Spreading the Knowledge of Technology Innovators

Short Cuts are PDF documents that spotlight one specific topic, usually in fewer than 100 pages. Whether it's a first look at a brand new technology, a quick reference, or a thorough explanation of a narrow but crucial subject, Short Cuts bring you focused information in an easy-to-use, portable package.

Log4J
By J. Steven Perry
October 2009 
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Log4j has been around for a while now, and it seems like so many applications use it. I've used it in my applications for years now, and I'll bet you… Read more.

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Up and Running with Joomla, Second Edition
By R. Allen Wyke, Skip Matheny
July 2009 
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Need to launch a feature-rich website quickly where you have one or more people authoring the content? Want to use a powerful, robust, and scalable Content Management System (CMS) you… Read more.

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Getting Started with Hibernate 3
By James Elliott
June 2009 
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Hibernate has clearly arrived. Are you ready to benefit from its simple way of working with relational databases as Java objects? This PDF updates the introductory material from the award-winning… Read more.

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Ajax and Web Services
By Mark Pruett
June 2009 
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Ajax and web services are a perfect match for developing web applications. Ajax has built-in abilities to access and manipulate XML data, the native format for almost all REST and… Read more.

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All About Your iPod Photo
By Wei-Meng Lee
June 2009 
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Apple has recently released the iPod photo, a fourth generation (4G) iPod capable of displaying color photos. With its new enhanced color screen, you can now do more than ever… Read more.

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Lead Generation on the Web
By Thomas Myer
June 2009 
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Are you a small-business owner, consultant, or marketing manager for a big company selling an intangible service or hard-to-understand product? Does it take a while to gain your customer's trust… Read more.

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Checking Java Programs
By Ian F. Darwin
June 2009 
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This Short Cut tells you about tools that will improve the quality of your Java code, using checking above and beyond what the standard tools do, including: Using javac options,… Read more.

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Reaching a Global Online Audience
By Matthew McCool
June 2009 
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Internationalizing web sites used to focus on adapting currency formats, time zones, and translation. Although these are important technical considerations, much more is required to adapt a web site for global users. This guide explains several… Read more.

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XML Publishing with InDesign CS2+
By Dorothy Hoskins
June 2009 
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InDesign CS2's user documentation tantalizes with a small set of XML demos, and then leaves the topic dangling. CS3 is just coming out. What in the (real) world could you… Read more.

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Getting Started with Pyparsing
By Paul McGuire
June 2009 
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Need to extract data from a text file or a web page? Or do you want to make your application more flexible with user-defined commands or search strings? Do regular expressions and lex/yacc make your… Read more.

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Google Analytics
By Justin Cutroni
June 2009 
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Web analytics is the process of measuring your web site, analyzing the data, and making changes based on the analysis. Many businesses are just starting to learn how they can… Read more.

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AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
By Andy Flesner
June 2009 
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AutoIt is becoming increasingly popular in the system administration field as a tool for automating administrative tasks. Although this is one of its more popular uses, you can use AutoIt to automate anything in a… Read more.

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bash Quick Reference
By Arnold Robbins
June 2009 
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In this quick reference, you'll find everything you need to know about the bash shell. Whether you print it out or read it on the screen, this PDF gives you… Read more.

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An Introduction to Testing Web Applications with twill and Selenium
By C. Titus Brown, Gheorghe Gheorghiu, Jason Huggins
June 2009 
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This Short Cut is an introduction to building automated web tests using two tools, twill and Selenium. twill is a simple web scripting language that can be used to automate web tests, while Selenium… Read more.

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Your Life in Web Apps
By Giles Turnbull
June 2009 
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Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles… Read more.

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RJS Templates for Rails
By Cody Fauser
June 2009 
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RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that… Read more.

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LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0
By Joe Hummel
June 2009 
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Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is Microsoft's new technology for powerful, general purpose data access. In this Short Cut you'll learn about LINQ and the proposed C# 3.0 extensions that support… Read more.

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Running Mac OS X on Windows
By Wei-Meng Lee
June 2009 
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Despite Apple's move to Intel's CPU architecture, if you want to run the Mac OS X operating system on your Windows PC, the only logical way to do it is… Read more.

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ActionScript 3.0 Programming: Overview, Getting Started, and Examples of New Concepts
By William Sanders
June 2009 
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This document employs reusable code examples to demonstrate the basic functionality of ActionScript 3.0 in the following topic areas: Packages and Classes; Display Programming; Movie Clips and Buttons; and Basic… Read more.

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Prototype Quick Reference
By Scott Raymond
June 2009 
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This short cut provides a complete quick reference to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source library that is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajax applications, and to… Read more.

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Microsoft Windows Vista Exam 70-620 Guide
By Christopher A. Crayton
June 2009 
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This no-nonsense guide was created with one purpose in mind: to ensure your readiness to pass Microsoft's Windows Vista Configuration Exam 70-620. This Short Cut offers the edge you need… Read more.

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Web Services on Rails
By Kevin Marshall
June 2009 
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This PDF will show you how your small business or enterprise can publish its APIs (application programming interface) to a developer community just like the behemoths of the Internet--Google, Yahoo!,… Read more.

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Data Mashups in R
By Jeremy Leipzig, Xiao-Yi Li
June 2009 
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This article demonstrates how the realworld data is imported, managed, visualized, and analyzed within the R statistical framework. Presented as a spatial mashup, this tutorial introduces the user to R… Read more.

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Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP
By Jim Bumgardner
June 2009 
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Tag clouds are everywhere on the web these days. First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of… Read more.

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Saving Money and Time with Virtual Server
By Chris Sanders
June 2009 
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Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 consistently proves to be worth its weight in gold, with new implementations thought up every day. With this product now a free download from Microsoft, scores… Read more.

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Scripting InDesign with JavaScript
By Peter Kahrel
June 2009 
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InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when… Read more.

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Eight Great Ways to Get the Most from Your Zune
By Erica Sadun
June 2009 
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The Zune is Microsoft's new media player. It does music. It does video. It does pictures. Are you ready to get the most out of your Zune? Do you know the… Read more.

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Using XForms with Mozilla
By J. David Eisenberg
June 2009 
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The XForms technology gives you many advantages over ordinary XHTML forms. The XForms technology separates your form's data and presentation and submits your data as XML. XForms-aware applications can validate… Read more.

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HDR: An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Photography
By Jack Howard
June 2009 
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A step-by-step introduction to one of the hottest new imaging trends. We'll walk you through making the best HDR images-from image capture to digital darkroom tips and tricks. Read more.

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Google Web Toolkit for Ajax
By Bruce W. Perry
June 2009 
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The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite… Read more.

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Getting Started with Silverlight
By Shawn Wildermuth
June 2009 
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Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-browser plug-in for delivering richer web experiences to end-users, including video and animations. Silverlight is generating buzz not only inside the traditional Microsoft developer community, but… Read more.

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Web 2.0 Mash-ups and the New Aggregators
By Martin Kelley
June 2009 
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Web aggregators select and present content culled from multiple sources, playing an important taste-making and promotional role. Larger aggregators are starting to compete with mainstream news sources but a new… Read more.

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Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model
By Jennifer Linton
June 2009 
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Have you ever wondered how to get started writing your own schema? As you prepare to create your schema, you must consider a number of factors. This guide explains each… Read more.

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Prototype and Scriptaculous: Taking the Pain out of JavaScript
By Chris Angus
June 2009 
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This Short Cut demonstrates how to use Prototype for a wide range of tasks, including event handling, DOM processing, string and form process, and Ajax communications. It explores Scriptaculous' visual… Read more.

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SQL Injection Defenses
By Martin Nystrom
June 2009 
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This Short Cut introduces you to how SQL injection vulnerabilities work, what makes applications vulnerable, and how to protect them. It helps you find your vulnerabilities with analysis and testing… Read more.

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Introduction to Flex 2
By Roger Braunstein
June 2009 
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This Short Cut is all about getting up and running with Adobe Flex 2; a perfect title would be "(Almost) Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about Flex 2 But… Read more.

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Implementing BEA Portal 92
By Mark Kolb
June 2009 
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Portals have come into their own in the last several years. Over this time, I have seen portal technology become the latest expression of businesses trying to organize the torrent… Read more.

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Windows for Intel Macs
By Todd Ogasawara
June 2009 
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Even the most devoted Mac OS X user may need to use Windows XP, or may just be curious about XP and its applications. This Short Cut is a concise… Read more.

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How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
June 2009 
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Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle… Read more.

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Java vs. .NET Security
By Denis Piliptchouk
June 2009 
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A practical guide for comparison and contrast of security features offered by Enterprise Java and .NET platforms. Read more.

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The FreeBSD 6.2 Crash Course
By Jem Matzan
June 2009 
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This guide is designed to help you get an x86 or AMD64/EM64T server, desktop, or network appliance up and running quickly with the FreeBSD operating system. Read more.

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Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum
By Ethan McCallum
June 2009 
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Managing multiple Red Hat-based systems can be easy--with the right tools. The yum package manager and the Kickstart installation utility are full of power and potential for automatic installation, customization,… Read more.

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Making Your Mark in Second Life: Business, Land, and Money
By Taran Rampersad
June 2009 
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Calling Second Life a game is a lot like saying that an airport is a nice place to take a trip. To some degree it is true, but most airports are not featured… Read more.

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Schematron
By Eric van der Vlist
June 2009 
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Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language, offering flexibility and power that W3C XML schema, RELAX NG, and DTDs simply can't match. You need Schematron and can't settle for other languages… Read more.

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Search Engine Optimization
By Harold Davis
June 2009 
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SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether… Read more.

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Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions
By Peter Kahrel
June 2009 
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If you need to make automated changes to InDesign documents beyond what basic search and replace can handle, you need regular expressions, and a bit of scripting to make them… Read more.

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How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed
By Mark Woodman
June 2009 
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The little orange feed icons are everywhere on the web. From search engines to shopping sites to blogs, Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) has become one of the hottest web… Read more.

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Understanding Oracle Clinical
By Joan M. Johnson
June 2009 
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This Short Cut is written to assist you, an Oracle Clinical Developer, with many of the tasks and decisions you may encounter on an occasional basis. These tasks involve study… Read more.

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What's New in Windows Vista?
By Brian Culp
June 2009 
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Get ready for a quick blast through this significant change to Windows! This guide will give you a quick look at many of the most significant new features in Vista,… Read more.

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Next-Generation Web Frameworks in Python
By Liza Daly
June 2009 
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With its flexibility, readability, and mature code libraries, Python is a natural choice for developing agile and maintainable web applications. Several frameworks have emerged in the last few years that share ideas with Ruby on… Read more.

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CompTIA A+Essentials 220-601 Exam Guide
By Christopher A. Crayton
June 2009 
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The big question you should ask yourself before you fork over $158 to take CompTIA's A+ Essentials exam is: am I ready? Are you? This guide was created with one purpose… Read more.

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Ajax with PHP 5
By Andrew Curioso
June 2009 
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"Ajax with PHP 5" is a detailed overview of how to use PHP technologies to create interactive, fault-tolerant, and responsive web applications. This Short Cut first concentrates on the fundamentals of Ajax. Then it covers serving… Read more.

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Using Microformats
By Brian Suda
June 2009 
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Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also extract structured information. This Short Cut is… Read more.

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Unobtrusive Ajax
By Jesse Skinner
June 2009 
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Unobtrusive Ajax is about making web applications that work for everyone all the time, even if you have JavaScript turned off, or you're using a mobile phone or a screen reader, or however you happen… Read more.

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Securing the Vista Environment
By Peter Gregory
June 2009 
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"Securing the Vista Environment" takes you on a quick tour of the most significant security features in Vista, Microsoft's first revision of Windows in almost six years. You'll get background… Read more.

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How to Build an SMS Service
By Brian Retford, Jordan Schwartz
June 2009 
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The simple text message application that appears on virtually all mobile phones is the ultimate thin client, allowing your users access to the full computing power and informational depth of the Internet from a cheap… Read more.

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SMS Messaging Applications
By Nicola Pero
June 2009 
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Cell phones are the most common communication device on the planet, and Short Message Service (SMS) is the chief channel for companies to offer services, accept requests, report news, and… Read more.

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GREP in InDesign CS3
By Peter Kahrel
June 2009 
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GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use wildcards ("jokers") to search and replace text. InDesign CS3's GREP implementation can be used for text… Read more.

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Network Monitoring with Nagios
By Taylor Dondich
June 2009 
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Network monitoring can be a complex task to implement and maintain in your IT infrastructure. Nagios, an open-source host, service and network monitoring program can help you streamline your network… Read more.

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Getting Acquainted with OPML
By Amy Bellinger
June 2009 
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You've put off figuring out what Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is all about and what it can do, right? We'll bring you into the picture quickly with 14 wide-ranging uses… Read more.

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Inside SQLite
By Sibsankar Haldar
June 2009 
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SQLite is a small, zero-configuration, custom-tailored, embeddable, threadsafe, easily maintainable, transactionoriented, SQL-based, relational database management system. There is no separate install or setup procedure to initialize SQLite before using it. There is no configuration file. SQLite is open… Read more.

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Running Boot Camp
By Chuck Toporek
June 2009 
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When Steve Jobs jumped on stage at Macworld San Francisco 2006 and announced the new Intel-based Macs, the question wasn't if, but when someone would figure out a hack to… Read more.

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Scripting InDesign CS3/4 with JavaScript
By Peter Kahrel
June 2009 
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InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when it's much easier to write a… Read more.

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Windows Media Center Wizardry
By Tony Campbell
June 2009 
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Windows Media Center Wizardy is a guide to getting the most out of a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, delving into the hidden features and extended capabilities… Read more.

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SQL Server 2005 Reporting Essentials
By Bill Hamilton
June 2009 
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SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services allows you to design, create, view, and manage reports. Reports can be distributed and managed over the Web. End users can create, publish, and share… Read more.

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From Darkroom to Lightroom, Second Edition
By Ken Milburn
June 2009 
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I couldn't resist the title I gave this Short Cut because it captures Adobe's intention in giving Lightroom its name: Lightroom is a program made expressly for photographers. Although Photoshop… Read more.

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The OpenBSD 4.0 Crash Course
By Jem Matzan
June 2009 
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OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system that is widely regarded for its excellent documentation and its fanatical focus on security. "The OpenBSD Crash Course" Short Cut will help you… Read more.

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Introducing Silverlight 1.1
By Todd Anglin
June 2009 
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In this Short Cut, we'll take a close look at Silverlight 1.1 and bring clarity to this bleeding-edge technology. First we'll take a broad look at the new concept of Rich Internet Applications and… Read more.

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Dojo Fundamentals: Creating Object-Oriented Widgets
By Matthew Russell
June 2009 
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This Short Cut was formally titled "Get Up and Running with Dojo." This updated version has been updated and re-titled. In this exciting era of Web 2.0 development, Dojo pushes the boundaries… Read more.

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ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel Control
By Bertrand Le Roy, Matt Gibbs
June 2009 
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This newly revised Short Cut teaches you how to build richer and more interactive Ajax-style web pages using ASP.NET AJAX, Microsoft's Ajax framework for ASP.NET 2.0. The ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel… Read more.

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Sony Alpha DSLR A100: A Better Manual
By Ken Milburn
June 2009 
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This unique manual is better than the manual that comes with your camera in several important ways: It's organized according to efficient workflow, so you can get the most out of your Sony… Read more.

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Releasing CSS
By Christopher Schmitt
June 2009 
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In an industry that communicates with terms such as "Browser Hell" and "browser wars," a web designer can be excused for having some anxiety over Microsoft's recent upgrade of Internet… Read more.

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Introduction to Neogeography
By Andrew Turner
June 2009 
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Neogeography combines the complex techniques of cartography and GIS and places them within reach of users and developers. This Short Cut introduces you to the growing number of tools, frameworks,… Read more.

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GREP in InDesign CS3/CS4
By Peter Kahrel
June 2009 
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Updated: November 2009. Author Peter Kahrel updated this Short Cut to address typos and reader comments. GREP (short for "General Regular-Expression Print") is a powerful tool that lets you use… Read more.

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Test Driven Ajax (on Rails)
By Phlip Plumlee
June 2009 
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The World Wide Web has come a long way from static HTML pages. Today's developers enforce and enjoy standards, and we have built the web's primitive tools into advanced libraries,… Read more.

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Flex Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
By Anthony Franco, The EffectiveUI Team
June 2009 
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Evaluating any new technology can be a challenge. This Short Cut is designed to help web application developers (and their team managers) understand if Flex is the right technology for their company or client. Although… Read more.

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Yahoo! Pipes
By Mark Pruett
June 2009 
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The Internet is transforming itself from a collection of web pages into a huge distributed database. There's a wealth of data out there-not just RSS and Atom feeds, but XML data on where to… Read more.

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FileMaker 8.5: Integrating the Web
By Susan Prosser
June 2009 
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FileMaker Pro, famed for power and ease of use, has added a suite of new features that can seriously boost your database productivity. This tutorial helps you take full advantage… Read more.

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Darkstar: The Java Game Server
By Brendan Burns
June 2009 
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So, you have a great idea for the next big multiplayer game. Maybe it's a virtual world based on your favorite sci-fi television show. Or maybe it's an online bowling… Read more.

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Facelets
By Robert Swarr
June 2009 
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Curious about Facelets, but short on time for trying a new product? This short cut shows you how to start developing web pages quickly with Facelets, the new JavaServer Faces-based… Read more.

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What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2?
By Rich Bowen
June 2009 
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What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2? shows you all the new features you'll know to set up and administer the Apache 2.2 web server. Learn how to take advantage… Read more.

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Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle
By Tom Mornini, Marc Loy
June 2009 
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Learn how to make your Rails deployments pain-free with Capistrano! This Short Cut shows you how to use Capistrano to automate the deployment of your Rails applications. It teaches you… Read more.

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Windows PowerShell Quick Reference
By Lee Holmes
June 2009 
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For years, support for scripting and command-line administration on the Windows platform has paled in comparison to the support offered by the Unix platform. Unix administrators enjoyed the immense power… Read more.

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SQL Server Integration Services
By Bill Hamilton
June 2009 
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SQL Server 2005 Integration Services (SSIS) lets you build high-performance data integration solutions. SSIS solutions wrap sophisticated workflows around tasks that extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from and to… Read more.

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PHP and Smarty on Large-Scale Web Development
By Bruno Pedro, Vitor Rodrigues
June 2009 
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With web development now being considered a commodity, projects are getting larger every day. If you are dealing with large projects on a daily basis, you know that the most difficult task is to deliver… Read more.

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Setting Up Google Apps Standard Edition
By William Lawrence
June 2009 
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With Google Apps, you can have your own private network without buying server hardware, knowing how to set up servers, or worrying about maintenance. Google provides all of the expensive infrastructure, IT management, mail servers, chat… Read more.

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Google in Education
By William Lawrence
June 2009 
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Google technologies can pull far-flung places into your classroom and make historical events come alive for your students. Students can express themselves through blogs, collaborative writing, and slideshows. Google provides the… Read more.

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What Are Syndication Feeds
By Shelley Powers
June 2009 
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Syndication feeds have become a standard tool on the Web. But when you enter the world of syndicated content, you're often faced with the question of what is the "proper"… Read more.

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Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
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ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and easily deploy your Windows apps via web servers, file servers, or even CDs. This step-by-step guide to using… Read more.

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Mongrel
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This shortcut teaches you how to use Mongrel, the new high-performance web application container for Rails. It starts with basic setup and installation, but goes well beyond the basics, showing… Read more.

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Google Ajax Search API
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Use the Google Ajax Search API to integrate web search, image search, local search, and other types of search into your web site by embedding a simple, dynamic search box to display search results in… Read more.

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