Sonoma County is not only the corporate home of O’Reilly, but also one of the world’s most famed wine regions. It’s a bit of hyperbole to say that they never get storms, but the climate tends to be quite mild.

In reality, the state of the wiring closet with Pye tangled up in it is a pretty good representation of most closets I’ve seen without a python tangled up in them. Every closet starts out nice and neat, everything labeled and all the wires in channels and twist-tied. This lasts about a day, until the first change, at which point expediency always overrides order

While we wait for Pye to make his moves of a sexy bunch of LAN cabling, here’s some equally sexy Linux News

As we enter the month of July, those of us living in America are preparing for our annual orgy of pyrotechnics. Those of us who live in New England are trying to determine what alternate universe we’ve been transported to where the Red Sox are 11 games on top of the Yankees this late in the season. And those of us who are members of the Clan of the Penguin have another week of content to look back on here at the OFOW*

The most popular article last week (and for quite some time) was the first part of a tutorial by Jack Herrington about “The Power of Google Gears.” Gears is a new toolkit that allows you to have effective browser applications that can run offline. In this and the next installment, Jack leads you through what Gears is and how to use it.

Turning from Google to Ruby, our resident Ruby Chef, Bill Walton, has another recipe to offer in his “Cookin’ With Ruby on Rails” column. This month he looks at how to design Rails applications from the ground up for testability.

Python fans, we have not forgotten you! A. M. Kuchling has a little number for you, a guide to processing local mailboxes using the mailbox.py module.

Peeking into the blogs, Andy Oram tells the tale of Untangle, which he says could be a poster child for free software companies.

Jeremy Jones reported the death of PEAK (the Python Enterprise Application Kit). Donations have been requested in lieu of flowers.

The next day, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of PEAK, he reported on the next generation of TurboGears.

It was a Python-heavy week. Noah Gift has the story of how he helped bring the Wild West to Python Web Application Frameworks.

Caitlyn Martin reviewed Vector Linux 5.8 SOHO, which she calls KDE Built for Speed.

Lyz Bevilacqua compared Desktop Debian Etch to Ubuntu.

And Juliet Kemp had another of her little scripting gems, this time an improved version of the Kerberos kprop script.

In the relational land of Database, Paddy Sreenivasan is looking for a few good testers for a new MySQL product.

Closing out this pre-Independence-Day Week, Gregory Brown gave us the Ten Things he Likes About Ruby 1.9.

* This week only, the ONLamp Fireworks Orientation Website, otherwise the ONLamp Family of Websites