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Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World

An Excerpt from The Geek Atlas

By Sara Peyton
May 28, 2009 | Comments: 13
Nikola Tesla--The Man Who Lit Up the World
The history of science is all around us, if you know where to look. And if you're a traveler who loves science, you'll definitely want to check out at a timely new resource from O'Reilly, The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science & Technology Come Alive ($29.99), by John Graham-Cumming. Arriving just in time for summer vacation planning, this unique travelers' guide covers 128 interesting destinations around the globe where major breakthroughs in science, mathematics, or technology occurred--or are happening now. Learn about the Tesla Museum, in Belgrade, Serbia in this excerpt from The Geek Atlas.

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Talking to Tim O'Reilly about the Architecture of Participation

An Excerpt from Beautiful Teams

By Sara Peyton
May 11, 2009 | Comments: 1
Talking to Tim O'Reilly about the Architecture of Participation
What's it like to work on a great software development team facing an impossible problem? How do you build an effective team? Beautiful Teams: Inspiring and Cautionary Tales from Veteran Team Leaders takes you behind the scenes with some of the most interesting teams in software engineering history. In this excerpt from the book, editors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene, interview Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly's founder and CEO, about leadership.

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Women in Tech Rock! Join our Mother's Day Celebration

Give a Tech Book & Get 40% Off

By Sara Peyton
May 8, 2009 | Comments: 3
Women in Tech Rock! Join our Mother's Day Celebration
Twitterer @HilaryP is a developer, a technical evangelist, and the pregnant mommy of a toddler. And though she likes girly things like yoga and beauty products as much as the next gal she was also looking for a Mother's Day discount that appealed to her geeky desires. Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media agreed. And that's why we're now celebrating Mother's Day with a 40% off discount on tech books on oreilly.com. We're also posting photos of Moms with their favorite tech books here. Please send to press@oreilly.com your fav pics.

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Guess the Book, Episode Two - Back on the Streets of Sebastopol

By Kathryn Barrett
April 6, 2009
Guess the Book, Episode Two - Back on the Streets of Sebastopol
This second episode of Guess the Book leads Sara Peyton and her trusty videographer, armed with a copy of Programming ASP.NET 3.5, to the offices of a local newspaper where one willing volunteer attempts to decipher the book's cover. Now it's your turn to help out—which book should we use for our next episode and why?

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Guess the Book, Episode One: O'Reilly Media on the Streets of Sebastopol

By Kathryn Barrett
March 10, 2009 | Comments: 1
Guess the Book, Episode One: O'Reilly Media on the Streets of Sebastopol
We're so used to the funny animals on our book covers that we don't give them a second thought, but what about the rest of the world? Especially the non-geek world? In this first episode of Guess the Book, we took to the streets of Sebastopol, CA—the world headquarters of O'Reilly Media—to find out what our neighbors might think. For this first foray, we chose Learning the vi Editor, with the "vi Guy" himself, to see if the townspeople could tell us what the book was about, simply by looking at the cover.

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Choosing an Appropriate Performance Testing Tool

By Sara Peyton
January 28, 2009
Choosing an Appropriate Performance Testing Tool
The Art of Application Performance Testing arrived on my desk today. Indeed, application performance testing is a unique discipline that's crying out for its own set of industry standards. In this new title, author Ian Molyneaux offers his practical, commonsense solutions and expertise to show readers how to focus on planning, execution, and interpretation of results in this illuminating new title. Here, in this excerpt, Ian details how to choose an appropriate testing tool.

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SitePoint's Newest Title: The Principles of Successful Freelancing

By Mary Rotman
January 28, 2009
SitePoint's Newest Title: The Principles of Successful Freelancing
SitePoint, one of our publishing partners, recently published a book entitled The Principles of Successful Freelancing. With the economy heading downhill and many people losing jobs, this title might be the one you need to see you through. Check out the free preview on sitepoint.com.

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Matthew MacDonald's Hot List of Useful Web Sites

By Sara Peyton
January 21, 2009 | Comments: 9
Matthew MacDonald's Hot List of Useful Web Sites
If you're looking to create a professional-looking and visitor-friendly site, Matthew MacDonald's Creating a Web Site: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition can show you how. "Bookstore shelves are packed with Web design books written years ago. These older books don't cover the up-to-the-minute techniques your site needs to distinguish itself, make money, and show up in search results. "Creating a Web Site" corrects those mistakes--and includes all the advice and guidance you need to build a modern Web site," explains MacDonald, an author and programmer extraordinaire. Here we share MacDonald's hot list of great Web sites where you can download handy software or get valuable information, when creating your web site. Check it out.

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