Features

Interview with Simon Phipps  by Glyn Moody

Why did Sun decide to GPL Java?

Programming Python, Part I  by Jose P. E. Fernandez

Find out what the love for Python is about.

Asynchronous Database Access with Qt 4.x  by Dave Berton

Want your database-driven app to run better?

Validate an E-Mail Address with PHP, the Right Way  by Douglas Lovell

Not all that glitters is gold.

Christof Wittig and Ted Neward on Object-Oriented Language Mapping to Databases  by Nicholas Petreley

Object/Relational impedence mismatch.

Indepth

An Introduction to Metaprogramming  by Ariel Ortiz

Let your computer do the programming.

Read Source Code the HTML Way  by Kamran Soomro

Browser access to source code.

Faster Web Applications with SCGI  by Jeroen Vermeulen

Can your Web apps go even faster?

Extend OpenOffice.org  by Dmitri Popov

Want to add features to OpenOffice.org?

A Look at Lua  by Joseph Quigley

Lua is a lulu.

Columns

Reuven M. Lerner's At the Forge   RJS Templates  

Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   Languages Build Character, or Vice Versa  

Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part III  

Jon "maddog" Hall's Beachhead   Languages—Some Dead and Some Still Kicking  

Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Picking New Fights  

Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   Is GPL Java Too Little, Too Late?  

Quick Takes

Open-Source Databases, Part III: Choosing a Database  by Reuven M. Lerner

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