Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD Want better performance, higher reliability, and better recovery possibilities from your disks? Try RAID. Dan Langille recently made the switch to hardware RAID on his FreeBSD box; here's how he did it. [ONLamp.com]
The Evolution of ePayment Services at UB Perl is often a workhorse behind the scenes, content to do its job quietly and without fuss. When the University of New York at Buffalo needed to offer electronic payment services to students, the Department of Computing Services reached for Perl. Jim Brandt describes how Perl (and a little Inline::Java) helped them build just enough code to allow students to pay their bills online. [Perl.com]
Three-Tier Development with PHP 5 Well-factored applications separate data storage, manipulation, and display. For PHP programmers, PHP 5 and PEAR make that easier than ever. Luis Yordano Cruz demonstrates how to combine PEAR::DB_DataObject, Smarty, and PHP 5 to improve the design and maintenance of your applications. [ONLamp.com]
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Automating PostgreSQL Tasks Databases aren't just create-once, ignore forever sinkholes for data. You'll likely spend time maintaining them, if not generating reports. Save your tender wrists and automate some of those routine tasks. Manni Wood demonstrates how to combine Perl, the shell, and the psql command-line utility to do repetitive jobs for you. [ONLamp.com]
Cooking with Linux, Part 1 Carla Schroder, author of Linux Cookbook, has three tasty recipes to share in this week's excerpt. Whether you want tips on installing a program for easy uninstall, killing user processes, or better logins without passwords, Carla poses the problems and offers solutions. Too bad not all recipes can be this clear, quick, and painless. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
This Fortnight in Perl 6, December 1 - 6 2004 Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists: the Perl 6 language list discusses a shiny new syntax update, and the Parrot list discusses what is and isn't up for grabs. [Perl.com]
Distributed Enterprise Messaging with MantaRay Java Messaging Service (JMS) is a much-used system for distributed enterprise applications, but many implementations use a "broker" approach that creates bottlenecks. MantaRay implements the JMS API through a peer-to-peer approach that, as Amir Shevat reports, provides some significant advantages. [O'Reilly Network]
The Blind Men and the Digital Elephant Digital music-making tools are astonishingly powerful and inexpensive. Why aren't more people using them? The CTO of Cakewalk thinks he knows the answer. [O'Reilly Network]
Features
Word to XML and Back Again
Peter Sefton introduces a technique, using Python and XSLT, to convert MS Word XML output into something useful.
[XML.com]
Tired of Inkjet Snapshots? The Canon CP-220 to the Rescue I have a love/hate relationship with my inkjet printer. Love it for business forms and enlargements. Hate it when trying to print simple 4x6 snapshots. What a hassle! I tested the Canon CP-220 dye sub printer, and I'm never going back to inkjet snapshot prints. [O'Reilly Network]
XML-Deviant
On Folly
XML-oriented programming languages? Crazy! The Semantic Web? Nuts! Or perhaps not. Edd Dumbill on how the crackpots were right all long.
[XML.com]
URLs and URIs, Proxies and Passwords Java networking is seldom as simple as it first seems. In this excerpt, one of a series from Java Network Programming, 3rd Edition, Elliotte Rusty Harold shows how to encode and decode URLs, work with URIs, use multiple proxy servers, query servers with HTTP GET, and use password-based authentication. [O'Reilly Network]
A Network Administrator's Best Friend: BartPE If you're installing or troubleshooting networks, then the best tool you've never heard of is BartPE. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, tells you why you need it and helps you get up and running with it. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Homemade Dot-Mac: Remote Control Ever dreamed of having remote access to your Mac? This edition of Homemade Dot-Mac proves that having remote access, actually getting to see your screen and take control of your mouse, is a lot easier than you ever imagined. Alan Graham promises that it's quick and painless using VNC. [O'Reilly Network]
Security Centers and Firewalls With the release of Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2), Microsoft's latest and most reliable corporate desktop operating system now provides better protection against viruses, worms, and malicious hackers. David Pogue, creator of the Missing Manuals series, offers an excerpt from his newest book, Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition, which covers all the intricacies of SP2. This excerpt deals more specifically with the Security Center and the Windows Firewall. Knowledge is power; protect your system. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Learning ASP.NET for the ASP Developer - Part 3 In the final part of this tutorial, Nihal Mehta will demonstrate how to construct largescale ASP.NET websites. In the previous tutorials of this series, Nihal showed how to build single ASP.NET pages where all the code for a page was written on the page itself. This approach can quickly get tedious when you have code that is common across several pages. Thus, one of the most important elements in sites with a large number of pages is the ability to share code. [ONDotnet.com]
Paying Attention (or Not) to the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist Perhaps the most complex operating system in the world is the human brain. In Mind Hacks, authors Tom Stafford and Matt Webb use cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, and subliminal perception. In this article, they explore how elements of web pages attract attention and influence reading. They then apply some of the ideas from their book in the examination of one such element, an animated photo-sharing widget, the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist. [O'Reilly Network]
Primetime Hypermedia
Mobile Webcasting
Jon Udell looks at streaming webcasts with both QuickTime and Helix.
[O'Reilly Network]
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Struts 1.2 offers cool new features [Bill Siggelkow]
Perl Pillowcases [Nathan Torkington]
Klaus delivers in time for Christmas--Knoppix 3.7 is out [Kyle Rankin]
Google's humble suggestion [Giles Turnbull]
Google Suggest [Niel M. Bornstein]
Hanging out with Chipy [brian d foy]
Determining Time Zone using MapPoint 2004 [Chandu Thota]
Another Shot in the NG DVD Format War [Marc Loy]
Got Sustainable Pace? by Erik Meade
JAX-RPC and JAXB now under the new JDL! by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
Java, Coolness, Human Scale and Creative Environments by Eric Freeman
Ever Heard of Ant2, XDoclet2 or Maven2: Correntions by Andreas Schaefer
Holiday pictures by Daniel H. Steinberg
JAX-RPC and JAXB now under JDL! by Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
XP2005 CFP by William C. Wake
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