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Favorite Linux Book of All Time: Linux in a Nutshell

By Kathryn Barrett
May 1, 2009 | Comments: 2
Favorite Linux Book of All Time: Linux in a Nutshell
The Linux Journal's annual Readers' Choice Awards take the pulse of the Linux community, allowing readers to choose their favorites in a number of categories, and write-ins also are accepted. This year, more than 6,000 individuals voted for their favorite Linux solutions—one of the biggest turnouts in in Linux Journal history. And Linux in a Nutshell won the award for Favorite Linux Book of All Time. Our thanks to everyone who voted for this book. We think it's a classic and we're glad that you do, too! To see how useful the book is, check out the Linux Command Line Directory.

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Read an Excerpt from High Performance MySQL: Winner of a Productivity Award at the 19th Annual Jolt Awards

By Kathryn Barrett
March 17, 2009
Read an Excerpt from High Performance MySQL: Winner of a Productivity Award at the 19th Annual Jolt Awards
We're delighted to announce that High Performance MySQL, Second Edition, was awarded a Jolt Productivity Award in the category of Technical Books. The Jolts are the Oscars of the software development industry, showcasing the books, tools, and other products that have "jolted" the industry. Congratulations to the authors of this title. To celebrate, we've posted an excerpt from the book.

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Read an Excerpt from Intellectual Property and Open Source: Winner of a Productivity Award at the 19th Annual Jolt Awards

By Sara Peyton
March 16, 2009
Read an Excerpt from Intellectual Property and Open Source: Winner of a Productivity Award at the 19th Annual Jolt Awards
We're proud that Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code won a Jolt Productivity Award this year. The Jolt Awards--considered the Oscars of the industry--showcase the books and products that have "jolted" the industry with their significance. We congratulate author Van Lindberg for creating an award-winning guide guide to the legal system--without the legalese. And to celebrate the win we've posted an an excerpt from the book.

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Gary Bradski's Last Tip! Contributing to OpenCV's Future, 10 of 10

By Sara Peyton
October 13, 2008
Gary Bradski's Last Tip! Contributing to OpenCV's Future, 10 of 10
Dr. Gary Rost Bradski and Adrian Kaehler, the creators of OpenCV, have put their knowledge into a new book for O'Reilly. With Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library developers and hobbyists can learn how to build simple or sophisticated vision applications. Over the last week Gary--a consulting professor at Stanford, senior scientist at Willow Garage, a robotics institute research institute/incubator, and vision team leader for Stanley, the Stanford robot that won the DARPA Grand Challenge autonomous race across the desert--shared his Top Tips and Tricks for getting the most out of OpenCV. Read on for Gary's last tip, Tip #10: Contributing to OpenCV's Future.

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Be Subversive--10 Subversion Tips to Control Your Code

By Sara Peyton
October 2, 2008 | Comments: 1
Be Subversive--10 Subversion Tips to Control Your Code
Is Subversion the right tool? "If you need to archive old versions of files and directories, possibly resurrect them, or examine logs of how they've changed over time, then Subversion is exactly the right tool for you." So write the authors of O'Reilly's Version Control with Subversion, 2nd Ed.--C. Michael Pilato, Ben Collins-Sussman, and Brian Fitzpatrick. And here, these members of the Subversion development team give you their top tips for avoiding the pesky network round-trip, safely moving files and directories with wild abandon, teaching your Subversion client to add certain properties to your files automatically, and more. Check them out.

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On Slashdot-- A 10/10 Review for Intellectual Property and Open Source

By Sara Peyton
September 15, 2008
On Slashdot-- A 10/10 Review for Intellectual Property and Open Source
In a review published by Slashdot today, writer JR Peck gave "Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code" a perfect 10/10. Written by Van Lindberg, a software engineer and practicing attorney, "Intellectual Property and Open Source" aims to guide readers through critical intellectual property issues from a developer's point of view--without getting bogged down in legalese. And, according to JR, Lindberg admirably succeeds in his mission. Read more.

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Carl Malamud Speaks Volumes about Public Access to California Codes--Update

By Sara Peyton
September 5, 2008 | Comments: 4
Carl Malamud Speaks Volumes about Public Access to California Codes--Update
Over the Labor Day Weekend--while some of us were playing croquet and barbecuing--public access advocate Carl Malamud posted online the 38-volume California Code of Regulations. Santa Rosa Press Democrat's Nathan Halverson reports on Malamud's latest exploit in a front page story today. Why? It seems the state claims copyright to those very laws. In other words, for those of us who live in the Golden State--even though we must abide by California's laws--we're forbidden to store or distribute these regulations without the state's consent.

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Pogue and Company Weigh in on Chrome

By Sara Peyton
September 3, 2008 | Comments: 10
Pogue and Company Weigh in on Chrome
In his morning column, New York Times technology writer David Pogue asks if the world needs another browser? Although that question remains unanswered, the author of "iPhone: The Missing Manual" found much to like in Google's new open source browser project. Dux Raymond Sy, author of O'Reilly's upcoming SharePoint for Project Management, also took Google Chrome out for a spin and found three reasons to be delighted. Read more for a chance to win a free book from O'Reilly.

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What developers should know about IP

By Kathryn Barrett
August 12, 2008
What developers should know about IP
Author Van Lindberg is both software engineer and practicing attorney. His new book, Intellectual Property and Open Source tackles the slippery subject of intellectual property. In this interview, Van explains why intellectual property law is so important to developers—any developers—and shares his most important tips for developers starting out in the world of open source. Read more.

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Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame

By Sara Peyton
July 25, 2008
Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame
Drupal's Angela Byron and Moodle's Martin Dougiamas were among the five winners of the Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame announced earlier this week at OSCON. Winners are chosen for dedication, innovation, leadership, and outstanding contribution to open source. Congratulations everyone.

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