Tag: OREILLY

Here's one you really don't want to miss: O'Reilly is offering their entire e-book and video catalog for 60% off! This is a Cyber Monday sort of deal, so it's today only (Nov 29). If you've ever considered learning a programming language, honing your VIM skills or anything like that, now would be a great time to snatch a book about it. I don't know if their videos are up to par with Lynda.com, ...

For programmers and other nerds, reading computer books is kind of like eating your greens: it's often no fun, but it is important. If you code for a living, you may already have a corporate subscription to Safari Books Online. But even with the incredible selection you can find on Safari Books, it's not always convenient to have to be online while reading. Granted, you can download some of the ...

As Sebastian is still in Montenegro, I will be presenting you with today's Firefox Friday Five. I know you guys miss him, but fret not – he's due back around Tuesday, so next week's installment shall indubitably be British in style and flavour. For now, though, you're stuck with me -- so buckle up and enjoy the ride! This week we've seen two pretty exciting releases from Mozilla, plus one ...

SXSW is a junction of film, music and interactive folks with the iF! trade show floor reflecting that eclectic mix. We found a healthy smattering of music booths, some film schools and lots of web app companies. Big booths included Sony, Mapquest, Opera, Yahoo and O'Reilly while smaller booths from Axiom, Kyte and AIM provided a smorgasbord of interactive wares. You can see the full list on the ...

"Funwalls." Free Conference Calls. "Gifts" in the form of bitmaps of red roses. Today's Facebook applications are heavy on the social and light on the networking, and techy thought-pioneer Tim O'Reilly says in a new report that today's Facebook apps aren't exactly making their developers wealthy. So it makes us wonder, are more promising applications around the next turn, or is social networking ...

Last month in Portland, Oregon, approximately 250 people convened on Cubespace, a co-working space, for BarCamp Portland 1. BarCamp, if you aren't familiar, is an unconference - an Open and free event whose content and direction is decided by its participants. It's a great way for people to come together in the spirit of community to share knowledge, talk about technology (generally related to Web ...

Last week a bit of a storm sprung up when CMP, which runs O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Conference, sent a cease-and-desist to Irish nonprofit IT@Cork regarding the naming of their half-day Web 2.0 conference. At the time, Tim O'Reilly himself was on vacation and O'Reilly's VP of Corporate Communications responded at O'Reilly Radar, but many were unsatisfied with her response. Now that Tim is back on the ...

"Web 2.0," depending on who you ask, is either the future of the Internet, a great buzzword for your résumé, or an overhyped cliché, but what everyone can agree on is the term's ubiquity. That's why, when publisher O'Reilly Media sent a cease-and-desist to Irish non-profit IT@Cork regarding their upcoming half-day Web 2.0 conference, the blogosphere did not take it lightly. ...

O'Reilly has a page that lists every one of their hacks available online, including sample hacks from their "Hacks" series of books and hacks contributed by readers. There are dozens and dozens of hacks there, from Amazon to XML and Astronomy to Yahoo! If you've ever wanted to know a better way to do most anything with a computer, check here. ...