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This week in the world of web development we continue our series of book excerpts from "Practical mod_perl" from O'Reilly. In other voices this week Jared Spool says for larger web sites with hundreds of contributors, only design patterns will do. CNET has an "incendiary" story on RSS, according to Dave Winer. The Economist says holographic data storage is fast approaching, and Bert Bos waxes philosophic about the W3C's specifications.
In Net news the Department of Homeland Security issued a second warning about Microsoft XP's security flaw that could affect as many as 75% of the country's computers. Finally, something happened last week on the Net. Spot checks revealed higher packet losses than normal and some sites went dark. Network Solutions' addressing glitch contributed to the chaos on Thursday. Come Monday however, the Net was back in good working order.
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| 1. BOOK EXCERPT: | Practical mod_perl: Chapter 6: Coding with mod_perl in Mind. Pt. 2 |
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This week, we begin with a discussion about the specifics of Perl's behavior under mod_perl. By O'Reilly.
http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/mod_perl/chap6/2/
| 2. OTHER VOICES: | Design Patterns: An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites Battle of the blog Holographic Data Storage An essay on W3C's design principles Apache mod_rewrite Primer |
Design Patterns: An Evolutionary Step to Managing Complex Sites
How do you scale up to hundreds of contributors on larger sites,
and still maintain some design consistency? Jared Spool found that
design patterns, a solution to a specific design problem, work
better than templates, centralized design, and design guidelines.
http://www.uiconf.com/8/articles/landay_vanduyne_article.html
UIConf.com, Aug. 2003
"As commercial interests have increasingly dominated the Internet,
Web logs have come to represent a bastion of individual expression
and pure democracy for millions of bloggers." The debate centers
around the control over RSS, an XML format designed for news
syndication. Perhaps a fully independent body like the IETF or
ECMA could end the controversy surrounding this useful file format.
http://news.com.com/2009-1032_3-5059006.html
News.com, Aug. 4, 2003
"After years of development, researchers are on the verge of using
holograms to store data in memories that are both fast and vast."
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1956881
Economist.com, July 31, 2003
An essay on W3C's design principles
Bert Bos talks about why the W3C's standards are the way they are
and the philosophy behind web standards.
http://www.w3.org/People/Bos/DesignGuide/introduction.html
Bert Bos, Feb. 23, 2003
An introduction to the "Swiss Army Knife" of Apache modules,
mod_rewrite.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/7/31/2335/08552
Kuro5hin.org, Aug. 2, 2003
| 3. NET NEWS: | Government Issues Second Warning on Microsoft Security Flaw Network Solutions glitch darkens sites |
Government Issues Second Warning on Microsoft Security Flaw
The Department of Homeland Security issued an unprecedented second
warning Wednesday for a hole in the latest version of the Windows
operating system. As many as 75 percent of the country's computers
could be vulnerable to hacker attacks. Windows users who do not
use the auto update feature to download the latest patches are
the most vulnerable. In a related story, Microsoft.com was
unavailable Friday afternoon due to a denial of service attack.
http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-5059056.html
http://www.NewsFactor.com/perl/story/22017.html
News Factor Network, Aug. 1, 2003
Network Solutions glitch darkens sites
"A software glitch in Network Solutions' hosted Web addressing
system knocked what may have been as many as 30,000 Web sites and
e-mail addresses offline for several hours Thursday morning."
http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-5058519.html
News.com, July 31, 2003
That's it for this Monday, see you next time.
Andy King
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