I actually wish several ORA print books were available in this format. Safari is nice, but the subscription thing is somewhat annoying, as is the need to be networked. My favorite printed titles have been the CD bookshelf titles, and the first thing I've done with those has been to move them to my hard drive anyway.
It's been a busy school year, but I hope to have time to get back to book reviewings in the next month or two. I am especially interested in some of the new stuff that is just coming out.. I don't have the stuff yet, but once I have it.... =) On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 11:07:22AM -0700, Marsee Henon wrote: > Hello, > > Can you share this news with your members? Let me know if you want > a review copy. > > Thanks! > > Marsee > > > > Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides > > As part of O'Reilly Media's commitment to delivering vital technology > information to people who need it, when they need it, O'Reilly is > launching an ongoing series of PDF publications to address cutting edge > technologies. O'Reilly's PDF guides are in-depth, immediate, timely, and > authoritative. Readers can purchase and download the PDFs through the > O'Reilly online store, with no restrictions on the ability to save, copy, > or print them. > > The advantages to readers are numerous. O'Reilly authors can disseminate > crucial information as the need arises, without having to wait for enough > material to fill an entire book. Production time is reduced dramatically, > giving IT professionals and others immediate access to the knowledge they > want. Plus, readers can easily search the text, copy and paste handy bits > of code into their applications, and take the PDF with them even when > they're offline. But most importantly, readers won't have to compromise in > their pursuit of timely information--these PDFs provide the high-quality > content for which O'Reilly has come to be known. > > This month's PDF offerings are available now: > > "Build Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP" by Jim Bumgardner > First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, > these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of web sites as > visual evidence of their membership in the elite corps of "Web 2.0." This > PDF analyzes what is and isn't a tag cloud, offers design tips for using > them effectively, and then shows how to collect tags and display them in > the tag cloud format. Scripts are provided in Perl and PHP. > ISBN: 0-596-52794-2, 46 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tagclouds/ > > > "Web Services on Rails" by Kevin Marshall > In recent years, web services have become increasingly useful to smaller > web site developers. Thanks to standards like SOAP and XML-RPC as well as > frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, developers can easily create web service > clients and servers with fewer errors. This guide looks at how Ruby on > Rails makes building web service clients and servers simple and fun, with > plenty of working examples and code details so you can see just how > everything works. > ISBN: 0-596-52796-9, 32 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/websor/ > > > "Atlas UpdatePanel Control" by Bertrand Le Roy and Matt Gibbs > The key to making ASP.NET applications more responsive to user input is > the UpdatePanel control. In this tutorial, you'll learn from the experts: > Bertrand Le Roy, UpdatePanel control's architect and developer, and Matt > Gibbs, Atlas dev team manager. This PDF document contains all you need to > get started implementing AJAX functionality in existing ASP.NET > applications. > ISBN: 0-596-52747-0, 56 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc/ > > > "Search Engine Optimization" by Harold Davis > SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science > of driving web traffic to web sites. Whether your web site depends on > broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic, this PDF has > the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to your site, and > build your bottom line. Youll learn how to effectively use PageRank and > Google itself--effective use of SEO means understanding how Google works: > how to boost placement in Google search results, how not to offend Google, > and how best to use paid Google programs. Youll also learn how to best > organize your web pages and web sites, apply SEO analysis tools, establish > effective SEO best practices, and much more. > ISBN: 0-596-52786-1, 41 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seo/ > > > Other PDFs from O'Reilly can be found in the O'Reilly Store at: > http://pdfs.oreilly.com > > > > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly > 1005 Gravenstein Highway North > Sebastopol, CA 95472 > http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ > ================================================================ > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
