained
little traction outside of Japan, but the Rails web application framework
just may change that--it could be Ruby's first really compelling
application. Curt Hibbs recently provided a tutorial for building
deceptively simple web applications with Ruby:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
Perhaps you already have your language and libraries chosen and now you
only need to write and maintain your applications. How can you share
documentation and design knowledge within your group without adding
crushing overhead or ruling out job flexibility? "Use a Wiki!" suggests
Jason Briggs. He's written up his experiences using a wiki for
documentation, including techniques for sharing images and figures:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/01/20/wikidocs.html
One of the biggest benefits of FreeBSD's 5.x branch is the steady
improvement of core features. With the recent 5.3 release, the
next-generation SMP implementation is stable. BSD interviewer Federico
Biancuzzi recently exchanged several emails with core developer Scott Long
about the current state of and future plans for multiprocessor support in
FreeBSD:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/01/20/smpng.html
In this week's weblogs, brian d foy starts a museum for instances of the
word "Perl" in everyday life:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6251
Adam Trachtenberg reports on the endangered tarsier:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6252
Bob DuCharme likes the new attention the a/@rel attribute has received
recently:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6257
Andy Oram recommends Free Software Magazine:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6262
Steve Mallet wears his red Creative Commons t-shirt with pride:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6265
Nat Torkington ponders the idea of open source business analysis:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6282
Derek Sivers describes a software rewrite in PostgreSQL and Ruby:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6286
Uche Ogbuji has had enough of deceptive Python and XML benchmarks:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6291
This week's Open Source Project of the Week is WebCalendar, a calendering
application with strong language and interoperability support:
http://osdir.com/Downloads+index-req-viewdownloaddetails-lid-791-ttitle-WebCalendar.phtml
That wraps it up for this week. Stay tuned for articles on Linux
clustering
and Freevo.
Until next week,
chromatic
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O'Reilly Network
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ONLamp.com and Linux Devcenter Top Five Articles Last Week
1. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that
makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the
hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even
non-Rubyists can follow.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
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2. Rolling with Ruby on Rails
The Ruby community is abuzz about Rails, a web application framework that
makes database-backed apps dead simple. What's the fuss? Is it worth the
hype? Curt Hibbs shows off Rails, building a simple application that even
non-Rubyists can follow.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html
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3. Design by Wiki
Is your project drowning in a sea of useless, out-of-date, and irrelevant
documentation? Or is your project foundering with no map whatsoever?
Before you shell out time and money for a proprietary package, consider
that a humble wiki may solve most of your woes. Jason Briggs explains how
his team uses MoinMoin to track its project documentation--and diagrams.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2005/01/20/wikidocs.html
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4. Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba
The combination of Samba and CUPS makes network printing on a mixed
Linux/Windows LAN easier than ever. You can share Linux printers with
Windows clients, and Windows printers with Linux clients. A
Linux/Samba/CUPS printer server is reliable and reasonably simple to set
up and maintain. Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, shows you how.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/13/lnxckbk_samba.html
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5. Keeping Your Life in Subversion
Revision control is great for collaborative projects and distributed
projects. How well does it work for individuals? According to Joey Hess,
fantastically. He's kept his home directory under revision control for
years--here's how he does it with Subversion.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html
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