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Oct '08 Issue:
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 Head First Physics
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 Photoshop Elements 7: The Missing Manual
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 iPhone Forensics
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 Mac OS X For Unix Geeks, Fourth Edition
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 Learning OpenCV
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 Version Control with Subversion
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 The Art of Capacity Planning
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 Programming Flex 3
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Diving into CS4?
O'Reilly Announces 8 New Adobe CS4 Titles — With eight new books and video lessons in the works, O'Reilly's authors are ready to help you make the leap to CS4. October brings the first of Deke McClelland's four new One-on-One titles, Adobe Photoshop CS4 One-on-One, as well as the newest installment in the Companion series--The Photoshop CS4 Companion for Photographers by writer, teacher, and professional photographer Derrick Story. Deke joins this list of bestselling Digital Media and Missing Manuals authors--including iStockphoto evangelist Lesa Snider King--who is busily working on her own book, Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual. Indeed, O'Reilly's got the tailored resources about CS4 for every type of user, from professional designers and digital photographers to the DIY crowd.
Deke on Photoshop CS4
dekePod Episode 006: Photoshop CS4, Buy or Die — September 23 marks the announcement of Adobe's Creative Suite 4. Coming just 18 months after its predecessor, is Photoshop CS4 any good? Enter dekePod, Deke McClelland's irreverent and uncensored video series. This episode promises to show you all facets of the program--complete with commentary--without interrupting your busy day. In just five minutes, you'll know whether you want to upgrade or not. Either you buy or it dies, it's as simple as that.
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Conference News
iPhoneLive is the new O'Reilly conference for iPhone developers, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts, focusing on both the business and development issues surrounding the iPhone platform. Happening Nov. 18, 2008 in San Jose, California. Chaired by Raven Zachary and Bill Dudney, iPhoneLive will be a gathering of the best and brightest participants in the iPhone ecosystem today. Sure to be a mind-blowing day filled with information that you just can't get anywhere else.
Register by October 14 and save $145...and use discount code ip08gd20 to save 20% above and beyond the early registration price!
A Preview of iPhoneLive
A Free, Live O'Reilly Webcast
 Join us Tuesday, October 14th at 10:00 PDT for A Preview of iPhoneLive. In this live, online event, Bill Dudney and Raven Zachary share a preview of the presentations they'll give at the upcoming iPhoneLive Conference taking place November 18 in San Jose. Following this preview, you'll have plenty of time to ask questions about the current state and future of iPhone application development.
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O'Reilly believes in technology as an enabler for education. Please join us in supporting public school technology projects. Make a difference. Choose a classroom project to help fund.
Be Subversive--10 Subversion Tips to Control Your Code — Is Subversion the right tool? "If you need to archive old versions of files and directories, possibly resurrect them, or examine logs of how they've changed over time, then Subversion is exactly the right tool for you." So write the authors of O'Reilly's Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Ed.--C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, and Brian Fitzpatrick. And here, these members of the Subversion development team give you their top tips for avoiding the pesky network round-trip, safely moving files and directories with wild abandon, teaching your Subversion client to add certain properties to your files automatically, and more.
A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10
A series by chromatic and Doug Sheppard
 A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, part one covers the core elements of Perl: variables (scalars, arrays, and hashes), math operators and some basic flow control (the for statement).
A Beginner's Introduction to Perl 5.10, part two explains how to use files and strings. A Beginner's Introduction to Perl Regular Expressions explores regular expressions, matching, and substitution. Finally, A Beginner's Introduction to Perl Web Programming demonstrates CGI programming with Perl.
Black Monday, 2008
At one point, the stock market fall was so rapid that several financial sites web service update servers were overwhelmed and crashed as people refreshed their browsers second by second to watch the carnage. At the end of the day, the damage was significant - the Dow down 672 points (6.2%), the S&P down 94 points (7.8%) and the NASDAQ down a staggering 200 points (more than 9.1%). In Canada, the TSX closed down 750 points, and it's likely that the selloff in Asia and Europe will be just as brutal.
The Ever-Dynamic John Lam on Iron Ruby, Open Source and Microsoft
John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework.
One Way to Become an O'Reilly Author —
Interested in how to become an author for O'Reilly? One way is to make your opinions known on GetSatisfaction! Read more to see how author Rich Rosen both suggested and helped write the newest edition of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks. Also, enter to win a copy of the book!
Theodore Tso: How the LSB Helps You Behind the Scenes — The Linux Standard Base (LSB) is the Rosetta Stone for Linux distributions, it establishes a common set of libraries and tools that any Linux application can use safely, and be assured of running correctly. The Linux Foundation is the keeper of the LSB, and recently we spoke with Theodore Tso, who helps tend the LSB, about what goes into keeping it healthy, and how it benefits ISVs, distribution maintainers, and end users alike..
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Also, the Call for Participation for Web 2.0 Expo SF is open. We will be accepting talks until October 9th.
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O'Reilly Webcast Videos Now Available
You are a Natural Born (Visual) Storyteller —
According to Nancy Duarte, author of slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, we're often afraid to unleash our natural storytelling instincts because we're afraid to be different, afraid to stand out from our corporate norm. And this leads to presentations that put our audiences to sleep - or worse - fail to communicate the information that we hope to convey. In her recent webcast, You are a Natural Born (Visual) Storyteller, Nancy showed the audience how to infuse life, intelligence, and good design into their presentations. The recording is now ready for viewing.
iPhone Forensics 101: Bypassing the iPhone Passcode —
Jonathan Zdziarski, author of the just-released iPhone Forensics, delivered a much-talked about presentation on bypassing the iPhone 3G passcode, in which he revealed some little known "security" issues pertaining to that device. Most notable was the fact that the iPhone captures and stores screenshots of any place you visit on the web (using your iPhone, of course). The recording is now ready for viewing.
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