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The Art of Community The Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
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Java SOA Cookbook Java SOA Cookbook
by Eben Hewitt
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MySQL Pocket Reference MySQL Pocket Reference
by George Reese
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PHP Cookbook PHP Cookbook
by Adam Trachtenberg, David Sklar
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Version Control with Subversion Version Control with Subversion
by C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick
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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Jonathan Stark
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Hello, Android Hello, Android (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Ed Burnette
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The Art of Community The Art of Community
by Jono Bacon
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Mercurial: The Definitive Guide Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
by Bryan O'Sullivan
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Gray Hat Python Gray Hat Python (No Starch)
by Justin Seitz
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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
by Jonathan Stark
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R in a Nutshell R in a Nutshell
by Joseph Adler
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Certificate Series
David Hammond" I can only WISH my college classes were as effective as O'Reilly's." -- David Hammond

Open Source Programming Certificate — The course series targets students who want to acquire the skills needed for programming on any Linux or Unix platform. The Open Source Programming Certificate series is comprised of five courses that span programming skills from intermediate to complex. Students learn the core technical skills necessary for a complete understanding of programming using open source operating systems, languages, libraries and databases. Enroll today!

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Radar Report

Open Source in the Enterprise - Radar Report

Open Source in the Enterprise

An O'Reilly Radar Report

Using open source in the enterprise — the question is no longer "if," but "how?" The low cost, easy access, and expansive license terms of open source are certainly attractive — especially since IT budgets have decreased 3-5% every year, while software costs have increased, and IT staffs have been tasked to create web services and pursue Web 2.0 initiatives. Get the report.

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Open Source Answers

O'Reilly Answers: Clever Hacks. Creative Ideas. Innovative Solutions.

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Open Source News & Commentary

Robots.Txt and the .Gov TLD

By Carl Malamud
November 20, 2009

The robots.txt file should be used sparingly by government organizations and only in a non-discriminatory fashion.

Four short links: 20 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 20, 2009

Spokeo -- abysmal indictment of society, first prize in mankind's race to the bottom. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets ... GUARANTEED! Spokeo deep searches within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-watering news about friends and coworkers. PS, anybody who gives their gmail username and password to a site that specializes in dishing dirt can only be...

Four short links: 19 November 2009

By Nat Torkington
November 19, 2009

Chumby One (Bunnie Huang) -- new Chumby product released. In addition to being about half the price of the original chumby, the new device added some features: it has an FM radio, and it has support for a rechargeable lithium ion battery (although it’s not included with the device, you have to buy one and install it yourself). There’s...

QOW: Top open source Flex projects

By Rich Tretola
November 16, 2009

Question of the week: Open source projects are extremely important to the growth of a development community. The Flex community has always had a large number of open source projects and libraries that have been contributions from both community...


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Open Source Experts

whurley whurley is the Chief Architect of Open Source Strategy at BMC Software, Inc. where he is responsible for creating BMC's open source agenda and overseeing the company's participation in various free, and open source software communities.

Van Lindberg Van Lindberg is a software engineer and practicing attorney. What he does most, though, is translate – from “lawyer” to “engineer” and back. He likes working with both computer code and legal code to get things done. Van’s current work touches both traditional intellectual property and the emerging field of open source…

Tyler Mitchell Tyler Mitchell is the author of Web Mapping Illustrated - a book focused on teaching how to use popular Open Source Geospatial Toolkits. He works as the Executive Director of the Open Source Geospatial Foundation, aka OSGeo.

Todd Ogasawara Todd Ogasawara is the editor of MobileAppsToday.com. He has been named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Mobile Devices category for the past several years. You can find his personal website focusing on Mobile Device Technology at www.mobileviews.com.

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