A Plan for Spam Folders Spam filters will never totally eradicate the Internet's junk email problem. Here's why. [O'Reilly Network]
Design by Wiki Is your project drowning in a sea of useless, out-of-date, and irrelevant documentation?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. [ONLamp.com]
The Phalanx Project One ancient Greek military invention was the phalanx, a group of soldiers with overlapping shields each protecting each other. In the Perl world, the Phalanx project intends to improve the quality of Perl 5, Ponie, and the top CPAN modules. Project founder Andy Lester describes the goals and ambitions. [Perl.com]
This Week in Perl 6, Jan. 11-18, 2005 Matt Fowles summarizes the Perl 6 mailing lists with idioms, loop counters, method-calling semantics, and the return of Dan Sugalski. [Perl.com]
FreeBSD's SMPng FreeBSD 5 is better than ever on multiprocessor machines thanks to SMPng, with big changes that improve the correctness and performance of SMP. Federico Biancuzzi recently interviewed FreeBSD's Scott Long about the advantages, disadvantages, and differences that users, developers, and administrators can expect. [ONLamp.com]
Software Infrastructure Bottlenecks in J2EE Sometimes you can throw more CPUs and memory in a box and your web application doesn't get any faster. This can happen when the bottleneck is not in the hardware but the software; specifically, your application server. Deepak Goel looks at what this looks like in terms of performance characteristics and what you can do about it. [ONJava.com]
The Angel with Digital Wings Fusing hip-hop, drum ’n’ bass, movie soundtracks, and cutting-edge digital workstation technology, The Angel creates music that’s essential listening. [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]
A RAW Look at iPhoto 5 Apple overhauled much of iPhoto in version 5 and presented photographers with a more robust tool for managing their media files. Derrick Story looks at importing existing iPhoto libraries, using the new editing tools, and working with RAW and QuickTime files. Image samples of RAW comparisons are included. [O'Reilly Network]
Validating Objects Through Metadata Metadata, in the form of J2SE 5.0's annotation, allow you to mark up your your code with declarative information, and then use reflection to pull out those annotations at runtime and use them. Jacob Hookom shows how these techniques can be used to validate input to your application. [ONJava.com]
Features
Features: Reviewing the Architecture of the World Wide Web
Harry Halpin reviews the final published edition of the W3C TAG's Architecture of the World Wide Web document.
[XML.com]
Features
Features: Printing XML: Why CSS Is Better than XSL
One of the old school debates among XML developers is "CSS versus XSLT." Håkun Wium Lie and Michael Day revive that debate with a shot across XSL's bow.
[XML.com]
Python and XML
Python and XML: Introducing the Amara XML Toolkit
Uche Ogbuji introduces Amara, his new collection of XML tools for Python.
[XML.com]
Run Mac OS X on a PC You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your own PC. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to run the Mac operating system on an emulator called PearPC. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
How to Use mutt, FastMail, and Mail.app Together on Your Mac Many Linux users who are adding Mac OS X to their computing life look to combine the control of command line with the convenience of GUI. In this article, Philip Hollenback, a seasoned Linux user himself, shows how to bring these worlds together on Mac OS X using mutt, FastMail, and Mail.app. [O'Reilly Network]
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Open Source Business Analysis [Nathan Torkington, Nathan Torkington]
I buy a Mac, sort of [Jonathan Gennick]
iWork Arrives [Chuck Toporek]
Microsoft Anti-Virus Tool - A Waste of Good Bytes [Preston Gralla]
Dell, Creative, and the iPod: Sour grapes? [Alan Graham]
Flying My Red Flag -er- Shirt [Steve Mallett, Steve Mallett]
Tor: An anonymous Internet communication system [Nitesh Dhanjani]
XP SP2 breaks Captive-NTFS. How to work around this. [Kyle Rankin]
Certification or Indoctrination? Depends on You! by Andreas Schaefer
Playing the home version of Jeopardy by Daniel H. Steinberg
How to do Conditional Compilation with Java by Andreas Schaefer
Functional objects made even easier with tiger by Alex Winston
AspectJ and AspectWerkz by Daniel H. Steinberg
Binary XML? by John D. Mitchell
Blarg #11: Help me print your book. I downloaded it for free. by Jayson Falkner
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