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Ultimate Guide to PCs
PCs: The Missing Manual --
Bestselling author Andy Rathbone delivers simple, reliable advice on issues PC users confront every day. Intended for both beginners and power users, this new Missing Manual has something for everyone. PC novices will appreciate the straightforward tutorials on PC basics, while power users will appreciate the clear photos explaining how to take your PC apart to replace or upgrade parts.
Design Effective Dashboards
Information Dashboard Design --
Although dashboards are potentially powerful, their full potential is rarely realized if you fail to use effective visual design. This helpful guide will teach you the visual design skills you need to create dashboards that communicate clearly, rapidly, and compellingly. Learn to avoid common mistakes, minimize distractions, organize information to support meaning, and much more. Don't let your investment in dashboard technology go to waste.
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Save $300 on Sys Admin Series
Plunge into the art of system administration with O'Reilly Learning Lab's gourmet four-course Linux/Unix System Administration Certificate Series, spanning basic directories to sed, awk, and perl. You'll get your own root server to work on, and free O'Reilly books for reference. You'll even receive a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education when you finish the series. Pre-enroll in all four courses and receive a $300 instant rebate. Offer expires January 31st, so act now!
Spring: Integrating iBATIS -- iBATIS is one of the object-relational (OR) frameworks embraced by the Spring framework, and it's an ideal choice for those seeking a middle ground between full-blown OR and hand-written JDBC. In this excerpt from Spring: A Developer's Notebook, Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland show how to integrate iBATIS with Spring.
Five Years of Emerging Technology -- Five years into the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, we've blogged, ripped, remixed, tracked back, and tagged the ideas, projects, and technologies that alpha geeks are working on right now. The people and ideas at ETech don't just broaden your horizons, they help you peer over the edge to see what's coming. Featured ETech speakers this year include Ray Ozzie, Bruce Sterling, Jon Udell, Linda Stone, and Kevin Lynch, among many others. Join us March 6-9, 2006 in San Diego, California, and be sure to register before January 16th and save $300. Killer Interviewing Tips for Podcasters, Part 1 -- Interviewing for podcasts is as easy as putting a microphone in a room and asking a few questionsÑ-as long as you're satisfied with your listeners turning you off after a minute or two. If you want your listeners to hang around for your conversation, read this article. Podcasting expert Jack Herrington reveals how to set up, conduct, and record an interview that will delight your audience. Jack is the author of Podcasting Hacks. Head First's Cover Model Contest -- JavaRanch is hosting a contest to choose a cover model for the next Head First book (Head First Objects), due out this Spring. Examine seven wannabees, decide which would work best, then craft an essay or poem describing why. Try your luck at winning one of five fabulous prizes, including the chance to have your name appear in the new book. Deadline for entries is January 29th. What Are Syndication Feeds -- O'Reilly recently commissioned Shelley Powers, a specialist in technology architecture and software development, to create a comprehensive PDF document that would help webmasters manage their incoming and outgoing feeds. Shelley produced nothing short of a must-have reference for online publishers, titled "What Are Syndication Feeds." You can download it today from the O'Reilly shopping cart for a $7.95, small change for a priceless doc.
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Even though it's written for sys admins, Time Management for System Administrators has a lot of good info for anyone who has to handle client requests in a potentially chaotic situation. Like any time management book, it's best read with an eye for tips that work for you, rather than trying to follow it as gospel. Lots of the underlying ideas are similar to concepts discussed in Getting Things Done and on 43folders.com, but there are definitely new tricks here. I like the tips and examples of how to be more effective in some of your human interactions at work. If this book had been out during my days as a tech support supervisor, I would've made it required reading!
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Terrie Miller, Online Manager for MAKE Magazine
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