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Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organizer of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need.
O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.
Introducing selected titles:
ScreenOS Cookbook: Time-Saving Techniques for ScreenOS Administrators by Stefan Brunner, Vik Davar, David Delcourt, Ken Draper, Joe Kelly & Sunil Wadbwa published by O’Reilly in 2008. This title will dive you real-world fixes, configurations and techniques that save your time. ScreenOS Cookbook comes from the experience of people who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large enterprise, heavy-duty protocol-driven service provider networks, and government.
This book explores many subjects, including Network Address Translation; Interfaces, zones, and virtual routers; Mitigating Denial of Service attacks; DDNS, DNS, and DHCP; IP routing; policy-based routing; Traffic shaping, user authentication; Application layer gateway (SIP, RPC, RTS); RIP, OSPF, BGP, NSRP and much more.
Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Information Architects Need to Know by James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe & Duane Nickull published by O’Reilly in 2009. Webb 2.0 is the revolution in the computer industry. The Internet has evolved dramatically, creating a genuine sense of excitement about what’s happening in cyberspace. Web 2.0 refers to a set of social, design and architectural patterns resulting in the mass migration of business to the Internet as a platform. Business analysts and technologists are still struggling to understand what Web 2.0 can offer them. This book examines why Google, MySpace, Wikipedia work and gives a base of knowledge that architects, developers, entrepreneurs can use as a source of their ideas and inspiration. Reader of this book will find out how the classic Client-Server model evolved into a more detailed Web 2.0; will learn about a generic component view of basic Web 2.0 patterns that can be repurposed for other commercial ventures, and much more.
James Governor is principal analyst and founder of RedMonk. Dion Hinchcliffe is founder and chief technology officer of Hinchcliffe & Company that specializes in Enterprise Web 2.0. Duane Nickull is a senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc.
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts edited by Richard Monson-Haefel published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book is unique by its content. Here, today’s leading software architects present invaluable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. Many architects - including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra - give advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, and other practical lessons they have learned from years of experience. This title will teach you that to be successful software architect you will need to master business and technology. You will find out what top software architects think and approach a projects. R. Monson-Haefel is an independent software developer. He has coauthored 5 editions of Enterprise JavaBeans and editions of Java Message Service. He is a multitouch interface designer.
David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual - the book that should be in a box - by David Pogue published by O'Reilly in 2009.
This book includes information about cameras' new models, the shopping recomendations. You will find there information about the shots, and camera features, SLR and compact cameras. Author talks about Picasa and iPhoto, free programs for organizing, retouching, and distributing your pictures, and much more.
David Pogue is the weekly tech columnist for the New York Times. He is an Emmy-winning CBS News reporter, a weekly correspondent on CNBC, and the creator of the Missing Manual series.
Google Apps: The Missing Manual, the book that should have been in box by Nancy Conner published by O’Reilly in 2008. In this book you will find step-by-step coverage of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. You will learn how quickly create word processing files, spreadsheets, and slideshow presentations; how to share and co-edit files, including instant notifications every time a change gets made; set up and manage your entire organization’s switch to Google Apps, create a wiki - an editable Web site. This book is the reader-friendly guide. Nancy Conner writes and edits tech books from her home and also worked as a medievalist, an English teacher, and a corporate trainer. She lives in upstate New York.
Second Edition of CJKV: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing by Ken Lunde published by O'Reilly in December 2008.
This book is the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chines, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. This book is updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in Asia. This edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XTML, OpenType, and operating systems as Window XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux have had on East Asian text processing in recent years.
Ken Lunde is a senior computer scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has PhD in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Head First Rails: A Brain Friendly Guide by David Griffiths published by O'Reilly in 2009. This book will help you to master your data with Rails; integrate your apps with Google Maps and never get lost again; get inside Embedded Ruby, and take control of your apps; to add Ajax and XML to your Rails universe, and much more.
David Griffiths began programing at age 12. at age 15 he wrote an implementation of Papert's computer language LOGO.After studying Pure Mathematics at University, he began writing code for computers and magazine articles... Currently he is working as an agile coach in the UK
Designing We Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by Bill Scott & Theresa Neil published by O'Reilly in 2009.
This book presents over 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. These best practices are grouped into 6 key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. This book is about rich interaction design on the Web. This book has a companion website www.designingwebinterfaces.com that serves as an addendum containing updated examples...
Bill Scott is director of UI Engineering at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA. There, he plies his interface engineering and design skills. Theresa Neil is a user experience consultant in Austin, TX, working with start-up and Fortune-500 companies to create rich Internet applications.
iPhone Forensics Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets by Jonathan Zdziarski published by O'Reilly in 2008.
This invaluable title supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch.
Last years, with iPhone use increasing in business networks, companies experience a serious challenges. iPhone stores a huge amount of information, and if your staff conducts business with iPhones, you will need to know how to analyze, recover and securely destroy data...
Designing Gestural Interfaces:Touchscreens and Interactive Devices by Dan Saffer published by O'Reilly in 2008. This book is mostly for interaction and industrial designers who have found themselves in the position being asked to design gestural interfaces..., having no central place to go to for information to get started. This book is divided into 4 parts. Chapters 1 and 2 to provide a background for what comes later. The next section, comprising Chapters 3 and 4, is meant to be used as reference material. Chapters 5 and 7 are about the process of design, from documentation to prototyping to communicating what the product does to its audience. Chapter 8 takes a look at future trends in this subject. This book provides you with essential information about kinesiology, sensors, ergonomics, physical computing, touchscreen technology, and new interface patterns. Dan Saffer is a founder and principal of the design firm Kicker Studio. He has designed interactive products that are used by millions every day...
Using Drupal: Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Website by Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Nathan Haug, Jeff Eaton, James Walker & Jeff Robbin published by O'Reilly in December 2008. More than 900 people contributed code and ideas to the Drupal 6 release and even more are responsible for developing and maintaining over 2,000 modules. These modules empower website builders to assemble rich and powerful websites easily. People use Drupal to build personal blogs, corporate websites, intranets, wikis, boards, and more. This invaluable book explaining how to assemble a wide variety of websites using some commonly used modules, and is full of useful information.
Using Drupal: Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Website will prepared you to build the Drupal sites you dream about.
Adobe InDesign CS4 one-on-one by Deke McClelland with David Futato published by O'Reilly in November 2008. This enjoyable book contains: 12 self-paced tutorials that let you learn at your own speed; the engaging real-world projects that let you try out techniques; more than 4 hours of all new video instruction that show how to do the work real-time; over 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots that illustrate every key step, and many more. With this book you can read the lesson, watch the video, and do the exercises. It is like working with your personal coach. Adobe InDesign CS4 one-on-onewill help you to use InDesign faster, more efficiently, and more creatively. The author created One-on-One with three audiences in mind -- independent designer or graphic artist, student, and an instructor in a college. Deke McClelland is one f the most award-winning technology writers, digital publishing master, he has written over 80 books on computer graphics and design. Deke hosts the instructional video that Adobe ships with InDesign CS4 and hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for leading educational resource lynda.com, for which he has won 9 industry awards...
Slide:ology: The Art And Science of Creating Great Presentation by Nancy Duarte first published by O'Reilly Media in 2008. Millions of presentations and slides have been produced. And most of them miss the mark. This fascinating title will challenge reader's traditional approach to creating slides. This book will teach how to connect with specific audiences, turn ideas into informative graphics, use sketching and diagramming techniques, create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily, develop influential presentations, and utilize presentation technology to your advantage...
Nancy Duarte is a Principal of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. She wrote the book that is full of practical approaches to visual story development. Slide:ology combines inspirational design and conceptual thinking, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands.
Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually. Slide:ology will help to develop an effective visual expression, which is not easy or actively taught in schools or business training programs... This book is the greatly illustrated practical guide to success in visual presentation.
Take Your Best Shot: Tim Grey Tackles Your Digital Darkroom Questions by Tim Grey first published by O'Reilly Media in July, 2008.
This lavishly illustrated title answers all your darkroom questions. This how-to guide provides the clear information and the answers to the serious questions about understanding digital darkroom fundamentals, selecting the right tools, choosing between RAW and JPEG, getting a grip on color management, optimizing images in Photoshop, solving common problems (noise blown highlights, color casts), making high-quality prints, sharing the images electronically.
Tim Grey is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors, and he shares his invaluable knowledge with you...
Python: For Unix and Linux System Administration by Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones published by O'Reilly Media in 2008. Python is the book for newcomers to Python. You can be experienced in shell scripting or new to programming, this is book for you: Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones explains the uses of the code examples, teach how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and to write a code that runs on multiple Linux and Unix platforms.
The authors of this very informative title built a free, down-loadable Ubuntu virtual machine that includes the book's source code. It will run with IPython, SNMP, SQLAlchemy... This fabulous book will help you to read text files and extract information, run tasks using threading and forking options, get clickable GUI utilities, monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically, master the IPython shell... and much more.
Noah Gift has used Unix and Linux for many years, working at Disney, Caltech, Feature Animations, and Turner Studios...
Jeremy M. Jones is a software engineer. He works for Predictix, and an author of the open source projects Munkware, Podgrabber, and Ediplex.
Programming Flex 3: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex by Chafic Kazoun & Joey Lott published by O'Reilly in 2008. Flex 3 is the most complete and usable version of Flex. With Flex 3, you can contribute to the open source Flex SDK. Authors of this book expanded the coverage of the Flex 2 and included things that weren't in the first book. This title contains everything you need to know to add Flex applications to web pages, which authors think is an important topics. The book covers building Adobe AIR desktop applications using Flex, and the synthesis of everything else they discuss throughout the book. The Programming Flex 3 is intended for anyone looking to learn more about Flex 3 with solid understanding of object-oriented principles and concepts such as runtime environments, byte code, and compliers...
Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organizer of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need.
O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.
Introducing selected titles:
ScreenOS Cookbook: Time-Saving Techniques for ScreenOS Administrators by Stefan Brunner, Vik Davar, David Delcourt, Ken Draper, Joe Kelly & Sunil Wadbwa published by O’Reilly in 2008. This title will dive you real-world fixes, configurations and techniques that save your time. ScreenOS Cookbook comes from the experience of people who have seen and fixed every conceivable ScreenOS network topology, from small branch office firewalls to appliances for large enterprise, heavy-duty protocol-driven service provider networks, and government.This book explores many subjects, including Network Address Translation; Interfaces, zones, and virtual routers; Mitigating Denial of Service attacks; DDNS, DNS, and DHCP; IP routing; policy-based routing; Traffic shaping, user authentication; Application layer gateway (SIP, RPC, RTS); RIP, OSPF, BGP, NSRP and much more.
Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Information Architects Need to Know by James Governor, Dion Hinchcliffe & Duane Nickull published by O’Reilly in 2009. Webb 2.0 is the revolution in the computer industry. The Internet has evolved dramatically, creating a genuine sense of excitement about what’s happening in cyberspace. Web 2.0 refers to a set of social, design and architectural patterns resulting in the mass migration of business to the Internet as a platform. Business analysts and technologists are still struggling to understand what Web 2.0 can offer them. This book examines why Google, MySpace, Wikipedia work and gives a base of knowledge that architects, developers, entrepreneurs can use as a source of their ideas and inspiration. Reader of this book will find out how the classic Client-Server model evolved into a more detailed Web 2.0; will learn about a generic component view of basic Web 2.0 patterns that can be repurposed for other commercial ventures, and much more. James Governor is principal analyst and founder of RedMonk. Dion Hinchcliffe is founder and chief technology officer of Hinchcliffe & Company that specializes in Enterprise Web 2.0. Duane Nickull is a senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc.
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts edited by Richard Monson-Haefel published by O’Reilly in 2009. This book is unique by its content. Here, today’s leading software architects present invaluable principles on key development issues that go way beyond technology. Many architects - including Neal Ford, Michael Nygard, and Bill de hOra - give advice for communicating with stakeholders, eliminating complexity, and other practical lessons they have learned from years of experience. This title will teach you that to be successful software architect you will need to master business and technology. You will find out what top software architects think and approach a projects. R. Monson-Haefel is an independent software developer. He has coauthored 5 editions of Enterprise JavaBeans and editions of Java Message Service. He is a multitouch interface designer.David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual - the book that should be in a box - by David Pogue published by O'Reilly in 2009. This book includes information about cameras' new models, the shopping recomendations. You will find there information about the shots, and camera features, SLR and compact cameras. Author talks about Picasa and iPhoto, free programs for organizing, retouching, and distributing your pictures, and much more.
David Pogue is the weekly tech columnist for the New York Times. He is an Emmy-winning CBS News reporter, a weekly correspondent on CNBC, and the creator of the Missing Manual series.
Google Apps: The Missing Manual, the book that should have been in box by Nancy Conner published by O’Reilly in 2008. In this book you will find step-by-step coverage of Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk. You will learn how quickly create word processing files, spreadsheets, and slideshow presentations; how to share and co-edit files, including instant notifications every time a change gets made; set up and manage your entire organization’s switch to Google Apps, create a wiki - an editable Web site. This book is the reader-friendly guide. Nancy Conner writes and edits tech books from her home and also worked as a medievalist, an English teacher, and a corporate trainer. She lives in upstate New York. Second Edition of CJKV: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing by Ken Lunde published by O'Reilly in December 2008.This book is the unsurpassed source of information on processing text in Chines, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. This book is updated to provide web and application developers with the latest techniques and tools for disseminating information directly to audiences in Asia. This edition reflects the considerable impact that Unicode, XTML, OpenType, and operating systems as Window XP, Vista, Mac OS X, and Linux have had on East Asian text processing in recent years.
Ken Lunde is a senior computer scientist in CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He has PhD in Linguistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Head First Rails: A Brain Friendly Guide by David Griffiths published by O'Reilly in 2009. This book will help you to master your data with Rails; integrate your apps with Google Maps and never get lost again; get inside Embedded Ruby, and take control of your apps; to add Ajax and XML to your Rails universe, and much more. David Griffiths began programing at age 12. at age 15 he wrote an implementation of Papert's computer language LOGO.After studying Pure Mathematics at University, he began writing code for computers and magazine articles... Currently he is working as an agile coach in the UK
Designing We Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions by Bill Scott & Theresa Neil published by O'Reilly in 2009.This book presents over 75 design patterns for building web interfaces that provide rich interaction. These best practices are grouped into 6 key principles to help you take advantage of the web technologies available today. This book is about rich interaction design on the Web. This book has a companion website www.designingwebinterfaces.com that serves as an addendum containing updated examples...
Bill Scott is director of UI Engineering at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA. There, he plies his interface engineering and design skills. Theresa Neil is a user experience consultant in Austin, TX, working with start-up and Fortune-500 companies to create rich Internet applications.
iPhone Forensics Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets by Jonathan Zdziarski published by O'Reilly in 2008. This invaluable title supplies the knowledge necessary to conduct highly specialized forensic analysis of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch.
Last years, with iPhone use increasing in business networks, companies experience a serious challenges. iPhone stores a huge amount of information, and if your staff conducts business with iPhones, you will need to know how to analyze, recover and securely destroy data...
Designing Gestural Interfaces:Touchscreens and Interactive Devices by Dan Saffer published by O'Reilly in 2008. This book is mostly for interaction and industrial designers who have found themselves in the position being asked to design gestural interfaces..., having no central place to go to for information to get started. This book is divided into 4 parts. Chapters 1 and 2 to provide a background for what comes later. The next section, comprising Chapters 3 and 4, is meant to be used as reference material. Chapters 5 and 7 are about the process of design, from documentation to prototyping to communicating what the product does to its audience. Chapter 8 takes a look at future trends in this subject. This book provides you with essential information about kinesiology, sensors, ergonomics, physical computing, touchscreen technology, and new interface patterns. Dan Saffer is a founder and principal of the design firm Kicker Studio. He has designed interactive products that are used by millions every day...Using Drupal: Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Website by Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Nathan Haug, Jeff Eaton, James Walker & Jeff Robbin published by O'Reilly in December 2008. More than 900 people contributed code and ideas to the Drupal 6 release and even more are responsible for developing and maintaining over 2,000 modules. These modules empower website builders to assemble rich and powerful websites easily. People use Drupal to build personal blogs, corporate websites, intranets, wikis, boards, and more. This invaluable book explaining how to assemble a wide variety of websites using some commonly used modules, and is full of useful information. Using Drupal: Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Website will prepared you to build the Drupal sites you dream about.
Adobe InDesign CS4 one-on-one by Deke McClelland with David Futato published by O'Reilly in November 2008. This enjoyable book contains: 12 self-paced tutorials that let you learn at your own speed; the engaging real-world projects that let you try out techniques; more than 4 hours of all new video instruction that show how to do the work real-time; over 850 full-color photos, diagrams, and screen shots that illustrate every key step, and many more. With this book you can read the lesson, watch the video, and do the exercises. It is like working with your personal coach. Adobe InDesign CS4 one-on-onewill help you to use InDesign faster, more efficiently, and more creatively. The author created One-on-One with three audiences in mind -- independent designer or graphic artist, student, and an instructor in a college. Deke McClelland is one f the most award-winning technology writers, digital publishing master, he has written over 80 books on computer graphics and design. Deke hosts the instructional video that Adobe ships with InDesign CS4 and hundreds of hours of tutorial-style video training for leading educational resource lynda.com, for which he has won 9 industry awards...Slide:ology: The Art And Science of Creating Great Presentation by Nancy Duarte first published by O'Reilly Media in 2008. Millions of presentations and slides have been produced. And most of them miss the mark. This fascinating title will challenge reader's traditional approach to creating slides. This book will teach how to connect with specific audiences, turn ideas into informative graphics, use sketching and diagramming techniques, create graphics that enable audiences to process information easily, develop influential presentations, and utilize presentation technology to your advantage...Nancy Duarte is a Principal of Duarte Design, the firm that created the presentation for Al Gore's Oscar-winning film An Inconvenient Truth. She wrote the book that is full of practical approaches to visual story development. Slide:ology combines inspirational design and conceptual thinking, with insightful case studies from the world's leading brands.
Presentation software is one of the few tools that requires professionals to think visually. Slide:ology will help to develop an effective visual expression, which is not easy or actively taught in schools or business training programs... This book is the greatly illustrated practical guide to success in visual presentation.
Take Your Best Shot: Tim Grey Tackles Your Digital Darkroom Questions by Tim Grey first published by O'Reilly Media in July, 2008. This lavishly illustrated title answers all your darkroom questions. This how-to guide provides the clear information and the answers to the serious questions about understanding digital darkroom fundamentals, selecting the right tools, choosing between RAW and JPEG, getting a grip on color management, optimizing images in Photoshop, solving common problems (noise blown highlights, color casts), making high-quality prints, sharing the images electronically.
Tim Grey is a member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors, and he shares his invaluable knowledge with you...
Python: For Unix and Linux System Administration by Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones published by O'Reilly Media in 2008. Python is the book for newcomers to Python. You can be experienced in shell scripting or new to programming, this is book for you: Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones explains the uses of the code examples, teach how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and to write a code that runs on multiple Linux and Unix platforms.The authors of this very informative title built a free, down-loadable Ubuntu virtual machine that includes the book's source code. It will run with IPython, SNMP, SQLAlchemy... This fabulous book will help you to read text files and extract information, run tasks using threading and forking options, get clickable GUI utilities, monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically, master the IPython shell... and much more.
Noah Gift has used Unix and Linux for many years, working at Disney, Caltech, Feature Animations, and Turner Studios...
Jeremy M. Jones is a software engineer. He works for Predictix, and an author of the open source projects Munkware, Podgrabber, and Ediplex.
Programming Flex 3: The Comprehensive Guide to Creating Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex by Chafic Kazoun & Joey Lott published by O'Reilly in 2008. Flex 3 is the most complete and usable version of Flex. With Flex 3, you can contribute to the open source Flex SDK. Authors of this book expanded the coverage of the Flex 2 and included things that weren't in the first book. This title contains everything you need to know to add Flex applications to web pages, which authors think is an important topics. The book covers building Adobe AIR desktop applications using Flex, and the synthesis of everything else they discuss throughout the book. The Programming Flex 3 is intended for anyone looking to learn more about Flex 3 with solid understanding of object-oriented principles and concepts such as runtime environments, byte code, and compliers... Chafic Kazoon is co-founder and Chief Software Architect at Atellis. Loey Lott is a founding partner in The Morphic Group specializing in Flex application development...
How Wikipedia Works And How you Can Be a Part of It by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates published by O'Reilly in 2008. This fabulous book is a great summary of how Wikipedia works. Created by Wikipedians, How Wikipedia Works And How you Can Be a Part of It explores the miracle of Internet created by regular people: professors, students, fans and experts. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities to join this fascinating project.
This great title contains insight, tips, anecdotes from three Wikipedia veterans who will teach you how to find information and evaluate the reliability of articles, to contribute, writing new material, to add articles that conform to Wikipedia's guidelines, and to communicate with other Wikipedians through talk pages...
Phoebe Ayers is a science and engineering reference librarian at UC Davis. Charles Matthews holds PhD in mathematics from Cambridge and has taught at Cambridge and Harvard. Ben Yates is a technical editor who blog about Wikipedia.They have joined Wikipedia in 2003.
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun published by O'Reilly in 2008. An updated edition of classic bestseller formally titled The Art of Project Management, this fabulous title will teach you how to plan, manage, and lead projects. This remarkable account of hard lesson learned over a decade of work in the industry distills complex concepts into practical nuggets of useful advice. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management includes the following topics:
- making good decisions; - ideas and what to do with them; - leadership and trust; - what to do when things go wrong.
The title contains: over 120 new exercises to practice what you have learned, a discussion guide for using the book with team, revised and streamlined advice in every chapter...
This book recieved the Wonderpedia's Wonderbook Award in 2008.
Scott Berkun is an author of the acclaimed The Myth of Innovation (O'Reilly), he is noted public speaker and teacher on management, creative thinking, and design. Scott worked for 10 years at Microsoft Corporation on many projects, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows...
SharePoint for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy published (1st Edition) by O'Reilly in October 2008. Most companies use Microsoft SharePoint to share documents or spreadsheets. This book demonstrates how SharePoint can help you organize and manage complex projects. With this engaging book you will understand how to apply common and practical project management concepts in SharePoint, you will learn how to build a Project Management Information System (PMIS), customized to your project, that can coordinate communication. Also you will learn to apply key project management techniques by leveraging SharePoint as a PMIS; track a case study that illustrate the circumstances and processes of an effective SharePoint PMIS; appropriately define access permissions for project stakeholders; centralize project documents and keep track of document history with version control; automate project reporting mechanisms and generate on-demand status reports, and many more.
Dux Raymond Sy is one of the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management.
Fashioning Technology (Craft: projects) by Syuzi Pakhchyan published by O'Reilly in 2008. This book written for a broad audience and demonstrates how to blend sewing and assembly techniques with traditional electronics to build circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for button. With the sewing machine a a viable substitute for the soldering iron and an exciting array of smart materials at your disposal you can raft a new generation of objects that are interactive and fashionable.
Syuzi Pakhchyan is a seasoned artist, roboticist, and teacher. She uses smart materials such as thermochromatic ad photochromatic ink that change color by touch, magnetic and conductive paints, fiber optics, and more.
Just A Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales Of The Search For The Life, Love, And Fulfillment Beyond The Starship Enterprise by Wil Wheaton published by O’Reilly in 2004. This book is the story of how Wil Wheaton faces down his companion, the ghost he calls “prove To Everyone That Quitting Star Trek Wasn’t A Mistake.” Most of the material in this book was written for his weblog, it is an almost daily diary that he publish at his website www.wilwheaton.net. His evolution as a writer is a big part of this story. Wil Wheaton is an actor. He was famously in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Rob Reiner film Stand By Me, and in Roger Avary’s Frankenstein film Mr. Stitch. This book is funny and poignant, and chronicles Wil’s way to rediscover himself.
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How Wikipedia Works And How you Can Be a Part of It by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates published by O'Reilly in 2008. This fabulous book is a great summary of how Wikipedia works. Created by Wikipedians, How Wikipedia Works And How you Can Be a Part of It explores the miracle of Internet created by regular people: professors, students, fans and experts. With about 10,000 articles added to Wikipedia each week, there are plenty of opportunities to join this fascinating project. This great title contains insight, tips, anecdotes from three Wikipedia veterans who will teach you how to find information and evaluate the reliability of articles, to contribute, writing new material, to add articles that conform to Wikipedia's guidelines, and to communicate with other Wikipedians through talk pages...
Phoebe Ayers is a science and engineering reference librarian at UC Davis. Charles Matthews holds PhD in mathematics from Cambridge and has taught at Cambridge and Harvard. Ben Yates is a technical editor who blog about Wikipedia.They have joined Wikipedia in 2003.
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun published by O'Reilly in 2008. An updated edition of classic bestseller formally titled The Art of Project Management, this fabulous title will teach you how to plan, manage, and lead projects. This remarkable account of hard lesson learned over a decade of work in the industry distills complex concepts into practical nuggets of useful advice. Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management includes the following topics:- making good decisions; - ideas and what to do with them; - leadership and trust; - what to do when things go wrong.
The title contains: over 120 new exercises to practice what you have learned, a discussion guide for using the book with team, revised and streamlined advice in every chapter...
This book recieved the Wonderpedia's Wonderbook Award in 2008.
Scott Berkun is an author of the acclaimed The Myth of Innovation (O'Reilly), he is noted public speaker and teacher on management, creative thinking, and design. Scott worked for 10 years at Microsoft Corporation on many projects, including Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows...
SharePoint for Project Management by Dux Raymond Sy published (1st Edition) by O'Reilly in October 2008. Most companies use Microsoft SharePoint to share documents or spreadsheets. This book demonstrates how SharePoint can help you organize and manage complex projects. With this engaging book you will understand how to apply common and practical project management concepts in SharePoint, you will learn how to build a Project Management Information System (PMIS), customized to your project, that can coordinate communication. Also you will learn to apply key project management techniques by leveraging SharePoint as a PMIS; track a case study that illustrate the circumstances and processes of an effective SharePoint PMIS; appropriately define access permissions for project stakeholders; centralize project documents and keep track of document history with version control; automate project reporting mechanisms and generate on-demand status reports, and many more.Dux Raymond Sy is one of the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management.
Fashioning Technology (Craft: projects) by Syuzi Pakhchyan published by O'Reilly in 2008. This book written for a broad audience and demonstrates how to blend sewing and assembly techniques with traditional electronics to build circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for button. With the sewing machine a a viable substitute for the soldering iron and an exciting array of smart materials at your disposal you can raft a new generation of objects that are interactive and fashionable.Syuzi Pakhchyan is a seasoned artist, roboticist, and teacher. She uses smart materials such as thermochromatic ad photochromatic ink that change color by touch, magnetic and conductive paints, fiber optics, and more.
Just A Geek: Unflinchingly Honest Tales Of The Search For The Life, Love, And Fulfillment Beyond The Starship Enterprise by Wil Wheaton published by O’Reilly in 2004. This book is the story of how Wil Wheaton faces down his companion, the ghost he calls “prove To Everyone That Quitting Star Trek Wasn’t A Mistake.” Most of the material in this book was written for his weblog, it is an almost daily diary that he publish at his website www.wilwheaton.net. His evolution as a writer is a big part of this story. Wil Wheaton is an actor. He was famously in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the Rob Reiner film Stand By Me, and in Roger Avary’s Frankenstein film Mr. Stitch. This book is funny and poignant, and chronicles Wil’s way to rediscover himself.References:
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