Emerging Telephony Conference

If you want to know what products you can buy, go to any of a dozen other conferences. If you want to know how communication will change, what technologies will change it, and who's building the applications innovations that will become products, come to the one place you'll find the answers: ETel. The early registration deadline for O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Conference has been extended to January 9th. Take advantage of great early registration discounts, and register today.

Skype Hacks -- Author Andrew Sheppard details what all the Skype hype is about, explains the basics, and shows you more than 100 clever tips and tricks for tweaking and tuning Skype so you too can enjoy free phone calls and services. Drop your phone carrier and start saving money today.

Ask Tim: Why Is the Web the Way It Is Today? -- In what direction could the internet have gone if it were not for the FSF/GNU movement? How would the internet have looked today? These questions were recently asked of Tim O'Reilly. Read what he had to say in this Ask Tim feature.

Managing and Monitoring JBoss -- In part one of this two-part excerpt, authors Norman Richards and Sam Griffith covered how to use the Web Console and its MBeans to manage your web apps. In this second part, learn how to create a monitor for your app, how to configure alerts to be sent via email, and how to manage JBoss from the command line. If these excerpts whet your appetite, check out the whole book, JBoss: A Developer's Notebook.

Killer Game Programming in Java: A 3D Checkerboard, Part 1 -- This book excerpt is for all Java gamers, especially the 3D junkies. In part one of a two-part series taken from Chapter 15 of Killer Game Programming in Java, author Andrew Davison describes how to create a scene in a Checkers3D application, using Java 3D. In the second installment, Andrew will show how to create a floating sphere for the Checkers3D app.

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