We all know that some models suffer from eating disorders. Unfortunately, poor Mycroft suffered from an eaten disorder…

You might get the idea from the strips to date that Ruby isn’t a very nice person (ok, not a very nice spotted jackel.) Trust me, under that cold, professional, knife-you-in-the-back exterior lies a gentle soul that likes butterflies and kittens. Fortunately, you won’t be seeing that side of her personality any time in the near future. Butterflies and kittens make for bad comedy (lolcats not withstanding…)

This week’s Linux news isn’t nearly so cute and cuddly, but it is free and available by reading on.

Yee-haw, back from OSCON with buttons and coasters and all sorts of swag.

Once again, the joys of parenthood struck; I got off my flight from Portland at 12:30 in the morning, got home around 1:30, and had to be up six hours later to take the family to the county fair. I’m just now recovering from the jet lag…

Even from the other side of the country, we still managed to chug along here at the OFOW*. Deepak Vohra had an article for us that demonstrated that web services just aren’t for Java and .NET folks. PHP geeks can play along too.

Every month, we like to bring a little Rails-y goodness into your life, courtesy of our Rails chef, Bill Walton. This month, in his “Cookin’ with Ruby on Rails” column, he continued his look at testing, moving on from unit tests to functional tests.

Lots of blogging this week, from OSCON and otherwise. Jeremy Jones gave us an overview of ediplex, a generic text processor.

Then he came back to discuss the merits of using mock objects vs. dummy classes in Python.

And then blew a hole in the side of the argument that anything Macs can do, Linux can do better.

chromatic reported on a great hack from OSCON, interfacing a real world lamp to Second Life.

The White Camel awards were given out at OSCON, and brian d. foy had the results.

There are some zero-day exploits out for Firefox, and Nitesh Dhanjani had the details.

Andy Oram reported numerous times from OSCON, here are links to all the postings.

A note from Philip C. Plumlee discussed the use of assert_raise and assert_latest in Ruby testing.

Ian Langworth has a wish list for the Next Big Web Framework, based on what he saw at OSCON.

Wrapping up the week, chromatic took a look at why Perl programmers don’t use object oriented design as much as Java programmers.

And Adriano Ferreira wants you (yes, YOU) to participate in the 2007 Perl Survey.

Moving on to Dev Center, Caitlyn Martin has some intelligence on performance speedups in recent Linux kernel builds.

Meanwhile, Juliet Kemp took a break from her normal Linux geekdom to report her travails with failing Mac hardware and the importance of backups.

Completing the Tour de Blog, Justin Clarke has found a neat way to find Wi-Fi bridges that may be providing a back door into your supposedly secure network.

Coming up this week, Blogs Will Be Written. Until then, keep cool (unless you live south of the equator, in which case you can feel free to keep warm…).

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