O Reilly Media imprint: 1651 books
Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
A Practical Hands-on Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
With this book, web developers can build engaging and interactive sites and applications using Microsoft's latest web development tools -- ASP.NET 2.0 and the new ASP.NET AJAX framework. You learn to create applications that have all the great tricks you see on popular commercial web sites, such as...
Learning the Korn Shell
Unix Programming
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
The Korn shell is an interactive command and scripting language for accessing Unix® and other computer systems. As a complete and high-level programming language in itself, it's been a favorite since it was developed in the mid 1980s by David G. Korn at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Knowing how to...
Effective awk Programming
Universal Text Processing and Pattern Matching
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
When processing text files, the awk language is ideal for handling data extraction, reporting, and data-reformatting jobs. This practical guide serves as both a reference and tutorial for POSIX-standard awk and for the GNU implementation, called gawk. This book is useful for novices and awk experts...
Excel 2007 Pocket Guide
A Quick Reference to Common Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Moving to Excel 2007 is not a routine upgrade. Microsoft's radical redesign of the application's user interface has led to confusion among many who people who have relied on Excel for years. Our new edition of the Excel 2007 Pocket Guide has been written from the ground up to help newcomers and longtime...
Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances
How to Fix the Most Annoying Things About Your Favorite Presentation Program
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2006
If you're vexed and perplexed by PowerPoint, pick up a copy of Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances. This funny, and often opinionated, guide is chock full of tools and techniques for eliminating all the problems that drive audiences and presenters crazy.
There's nothing more discouraging than an unresponsive...
Building Evolutionary Architectures
Support Constant Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The software development ecosystem is constantly changing, providing a constant stream of new tools, frameworks, techniques, and paradigms. Over the past few years, incremental developments in core engineering practices for software development have created the foundations for rethinking how architecture...
Programmer's Guide to Drupal
Principles, Practices, and Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
If you’re a web programmer, your experiences have taught you certain lessons—and only some of them apply well to Drupal. Drupal has its own set of programming principles that require a different approach, and many programmers make mistakes when relying on skills they’ve used for other projects....
In Search of Certainty
The Science of Our Information Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Quite soon, the world’s information infrastructure is going to reach a level of scale and complexity that will force scientists and engineers to approach it in an entirely new way. The familiar notions of command and control are being thwarted by realities of a faster, denser world of communication...
Architecting for Scale
High Availability for Your Growing Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Every day, companies struggle to scale critical applications. As traffic volume and data demands increase, these applications become more complicated and brittle, exposing risks and compromising availability. This practical guide shows IT, devops, and system reliability managers how to prevent an...
by Andres Ferrate
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Catch Google Wave, the revolutionary Internet protocol and web service that lets you communicate and collaborate in realtime. With this book, you'll understand how Google Wave integrates email, instant messaging (IM), wiki, and social networking functionality into a powerful and extensible platform....
by Matthew B. Doar
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2005
This book doesn't tell you how to write faster code, or how to write code with fewer memory leaks, or even how to debug code at all. What it does tell you is how to build your product in better ways, how to keep track of the code that you write, and how to track the bugs in your code. Plus some more...
Digital Video Hacks
Tips & Tools for Shooting, Editing, and Sharing
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2005
Since the dawn of film, novices and experts have used quick-and-dirty workarounds and audiovisual tricks to improve their motion pictures, from home movies to feature films. Today, the tools have certainly changed, as have the quality and scope of the results. With digital video, the hacking possibilities...
Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV
The Simple Way to Make Technology See
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Learn how to build your own computer vision (CV) applications quickly and easily with SimpleCV, an open source framework written in Python. Through examples of real-world applications, this hands-on guide introduces you to basic CV techniques for collecting, processing, and analyzing streaming digital...
Office 2008 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Still the top-selling software suite for Mac users, Microsoft Office has been improved and enhanced to take advantage of the latest Mac OS X features. You'll find lots of new features in Office 2008 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Entourage, but not a page of printed instructions to guide you through...