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Adobe Creative Suite 2 Workflow --
With full-color examples and dozens of practical tips and tricks, this book is the working professional's guide to taking advantage of all that CS2 has to offer. Its concise explanations and step-by-step exercises teach you the core skills and techniques to create an integrated workflow, which not only saves you time, but will give you more flexibility to move between applications.
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Scale Your Business with MySQL
The MySQL Users Conference is the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs. It is the only event where you will be able to join the core MySQL development team and over 1000 users, open source innovators, and technology partners under one roof. Join us in Santa Clara, California on April 24-27. Register before March 6 and save $200.
IP Telephony: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet -- Developers now have the right tools and the right motivation to build a wide range of new desktop applications, telephone services, and corporate phone systems that integrate voice with the web, IM, Wi-Fi, and more. Ed Stephenson talks with program co-chair Surj Patel about what's emerging in telephony, and what you can expect to learn at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Telephony Conference.
Center for Citizen Media -- Dan Gillmor is starting off 2006 by putting together a nonprofit Center for Citizen Media. The goals are to study, encourage, and help enable the emergent grassroots media sphere, with a major focus on citizen journalism. Dan is the author of the important book We the Media, due out shortly in a paperback edition. Clone Pong, Using Only SDL (and Your Brain) -- One of the great things about the games of yore is that they tended to be pretty simple, and as Josh Glover explains, Pong is one of the simplest to implement. In this first article of a three-part series, Josh shows you how to clone Pong all by yourself. Josh contributed a number of the hacks in O'Reilly's Retro Gaming Hacks. Bug Trackers: Do They Really All Suck? -- The most complained-about development tool is often the bug tracking system. Matthew B. Doar offers advice on what to do about some of the most common frustrations with bug trackers, such as tracking bugs in multiple releases, tracking files affected by a bug, and more. Matthew is the author of Practical Development Environments. 
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Some days, Windows behaves itself and purrs like a kitten; other days, it lurches and crashes like an old Model T, refusing to shut down, refusing to start, or just plain refusing to do anything. When trouble strikes, I reach for David Karp's Windows XP Annoyances for Geeks. The thing is packed with solutions, workarounds, and little-known tweaks that will make Windows work right. And if not, at least it will show you how to scrape your drive clean and start over. Full disclosure #1: I edited this book. Full disclosure #2: I learned a ton about Windows. This is my first stop when the bits hit the fan.
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