As you may know, it’s impossible to prove that something doesn’t exist. Therefore, there’s no way I can prove that there isn’t a cabal of elite geeks plotting world domination. But it is obviously highly unlikely. Just keep telling yourself that, are prepare to welcome your new wireless network mind controlling overlords…

There are no subliminal mind control messages TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS TO READ THE WATERING HOLE in this week’s Linux news, thankfully

Greetings from Washington, D.C.! The rest of the Linux Crew and I are on a whirlwind 16-day tour of The Nation’s Capital and Virginia, but I can’t let that prevent you from getting your weekly helping of all that’s good and right on the OFOW.* Yesterday we visited the International Spy Museum, so in that spirit, I’ll tell you that the reason there was no newsletter last week is classified, and I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you. In any event, it means that you get a double helping this week.

Howard Feldman continued his series of articles looking at the tricks you can pull off with JavaScript. This time around, he looked at changing images, expanding tree menus, and reordering lists.

Meanwhile, Gregory Brown offered a different paradigm for developing software in Ruby. If you haven’t heard about Behavior Driven Development, you owe it to yourself to check out this article.

Mono is an open source attempt to offer the Microsoft .NET environment on other (read Linux) operating systems. It’s been around for a few years, but how is it doing? Edd Dumbill has a report.

The blog summary this time around is a bit abbreviated, because my family is going to wake up soon and I’ll have to take them to breakfast… In the last two weeks, you had:

Curtis Poe on the double-standard that closed source software vendors seem to apply to their code:

Andy Oram reporting on LinuxWorld 2007:

chromatic praising Postfix:

Curtis again, advising you to put your business rules in a database:

chromatic again, wondering if the lack of a specific goal hurts software developers:

Doug Hellman (new blood!) started a Python module of the week series.

Curtis Poe pondered if code rewrites really do fail.

Philip C. Plumlee told us about assert_hpricot, an HTML parser for functional tests in Rails.

Noah Gift showed how to create a tool to remove duplicate lines from files in Python.

Timothy O’Brien compared Xen and VMWare.

Carla Schroder thinks that “Linux Journal” should take a hard look at how they deal with women.

Juliet Kemp has a recipe for hooking RT up to handle requests via email:

Anton Chuvakin discuses the security joys of proxy logs:

And finally, Chris Josephes wondered what a midnight maintenance window really is.

Until next week, pray that my feet hold out at the Air and Space Museum today.

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