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WebReference Update: July 19, 2007

New this week on WebReference.com and the Web:

FEATURE: webps Release Notes: v.10
OTHER VOICES:

• Open-Source Technologies for Oracle DBAs and Developers: Part 2
• Talking Web Clients with JavaScript and the Speech API
• ASP Sample Code: Barcode Generation

SIGHTINGS AROUND THE WEB: 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood
NET NEWS:

• Spoofing Googlebot
• Senators Push FCC on Network Neutrality
• House, Senate to scrutinize Google/DoubleClick merger

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FEATURE: webps Release Notes: v.10

This the first release of webps, a Web-based front-end to the familiar Linux/UNIX ps utility. With webps, administrators can pull up ps lists using only a Web browser from any Internet connected location.

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OTHER VOICES

• Open-Source Technologies for Oracle DBAs and Developers: Part 2

  The open-source community around databases, and Oracle specifically, has literally exploded in the last couple of years. The final installment of this two-part article covers open-source administration, security, benchmarking and monitoring tools.
  Database Journal

• Talking Web Clients with JavaScript and the Speech API

  See how to make your Web clients read or play content to its users. You will experiment with JavaScript from the command line, learn a JavaScript debugging technique that might be useful, and see how to load the Speech API and ask it to read the ALT (text) attribute of HTML controls.
  Developer.com

• ASP Sample Code: Barcode Generation

  This sample shows you one method for easily generating 1D barcodes that use the Code 39 symbology which handles uppercase letters, digits, spaces, and a few symbols. It's simple, easy to generate, and is supported by almost all barcode readers.
  ASP 101

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SIGHTINGS AROUND THE WEB: 80 Years of Robots in Hollywood

This article highlights films that have featured robots, starting with Fritz Lang's 1927 "Metropolis," and including "The Stepford Wives," "Star Wars," "Alien," "Blade Runner," and others. It also provides links to three other articles related to the 2007 film "Transformers." From Time Magazine. [source: LII]

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NET NEWS

• Spoofing Googlebot

  Superficially spoofing Googlebot, Google's Web crawler, is not a difficult thing to do and was recently the subject of a very popular post on the Digg site.
  internetnews, July 17, 2007

• Senators Push FCC on Network Neutrality

  The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) should expand the focus of its network neutrality inquiry to include the impact of carrier practices on content providers, U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Monday.
  internetnews, July 17, 2007

• House, Senate to scrutinize Google/DoubleClick merger

  Committees in both the House in the Senate have announced plans to hold hearings this fall on the proposed merger of Google with online sales giant DoubleClick, but it's not all good news for competitors like Microsoft.
  Ars Technica, July 19, 2007

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That's it for this . I'll have more for you next time.

Lee Underwood
Newsletter Editor, WebReference.com
lunderwood(at)jupitermedia.com

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