Windows Server Hacks: Configuring Universal Group Caching  Universal groups offer big benefits for system administrators, but can have downsides as well. Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, shows you how to get the most out of them, and how to avoid the pitfalls.   [O'Reilly Network]

Liberty on Whidbey
Liberty on Whidbey: C# Generics  The single most anticipated (and dreaded?) feature of Visual C# 2.0 is the addition of Generics. Jesse Liberty show syou what problems Generics solve, how to use them to improve your code, and why you need not fear them.   [ONDotnet.com]

Affrus: An OS X Perl IDE  Affrus is a new IDE from Late Nite Software; Simon puts it through its paces to see how it compares to Komodo and his beloved Unix editors.   [Perl.com]

This Week on Perl 6, Week Ending 2004-05-09  The native call interface raises questions on the internals list; Piers Cawley has the details on this and everything else from the Perl 6 effort.   [Perl.com]

Security Alerts
Security Alerts: Apache Repaired  Noel Davis looks at a problems with the Apache web server, the Linux kernel, Systrace, ssmtp, exim, SuSE Live CD 9.1, Heimdal k5admind, Kolab, IRIX Networking Security, and NukeJokes.   [LinuxDevCenter.com]

Microsoft Smartphone Tips and Tricks  Ultimately, smartphones are only as smart as the applications that run on them. Wei Meng Lee begins a new series that explores what's possible, and what's practical, with these powerful mobile devices.   [Wireless DevCenter]

Mozilla: Back to Basics  Is less more? Read our two-part review of Mozilla's back-to-basics powerhouse applications FireFox and Thunderbird. Part I: FireFox  [OSDir.com]

Microsoft Smartphone Tips and Tricks  Ultimately, smartphones are only as smart as the applications that run on them. Wei Meng Lee begins a new series that explores what's possible, and what's practical, with these powerful mobile devices.   [Wireless DevCenter]

The Fight Against Spam, Part 1  Fighting spam is a battle that all Internet users must fight. In part one of this series, François Joseph de Kermadec shows you practical techniques, many of which you might have overlooked, to take back control of your email.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Opening Up E-Voting  The politics of e-voting may be controversial, but the technologies used are not exceptionally complicated or difficult to understand. Now, two initiatives have opened e-voting systems to public examination and varying degrees of tranparency and verification.   [Policy DevCenter]

Distributed Cfengine  Automation is the most important skill an administrator can develop. Cfengine is great at automation and even supports distributed automation. Luke A. Kanies demonstrates how to distribute Cfengine rules to multiple machines.   [O'Reilly Network]

Using Shared Memory from PHP  At some point, you'll need to communicate with another process. Unix systems support a powerful IPC mechanism called shared memory that you can use to share information between processes. Alexander Prohorenko explains the basic theory and demonstrates how to use it from PHP.   [ONLamp.com]

Python and XML
Python and XML: XML Namespaces Support in Python Tools, Part Two  In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji continues his tour of XML namespaces support in Python tools, focusing this time on 4Suite.   [XML.com]

FreeBSD Basics
FreeBSD Basics: FreeBSD Networking Basics  Networking is integral to many functions of a modern FreeBSD system. When it's working, it works wonderfully. When it's not working -- or before you've configured things -- it can frustrate new users. Dru Lavigne explains how to verify, configure, and optimize FreeBSD networking.   [O'Reilly Network]

JSP 2.0: The New Deal, Part 4  The wait is almost over: the latest version of the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specification, JSP 2.0, is about to be released. Hans Bergsten shows how the new changes make using JSP and its expression language cleaner and more powerful.   [ONJava.com]

Performance Analysis of J2EE Applications Using AOP Techniques  It's tricky to profile a J2EE application to find performance bottlenecks; it's even trickier to do this with a production system, without introducing instability or new slowdowns. Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) offers a means of injecting new code, such as performance metrics, into existing code, without re-compiling. Ramchandar Krishnamurthy shows how this can be done.   [O'Reilly Network]

Features
Features: Document-Centric .NET  Centering an application around XML exchange brings many benefits in flexibility and loose-coupling.   [XML.com]

Sacré SVG
Sacré SVG: SVG and Typography: Characters  In this second part of our discussion of SVG and typography we explore some time-honored practices of typographic excellence.   [XML.com]

XML-Deviant
XML-Deviant: Politics By Any Other Name  The recent News.com interview with Bob Glushko spawned a rash of debate among XML developers. The topic? Standards, of course! Kendall Clark offers his own views, and reports on the surrounding community debate.   [XML.com]

Nested Classes, Part 1  One aspect of the Java language that is not widely understood is the concept of nested classes. But because you're bound to encounter one or more of them in other people's code, it's important to understand how they work. Chapter six of Hardcore Java covers the various nested classes. In this first excerpt in a three-part series of excerpts from the chapter, author Robert Simmons covers the first of the three basic categories of nested classes: inner classes.   [ONJava.com]

Hacking Excel, Part 1  Learn how to create a workable speedometer (or "speedo") chart, complete with moving needle, by using a combination of doughnut and pie charts, in this sample hack from O'Reilly's Excel Hacks.   [WindowsDevCenter.com]

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