http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/ O'Reilly ONLamp Blog en Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 22:46:17 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.21 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I let Apple know that I'd like to discuss the 2 issues they won't be fixing with the security community and they let me know they are fine with it. http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/safari_carpet_bomb.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/safari_carpet_bomb.html Technical 2008-05-14T22:46:17-08:00 Nitesh Dhanjani I happened to come across this article in Redmond Developer News recently... Redmond Among Contributors to Open Source PHP Framework ...about contributers to the Zend Framework. Among the many (400) contributers to the project are Google and Microsoft. It's probably just me,... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/google_and_microsoft_contribut.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/google_and_microsoft_contribut.html Port25 2008-05-14T07:00:00-08:00 Todd Ogasawara Google likes hiring programmers who contribute to open source projects because they're more self-motivated. On open source projects, volunteers may be assigned tasks, but often they recognize a need and propose to fill it. This and many other interesting topics came up at the party celebrating the opening of Google's larger Cambridge, Massachusetts office. http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/why_open_source_developers_can.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/why_open_source_developers_can.html Opinion 2008-05-14T04:45:07-08:00 Andy Oram On a recent consulting gig, a client had the requirement that a JavaScript deliverable needed to run in a self-enclosed script tag that would be arbitrarily placed within the body of a page. In other words, I needed to deliver a JavaScript... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/dojo_goodness_part_7_injecting.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/dojo_goodness_part_7_injecting.html 2008-05-12T19:08:13-08:00 Matthew Russell Microsoft's Patch Tuesday will be upon us soon patching 3 critical and 1 moderate security problems. Security issues aren't just a problem for Microsoft software of course. And, I recently learned about... oCERT: Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team ...which describes itself... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/ocert_open_source_computer_eme.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/ocert_open_source_computer_eme.html Port25 2008-05-12T04:00:00-08:00 Todd Ogasawara Okay, actually, there are a number of virtualization options not listed in the title, but the one nobody seems to be talking much about Sun’s xVM VirtualBox. But, wait! you say, Sun begs to differ: “Sun xVM VirtualBox software is the world's... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/another_virtualization_option.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/another_virtualization_option.html Port25 2008-05-11T20:01:03-08:00 Dustin Puryear The heapq implements a min-heap sort algorithm suitable for use with Python's lists.... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/pymotw_heapq.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/pymotw_heapq.html Technical 2008-05-11T10:13:20-08:00 Doug Hellmann There's an interesting four page PDF file that appeared recently on the Microsoft downloads site titled... Open Source at Microsoft CodeBox: Bringing the Open Source Approach In-House It answers the question: Could the community and collaborative concepts that underlie open source projects... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/microsoft_codebox_lessons_from.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/microsoft_codebox_lessons_from.html Port25 2008-05-09T04:00:00-08:00 Todd Ogasawara If anyone was interested in a great Google App Engine project, I would love to see a community blog/speaker registration tool. Jeff Rush mentioned something like this a couple of PyCons ago, but now there is the technology available for free with... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/google_app_engine_application.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/google_app_engine_application.html Technical 2008-05-09T02:27:30-08:00 Noah Gift I like numbers. They can mean a lot of things. Rather than continuing silly arguments over obfuscated and flawed measurements of "language popularity", perhaps a better way of measuring the viability of a language or platform is to measure the freshness of... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/how_fresh_is_the_cpan.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/how_fresh_is_the_cpan.html Opinion 2008-05-08T16:26:22-08:00 chromatic If you are at all familiar with the UNIX or Linux world, you will know about the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) functionality. Essentially, PAM is a highly extensible login framework for authenticating and authorizing a user for access to a server. Prior... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/microsoft_windows_now_supports.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/microsoft_windows_now_supports.html Port25 2008-05-08T14:01:34-08:00 Dustin Puryear OK, I know this is NOT the Inside MySQL blog area. But, MySQL is the "M" in both LAMP and WAMP. And, as one of the people who wasn't very happy by MySQL's decision to close source parts of the upcoming MySQL... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/mysql_code_api_and_data_format.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/mysql_code_api_and_data_format.html Port25 2008-05-07T05:00:00-08:00 Todd Ogasawara The third Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, May 29, from 6 to 10pm in Harvard Square. http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/ignite_boston_3.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/ignite_boston_3.html News 2008-05-07T04:24:55-08:00 Mike Hendrickson Here is an application on Google App Engine Application I wrote for an upcoming PyAtl Talk, and an upcoming O'Reilly Online Article: http://greedycoin.appspot.com/ Quick notes: Really liking the datastore API. I also liked the Django templates even though I have touched them... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/greedy_coin_google_app_engine.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/greedy_coin_google_app_engine.html Technical 2008-05-05T20:00:44-08:00 Noah Gift (Cross-posted from perlbuzz.com) Selena Deckelmann has come back from BarCampPortland with copies of every Post-It on the topic selection board. The topic selection board at an unconference like a BarCamp is where people write on a Post-It a topic they'd like to... http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/postits_from_barcampportland.html http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/05/postits_from_barcampportland.html Articles 2008-05-05T11:07:49-08:00 Andy Lester