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1. |  Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Third Edition By: Sun Technical Publications Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 13-NOV-2009 Insert Date: 08-AUG-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Third Edition “Clear content and consistent style are essential for the
usability of any system. If you're doing something complex,
describing it simply becomes that much more important. Read Me
First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry tells you how to
achieve these elusive goals, and does so following its own advice:
it's clear, consistent, and presents advanced topics in an
actionable and approachable manner.”
Jakob Nielsen
Principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Author, Eyetracking Web Usability
“The third edition of Read Me First! A Style Guide for the
Computer Industry has all the excellent...
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2. |  Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 14-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 07-OCT-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: MediaWiki, 1st Edition
"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and
administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further
online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer,
Wikimedia Foundation
"This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience.
It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a developer
of MediaWiki
MediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, the software
that runs Wikipedia and thousands of other websites. Though it
appears simple to use at first glance, MediaWiki has
extraordinarily powerful and deep capabilities for managing...
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3. |  Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition By: Arnold Robbins; Linda Lamb; Elbert Hannah Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 15-JUL-2008 Insert Date: 10-JUL-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition
There's nothing that hard-core Unix and Linux users are more
fanatical about than their text editor. Editors are the subject of
adoration and worship, or of scorn and ridicule, depending upon
whether the topic of discussion is your editor or someone
else's.
vi has been the standard editor for close to 30 years.
Popular on Unix and Linux, it has a growing following on Windows
systems, too. Most experienced system administrators cite
vi as their tool of choice. And since 1986, this book has
been the guide for vi.
However, Unix systems are not what they were 30 years ago, and
neither is...
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4. |  SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide, 1st Edition By: James Pyles; Piotr Prussak; Christopher J. Regan; Christopher M. Buechler; Bob Fox; Murray Gordon; Michael Lotter; Jason Medero; Nilesh Mehta; Joris Poelmans; Christopher Pragash Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 24-SEP-2007 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2007 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide, 1st Edition
For any organization that wants to use Windows SharePoint Services
to share and collaborate on Microsoft Office documents, this book
shows administrators of all levels how to get up and running with
this powerful and popular set of collaboration tools.
Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services technology in Office 2007 is
an integrated set of services designed to connect people,
information, processes, and systems both within and beyond the
organizational firewall. SharePoint 2007: The Definitive
Guide provides a detailed discussion of all Sharepoint
features, applications and extensions. You...
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5. |  By: Jukka K. Korpela Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 26-JUL-2006 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Unicode Explained
Fundamentally, computers just deal with numbers. They store
letters and other characters by assigning a number for each one.
There are hundreds of different encoding systems for mapping
characters to numbers, but Unicode promises a single mapping.
Unicode enables a single software product or website to be targeted
across multiple platforms, languages and countries without
re-engineering. It's no wonder that industry giants like Apple,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM andMicrosoft have all adopted Unicode.Containing everything you need to understand Unicode, this
comprehensive reference from O'Reilly...
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6. |  Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers By: Dan O'Sullivan; Tom Igoe Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 01-JAN-2004 Insert Date: 19-OCT-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Physical Computing: Sensing and Controlling the Physical World with Computers
Coverage includes—
Written for the Beginner to Intermediate reader
Appealing to a variety of electronics hobbyists
Authors have classroom experience teaching this topic
Includes several hands-on sample projects
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7. |  By: Jason Cole Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 25-JUL-2005 Insert Date: 16-SEP-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Using Moodle
Developed by an extremely active open source community, Moodle is a
sophisticated course management system that's ideal for creating
dynamic online learning communities and for supplementing
face-to-face learning. Used in more than 115 countries and
supporting over 60 languages, Moodle can scale from a
single-teacher site to a 40,000- student university. Teachers who
use Moodle have access to an array of powerful tools such as
assignments, forums, journals, quizzes, surveys, chat rooms, and
workshops. Using Moodle is a comprehensive, hands-on guide
that explains how the system works, with...
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8. |  Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom By: Ben Hammersley Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 13-APR-2005 Insert Date: 26-MAY-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom
Perhaps the most explosive technological trend over the past two
years has been blogging. As a matter of fact, it's been reported
that the number of blogs during that time has grown from 100,000 to
4.8 million-with no end to this growth in sight. What's the
technology that makes blogging tick? The answer is RSS--a format
that allows bloggers to offer XML-based feeds of their content.
It's also the same technology that's incorporated into the websites
of media outlets so they can offer material (headlines, links,
articles, etc.) syndicated by other sites. As the main technology
behind this...
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9. |  By: Dan Gillmor Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 19-JUL-2004 Insert Date: 28-JAN-2005 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: We The Media
Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the
news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content
to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are
publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet.
The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by
professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover. In We
the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People,
nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor
tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on
this deep...
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10. |  Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High-Quality Web Content By: Gerry McGovern; Rob Norton Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 28-NOV-2001 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2002 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Content Critical: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through High-Quality Web Content In the age of information overload and content glut, how do you
get people to read what's on your website?
The modern world runs on content. And the Web is fast becoming
the medium of choice for content delivery. Increasingly business is
about getting the right content to the right person at the right
time - and making a profit out of it. Content is critical.
Content Critical will change the way you think about the
Web. If part of your job involves writing original content to be
placed on the Web - product support material, a marketing pitch, or
internal communication - you're part of a...
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