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Write Apps for the iPhone

iPhone Open Application Development — Design third-party software that will run on the iPhone. Learn about iPhone's proprietary development environment, the Objective-C language it uses, and background on the operating system. You also get detailed recipes and working examples for several iPhone features. Learn more.

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Java Pocket Guide — Everything you really need to know about Java, particularly the new areas in Java 5 and 6, such as generics and annotations. It's the only book on Java that you can actually fit in your pocket.
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Virtual Worlds: A Business Guide — What's the real business opportunity in Second Life and other virtual worlds? What trends and innovations point the way to success? Why have some high-profile virtual worlds flopped? You'll find answers in this report. Learn more.

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Using the New Adjustment Tools in Aperture 2.0 — In this second of two parts, Ellen Anon takes you through the bottom half of Aperture's Adjustment palette brick by brick. She picks up with the Enhance brick and continues down through the rest of the new tools. Learn more.

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O'Reilly Radar took the top Jolt award in the Web Sites category and Beautiful Code in the General Books category. The Myths of Innovation, Head First SQL, and Safari Books Online won Productivity awards.

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New PHP/SQL Certificate
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The Charms of Wikipedia

The New York Review of Books — The Charms of Wikipedia — "Now there's a quicker path to proficiency: John Broughton's Wikipedia: The Missing Manual," writes Nicholson Baker. "This Missing Manual helps you avoid beginners' blunders and gets you sounding like a pro from your first edit." Read the entire essay.

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Software Craftsmanship: Apprentice to Journeyman — In another collaborative development experiment, we've just launched a site for you, our readers, to comment early and often on this book as it's being written. Help authors Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye turn this into the bestseller it deserves to become. Collaborate now!

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