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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