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08.01.07 by Widge @ 8:10 pm  Checks and Balances for Greater Security Sebastopol, CA—"Deciding to add security to a web application is like deciding whether to wear clothes in the morning," writes security expert Christopher Wells. "Both decisions provide comfort and protection throughout the day, and in both cases the decisions are better made beforehand rather than later." In his new book--Securing Ajax Applications (O'Reilly, $49.99)--Wells explains: "If your application is on the Internet, it is on the front lines of your network. It is like a door to the outside world that allows visitors to come in and check out whatever you have to offer. Your application needs to be secure and you need to be aware of the dangers an application can open to your network." That's why Wells aims to teach web developers and programmers how to make vital security decisions before problems arise. And throughout his new book, Wells also systematically explores methods for maintaining web application security in today's open and creative Web 2.0 environment. And he details how to locate gaps and what to do to plug vulnerabilities before attackers take advantage of them. Categorized as: O'Reilly and Press Releases
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05.03.07 by Widge @ 10:34 am Leading Publishers to Share Innovative Ideas at the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference Keynote Presenters Include John Ingram, Jimmy Wales, Chris Anderson, Brian Murray, and Bruce Chizen Sebastopol, CA, May 3, 2007--The O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC), will launch on June 18 - 20 at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California. The program includes sessions and tutorials from some of the most influential leaders in the publishing business, who will share their experiments, successes, and new business models from the leading edge of publishing. Among the keynotes are presentations from John Ingram, vice chairman of Ingram Industries, Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia; Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired magazine; Brian Murray, group publisher of HarperCollins Publishers; Erin McKean, editor-in-chief of United States Dictionaries for Oxford University Press; Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe Systems, Manolis Kelaidis, Designer, Royal College of Art, and Tim O'Reilly, CEO and founder of O'Reilly Media. Categorized as: O'Reilly and Press Releases
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05.03.07 by Widge @ 9:25 am Program Unveiled and Registration Opens for the 2007 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Sebastopol, CA, April 24, 2007 -- Registration is now open for OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year's program will examine how open technologies are making breakthroughs in the mainstream IT community, and delve into the advances on the open source horizon. Now in its ninth year, OSCON is the annual gathering of developers, hackers, visionaries, and alpha geeks who are driving the open source movement. OSCON returns to the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon July 23-27, 2007. OSCON will feature more than 400 sessions and tutorials in fifteen tracks that will cover Administration, Business Databases, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, and Web Applications. Also happening concurrently will be the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, a full-day discussion and debate that will give attendees the opportunity to take part in the conversation between Tim O'Reilly and the innovators, entrepreneurs, and leaders who are fostering the evolution of computing via open source technologies. For more information and to register for OSCON and the O'Reilly Radar Executive Briefing, visit: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/58/register Categorized as: O'Reilly and Press Releases
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04.27.07 by Widge @ 8:34 pm Sebastopol, CA--Silverlight and ASP.NET AJAX are giving Microsoft developers exciting new options when it comes to creating the rich web experiences users now expect. O'Reilly's got them covered in its latest releases. "Getting Started with Silverlight" by Shawn Wildermuth Silverlight is Microsoft's new cross-browser plug-in for delivering richer web experiences to end-users, including video and animations. Silverlight is generating buzz not only inside the traditional Microsoft developer community, but also among designers and web developers who have long relied on other tools such as Macromedia Flash to get their jobs done. In this Short Cut, Siverlight-insider and Microsoft MVP Shawn Wildermuth introduces you to Silverlight's key features and shows you how to tap into its functionality to spice up your HTML and ASP.NET pages. "Programming ASP.NET AJAX," Rough Cuts Version, by Christian Wenz This book gives you a complete hands-on introduction to Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0, the new framework that offers many of the same benefits for Ajax development that ASP.NET provides for server-side development. Categorized as: O'Reilly and Press Releases
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04.27.07 by Widge @ 6:47 pm Explore the Inner Workings of a Powerful Database  Sebastopol, CA—MySQL's source code is open in the sense of being publicly available, but unless you understand it, it's essentially closed to you. In Understanding MySQL Internals (O'Reilly, US $49.99), Sasha Pachev, a former member of the MySQL development team, provides a comprehensive tour of MySQL 5 that reveals the inner workings of this powerful database. You'll go right to the heart of MySQL to learn how data structures and convenience functions operate, how to add new storage engines and configuration options, and much more. "I do not believe it is possible to understand and appreciate MySQL strictly through a conceptual discussion," says Pachev. "On a high conceptual level, MySQL is very simple. It does not implement many revolutionary designs. It sticks to the basics. Why is it so popular then?" The reason, he asserts, is that what makes a good database is not so much the concepts behind it, but how well they are implemented. As important as it is to be conceptually sound, a good portion of the genius is in implementing those concepts in a way that provides a reasonable combination of good performance and ease of maintenance. "In other words, the devil is in the details," says Pachev, "and MySQL developers have done a great job of taking that devil by the horns and twisting his head off. Categorized as: O'Reilly and Press Releases
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