Using Extensions in Firefox The Firefox browser has a lot going for it, and one of its best traits is its ability to use extensions that add to its features. Wei-Meng Lee, author of Windows XP Unwired, shows you how to find and install them, and clues you in to his favorites. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Wireless Security and the Open1X Project Open1X is an open-source project focusing on network security. The wireless adoption of this technology is referred to as 802.1X. In this interview, Matthew Gast travels to the University of Utah to talk to Chris Hessing and Terry Simmons, who are intent on bringing standards-based wireless security to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows clients. [MacDevCenter.com]
Danny O'Brien: To Evil! Danny O'Brien starts his new monthly column for OSDir measuring players in the open source software world by who is the most evil! Our contestants for August: Rob Enderle, Jörg Schilling and Gareth Jones.
Learning ASP.NET for the ASP Developer, Part 1 You may be an ASP developer. After the boom of the 1990s, there are thousands of you out there. We know you want to learn ASP.NET. In this, the first of three articles by Dr. Nahal J. Mehta, he shows you how to leverage your ASP knowledge to learn how to think like an ASP.NET developer. [ONDotnet.com]
Open Source and Free Documentation Licenses, Part 1: The GNU FDL The same principles that apply to open source licenses also apply to licenses for documentation and works other than software. In part one of a two-part series, Andrew St. Laurent looks at the first of three such licenses, the GNU Free Documentation License (FDL). He reviews the FDL section by section, and concludes with a look at some minor problems and ambiguities in definitions. Andrew is the author of Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing. [ONLamp.com]
Security Alerts
New Apache
Noel Davis look at problems in Apache 2.x, GNU Radius, libXpm, CUPS, gdk-pixbug, cdrtools, SUS, and Webmin.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
Hacking IRC IRC Hacks author Paul Mutton has selected some of his favorite hacks to excerpt here. This week find out how to add your IRC nickname to your webcam, and how to make your own IRC bot for passing on short messages to other users. Be sure to check back to this space next week for hacks on performing feats of math; announcing newsgroup posts; and using IRC within a screen. [Web DevCenter]
Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design, Part 5 So far, Adam Behringer has covered an enterprise software architecture based on a flexible "hub" that stores and vends data to a number of cross-platform tools and apps using a standard XML "spoke." In this fifth installment, he shows you how to build (with Cocoa) a client module that will work with the XML data. [MacDevCenter.com]
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Deploying SP2--Or Not Is XP SP2 easy to deploy? How can you do it? And more importantly, what can you do if you don't want to deploy it immediately? Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, gives you advice. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Embedded Databases Every serious program needs data, but not every serious program needs a full-blown relational database server backend. You're not stuck to reading, parsing, and writing flat-files forever, though. Phillip Janert explores three types of embedded databases that are easy to install, use, and distribute. [Perl.com]
Roll Your Own Series 60 Phone Applications As cell phones become better computers, they become better platforms for real applications. In theory, that means hobbyists and home users can write code for their phones. In practice? John Littler explores the options to start programming your Series 60 smartphone. [ONLamp.com]
More Inside News on O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference We've added top-level Apple-employed speakers to the conference faculty. And yes, some have been approved to talk about Tiger. Here's the latest inside scoop on the upcoming Mac OS X event. [MacDevCenter.com]
Open Source Security: Still a Myth Does the open source process guarantee better security than proprietary development methods do? Not necessarily, warns John Viega. There are several security challenges facing open source software that many developers have so far failed to recognize. [ONLamp.com]
Defining the Linux Enterprise Linux users often call into question decisions by major vendors who increase innovation in the enterprise at the expense of the desktop. In this article, Tom Adelstein, coauthor of Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop, defines the market and discusses the business reasons why Linux companies pursue the enterprise market while limiting their initiatives for consumers. Tom also examines possible ways enterprise advances and the community can benefit consumer products. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Features: Uncle Sam's Semantic Web Paul Ford comes to Washington, D.C., to report on the Semantic eGov conference, where he discovers that Uncle Sam has plans for the Semantic Web. [XML.com]
Developing Your First Enterprise Beans, Part 1 In this first installment of a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 4 of Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition, you'll learn how to develop your first entity bean. This segment covers how to define the remote interface, how to create a deployment descriptor, how to deploy, and more. Code examples step you through everything you need to do to create and use your first entity bean. [ONJava.com]
Tasteful Food Photography Food photography traditionally has been the realm of a handful of weathered professionals. So for the casual shooter or even the ambitious amateur, getting great food shots can seem like an intimidating and daunting task at best. But it doesn't have to be that way. Simone Paddock shows you how. [O'Reilly Network]
Extreme Markup 2004 James Mason files a brief recap of this year's Extreme Markup Languages conference. [XML.com]
Hacking XML Among author Mike Fitzgerald's favorite hacks in XML Hacks are two that use SP, James Clark's free, open-source SGML-parser package. The first hack shows how to convert a minimally tagged document to well-formed XML. The second shows how to convert a Wiki format to XML via SGML and SP tools. [XML.com]
XML Document Validation with an XML Schema In many cases, it's useful not just to get the values from an XML document, but to verify that the document itself is properly formatted. Deepak Vohra takes a look at how to validate XML documents with Xerces2-j and JAXP. [ONJava.com]
Perl Parser Performance Petr Cimprich compares the performance of five Perl SAX2 parsers. Are you using the best one for your job? [XML.com]
Understanding the Interplay Between Utility Classes and Static Initialization Using static initializers is a common practice for setting up fields that need to be accessed from distantly related classes. However, without a firm understanding of how statics work with relation to subclassing, and a careful establishment of initialization expectations, difficult problems can arise. Satya Komatineni offers a new pattern that can reduce these problems. [ONJava.com]
Behind the Scenes at The Mezonic Agenda: An Electronic Voting Primer Although electronic voting and touch-screen systems have been in use since the 1970s, the recent controversy that has surrounded the design and implementation of Direct Recording Electronic (DRE) systems, as well as the companies that make them, has brought the risks of electronic voting under spotlight. This article by Spyros Nomikos, coauthor of The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency, offers a snapshot of where we are and how we got here. [O'Reilly Network]
This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-09-10 Piers Cawley has the latest from the Perl 6 mailing lists. The perl6-compiler list makes its introduction as Parrot people argue about configuration and namespaces and play Minesweeper and the Perl 6 language list continues to discuss Synopsis 9. [Perl.com]
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Crap-free Real Player [Nathan Torkington]
Where Are All The BlogWomen? [Carla Schroder]
Editing Tips [Nathan Torkington]
Sketch-a-Move cars use touchscreens to plan driving paths [Mark Frauenfelder]
Ask Jeff Bezos, Adam Bosworth, John Doerr, Eddie Cue... [Tim O'Reilly]
Are Web Services receding? [Simon St. Laurent]
Fedora Core 3 Test 2 Screenshots [Steve Mallett]
Let's not Repeat Telecom 96 [Ted Wallingford]
Two bugs in two years, new features every week, deadlines met each and every time… and what’s with these ruby slippers? by Mason Glaves
New Main-Class by Daniel H. Steinberg
Sun Java System Application Server Platform Edition 8 2004Q4 Beta is now available by Lance Andersen
Refactoring to Patterns by Vincent Brabant
Cheap Hack I: rename your jar file, get a different Main-Class by Laird Nelson
The AOP Elevator Speech by Bob Lee
Where are you working? by Daniel H. Steinberg
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