Extreme System Administration Learning from programmers seems like a horrible idea, but good developer teams work together productively to solve problems effectively and more efficiently than they could on their own. Why shouldn't system administrators borrow some of that magic? Andrew Cowie suggests that some ideas from Extreme Programming and Agile Development can improve the lives of SAs. [ONLamp.com]
Making Packager-Friendly Software Packaging free and open source software for end users is both necessary and thankless. Without packagers, software could spread neither as far nor as fast as it does. Julio M. Merino Vidal has a secret tip for authors, though: the easier it is for packagers to package your code, the further it may spread. Here's how to make their lives easier. [ONLamp.com]
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Securing Web Forms with PEAR's Text_CAPTCHA On the internet, how can you tell a person from a program written to act just like a person? One approach is to ask a question that (usually) only a human could answer. Marcus Whitney shows off a PEAR package to do this easily from PHP. [ONLamp.com]
Anatomy of an Attack: The Five Ps The five Ps--Probe, Penetrate, Persist, Propagate, and Paralyze--represent a model of how a security attack progresses. In this excerpt from Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools, the authors discuss an attack's progression through these five steps, whether the attack is sourced from a person or an automated worm or script, with emphasis on the Probe and Penetrate phases, the stages that Snort monitors. [O'Reilly Network]
Eclipse Plugins Exposed, Part 2: Simple GUI Elements Eclipse is largely composed of plugins, but you can't just write any arbitrary code and have Eclipse magically incorporate it. In part two of his series on Eclipse, Emmanuel Proulx introduces Eclipse's "extension points" by showing how to create toolbar buttons, menu items, and dialogs. [ONJava.com]
Revving Up Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows Photoshop Elements 3 offers lots of great new features and tools. Unfortunately, you may find its performance isn't always as up to snuff. Barbara Brundage, author of Photoshop Elements 3: The Missing Manual, rounds up some of the most useful hints for revving up Elements' performance and keeping it running smoothly. [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]
Features
Going Native: Making the Case for XML Databases
Ronald Bourret, acknowledged XML database expert, begins a three-part series which makes the case for native XML databases.
[XML.com]
WS-Security in the Enterprise, Part 2: The Framework Denis Pilupchuk continues his series on developing a WS-Security toolkit by developing a general framework to match the needs identified in part one and by starting to map WSSE features to Java objects. [ONJava.com]
BJ Leiderman: Rocking the Bottom of the Dial Meet BJ Leiderman, the melodic mastermind behind National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, PRI’s Marketplace, and countless more unstoppable themes. Then hear two previously unreleased demo songs—with commentary. [DigitalMedia.oreilly.com]
Rich Salz
SOA Made Simple
Rich Salz shows us how to create WSDL descriptions of web services simply and easily, using rather a lot of boilerplate.
[XML.com]
XML Tourist
Directory Trees to Document Trees
In this month's XML Tourist, John E. Simpsons discusses TreeSpace, a hard disk space analysis tool that uses XML to represent data portably.
[XML.com]
Five More Annoying PC Annoyances After his first PC Annoyances book was released, Steve Bass was surprised by the barrage of email he received with yet more annoyances to fix. That led to the just-released second edition of PC Annoyances, where he added 160 more fixes to irritating PC quirks. And if that's not enough, he offers five more here. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
HDTV on Your Mac Even though the Mac is a little late to the HDTV party, you can roll your own setup for not too much time or money. Erica Sadun shows you how. [MacDevCenter.com]
Understanding Local Group Policy The little-known Local Group Policy can be a powerful tool for network administration. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, shows you how to get the most out of it. [WindowsDevCenter.com]
Tax Time: A Year-End Checklist of Accounting Tasks Whether you handle your company's accounting yourself or hand off the major accounting tasks to an accountant, Bonnie Biafore provides a checklist of eight accounting tasks you'll want to complete shortly after the end of your fiscal year. Bonnie is the author of QuickBooks 2005: The Missing Manual. [O'Reilly Network]
Liberty on Whidbey
Enhanced Text Input in Windows Forms 2.0
Visual Studio 2005 provides enhanced controls for managing data input in Whidbey. To get you started, Jesse Liberty takes a look at the masked editing control, which allows you to restrict the input from a user that a Windows Form will accept and to control how it is displayed by using a mask.
[O'Reilly Network]
Targeting Windows (too) for Your REALbasic Apps If you're using a multi-platform IDE such as REALbasic for your Mac applications, you might be interested in Aaron Ballman's tips for porting your software to Windows. My favorite reminder is, "Don't use terms like 'Windoze' or 'Wintel' in your product." [MacDevCenter.com]
Security Alerts
KDE Trouble
Noel Davis looks at problems in KDE, MySQL, Perl, Ximian Evolution, GnuPG, OpenSLP, Ringtone Tools, LuxMan, and Ethereal.
[LinuxDevCenter.com]
FreeBSD Basics
make for Nonprogrammers
If you're a typical FreeBSD user, you may never have compiled C source code on your own. Yet if you've ever issued a make command, it's compiled code for you. How does it do that? What does it do, anyway? And what else can it do? Dru Lavigne answers all of these questions.
[ONLamp.com]
Perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative seems like an odd mix for the company when it works openly and a clever shot across the bow of open source when it works selfishly. How can the rest of us reconcile both positions? Microsoft ex-employee Stephen Walli shares his perspectives on the Shared Source Initiative from within and without the company. [ONLamp.com]
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