Sam Hiser looks at ODF, how it implements XML for office documents, the technical and political wranglings in the standard, and the currently available tools and applications.

Creation of this list inspired by a passing mention of the dearth of tools for and lack of discussion of PHP and XML despite the incredible popularity of each technology individually

Karl Vogel discusses ways of categorizing files in a Unix/Linux environment. Mentions the Open Directory Project in reference to the DMOZ category structure setup.

Provides articles on the open source LAMP web platform. Roughly defined as (but not limited to) MySQL used in conjunction with Linux, Apache, and either Perl, Python, or PHP.

Text treats general aspects of language choices, then compares hatred of Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, Java, C, C++, JavaScript, XSLT, SQL. With many forum comments. [ONLamp.com]

Shows making a simple concurrent program implementing a basic chat system; and how separating some processes and making them communicate is almost trivial in Erlang. ONLamp.com.

First of a series of three articles covering basics of Haskell programming.

Curt Hibbs demonstrates the use of Ajax within Ruby on Rails applications.

The open source language is a useful, increasingly popular choice for embedded scripting; by Keith Fieldhouse. O'Reilly Media ONLamp.com.

Though it's easy to create sites in PHP, it's not immune to sloppy coding. Clancy Malcolm explains how to recognize and fix potential security holes.