Automated Backups with Existing Tools  Backing up your hard disc is the job nobody wants to do -- and even more so, no one wants to spend a lot of money doing it. Fortunately, Apple gives you everything you need in Mac OS X. You just have to pull it together. Peter Hickman shows you how.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Kicking the Tires of XP Service Pack 2, Part 1  XP's Service Pack 2 will be out by mid-year -- what's in it for you? In this first part of a two-piece article, Ron White looks at big changes to the Internet Connection Firewall.   [WindowsDevCenter.com]

Cooking with C#  In these sample recipes from C# Cookbook, learn how to convert a string returned as a Byte[ ] back into a string, and how to handle an exception that occurs within a method invoked via reflection.   [ONDotnet.com]

ADO.NET Connection Pooling Explained  Because the .NET managed providers manage the connection pool for us, using shared database connections is as easy as a summertime splash in the kiddie pool. But if those connections unexpectedly become invalid you could find yourself floundering in the deep end. In this new article, James Still will have you doing laps in no time.   [ONDotnet.com]

Failing Miserably, If Not Inventively  A tale by Morbus of how Panther broke his automation and how, with a few days of disjointed searching, experimentation, and dreaming, he didn't fix the problem. Instead, we simply follow one man's obsession as he makes steadily more desperate attempts to scratch a bothersome itch.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Creating Web Content for Mobile Phone Browsers, Part 1  To develop successful web content for mobile phones, you need to understand the technical limitations of their browsers, the diversity of existing hardware, and the practical difficulties and frustrations faced by users trying navigate from a phone keypad. In the first article of this two-part series, Robert Jones shows you how.   [Wireless DevCenter]

Big Scary Daemons
Printing Clients and Servers  Though plain-text configuration files often work nicely, some Unixisms are terse -- printcap printer configuration comes to mind. They're not as bad as they seem, though. Michael Lucas explains how to configure printers and print clients, even printing to multiple printers on separate networks.   [ONLamp.com]

When Pythons Attack  Mark Lutz, coauthor of the recently released Learning Python, 2nd Edition, offers tips, gleaned from his first-hand experience as a Python trainer, on the most common programming and coding mistakes that new Python programmers make. For seasoned Python programmers, Mark offers tips on working with Python's larger features, such as datatypes, functions, modules, and classes.   [ONLamp.com]

Introducing LAMP Tuning Techniques  Having a successful web site can be a mixed blessing. It's nice to reach more people, but it's painful to run up against hardware limits. Fortunately, LAMP sites have several tuning options, from tweaking parameters to replacing components. Adam Pedersen explains.   [ONLamp.com]

Linux Untethered  Wireless Linux is great, if you can find a hotspot. If not, have you considered a cellular data connection? It may not be as slow nor as expensive as you think. Brian Jepson explores the state of cellular networking with Linux.   [LinuxDevCenter.com]

Siesta Mailing List Manager  Majordomo is past its best, and many Perl Mongers groups rely on ezmlm or Mailman. Why isn't there a decent Perl-based mailing list manager? Simon Wistow and others from London.pm decided to do something about it ... and came up with Siesta.   [Perl.com]

This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-02-01  Lots of little clean-ups done to Parrot this week, while the Perl 6 language design focuses on vector operations and Unicode operators.   [Perl.com]

This week on Perl 6, week ending 2004-01-25  The internals list is concerned with threading a smattering of other things; the language list debates vector operators and syntax mangling. Piers, as ever, fills us in.   [Perl.com]

The New Eclipse - What's in it for Developers?  With the Eclipse Consortium embarking on leaving the mothership of IBM, and the mainstream press focusing their attention between the huge organizations that are joining, and the combative, blood thirsty meme of pitting Eclipse against Sun Microsystems and NetBeans, I grabbed an opportunity to talk with John Weigand, Eclipse Project Lead, and Skip McGaughey, the present chairman of Eclipse to talk about what the new organization will actually do for developers.  [OSDir]

Using JUnit With Eclipse IDE  Test-driven development principles call for writing the tests before writing any code. Alexander and Olexiy Prohorenko demonstrate how this approach can be used with the JUnit testing tool and the Eclipse IDE.   [ONJava.com]

Features
An Introduction to FOAF  Friend-of-a-friend, FOAF, is an RDF vocabulary for machine-readable homepages. It enables the expression of decentralized social networks akin to the centralized ones seen in Friendster and Orkut. Leigh Dodds provides an introduction to FOAF and its use.   [XML.com]

Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide  A beta preview of Steve Holzner's Eclipse: A Java Developers Guide. This chapter is titled "Building Eclipse Projects Using Ant."   [ONJava.com]

Transforming XML
Opening Open Formats with XSLT  In Bob DuCharme's latest Transforming XML column he finds that four-year old XSLT 1.0 is solving more and more problems as more data becomes available in XML.   [XML.com]

XML-Deviant
Web Architecture Review: Representation  Kendall Clark continues his look at the W3C Technical Architecture Group's "Architecture of the World Wide Web." This time he examines the third of the key architectural principles set forth in this document: data formats.   [XML.com]

Why It Is Great To Be A Geek by Sue Spielman

Commoditization of Basic IT Infrastructure is a Bad Thing? by Ben Galbraith

JSR 166, A Case Study by John D. Mitchell

Sun Wants Middleware to go away? by Ron Hitchens

Introducing IoC by Daniel H Steinberg

ETech 2004 Kicks Off by Sue Spielman

JSR 133 goes public by John D. Mitchell

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