thebabelfish writes: "Volume 0, Issue 1 of The Perl Review has been published! Grab the PDF here. For those who don't know what TPR is yet, hurry up and find out now."

Some Guy writes: "Javaworld has another article (the second in a series of three) on Aspect-Oriented Programming. Grady Booch wrote last year that AOP is one of three signs of a disruptive software technology in the horizon: a technology that could take us to the next level beyond object-oriented programming."

evil_one writes: "Debian Planet is reporting that the official announcement has gone out regarding Debconf 2002. It's going to be held July 6-8th , making it rather convenient for anyone who wants to attend the Ottawa Linux symposium this year."

gerddie writes "Currently the European Commission sponsors a study of Free/Libre/Open Source Software. Part of it is a survey amongst developers of libre software, as well as an automated analysis of source code. Read also the press release"

dr_labrat writes: "Most penetration testing companies use "proprietary" methodologies to audit their customer's networks. The Open Source Security Testing Methodology Manual (pronounced: Osstum) now gives reputable companies the opportunity to use a peer reviewed standard, and be compared to a wider community! It's just made it to version 2 and is gathering popularity."

sl956 writes: "We all know that anybody using the words 'tamper resistant' to describe a software-based solution is incompetent at best. But some of the big players in the DRM field are believing in software-only protection schemes (see Cloakware, Hitachi, IBM or Intel). A mostly unnoticed paper presented to CRYPTO'01 (Santa Barbara, CA, August 19-23, 2001, LNCS vol.2139) *proved* the impossibility of efficiently obfuscating programs. It is the mathematical proof of the impossibility of a software-only DRM system on an untrusted client such as a PC. There are also a lot of interesting theoretical side-effects. You can read the html abstract here, or the postcript full paper here." The paper is from last year, but that doesn't make its conclusion less interesting. (Of course, even hardware isn't always all that secure, either.)

martial writes: "Available on the IBM developperWorks web site, is the 3rd part of the "OpenSSH key management" series (Part 1, Part 2) discussed in /. some time ago"

Nathan Kennedy writes: "Mihajlo A. Jovanovic did his Master's project at the University of Cincinnati on modelling P2P networks with Gnutella as a case study. You view his project along with source code, stunningly pretty pictures, an applet and a paper on scalability."

alapalaya queries: "If you had to implement a message dispatcher with soft real time requirements, which has to manage a lot of messages, and in general subject to a lot of problematic requirements (including object persistence); all implemented using a Java Message Service; what implementation would you use? In fewer words: in your opinion what is the best Java Message Service Implementation? Among the various JMS implementations I am currently using SonicMQ; but it doesn't seem to scale up in a proper way (to around several hundreds of clients generating from 10 to 200 messages/sec each). What do you know about other vendors/implementations?"

Dina's Dream points out two interesting articles currently running on LinuxPower, and linked from Gnotices (GNOME news site) as well. "The first article is a really good summary of the current state of affairs of video under Linux and the direction we should take. Questions are bounced back between a few very knowledgeable people, including GStreamer developers, SGI people and Alan Cox. The second article is a set of lessons learned by Chris Pirazzi while working at SGI. Chris was involved in a lot of Video API programming at Silicon Graphics, and raises a few very good points based on his experience. All people even remotely working on video drivers or software should read these points and take them to heart."

Anonymous Coward writes "It looks like after a few weeks of rumors, an exploit for PHP/Apache under Linux surfaced. Luckily, PHP.net has the patch ready to go. While the export only claims to work for PHP up to 4.0.5, php.net also releases a patch for 4.1.1, the (until yesterday), latest version of php. This patch makes a small edition to the part of the source code (rfc1867.c) that is used by the exploit."

texatut asks: "With the computer industry in a slump, many college CS students nearing graduation are looking at pretty meek prospects. While 'formally' educated, few actually have concrete experience dealing with development of software. Many would like to have something concrete to put down on their resume or application to graduate school. However, starting their own project is a hard and time-consuming task. Obviously, the Open Source community is a perfect place for us to get our hands dirty. My question is, are there any resources that can help people with varying levels of experience connect with development teams in a way that would benefit both the project and the students?"

A reader writes "ZDNet News is running an editorial about the choice of programming languages for developers today. The author suggests that developers have been left with little choice because all of the current programming languages are essentially the same."

richcoder writes: "GameDev.net has posted an informed article discussing the benefits and drawbacks to using either Direct3D or OpenGL in a game. I've already made the decision to go with OpenGL for my next project, but it looks like Direct3D is gaining ground. Especially in the area of making it simpler to code support for new video card features."

moofman and TheAJofOZ write in that Java 1.3.1 Update 1 is available for Mac OS X. The new release offers text, mouse, and printing improvements, as well as better overall stability and compatibility. Mac OS X 10.1.3 is a prerequisite. Get it via Software Update, or download it from Apple. For more information, check out the developer release notes.

wjv writes: "Open source Bioinformatics hackers from around the world are meeting in the first ever Biohackathon to hack, eat, hack, sleep, hack... The South African Business Day has the scoop, or see our weblog. The event is co-sponsored by my employer and O'Reilly. I'm typing this from the hackathon, and you wouldn't believe the buzz... or the scenic venue!"

BlueEar writes: "There is an interesting, short story posted on the Gentoo Linux site. It talks about kernel patches created by Linux distributors that while publically available never get submitted. It even gives an example of one 'no brainer' patch that has been sitting over a year, without being incorporated into the 2.4.x distribution. The article ends with an appeal to Linux community to keep those patches flowing to Marcelo."

Kourino writes: "Marcelo announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"

JigSaw writes: "OSNews features an interesting interview with David Faure, the french KDE developer who works for Mandrake Software. His code can be found on Konqueror, KFM, KWord and he is also the main bug hunter for KDE. David talks about KDE 3's enhancements and speed improvements, the future of KWord, the debugging tools under Linux, and even Gnome2, .NET, MacOSX and Mozilla."

PokeBlor writes: "Arena.net has an article by Patrick Wyatt, a Blizzard ex, that goes into depth about the creation of multiplayer games, ranging from replayability to lag. He uses good examples from Starcraft and Warcraft 2, two games that Wyatt was a designer on."