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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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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. Register today! 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. 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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I usually fade about 300 pages into the thousand-page desk-crackers, but some topics need the space. Java Swing is one such example. For my first three or four years of desktop Java development, I frequently dove into this book when the javadocs were dead-ends and I said, "OK, what's the conceptual basis that ties all this together?" Try figuring out table column models or undo/redo without a guide like this...no, don't, it's too hard.
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