An O'Reilly Focus on System Administration
by Derrick StoryNetwork Newsletter for 07/17/2003
Dear Readers,
What is a system administrator? O'Reilly editor and author Rob Flickenger has written a thoughtful essay answering that question. It's part of the content welcoming you to O'Reilly's new Focus on System Administration, a page dedicated to providing professional system administrators with valuable, hard-learned techniques they can use to get the job done.
So why have we published a focus on system administrators? Sysadmins find their responsibilities lying somewhere between deity and janitor. Having the right tools and resources at hand makes deity status easier to attain. We've collected our best books, columns, and articles all on one page as a convenient means of providing these tools. If you're a system administrator, come check it out; we think you'll find it worth a bookmark.
Until next week,
Tara A. McGoldrick
Web Editor
O'Reilly & Associates
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An O'Reilly Focus on System Administration
State of the Onion 2003
Larry Wall's annual report on the state of Perl, from OSCON 2003
(the seventh annual Perl conference) in Portland, Oregon in July
2003. In this full length transcript, Larry talks about being
unreasonable, unwilling, and impossible.
In Sync with CVS
Apple's Backup and iSync applications are great for Dot-Mac
subscribers, but some folks prefer to "roll their own" when
synchronizing data among machines. The open source tool, CVS, is
a good solution for "do it yourself" types. James Duncan Davidson
shows you how to set it up.
XSLT Performance in .NET
The Microsoft .NET Framework brings with it many new tools and
improvements for developers. Among them is a very rich and powerful
set of XML classes that allow the developer to tap into XML and
XSLT in their applications. Before the Microsoft .NET Framework
was released, Microsoft published the XML SDK, now in version 4.0.
Which raises the question: how do these two engines compare to
each other in performance? Dan Furmin shows you the results of
his performance comparison.
Kapor's Thoughts on Desktop Linux
Mitch Kapor examines what stands in the way of Linux as an end-user
operating system. Daniel Steinberg reports on Kapor's keynote from
OSCON 2003.
Slash'EM Interview
Any worthwhile Nethack variant eventually finds a home in Slash'EM.
Tracking those variants and the main Nethack sources is quite a
job though. Howard Wen discusses the project with Warren Cheung
and J. Ali Harlowe.
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Hydra, VoodooPad Earn Top Awards in Second Mac OS X Innovators
Contest. Here's the official announcement with links to the sites
of each of the winners.
Creating Email Templates with XML
Nearly every web app needs to send email at some point, but storing
message bodies and headers can be tricky. Rafe Colburn demonstrates
using XML, the Commons Digester, JavaMail, and MessageFormat to
simplify generating and sending email.
Transclusion with XSLT 2.0
In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he examines some
new XSLT 2.0 features which make document transclusion a reality.
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Hydra, VoodooPad Earn Top Awards in Second Mac OS X Innovators Contest. Here's the official announcement with links to the sites of each of the winners.Amish for QWERTY
I learned to type before I learned to write. The QWERTY keyboard layout is hard-wired to my brain. But last week, my pride got pricked. I was brung low by a phone. I'm 31, and suddenly I'm obsolete. Or at least Amish.Creating Email Templates with XML
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Writing code well means balancing expressiveness with elegance. Remember, you're writing code that must be maintained. In the second of a series on PHP Paranoia, John Coggeshall gives three tips to write code that's easier to understand.
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