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I recently had a chance to ask Jesse Stay, author of FBML Essentials a few questions about his book and just why it's so important right now. His book revolves around the fundamentals of the Facebook Markup Language--Facebook's version of HTML--which makes it easy to develop applications specifically for Facebook. If you can think of a niche that hasn't yet been filled in the Facebook application world, but don't quite know how to build one yourself, then this book is for you. Keep reading to see why Jesse wrote this book, as well as how you can win your own copy of this essential reference.
William Patry, one of the most respected online commentators on
copyright, has
shut down his weblog.
It so happens that copyright is a major subject covered in a book
recently released by O'Reilly, Van Lindberg's
Intellectual Property and Open Source A Practical Guide to Protecting Code.
This blog continues with a brief statement by Van about Patry's
decision, then a brief statement of my own, and finally an excerpt from
Van's book about how copyright got to the state it's in, an excerpt I
hope you'll enjoy and learn from.
Buying one ate up precious time I didn't have to give. What am I talking about? An iPhone, of course! So it isn't without self-interest that I'm pleased to announce that all three electronic formats of David Pogue's iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition are available now.
The old client-server application versus client-only application debate is back on the Web, thanks to Ajax and RIA technologies. It's missing a long-forgotten third contender, however -- one which had significant drawbacks and very significant advantages.
Any Photoshop user knows that achieving better color with a picture requires a little effort--but we also know that in the end it's worth it! In this week's episode of dekePod 003: Don't Fear the Lab Mode, Deke McClelland walks us through what you need to know in order to change your photos from "ok" to "brilliant."
Last month photographer Rick Sammon, author of 28 books on digital photography, including his latest, Face-to-Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People gave a live webcast, sharing some of his top tips for taking great digital photos and answering questions from the audience. His pictures—including some from his latest trip to Papua New Guinea—are stunning and his knowledge is invaluable. If you missed the live show, you can still benefit from his expert advice—just watch the movie!
This last April Amazon Web Services let out some slack on the leashes of a top secret project they'd been working on only to pull back that slack at the last second, ripping from the clutches of 1000's upon 1000's of adoring fans the possibility of gaining even the slightest peek at what was under the covers anytime in the near-term future. That top secret project was a persistent storage solution, the lack of which many folks have long since criticized as the Achilles heel of Amazon Web Services EC2 cloud computing platform since it public beta launch in August of 2006.
Today, it seems, that a bit more slack has been released, but as far as I can tell, this time there's no pulling back. Are you ready?
Off to Beijing - An Interview with Derrick Story
By Derrick Story and Dan BrodnitzAugust 4, 2008
On August 4, Derrick Story is boarding a plane to Beijing to work in the media center at the Summer Olympics. In addition to his job of helping photographers get their images out to the world, he'll be blogging, podcasting, and tweeting, not to mention capturing his own Olympic images. In this interview, Dan Brodnitz asks Derrick how he's preparing for this assignment.New Releases
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