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So, what exciting happened around Casa Turner this week? Well, we closed the refinancing of the house at the Ghu-awful hour of 8 AM on a Saturday morning. No one should be required to be up that early on a Saturday, especially to be expected to sign their name legibly over and over and over. But I guess I should get used to it, because in just a short week, lacrosse season begins. Endless Sundays of getting up at 0-dark-hundred to get the offspring to a match that starts at 8 AM in a town 45 minutes away, meaning we need to be there at 7:15. Oh, the humanity!

What's New in FreeBSD 7.0
Our faithful reporter of all things Berkley, Federico Biancuzzi, has clearly been burning the midnight oil and rising with the sun, because he's put together a massive compendium of interviews heralding the release of FreeBSD 7.0. He talked to no less than TWO DOZEN developers to learn what's new and what's better. Even if you're a die-hard Linux fan, you'll find the goings on with That Other Posix Operating System fascinating, and if you're into BSD, you owe it to yourself to read this.

Thank You Folks, I'll Be Here All Week!
Watering-hole wise, this week features a gag so old that George Burns wasn't old enough to vote when it was first told.

One Laptop Per Child: One Trainer Prepares
Things have been slow on the blogs lately, but they picked up with a vengeance this week. Andy Oram reports on one man preparing for an influx of OLPC XOs. Coincidentally, I finally got Ubuntu to boot up on my XO today, which turns the XO into a cool little green and white geek toy.

Valgrind Session at MySQL University
chromatic loves Valgrind, and he has a pointer to a recent articles on it.

Unreasonable and Discriminatory Pay-to-Interoperate
He also turns a critical eye to Microsoft's recent "open source" announcements, which he says aren't everything they seem.

Why Don't You Use Dojo?
Why aren't you using Dojo, you poor fool?!!! Well, Matthew Russell doesn't put it quite that strongly, but he thinks you should be!

Red Hat's Emerging Technology Group and Python
Red Hat is putting some cool stuff into Python, reports Noah Gift. And he has a treatise on one of their gifts.

Android Code Day: Gateway to a New Kind of Application
Back to Andy Oram, who discusses Google's recent Android Day of Code. It's looking more and more like Google is going to be a force in mobile phones.

PyMOTW: imp
According to Doug Hellmann's Python Module of the Week, imp exposes the import function. I hope it was wearing underwear.

Supervisor: A Python Program to Control Unix Programs
Every job needs a Supervisor. Evidently that holds true for Python as well, now that the new Supervisor program is around to control Linux Unix programs.

New Framewave Library Offers Image and Signal Processing Tuned for Multicore
Ok, all you DSP geeks, there's a new library in town, called Framewave, and it's just the thing to handle those multi-core DSP needs. For more, we turn to Kevin Farnham.

Hot New Dojo API Docs
Matthew Russell just can't leave this Dojo thing alone. He has a link to some hot new API Docs.

Dojo on Adobe Air
And he follows up with news of how Dojo supports the new Adobe AIR technology.

CSS Selectors
Juliet Kemp is having some fun with CSS. Or at last she's trying to...

Threading Building Blocks Packaged into Ubuntu Hardy Heron
Threading Building Blocks sounds like the next hot toy to be recalled due to contamination, but it's actually, according to Kevin Farnham, a cool new feature in the next Ubuntu release.

Structured. Warnings. Now.
Daniel Berger has listed his Ruby demands: $1,000,000; a plane fueled and ready to go; and Structured. Warnings. Now!

Top 11 Reasons to Analyze Your Logs
Do you think that when Anton Chuvakin wakes up in the morning, his first thought is, what haven't I told folks about log files? Well, he's at it again, this time with 11 important reasons to analyze your logs.

Next week, we'll have a piece on using Zend Studio for PHP programming. Learn how to use this cool IDE to make your PHP code a breeze. * Until then, remember that watching the sun rise is a good habit to get into. It tells you it's time to go to bed...

* Promise not valid after 1/1/2008

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James M. Turner
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