Features

• Ajax Simplified  by Nicholas Petreley
  Ajax doesn't have to be intimidating
  
• Writing Web Applications with Web Services and Ajax  by Mike Diehl
  How about a slightly more advanced Ajax primer?
  
• MochiKit by Example  by Ryan Wilcox
  Get up to speed without losing control.
  
• Four Cool Plugins for WordPress  by Marco Fioretti
  Spruce up your WordPress-based site with these four plugins.
  

Indepth

• An Ajax-Enhanced Web-Based Ethernet Analyzer  by Paul Barry
  Ruby + Ajax + bash + CGI = Ethernet Analyzer?
  
• Protecting SSH Servers with Single Packet Authorization  by Michael Rash
  Security does not live on SSH alone.
  
• OpenOffice.org ODF, Python and XML  by Collin Park
  Messing with the internals of ODF
  

Columns

• Reuven Lerner's At the Forge   Firebug  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   When Ajax Held the World on His Shoulders  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Displaying Image Directories in Apache, Part II  
  
• Jon "maddog" Hall's Beachhead   What Is the Value of Software?  
  
• Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Penguins in Winnipeg  
  
• Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   They're Ba-ack  
  

Quick Takes

• Zimbra Collaboration Suite, Version 4.5  by Marcel Gagné
  
• The Aptana IDE for Ajax Development  by Ben Martin
  
• Open-Source databases, Part II: PostgreSQL  by Reuven M. Lerner
  

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