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At this year's OSCON, Terry Camerlengo sat down with Damian Conway, author of Perl Best Practices and Perl Hacks, to get his thoughts on a wide variety of subjects, including the what-and-when of Perl 6 and what he thinks is important for the next generation of computer scientists. Watch the video (or read on) to hear what he says.
dekePod Episode 004: Stretching a Photo in Illustrator
By Deke McClellandAugust 20, 2008
Have you ever wanted to stretch a photo's background but leave the foreground unchanged? Or turn a horizontal photo into a vertical one without making a mess of it? You can't do it in Photoshop CS3, but you can in its companion program, Adobe Illustrator. Deke shows you how in a way that'll make you so happy, you'll think you're on drugs. And wait till you see the new look! Deke is dreamy.
"Slide:ology is practical, it's highly visual, and it's beautiful. I love this book," observes the visionary author of "Presentation Zen," Garr Reynolds, in his popular blog discussing professional presentation design. According to Garr, "Slide:ology should come bundled with every copy of PowerPoint or Keynote ever sold from now on. I received a draft copy about three months ago that blew me away--the final product is even better than I expected. I just got my copy over the weekend. At 274 pages, the book is meaty without being bloated." In fact, in order to demonstrate how easy it is to artfully place elements in Keynote and save the file as a video, Garr created a entertaining video review of Nancy Duarte's slide:ology using a "cheap but useful Nikon point-n-shoot."
The fourth Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, September 11, from 6 to 10pm at the Hooley House, one block from Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA. From 6-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs, alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we'll have a couple of special keynote presentations to kick off our Ignite talks. Then, onto guest speakers who'll catch you up on the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today.
"If the do-it-yourself trend is a revolution, then Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly are its Tom Paines," writes reporter Elizabeth Corcoran in a recent Forbes.com story, Making Future Headlines.
Thomas Paine, if you recall, was America's cerebral, revolutionary activist and the author of a mightily influential 1776 pamphlet, "Common Sense," supporting the American colonies independence from Great Britain.
Like Paine, Tim, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Dale, editor and publisher of Make, are "awfully good at spotting trends," writes Corcoran. So good, in fact, that Forbes also included the pair in their photo feature on techno-wizards--"In Pictures: Eight People Inventing The Future."
David Pogue, the New York Times technology columnist and bestselling author, is back with a bigger, better, up-to-the-nanosecond second edition of iPhone: The Missing Manual. It's the first and best book about every Apple improvement to its own second edition--the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2.0. Over 100 new features are demystified, troubleshot, and evaluated: GPS position tracking, MobileMe syncing, Microsoft Exchange server syncing, make-your-own ringtones, geotagging photos, and much more! The book is available in print, PDF, EPUB and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket formats. Browse the book now.
Pogue's iPhone 2E Tips
Over at missingmanuals.com, David Pogue shares some of his favorite tips for both the original iPhone or the iPhone 2E.
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