Upcoming Webcast

Getting Started with Amazon Web Services

Amazon has rapidly established itself as the major player in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) domain of cloud computing. Author of Cloud Application Architectures and enStratus founder and CTO George Reese provides this introduction into establishing a cloud infrastructure through Amazon Web Services. Learn how to setup servers and launch them into production through the Amazon web console.

Recent Blog Posts

Blue Sun? What an IBM acquisition of Sun means for software

However, Sun's software side of the acquisition ledger, especially by IBM, has been rather oddly overlooked, given that it will likely have major implications for software development and cloud computing for years. Sun's software holdings cover five primary areas - Java, Solaris, mySQL, Open Office, and Sun's recently acquired QLayer cloud infrastructure. Understanding how IBM could potentially ramp up (or destroy) each of these gives some interesting insight into the real value of IBM's potential software acquisitions.

Challenges from a book sprint: the great things about ignorance and disorder

e tried to write a conventional computer manual in two days, and the experience has made me reconsider the conventions of computer manuals. The computer field is still in the kindergarten stage of exploring serious questions of how people learn, questions at the center of psychology and pedagogy for many decades. Even those disciplines don't quite get it, because they're fumbling with the instant messaging culture that gives us so many more tools today for learning together.

Ignite SF @ Expo: 4/1 at Mezzanine

Ignite is coming back to San Francisco. On April First, the second night of the Web 2.0 Expo, I'll be hosting an Ignite at the Mezzanine (just four short blocks away from Moscone). As with all Ignites each speaker will only get 20 slides that each auto-advance every 15 seconds for a total of five minutes. Folks with a...

Teaching Open Source

Many people first get involved with open source while they are students, but it's rarely as a result of their formal study. Professors, open source communities, institutions, and companies have been working on introducing open source community involvement into computer...

How Does the White House Garden Grow? Organically!

For the first time since Eleanor Roosevelt planted a World War II victory garden, there will be a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. Last week, Michelle Obama, along with 26 fifth-graders from Bancroft Elementary school, broke ground on...

Spotlight

Download Free O'Reilly Posters

Download free O'Reilly posters and display them at your office, home or school to show your support for O'Reilly. These posters have been created over the years for a variety of events and groups and now we'd like to share them with you.

View the selection of posters

For your website

O'Reilly Book Widgets

We encourage you to grab any of these O'Reilly book widgets and put them on your own website, blog, or social networking page. They are:

• Easy to use: Copy and paste the code onto your website
• Customizable: Change the size and style and add your own Amazon or other affiliate links
• Dynamic: As new books are published they will be automatically added to your widget

Browse widgets

Active Blog Posts

• Does an 'open' format provide the benefits it is supposed to?
• Apache up against corporate dominance of fake standards process?
• Big Data: Technologies and Techniques for Large-Scale Data
• An Introduction to Degrafa
• Mimicking Twitterfall's Short URL Replacement

Recent Forum Posts

• How To Install New Installation Profile Using Cpanel?
• String.join(,)
• Sql Error In Calendar View
• Is There A Better Way To Go?
• Don't Connect To All Databases On Startup
• Video On Messenger

Upcoming Events

Lesa Snider King at Photoshop World Boston
Mar 25, 2009
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, MA

Dux Raymond Sy presents: "Empowering Your Organization with SharePoint: An Executive Seminar"
Mar 30, 2009
Learning Tree Alexandria Education Center
Alexandria, VA

"Using Drupal" Authors Present Lullabot Drupal Workshops
Mar 30-Apr 3, 2009
Biltmore Hotel
Providence, RI