Features

• Opinions on Opinionated Software  by Kevin Bedell
  The creator of Ruby on Rails doesn't rail but opines.
  
• Introduction to Ruby  by Reuven M. Lerner
  New to Ruby? Here's the primer you're looking for.
  
• RubyGems  by Dirk Elmendorf
  A rich repository of modules called RubyGems awaits you.
  
• Ruby as Enterprise Glue  by Maik Schmidt
  How to pull together a heterogenous environment with Ruby.
  

Indepth

• Rails Writ Large  by Scott Raymond
  If you want freedom, add constraints.
  
• OpenSSL Hacks  by Anthony J. Stieber
  The unsung OpenSSL command line.
  
• The Searchable Site  by Golda Velez
  Take a glimpse at Webglimpse for search capabilities for your site.
  
• Under-Ice Sonar Visualization  by Richard R. Shell, Garner C. Bishop and Douglas B. Maxwell
  What's going on down under you.
  
• Securing OpenSSH  by Matthew E. Hoskins
  It's important to ask, who's watching the guard?
  

Columns

• Reuven Lerner's At the Forge   Creating Mashups  
  
• Marcel Gagné's Cooking with Linux   A Gem of an Idea  
  
• Dave Taylor's Work the Shell   Recognizing Blackjacks  
  
• Jon maddog Hall's Beachhead   Sinking of the USS Proprietary  
  
• Doc Searls' Linux for Suits   Causes and Effects  
  
• Nicholas Petreley's /var/opinion   It's free. It's proprietary. No, it's two (click) two (click) two distros in one.  
  

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