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By filmbilly : 21 April 2010 - 02:00 PM

Bill Scott and Theresa Neil are ace UI designers that hosted an O'Reilly Master Class that deep dives the principles and patterns for rich web interfaces. Here's a chapter from their new class that d...

By adfm : Today, 01:45 PM

Querying CouchDB can be confusing to someone familiar with querying a relational database. This excerpt from Anderson, Lehnardt, & Slater's CouchDB: The Definitive Guide introduces you to using ...

By macslocum : Today, 05:01 AM

Here's a tip included in O'Reilly's upcoming title "iPad: The Missing Manual." Before you begin ... You'll need to check off a few boxes in iTunes in order to get full functionality. Go to iTune...

By adfm : Today, 11:30 AM

CouchDB comes with a built-in admin interface called Futon. This excerpt from Anderson, Lehnardt, and Slater's CouchDB: The Definitive Guide introduces you to Futon and will run through some of the ...

By filmbilly : Yesterday, 05:03 PM

O'Reilly editor Andy Oram and I interviewed a number of MySQL attendees last week at the O'Reilly MySQL Conference in Santa Clara, California. After our fourth or fifth interview I was struck by the f...

By adfm : Yesterday, 04:36 PM

Auditing your updates is just good security. The tools mentioned in this excerpt from Tulloch, Northrub, et al.'s Windows 7 Resource Kit are provided by Microsoft to help with the software update au...

By adfm : Yesterday, 04:06 PM

Do you want to configure Windows Update to use a proxy server? This excerpt from Tulloch, Northrup, et al.'s Windows 7 Resource Kit will help you configure your proxy with Netsh. Windows Update c...

By adfm : Yesterday, 03:19 PM

Have you just created the ultimate RESTful interface for a revolutionary new web service and now want to document it? Good thing there's this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Coo...

By adfm : Yesterday, 02:29 PM

If you manage a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 installation and would like to automate some of your migration tasks you'll appreciate this excerpt from William R. Stanek's Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Admin...

By adfm : Yesterday, 10:08 AM

If you're a road warrior, you're familiar with the need to sync your laptop when you get back to the home office. This excerpt from Bott, Siechert, & Stinson's Windows 7 Inside Out will help you...

By macslocum : Yesterday, 04:59 AM

Sophistication has added a new twist to online security. The clunky grammar and bizarre URLs of past years have been replaced by targeted messages sent to specific people. Preparing for a cyber attack...

By adfm : 21 April 2010 - 03:14 PM

SQL injection attacks are one of the most prevalent security concerns today. In this excerpt from Itzik Ben-Gan, et al.'s Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2008: T-SQL Programming you'll learn a few tips ...

By adfm : 05 April 2010 - 04:38 PM

Are you looking for a way to get the O'Reilly ebooks you currently own in ePub format on to your iPad? Follow these three easy steps and you'll be reading your favorite titles with iBooks in n...

By odewahn1 : 21 April 2010 - 07:49 AM

The Snowflake curve (or the Koch snowflake, if you want to be more formal) was one of the first fractals described formally. Discovered in 1904 by Helge von Koch way before Benoit Mandelbrot coined t...

By adfm : 20 April 2010 - 04:35 PM

Do you have a web service that you'd like to set up authentication on? OAuth is a popular tool to accomplish this task. In this excerpt from Subbu Allamaraju's RESTful Web Services Cookbook you'll l...

By kbnotes : 20 April 2010 - 09:37 AM

Some project managers want or need more scheduling control over their project. That is, they want to be able to manually enter duration, start dates, and finish dates, without causing those entries to...