Ok, a little bit of a cheap shot at Maine, but if you lived in NH like I do, you’d understand why we get annoyed with our Northern Neighbor sometimes. You see, New Hampshire has no income tax. People (such as I) who work in Massachusetts are used to paying Mass income tax, but Maine takes it one step further. If you work in Maine, they not only tax your income but your spouse’s income as well, regardless of whether they work in Maine or not. Now you may have a better understanding of why the location of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (claimed by both NH and Maine) was more than just trivia. There are tens of thousands of NH residents who work at the shipyard, and all of them get hit with the double-tax.

Hopefully, you won’t find the Linux News that follows taxing at all…

Avast, this be the newsletter for the OFOW.* All ye salts be knowing that Talk Like a Pirate day be this Wednesday, and only a scurvy dog be failing to let the flavor o’ the sea be entering his lingo. Many a fine article past over abeam the good ship Linux this week, and the broadsides of blog postings be enough to bring a tear to an old sailor’s eye, arrrr!

Adam Smith gave us a good introduction to the HTML_Quickform package for PHP. If you want a quick but elegant way to handle form processing in PHP, you owe it to yourself to take a look.

We’ve been offering a lot of information on the Haskell functional programming language lately. Gregory Brown offers a look at an alternative functional language that’s also popular, Erlang.

If you’re like me, you’ve spent a few frustrating attempts trying to figure out how to make LDAP (the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) work on a Linux stack. According to Marty Heyman, the OpenLDAP package has undergone a lot of improvements, and it may be time for another try.

If you’re interested in running XUL (the Firefox extension language) on a Mac, Uche Ogbuji has a recipe to make it work.

Chris Tyler has a peek at what’s going to be going on at FSOSS 2007.

Web 2.0 is supposed to be better and faster, but chromatic found it anything but on one recent occasion.

He also ponders the effective amount of time that a typical developer can put into open source development.

Doug Hellmann’s Python Module of the Week is hmac, a keyed-hashing system for message authentication.

According to Noah Gift, no matter what piece of the industry you work in, they will consider some other segment of the industry to be morons.

And he is getting hooked on using Doctests and Unittests for Python.

Caitlyn Martin celebrates the first time that Vector Linux has had a 64-bit version available.

There’s also a single blog with several gems about rebooting, IRAF, and RAID5 from Juliet Kemp.

Should there be a common place for Linux developers to collaborate on distributions, wonders chromatic.

Finally, yours truly had a note over in the SysAdmin blog about the Perl Survey declaring last week Sysadmin Week.

This week, our talented bloggers will inform and amuse. And remember to bring a bit o’ the pirate life to ye workplace on Wednesday!

* That be the ONLamp Family of Websites, me hearty!