Building the Perfect Budget PC, Part 2 You can build a powerhouse system without breaking the bank. In this second installment of a two-part article, Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, authors of Building the Perfect PC, show how to assemble all the components and finish the job. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Build a Simple MP3 Player for Your Site You don’t have to monkey with Flash, redundant windows, or unpredictable plugins to deliver smart-looking audio playback for your visitors. With this sneaky bit of JavaScript, you can generate pop-up music players on the fly. [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]
XML-Deviant
The Google Wake-Up Call
Micah Dubinko explains how Google's excellent assembly of existing pieces is raising the bar for everyone else.
[XML.com]
Internationalization, Part 2 Having your Java apps run correctly both down the street and across the globe presents some hefty challenges. Part one of this two-part excerpt from Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition covered the first two steps to internationalization in Java: using Unicode character encoding and handling local customs. This week deals with the third step in the process: localizing user-visible messages. [ONJava.com]
How Paris Got Hacked? Like many online service providers, T-Mobile requires users to answer a "secret question" if they forget their passwords. For Paris Hilton's account, the secret question was "What is your favorite pet's name?" By correctly providing the well-known answer, any internet user could change Hilton's password and freely access her account. [O'Reilly Network]
Rich Salz
The xml:id Conundrum
Rich Salz asks how the xml:id conundrum, and the interaction with XML Canonicalization, should be solved.
[XML.com]
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Display Your Favorite Album Artwork in iTunes What good are a bazillion iTunes without the album art? Bring the two together again on your iPod photo. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how using two free programs: Clutter and art4iTunes.com. For more useful tips and tricks for using your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's latest eDoc, All About Your iPod Photo (PDF). [MacDevCenter.com]
Liberty on Whidbey
Data Binding in ASP.NET 2.0
Not only has Microsoft made radical changes in how data binding is done between ASP.NET 1.x and 2.0, but it has also created significant differences between how it is done in Windows Forms and ASP.NET in 2.0. This keeps life interesting (Jesse Liberty says, gnashing his teeth). In this new column, he dives into data binding in the new Web Forms.
[ONDotnet.com]
Rid Yourself of Digital Media Annoyances Sometimes those little quirks in your favorite digital media toys can take all the fun out of playing. Preston Gralla offers a baker's dozen fixes to MP3, iTunes, and QuickTime annoyances, so you can get back to the fun. Preston is the author of Internet Annoyances. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Scripting Dot Mac Recently we compared .Mac to Spymac's Wheel, and in the process provided a good overview of .Mac services. One of the tools missing, especially for those who want to publish web pages on their .Mac account, was server-side scripting. Well, just because it isn't in the package doesn't mean you can't do it. Take a look at this tutorial and see how. [MacDevCenter.com]
JDMK and Legacy IT Management Keeping a network with legacy (and possibly unreliable) devices is nearly impossible without some automated help. Stephen Morris shows how to use the Java Dynamic Management Kit to keep tabs on your network and find potential points of failure. [ONJava.com]
Features
Eat Drink Feel Good Markup Language
Aaron Straup Cope describes the pros and cons of making his Eatdrinkfeelgood Markup Language more RDF compatible.
[XML.com]
Building a 3D Engine in Perl, Part 3 The ultimate goal of all programming is to be as unproductive as possible--to write games. In part three of a series on building a 3D engine with Perl, Geoff Broadwell explains how to manage the viewpoint and how to achieve impressive lighting effects with OpenGL. [Perl.com]
Pre-Patched Kickstart Installs Continual development and improvement of software is wonderful, unless you want to keep multiple machines up to date. Fortunately, the solution to installing multiple identical machines can solve this problem too. Ethan McCallum demonstrates how to create your own yum repository for upgrades and new installations. [LinuxDevCenter.com]
Preserving Backward Compatibility Change is inevitable, but incompatibility is not. Upgrades are good, but forcing your users to change time after time is unpleasant. A little bit of planning can go a long way toward keeping your users happy. Garrett Rooney offers strategies for preserving backward compatibility, drawing examples from the Subversion project. [ONLamp.com]
FreeBSD Basics
FreeBSD Tips and Tricks for 2005
The nice thing about F/OSS is that it grows too fast for anyone to keep track of everything new. In her second annual exploration of new things she missed the first time around, Dru Lavigne discovers installed FreeBSD logos, CLI dialog boxes, rescue utilities, more articles, a run-level GUI, saved ports options, and RSS readers.
[O'Reilly Network]
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Apple Refreshes iPod Mini and Photo [Michael Brewer]
Apple to acquire Tivo? What a wonderful reality if true! [Timothy Appnel]
One perspective on open source mapping and GIS tools [Tyler Mitchell]
Yahoo! Mac Toolbar [Nathan Torkington]
Changes to iPod line-up [Giles Turnbull]
New iPods [Hadley Stern]
Where in the World? [Michael Smith]
Getting on with Gallery Remote [Giles Turnbull]
Big news. I'm going West. by Joshua Marinacci
Lucene is a wonderful thing by Duane Gran
Pragmatic Web Forms: WebForms2 by John Reynolds
JDO 2.0 by Daniel H. Steinberg
JAXB 2.0 and Immutable Objects/Fields by Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Managing membership requests by Daniel Brookshier
Controlling code in your open source project by Daniel Brookshier
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