Tag: BOOK

A high court ruling in a copyright violation case is ordering Google to disclose the information of one of its advertisers. Google has refused to comply due to Google's confidentiality agreements. The case in question had to do with a copyright violation for an upcoming book. The author clicked on an ad that led her to a service that offered a free download to an early draft of the book, and ...

Google not as fun as it used to be? Getting too much done at work? Take a gander at 55 Ways to Have Fun With Google, a book you can get as a free PDF download or in print for $16.50. Many of the chapters will be familiar to Google aficionados, like Ego-Googling and Googlewhacking, but there are some more original time-killers in there, too. This is the perfect book if you're ever stranded on a ...

Karl Fogel is no stranger to open source development. He makes a living writing programs (and enjoys playing piano as well). In fact, Karl spent 5 years toiling on the Subversion project. So he took his experience, zoomed way out of the process, and explains it all in a book: Producing Open Source Software. It's very well-written, in plain words, and cuts to the heart of the matter: herding ...

It's like the Gutenberg project for kids' books. The Baldwin Online Children's Literature Project is the full title of a project whose mission states, "The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States." The ...