What's New on ahref.com (10/4/2000) <http://www.ahref.com/> [to subscribe or unsubscribe, see the bottom of this message] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW BOOK REVIEW Programming Perl: 3rd Edition The new edition of the Camel book, Programming Perl (by Larry Wall et al.), has been out for a few months. If you've been thinking about getting it, or are planning on learning Perl, be sure to read our review of the book: <http://www.ahref.com/tools/books/2000/programming_perl.html?in.nl> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW ARTICLES ELSEWHERE Recent news articles and tutorials from other web publications. at ZDNet: The Third Wave of Network Attacks The first attacks against computers were physical (pulling out wires, theft of hardware); the second, syntactic (attacking the logic of software and networks). The third wave will be semantic: fooling people and computers with false content (aka fraud). (10/3/2000) <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635895,00.html> at ZDNet: The Internet's .1 and Only? Group One Registry (London) wants to control a ".1" TLD, which will only allow domain names with numerals, which will be associated with cell phones, PDAs, and other "smart" devices; .Kids Domains Inc. wants to be the registrar for ".kids". (10/3/2000) <http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2635868,00.html> at CyberAtlas: Internet Access in America: Who's Got It, Who Needs It? According to research by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 57 percent of non-Internet users don't want Net access, and income disparities are greater than racial disparities in terms of who is online. (10/2/2000) <http://cyberatlas.internet.com/big_picture/geographics/article/0,,5911_474 291,00.html> at ClickZ Network: Who Are Your Customers: Site Visitors or Advertisers? Advertisers are your customers; visitors are your product. (10/2/2000) <http://www.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/article.html?article=2517> at WebReference.com: The Care and Feeding of Hyperlinks, Part I How to make your hyperlinks (both navigation and information links) more useful for both you and your site visitors. (9/30/2000) <http://www.webreference.com/html/tutorial25/> at Web Developers' Journal: Getting Site User Feedback How to get feedback from site visitors about what's good and bad about your site, and how much time and money each method could cost. Methods: unsolicited user feedback, surveys, online usage profiling, and focus group sessions. (9/27/2000) <http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/articles/user_feedback.html> at Web Developers' Journal: In Praise of Sloppy HTML Maybe it's OK to use WYSIWYG HTML editors that churn out sloppy code, if it saves you time and lets you put up more content. (9/27/2000) <http://www.webdevelopersjournal.com/columns/ajs_sloppy_html.html> at WebReference.com: Avoiding Legal Trouble When Registering Domain Names An attorney clears up some misconceptions about the legality of registering domain names, especially for the purpose of reselling them. (9/28/2000) <http://webreference.com/new/domainlegal.html> at PHPBuilder: Timing Script Execution Provides the code and reasoning behind an object for timing the execution of PHP programs. (9/26/2000) <http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/akent20000926.php3> at 4 Guys From Rolla: Using MySQL under Windows NT Why you might want to install and use MySQL on Windows NT, and how to do so. (9/22/2000) <http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/092200-1.1.shtml> at CNN: Report: U.S. Leads Worldwide Snooping Drive EPIC and Privacy International say in their report, "Privacy & Human Rights 2000," that the U.S. government has pushed the rest of the world to curb the development of strong encryption and increase governments' abilities to monitor citizens electronically. (9/22/2000) <http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/09/22/snoop.reut/> at A List Apart: Validating XML: A Pretty Complete Primer Explains how to determine if an XML document is "good" - if it is both well-formed and contains appropriate tags and attributes. (9/20/2000) <http://www.alistapart.com/stories/validate/> You can find links to more external articles and tutorials at <http://www.ahref.com/index/newarticles.html?in.nl>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . NEW SITES Some more new sites in the Web Index: All Hosts Directory A searchable directory of web hosting companies. <http://all-hosts.com/> GigaLaw.com: "Legal Information for Internet Professionals" "Legal information for Internet and technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs and the lawyers who serve them." Covers domain name issues, trademark, contract law, and more. <http://www.gigalaw.com/> Internet & Technology Trade Shows, Meetings & Seminars A searchable, browsable, well-organized list of trade shows and conferences dealing with the Internet and/or technology. <http://www.internettradeshowlist.com/> Mason HQ A web site development and delivery engine that lets you embed Perl in HTML code and build a website from shared, reusable components. <http://www.masonhq.com/> O'Reilly Network: Peer-to-Peer DevCenter Information on peer-to-peer technology from O'Reilly. <http://www.oreillynet.com/p2p/> OpenSRS Information on the Open Shared Registration System, an open-source system which allows any qualifying partner to register domains at "wholesale" costs. <http://www.opensrs.com/> Project VII Design - The Dreamweaver Pages Tutorials and links for designers who use Macromedia Dreamweaver and Fireworks. <http://www.projectseven.com/dreamweaver/> RECA Website for the Responsible Electronic Communications Alliance, an online marketing coalition hoping to bring about industry self-regulation of privacy. <http://www.responsibleemail.org/> You can always see more of the new sites in the Web Index at: <http://www.ahref.com/index/newsites.html?in.nl> ************************************************************* To subscribe or unsubscribe from this newsletter, send email to majordomo@ahref.com with the message SUBSCRIBE AHREF-NEWS or UNSUBSCRIBE AHREF-NEWS or use the web form at <http://www.ahref.com/info/joinlist.html?in.nl>. 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