Larry discusses a wide range of topics, including his job at O'Reilly, Perl certification, the commercialization of Perl, competition between open source projects, the power of laziness, Perl 6, post-modernism, software patents, documentation, and more.

MP3.com on Tuesday said it would make its extensive online music database and streaming technology available for free to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service.

MP3.com on Tuesday said it would make its extensive online music database and streaming technology available for free to developers, letting rivals tap into its hard-won music locker service.

NASA programmers might raise a few eyebrows by converting their electronic posting system for business opportunities from an Oracle Corp. relational database to an open source counterpart, mySQL. On Nov. 6, a team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center finished the transition of the NASA Acquisition Internet Service to mySQL with barely a hitch.

NASA programmers might raise a few eyebrows by converting their electronic posting system for business opportunities from an Oracle Corp. relational database to an open source counterpart, mySQL. On Nov. 6, a team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center finished the transition of the NASA Acquisition Internet Service to mySQL with barely a hitch.

This sequel to the previous intro to awk will show you how to handle multi-line records, use looping constructs, and create and use awk arrays. By the end of this article, you'll be well versed in a wide range of awk features, and you'll be ready to write your own powerful awk scripts.

Awk is geared toward text processing and report generation, yet features many well-designed features that allow for serious programming. And, unlike some languages, awk's syntax is familiar, and borrows some of the best parts of languages like C, python, and bash. Awk is one of those languages that, once learned, will become a key part of your strategic coding arsenal.

In "AntiTrust," the new movie pitting a bunch of good-looking Open Source coders against a big, bad software company, the message is well-intentioned if a bit heavy-handed, but the plot requires you to suspend disbelief at several turns.

Zelerate, one of the most closely-watched commercial open source ventures, is to lay off 34 staff, according to a company spokesman. Formerly known as OpenSales, the San Mateo-based company markets AllCommerce, a storefront and content management server which competes against the likes of BroadVision and Microsoft's IIS.

Zelerate, one of the most closely-watched commercial open source ventures, is to lay off 34 staff, according to a company spokesman. Formerly known as OpenSales, the San Mateo-based company markets AllCommerce, a storefront and content management server which competes against the likes of BroadVision and Microsoft's IIS.