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The success or failure of any software programming group depends largely on its ability to work together as a team. From manager to members, to well-conceived, yet dynamic guidelines, the team as a whole is defined by the unison of its parts. Shattering the myth of the faultless programmer, this column dismantles the uninspired software group and then builds it up again into a synchronized, energized ensemble. This series of articles comprises a complete guide to better programming in Perl.

TriDComm was upgraded to version 1.1 and now you can track internet hosts in 3D. Its home is http://tridcomm.com.

L33tdawg: Sounds pretty cool to me.

A minor upgrade release that adds in the ability to make postings private. More informaiton is available at http://l33tblogz.hackinthebox.org. Download links and upgrade information is in the new tar.gz file.

Told you guys there were bugs in the system! At about 1pm today, deekayen of Thatware.org found a security flaw in the code that allowed anyone to gain admin privs on the system and gain full control of the site. Much thanks to him for finding the flaw and pointing it out as well as major props to DietCoke for giving me the heads up on the 'defacement'. I knew there was something I missed!

DeveloperWorks just released an article in which software engineer Thomas Owusu describes how a Java GSSAPI can be enhanced with a login interface using the Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS), a pluggable, modular authentication and authorization Java infrastructure. Using a Java GSSAPI Kerberos mechanism as an example, Thomas discusses a Kerberos JAAS login module.

Enhance Java GSSAPI .

What is L33tBlogz you ask? It's a simple PHP and SQL based content management system that was inspired by the ever-popular Blogger. The system is perhaps most well suited for use a personal diary system. This is not to say that you can't use this system as perhaps a news site or for commentary sytle postings -- by all means, L33tBlogz can be tailored for such a task with minor difficulties.

The current code is very useable however more features are in the pipe line including:

Source: HUGIN Online

For those of you that like to be on the cutting edge, perhaps you'd like to give icq2001b a quick test run. I downloaded and upgraded for 2000b and I have to say the new version is pretty sweet. It seems 'a little' slower than 2000b, but apart from that, it works fine. I haven't really had much time to play around with the new system, however there are two new enhancments that are immediately noticeable -- the first is the ability to send a copy of the message you're currently typing to the recipients handphone (via SMS) and/or to their e-mail in ADDITION to their computer.

The previous article in this series talked about pipes, a form of interprocess communication, on Windows and Linux. Now it looks at interprocess synchronization primitives as a way to control two processes' access to the same resource. As always, the goal of this column is to suggest ways to optimize your programming practices and demonstrate the performance of those programming practices.

Source: Geek.com

A project called Mono has been initiated by the Open Source community via the Linux software company Ximian to port Microsoft's .NET development platform to Linux. The project includes creation of a .NET development environment as well as the run-time environment to run applications developed on Windows systems.