O Reilly: 1860 books
Bad Data Handbook
Cleaning Up The Data So You Can Get Back To Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
What is bad data? Some people consider it a technical phenomenon, like missing values or malformed records, but bad data includes a lot more. In this handbook, data expert Q. Ethan McCallum has gathered 19 colleagues from every corner of the data arena to reveal how they’ve recovered from nasty...
Ajax Design Patterns
Creating Web 2.0 Sites with Programming and Usability Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2006
Ajax, or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, exploded onto the scene in the spring of 2005 and remains the hottest story among web developers. With its rich combination of technologies, Ajax provides astrong foundation for creating interactive web applications with XML or JSON-based web services by using...
The Myths of Security
What the Computer Security Industry Doesn't Want You to Know
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
If you think computer security has improved in recent years, The Myths of Security will shake you out of your complacency. Longtime security professional John Viega, formerly Chief Security Architect at McAfee, reports on the sorry state of the industry, and offers concrete suggestions for professionals...
Thinking in Promises
Designing Systems for Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Imagine a set of simple principles that could help you to understand how parts combine to become a whole, and how each part sees the whole from its own perspective. If such principles were any good, it shouldn’t matter whether we’re talking about humans on a team, birds in a flock, computers in...
by Justin Gehtland, Bruce Tate
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2005
Since development first began on Spring in 2003, there's been a constant buzz about it in Java development publications and corporate IT departments. The reason is clear: Spring is a lightweight Java framework in a world of complex heavyweight architectures that take forever to implement. Spring is...
Ajax: The Definitive Guide
Interactive Applications for the Web
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Is Ajax a new technology, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel.
Ajax: The...
Using Drupal
Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Websites
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Take advantage of Drupal’s vast collection of community-contributed modules and discover how they make this web framework unique and valuable. With this guide, you’ll learn how to combine modules in interesting ways (with minimal code-wrangling) to develop several community-driven websites—...
Excel 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual
The Missing Manual
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2005
The dominant spreadsheet program and one of the most widely used software applications in the world, Microsoft Excel is unbelievably powerful--and can be downright intimidating. If you're new to Excel or among the many existing Excel users who are dazed and confused by all that the program can do...
sendmail Cookbook
Administering, Securing & Spam-Fighting
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
More often than not, the words "sendmail configuration" strike dread in the hearts of sendmail and system administrators--and not without reason. sendmail configuration languages are as complex as any other programming languages, but used much more infrequently--only when sendmail is installed...
qmail
Managing Unix-Based Mail Systems
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2004
qmail has quietly become one of the most widely used applications on the Internet today. It's powerful enough to handle mail for systems with millions of users--Like Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail, while remaining compact and manageable enough for the smallest Unix- and Linux-based PC systems. Its component...
by Dorothy J. Hoskins
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
From Adobe InDesign CS2 to InDesign CS5, the ability to work with XML content has been built into every version of InDesign. Some of the useful applications are importing database content into InDesign to create catalog pages, exporting XML that will be useful for subsequent publishing processes,...
XML and InDesign
Stylish Structure: Publishing XML with Adobe InDesign
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Discover the power of XML publishing with InDesign, and create content for multiple applications—including digital-first publishing workflows. With this book, XML evangelist Dorothy Hoskins teaches you several techniques for working with the built-in XML capabilities of InDesign CS6, using real...
iPhone Hacks
Pushing the iPhone and iPod touch Beyond Their Limits
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
With iPhone Hacks, you can make your iPhone do all you'd expect of a mobile smartphone -- and more. Learn tips and techniques to unleash little-known features, find and create innovative applications for both the iPhone and iPod touch, and unshackle these devices to run everything from network utilities...
Designing Bots
Creating Conversational Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
From Facebook Messenger to Kik, and from Slack bots to Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa, and email bots, the new conversational apps are revolutionizing the way we interact with software. This practical guide shows you how to design and build great conversational experiences and delightful bots that...