Issue #64 / Mar 2006

Even the experts know there is always more to learn about scripting. In this month's cover story, we'll show you the Google Maps API, a networking framework for Python, and some other fine tools.

We’ll show you how to incorporate interactive maps into your web pages with the Google Maps API.

The Twisted framework makes it so easy to create network-aware applications in Python. Twisted speaks all the major Internet protocols, from mail through chat, and it can handle encryption. We’ll show you how to set up a personal web server with Twisted.

In the old days, shells were capable of little more than calling external programs and executing basic, internal commands. With all the bells and whistles in the latest versions of Bash, however, you hardly need the support of external tools.

Realbasic provides an easy solution for converting Visual Basic programs to Linux.

We took three samples from the current crop of notebooks to see which performed best with Linux.

If you’re looking for a fast, stable system without the GUI goo, try Arch Linux.