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By chco  | Yesterday, 08:08 AM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Hadoop: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition gives a step by step guide to installing HBase. Download a stable release from an Apache Download M...

By macslocum  | 15 June 2010 - 04:56 AM | 1 Reply

I've been running into an odd auto-mount issue with my Droid lately. A couple days ago it started mounting to my iMac anytime I slid the device into my USB-connected multimedia station (yes, I bought ...

By chco  | 29 October 2010 - 09:59 AM | 0 Replies

This excerpt from REST in Practice covers HTTP security. A coffee shop called Restbucks is used for the examples.HTTP Authentication and Authorization As we’ve often seen on the World Wide Web, HTT...

By macslocum  | 23 April 2010 - 05:01 AM | 5 Replies

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 chco  | 28 October 2010 - 03:37 PM | 0 Replies

This excerpt from Javascript Patterns explains how to write modules in Javascript to help you structure your code and make it easier to maintain.The module pattern is widely used b...

By blackbear  | 21 June 2010 - 05:56 AM | 7 Replies

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and ...

By Sanders Kleinfeld  | 16 August 2010 - 08:21 AM | 1 Reply

Last week, @OReillyMedia received a tweet from an ebook bundle customer that piqued my interest: QuoteIf I get an updated ePub book from @OReillyMedia, how do I get iTunes to update it without creati...

By macslocum  | 27 October 2010 - 04:11 AM | 0 Replies

Even a top-tier iPod can't make a typical phone call or stay connected when Wi-Fi is in short supply. And the iPod's core functionality -- audio and video playback -- is now a default option in every ...

By chco  | 28 October 2010 - 07:35 AM | 0 Replies

The following excerpt from the O'Reilly publication Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1, Sixth Edition offers an example of the singleton session bean. Because the singleton bean represents one instance to b...

By adfm  | 15 September 2009 - 03:11 PM | 2 Replies

Skype—once primarily known as a service that let you make decent-sounding phone calls from computer-to-computer over the Internet—has become something of an...

By dawnm  | 30 September 2009 - 11:25 AM | 1 Reply

If you don't want to use up all your cell minutes, try making VoIP calls with Google Talk. Here's how: Sometimes you can get your point across faster when you can tell it—not type it—like...

By adfm  | 04 May 2010 - 10:54 AM | 1 Reply

The iPad is a little large to be used as a cell phone, but it's fully capable of making calls with the right software. This excerpt from Biersdorfer's iPad: The Missing Manual will introduce y...