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10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Pictures — In our next live webcast, world-renowned photographer Rick Sammon will share his top digital photography tips, including his "10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Photographs." He'll also discuss his favorite photo philosophies, including: The Camera Looks Both Ways; In Picturing the Subject We Are Also Picturing a Part of Ourselves." You'll get to see Rick's favorite people, landscape and wildlife images from around the world. Some Photoshop talk, too! Rick is the author of Face to Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People.

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Dojo: The Definitive Guide — This comprehensive guide to Dojo includes a hard-hitting reference to help you build rich and responsive web applications with complex layouts and form controls closely resembling those found in the most advanced desktop applications. If you're a DHTML-toting web developer, you need to read this book.  

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Official word on O'Reilly's upcoming ebook initiatives.Ebooks are certainly nothing new for us at O'Reilly. We've offered PDFs of hundreds of our titles for some time now, and until quite recently Safari Books Online, our online-publishing joint venture with Pearson, generated more revenue than was typically associated with the entire downloadable ebook business. But it's clear that things are changing...

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June 18, 2008
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Gordon Mohr is the Chief Technologist for Web Projects at the Internet Archive. In this interview, he gives us a peek behind the scenes at what's involved in recording the continually updating web, as well as the legal implications and how Web 2.0 is making their job both easier and harder. 

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June 17, 2008
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Learning Flex 3 — How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise that teach you how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop. Learn more. 

GooHoo Makes Microsoft Go Boohoo

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June 13, 2008
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While the advertising deal between Google and Yahoo! does not announce a formal "merger" of the two companies, it nonetheless signals a profound shift in the online search world, and certainly increases the likelihood that the two companies will begin a more active partnership across a broad front of activities, to the significant detriment of the company that needed a partnership most desperately with Yahoo! ... Microsoft. 

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Web 2.0 Boot Camp — In just one day, you can start incorporating Web 2.0 tools, technologies, and practices into your business. Get practical, real-world advice on using Web 2.0 technologies to stay competitive. And come away with the strategies and tools you need to build your own social network. Don't miss this unique opportunity to learn what you can do to successfully meet the challenges facing your business today. Register today — seating is limited!  

Benjamin Mako-Hill on Open Source vs. Free, GPL and Prepping for OSCON

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June 10, 2008
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We're talking today with Benjamin Mako-Hill; he has his fingers in so many pies I'm just going to read his bio off the OSCON Website. 

Why are we still 'releasing' software?

By Gregory Brown
June 12, 2008
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We've come a long way with tools for developing and sharing our code, especially when it comes to revision control. However, packaging and deploying code for release is still at worst a huge hassle and at best an administrative chore. Can we do better? 

Slackware 12.1 - The Newest Version of the Oldest Surviving Linux Distribution

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June 8, 2008
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Slackware has a well earned reputation for reliability, stability, and performance. It may also be the least user friendly major Linux distribution on the planet short of building Linux From Scratch. 

Brian Aker's Vision for a Livable Design, Looking at MySQL as OSCON Approaches

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June 2, 2008
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With me today is Brian Aker, Director of Technology for MySQL. Brian is the author of Running Weblogs w/ Slash. He's also leading a tutorial at O'Reilly's Open Source Convention, July 21-25, in Portland, Oregon... 

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Revenge of the iPhone Webapps

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Apple took some abuse when their original iPhone SDK was "just webapps." Now that I'm digging into the SDK, I'm looking at what iPhone provides to webapps and wondering if we weren't too hasty and too harsh. iPhone webapps may be a lot cooler than we thought. 

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