All the little details have been filled in and everything is set for tomorrow. Until then, here are some links for you. Hopefully I’ll have a chance to read them in depth during the week.
- Today is Python Bug Day.
- It’s good to have Russ back online again. Go read now.
- Chris Sells is gearing up for another DevCon. I know that it’s going to rock.
- I’ve been catching up Lessig, and it’s all worth reading.
- I’ve lost the via, but this Whidbey VB pseudoscreenshot makes me chuckle.
- Apache Practico is the Apache Cookbook en espanol. I really need to learn how to type the proper letters in Spanish on a US keyboard. Maybe then I’d look like less of a gringo. Doubtful.
- OSNews: IRIX 6.5.24 Released
- Danny Ayers points to a free Python book.
- Appropriately found on the Duke Speaks! weblog, you can make Ant talk to you.
- Libopendaap is an open source C library for accessing iTunes shares.
- Phil Wainewright covers the three Ps of SOA. SOA is the new black.
- Brood X (the current crop of Cicadas in the Eastern US) has been quiet for the past few days. It’s been cooler and wet. Hopefully they’ll shush tomorrow afternoon too.
- Joi Ito on NoteTaker, Ecto and TypePad
- BBC News: Former US President Ronald Reagan has died, aged 93, after reports in recent days that his health had taken a turn for the worse.
- Distrowatch covers a new Lycoris release, Feather Linux, LAMPPIX, and an intriguing debian-based firewall distro called Gibraltar.
- Via Lamda the Ultimate, Axiom is a computer Algebra system with its own programming language and other fun stuff.
- If Netcraft is right, we’re going to need spam filtering for our wikis. Ugh.
- Hey, Knoppix 64 (for AMD), baby!
- Happy birthday, BeOS.
- RootPrompt: Sun confirms decision to open source Solaris
- RootPrompt: Behind four Linux community sites
- K5 on social engineering
- OSDir points to an Internet News article about Source Forge Enterprise Edition. It’s a complete break from previous versions, and it runs atop a J2EE stack.
- Scott Hanselman notes that you can get XML Spy Home Edition for free.
- Newsforge carries the announcement of PHP 4.3.7.
- Alan Coopersmith talks about the XOrg release plans, seeing how the whole world is watching and all…
- Freshmeat has the announcement of Webmin 1.150.
- PyPI has the news of Mysql for Python 1.0.0. Cool!
- Gizmodo has an interesting article on the the technical side of playing Ogg files on an iPod.