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Richard Mateosian Praises "Search Patterns"

"The authors hope that this book will influence the future of search technology," writes Richard Mateosian in his review of Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender. "This book is a monumental achievement. The authors have provided a guidebook to a largely unexplored and immensely important territory. Reading it requires attention, effort, and exploration." Read more.

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Looking for new insight into programming? 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know, the newest installment in our 97 Things series might just be what you need. "There is a lot of good stuff in there that is essentially timeless and durable. Different programmers will take away different ideas. They will also enjoy the process: the book is very readable." says editor Kevlin Henney. Read more.

Cyber warfare: don't inflate it, don't underestimate it

The public rift between Google and China may have elevated cyber security and cyber warfare into the public's consciousness, but truth is, network attacks and Internet-based espionage are nothing new. In the following interview, Jeffrey Carr, author of Inside Cyber Warfare, takes a measured look at cyber attacks -- the major players, the hot spots, the huge problems, and the realistic solutions. He also reveals the one cyber warfare target that keeps him up at night. Read more.

Slashdot Gives "Learning Python" 9/10
"This book continues to be Python's bible"

Slashdot reviewer Ahmed Al-Saadi gives Learning Python, Fourth Edition, a 9/10 rating, and says, "Like many O'Reilly books, this is a well-written, coherent, and beautifully type-set book. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to, or already does, program using python. It should help the novice in the transition to an excellent programming language or, otherwise, make an already familiar environment more powerful in the hands of veterans." Read more.

A Live Edition for "Learning Rails"

Rails is that it's under constant development. New features appear constantly, and the upcoming 3.0 release even streamlines the architecture substantially. This wonderful track record of incremental development gives developers an ever-better set of tools to work with, but is difficult to document those tools in ink and paper. I'm happy to announce the Live Edition of Learning Rails, which brings the book up to date from its original November 2008 release (Rails 2.1.0) to last month (Rails 2.3.5), as well as incorporating errata. Read more.

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