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And thus ends our cowboy interlude. Will he return, or was he just a throwaway character? I’m not telling, you’ll just have to see.

Next week starts our fabled multi-month story arc, staring Gwen and Pearl. Stay tuned for ‘Leaving Las Vegas’, coming soon to a web page near you… Now, stay tuned for News of the Penguin, right after this mouse click.

Fall has arrived, bringing with it colorful foliage to New England. The good news for all you loyal OFOW* newsletter readers is that within a month, I’ll stop going on about the Red Sox (sooner if they don’t get their act together in the post-season.) The bad news is that now you’ll have 4+ months of me going on about the Patriots to endure. Just be thankful I follow neither the Bruins or the Celtics.

Your normally sedentary editor arose from his chair (leaving a butt-shaped impression behind) and went Contra dancing last Friday. Not only did it fail to kill him, but he actually enjoyed himself. In honor of this, I’d like you all to do a set and swing between each entry this week.

Last week, Andy Oram gave us a look at what’s happening in the world of Linux printing. He has been talking to Ira McDonald, who chairs the Open Printing Working Group, and brought back a lot of interesting nuggets about the future roadmap of Linux Printing.

For those of you who have been following Gregory Brown’s series on Behavior Driven Development in Ruby, he completed it this week with Part 3. Now would be an excellent time to go through the whole series in a single whack, and learn about this new development paradigm.

It wouldn’t be a week in the blogs without chromatic thanking something or other. This week, it’s the ctags package.

Adriano Ferreira is going to start filling us in on what’s new and changed in Perl 6, an operator at a time. Here’s a link to his first postings. First, the introduction.

Then the Zip operator…

Followed by Stitching…

And finishing up with repeat operators:

Andy Oram had more to say than just some printing gossip this week, he also had the skinny on why Qtopia open sourced their mobile phone platform.

What’s the Wonkosphere? No, it’s not something in a chocolate factory, it’s a way to track the reputation of political candidates, reports Spencer Critchley.

It has been suggested that good coders don’t necessarily make good authors. Here’s what chromatic thinks.

Doug Hellmann’s Python Module of the Week is timeit, which lets you time fragments of Python code.

And for all you folks working Agilely, chromatic passes on some thoughts on discipline in agile development he found in a new book.

Juliet Kemp is the Puppetmistress this week. That is to say, she fills us in on the Puppet tool for central host management.

It may drive Richard Stallman crazy, but it seems a lot of Linux users just want to be able to run their proprietary applications on it. So reports chromatic.

Caitlyn Martin doesn’t want a puppy. At least not a Puppy Linux.

Perl developers say that CPAN is a big asset for the language, but Daniel Berger took a look and thinks that RubyForge is pretty good too.

On the other hand, Derek Sivers took a dive into Rails for his last project and ended up lunging for a PHP life preserver. No ruffled feathers from that blog, no sir…

This week, if you hear some whooping and hollering, that’ll just be me if the Sox clinch the AL East.

James Turner Site Editor, ONLamp.com turner@oreilly.com

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