How to Build a Computer
Building the Perfect PC, 2nd Edition
By Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
Regardless of your technical experience, Building the Perfect PC will guide you through the entire process of building or upgrading your own computer. You'll use the latest top-quality components, including Intel's Core 2 Duo and AMD's Athlon X2 CPUs...
[Publish Date: December 2006]
Other Editions: 1st Edition
Make Projects: Small Form Factor PCs--New from O'Reilly: Build a Computer ...
--> Sebastopol, CA—Chances are you love playing music on your computer. And if you've ever longed to build a dedicated digital audio jukebox, now you can by following the instructions in an exciting new book from Make Projects--Small Form...
[Publish Date: May 01, 2008]
Building a Mini-Google: High-Performance Computing in Ruby: RailsConf 2009 ...
By Ilya Grigorik
Let's build a mini-Google and compute the PageRank score for a 1-million page web – that's a non-trivial challenge! High performance computing may not be Ruby's strength, but we will investigate the available gems, tools, and algorithms which make this a tractable problem (spoiler: it's possible).
[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]
iPhone GPS and Sensors - Computer Vision and the iPhone Camera: Where ...
By Jeffrey Powers
Join us for this half-day online conference where you'll have the opportunity to hear from experts, share your ideas, ask questions, and join in a conversation with panelists and other participants, all looking to build a solid and profitable future for location enabled technologies.
[Publish Date: December 03, 2009]
Eucalyptus at Age 1: Notes from the First Year of Building and Supporting ...
Eucalyptus is an open-source cloud platform that supports popular APIs such as Amazon's AWS and Google's AppEngine. First presented to the cloud computing community in 2008 at Velocity only days after its initial release, this talk will describe Eucalyptus today - one year later - and its transition from a product of a university research project to that of commercial open-source start-up.
[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]
Building a Business on Open Source Distributed Computing: OSCON 2009 - ...
By Bradford Stephens
The end of "scale-up" computing is near. The coming wave of web-scale data is too big to justify exponentially increasing hardware costs for decreasing returns. Apache's "Cloud Stack" (Hadoop, Lucene, HBase, etc) is enabling Visible Technologies to move from a non-scalable MS-exclusive platform to a large cluster processing millions of pieces of content a day.Here's what we learned.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Language Implementation Patterns, 1st Edition
By Terence Parr
Learn to build configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. You don't need a background in computer science--ANTLR creator Terence Parr demystifies language...
[Publish Date: November 2009]
Building Custom Linux Images for Amazon EC2: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly ...
By Eric Hammond
Learn how to create your own Linux machine images (AMIs) for running on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) customized with your choice of software packages and application software configured to your liking. Use the latest open source software to build custom images from scratch in a secure, automated, reproducible process. Discover when to use a public image with automatic customization at boot.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Flex + Force.com: A Powerful Combination for Building Great, Data-Driven ...
By Michael Epstein
Flex and Force.com are a powerful combination for building data-driven web applications. As a faithful reader of InsideRIA, you're probably already aware of Flex and its leading role in the evolution of rich Internet applications, but you may be less familiar with the Force.com platform. It is, in short, the same platform that underlies the well-known salesforce.com customer relationship management (CRM) and salesforce automation (SFA) software. These applications "run in the cloud," hosted on servers which are secured and maintained by salesforce.com, and accessed via the web on personal computers and mobile devices.
[Publish Date: August 25, 2009]
Building a Highly Scalable, Open Source, Twitter Clone: OSCON 2009 - ...
By Dan Diephouse, Paul Brown
What would you do if you were tasked with building a Twitter clone which was highly scalable, made from open source components and deployed in this infamous thing we call the cloud?
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
Speaker: Tony Hey: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, 2009, ...
As Corporate Vice President of the External Research Division of Microsoft Research, Tony Hey is responsible for the worldwide external research and technical computing strategy across Microsoft Corp. He leads the company's efforts to build long-term public-private partnerships with global scientific and engineering communities, spanning broad reach and in-depth engagements with academic and research institutions, related government agencies and industry partners. His responsibilities also include working with internal Microsoft groups to build future technologies and products that will transform computing for scientific and engineering research. Hey also oversees Microsoft Research's efforts to enhance the quality of higher education around the world.
[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]
James Cuff is the Executive Director for Research Computing at Harvard University. For the last eight years he has been building large-scale high performance technical computing systems for science. It may appear to be a long way from his first Z80, ...
[Publish Date: October 07, 2009]
