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Coming Soon: iPhoneLive

By Sara Peyton
September 4, 2008 | Comments: 0

O'Reilly Media introduces and opens registration for iPhoneLive, a new conference scheduled for Nov. 18, 2008, at the Holiday Inn San Jose in Silicon Valley, California. Chaired by Raven Zachary and Bill Dudney, iPhoneLive will be a gathering of the best and brightest participants in the iPhone ecosystem today. If you're already building apps for the iPhone, a developer who wants to make a move to the iPhone platform, an entrepreneur, or an enthusiast of the emerging iPhone industry, this is the event for you. iPhoneLive is sure to be a mind-blowing day filled with information that you just can't get anywhere else. Register by October 14 and save $125.

A Beginner's Introduction to Perl Web Programming

By chromatic
September 5, 2008 | Comments: 0

Previous articles in this series showed how to use Perl for text processing and general purpose programming. Now it's time to demonstrate how to use Perl on the web.

Dancing with Many Languages

By Eric Larson
September 4, 2008 | Comments: 0

A friend of mine pointed out Disco, a map-reduce framework written in Erlang and using Python for writing the actual map and reduction functions. I haven't tried it just yet, but the concept is interesting in that it uses both Erlang and Python.

OFF=ON Trend and Ubiquitous Computing

By Nat Torkington
September 3, 2008 | Comments: 2

The good folks at trendwatching.com have a new trend report up, called OFF=ON. In their words: More and more, the offline world (a.k.a. the real world, meatspace or atom-arena) is adjusting to and mirroring the increasingly dominant online world, from tone of voice to product development to business processes to customer relationships. They're absolutely right, the signs are right...

A code of ethics from Brian McConnell concerning employee rights

By Andy Oram
September 4, 2008 | Comments: 0

My colleague Brian McConnell has a story about employer abuse guaranteed to make you scared and angry. But finding something constructive and beneficial in an incident that was personally devastating, he offers a Code of Ethics concerning workplace privacy that seems to me simple, fair, and both technically and legally capable of being implemented. A call for privacy is particularly well-timed in this election season, when the Republicans publicly spat on the Bill of Rights at least three times last night.

Politics and Pictures

By Steve Simon
September 4, 2008 | Comments: 4

I'm here blogging on the last day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota, and I'm running to the Xcel Center to get ready for the final night when John McCain makes his historic speech accepting the nomination...

Pogue and Company Weigh in on Chrome

By Sara Peyton
September 3, 2008 | Comments: 9

In his morning column, New York Times technology writer David Pogue asks if the world needs another browser? Although that question remains unanswered, the author of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" found much to like in Google's new open source browser project. Dux Raymond Sy, author of O'Reilly's upcoming SharePoint for Project Management, also took Google Chrome out for a spin and found three reasons to be delighted. Read more for a chance to win a free book from O'Reilly.

Carl Malamud Speaks Volumes about Public Access to California Codes--Update

By Sara Peyton
September 5, 2008 | Comments: 3

Carl Malamud Speaks Volumes about Public Access to California Codes--Update

Over the Labor Day Weekend--while some of us were playing croquet and barbecuing--public access advocate Carl Malamud posted online the 38-volume California Code of Regulations. Santa Rosa Press Democrat's Nathan Halverson reports on Malamud's latest exploit in a front page story today. Why? It seems the state claims copyright to those very laws. In other words, for those of us who live in the Golden State--even though we must abide by California's laws--we're forbidden to store or distribute these regulations without the state's consent.

Web 2.0 Expo & Web2Open in NYC

By Brady Forrest
September 3, 2008 | Comments: 2

The first Web 2.0 Expo NYC is going to start in just two weeks. Just like in SF we have sessions for developers, designers, media & marketers, web ops, and executives. The Development sessions that I am looking forward to the most include John Resig talking about Visual Programming in JS, Cal Henderson talking about scaling video, Toby Segaran...

Reflecting Upon Chrome

By Kurt Cagle
September 3, 2008 | Comments: 2

Chrome represents a change in the way that Google is choosing to play the game, putting them on a far more equal footing with the other browser vendors, and asserting that, on the browser as on the server, they have arrived.

dekePod Episode 005: Spirographs on Steroids

By Deke McClelland
September 3, 2008

In this episode, Deke makes the startling claim that Illustrator, a complex piece of software that costs hundreds of dollars, is better than an $8 Spirograph. Using nothing but half an ellipse and a few live, editable effects, Deke shows you how to construct something truly extraordinary. "Trust me on this one. Artist, non-artist, proficient with Illustrator, never even heard of the program -- I don't care if you live in Antarctica, you have no access to electricity, you haven't seen sunlight in 45 days -- oh my God, what are you, a penguin? -- you're gonna wanna watch this!"

Nobody likes to be tracked--whether by NSA or DoubleClick

By Andy Oram
August 31, 2008 | Comments: 4

Ecommerce professionals gush over targeted ads, claiming they'll make life easier on consumers and will supercharge advertising campaigns. But shouldn't someone ask the consumers how they feel about giving up personal information? Forrester Research has.

Web Analytics Primer for Publishers

By Mac Slocum
September 2, 2008 | Comments: 3

We take a look at page views, pages per visit, unique visitors and other common analytic measurements.

Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined?

By Tim O'Reilly
August 26, 2008 | Comments: 19

I have to confess that one of the social networking tools I find most valuable is Goodreads. (It's a close second to Twitter, and way ahead of Facebook, Friendfeed, or Dopplr.) Unlike twitter, where I follow hundreds of people (possible because of twitter's minimalism) and am followed by thousands, on Goodreads, I follow and am followed by a small...