Links & notes for this month

• • Dive Into Python
    (categories: python book learning)
• • AlterNet: The Rise of Open-Source Politics
    (categories: politics opensource hackerethic)
  • Installing Perl 5.8 on Jaguar
    Has useful stuff on configuring CPAN, too.
    (categories: perl cpan osx)
  • A Gentle Introduction to SQL
    Really, really good online tutorial of SQL queries. Need to go over this again
    (categories: SQL query tutorial online)
  • Picking Up Perl, a Freely Redistributable Perl Tutorial Book
    Not-bad looking perl 5.6 tutorial, freely available as html, ps or pdf
    (categories: perl tutorial)
• • VENN!
    (categories: venn venndiagram funny)
• • Movable Type Publishing Platform: Movable Type 3.15 released
    Fixes important vulnerability
    (categories: movabletype patch fix)
• • Styling

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    (categories: css webdesign hr)
• • House of Commons - Science and Technology - Tenth Report
    "Free For All?" A report into the merits of Open Access publishing
    (categories: uk parliament report openaccess)
• • How to make a todo list program with Rails 0.9 | Hieraki
    Example of Ruby on Rails in action. Very nifty
    (categories: ruby rails)
• Bother. Bungie have changed the format of their Halo2 RSS feeds, which means those of us working on web applications that parse these feeds... have a bit more work to do on them. Now I have to bugfix again. Grr!
• Several things in the recently posted elsewhere camp: three articles over at the New Statesman New Media Awards 2005 Weblog; one on a pioneering broadband scheme in Shoreditch, one on Southampton University's ePrints scheme, and one on the Venezuelan government's move to Open Source.
• Wow. Apple iHome illicit backroom shots. From the front: slot loading drive. On the back: usual iBook style ports. Headless iBook... now all we need is a price. $500, with proper OSX, and the world is their oyster.