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Open Source Books

Many of our books are available as Ebook Bundles — your bookshelf on your devices! And don't forget, you can Buy 2 books, get the 3rd FREE! Use discount code: OPC10 See details.

Bestselling

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual
by David Sawyer McFarland
Second Edition
Print: $39.99
Ebook: $31.99
Bundle: $43.99

JavaScript: The Good Parts
by Douglas Crockford
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

Head First Java
by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates
Second Edition
Print: $44.95
Ebook: $35.99
Bundle: $49.45

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
by David Flanagan
Sixth Edition
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99
Bundle: $54.99

Head First HTML5 Programming
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $27.99
Bundle: $54.99

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MySQL Troubleshooting
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $14.99
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Getting Started with Netduino

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 Pocket Consultant
by William Stanek
Print: $39.99

Environmental Monitoring with Arduino
Print: $7.99
Ebook: $4.99
Bundle: $8.79

Google Script: Enterprise Application Essentials
Print: $29.99
Ebook: $23.99
Bundle: $32.99

Upcoming

Android and Arduino
by Tyler Moskowite
Print: $5.99

Building Mobile Applications with Java
by Joshua Marinacci
Print: $26.99

Getting Started with NFC
by Tom Igoe, Brian Jepson
Print: $19.99

Introduction to Tornado
by Brendan Berg, Michael Dory, Adam Parrish
Print: $23.99

Mobile HTML5
by Maximiliano Firtman, Estelle Weyl
Print: $39.99

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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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Online Courses

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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Open Source Answers

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

Open Source News & Commentary

Four short links: 7 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 7, 2012

Integrated Content Editor (GitHub) -- a track changes implementation, built in javascript, for anything that is contenteditable on the web, written by the NY Times team and open sourced. Data Tables -- featureful jQuery plugin for tables of data. (via Javascript Weekly) Creating a Developer Community (Slideshare) -- treat the problem like a channel conversion funnel: turn visitors into...

Strata Week: The Megaupload seizure and user data

February 2, 2012

In this week's data news, Megaupload users face data deletion, Bloomberg opens its market data interface and Pentaho changes its licensing for Kettle.

Four short links: 1 February 2012

By Nat Torkington
February 1, 2012

Cycles of Invention and Commoditisation (Simon Wardley) -- Explosions of industrial creativity rarely follow the invention or discovery of a technology but instead its commoditisation i.e. it wasn't the discovery of electricity but Edison's introduction of utility services for electricity that produced the creative boom that led to recorded music, modern movies, consumer electronics and even Silicon Valley. However,...

With GOV.UK, British government redefines the online government platform

By Alex Howard
February 1, 2012

A new beta .gov website in Britain is scalable mobile-friendly, platform agnostic, uses HTML5, open source, hosted in the cloud and open for feedback. Those criteria collectively embody the default for how governments should approach their online efforts in the 21st century.

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Open Source Experts

John Mertic is a software engineer at SugarCRM. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science from Kent State University, has several years of experience with PHP web applications. An avid writer, he has been published in php|architect, IBM Developerworks, and in the Apple Developer Connector. He has also contributed to…

Matthew Helmke has written articles for magazines such as Linux+ and Linux Identity, and helped write Prentice Hall's The Official Ubuntu Book. He is an active member of the Ubuntu Linux community as an Administrator and Forum Council member for the Ubuntu Forums (ubuntuforums.org), and a member of the membership approval committee…

Federico Lucifredi is the maintainer of the man suite, the primary documentation-delivery tool under Linux, a graduate of Boston College and Harvard University, and a software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation.

Edd Dumbill is co-chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. He is also chair of the XTech web technology conference. Edd conceived and developed Expectnation, a hosted service for organizing and producing conferences. Edd has also been Managing Editor for XML.com, a Debian developer, and GNOME contributor. He writes a blog called…