Jesse Robbins Quote from New York Times

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/05/08 16:49

Jesse Robbins, Chair of the Velocity Conference, was quoted in today's New York Times in an article On the Web, More Outrage Over Outages written by Brad Stone. Here's a quote: Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive who was responsible...

  Hands

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/05/08 13:16

Phyllis was kangaroo holding Katie Rose, and I thought their hands together made such a great contrast of sizes that I snapped away. Katie has come such a long way, and grown so much, but comparing mother-and-daughter hands reminds me she is still pretty small. Yesterday she gained two ounces and she is gaining quickly on...

  Avast anti-virus for the Mac

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/05/08 5:46

After spending an entire day installing Windows updates on a friend's computer, I decided to have a bit of good geeky fun by trying out Avast anti-virus for Mac OS X. Whether Mac OS X users need anti-virus at the moment is still up in the air, but regardless of the reality of the situation, knowing our options cannot hurt....

  Stay Competitive in Your I.T. Career

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

Student Success Story: Last time the O'Reilly School of Technology highlighted Ingrid as Student of the Month, she was in the midst of taking our Web Programming Certificate Series. At this point, she has now completed fifteen courses, five Certificate Series, and is currently working on her sixth — the new PHP/SQL...

  Mastering XML Transformations

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

XSLT, Second Edition — After months of anticipation and delay, the W3C finally released the XSLT 2.0 standard in January 2007. The updated edition of this book offers practical, real-world examples that demonstrate how you can apply XSLT stylesheets to XML data using either the new specification, or the older XSLT 1.0...

  IT Workers and the Gathering Economic Storm

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

IT workers are in general perhaps better prepared for the upheavals in that emerging world than most - a world where knowledge, flexibility, indepence of action and thought, and an ability to network will prove to be the most desirable characteristics, but that nimbleness comes at the cost of not tying yourself down to the...

  XRX: XQueries in eXist

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

I want to explore the XRX (XForms, REST, XQuery) architecture, so I’ve set myself the challenge of implementing a social bookmarking web service modelled on del.icio.us as described in Chapter 7 of Leonard Richardson’s and Sam Ruby’s RESTful Web Services,...

  Is arbitrary XML on the web ever going to happen?

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

Search engine indexers are aware of (X)HTML and know what to look for when indexing those documents, but if the indexers were tuned to look for RDFa and WAI-ARIA Roles, would the semantics of the document be quite so important? If arbitrary XML on the web is ever going to happen then machine-readable annotations will be an...

  Next Live O'Reilly Webcast

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0 — Based on direct experience consulting in the field, and backed by O'Reilly's thought leadership on Web 2.0, this webcast is for the rest of us: executives and professionals working in "traditional" (non-Internet na

  Audio: Luiz Barroso on Energy Proportional Computing

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O'Reilly Network Articles | 07/04/08 14:50

Luiz Barroso talks about the concept of Energy Proportional computing and how he thinks DRAM and disk manufacturers could do a better job creating devices consume energy in proportion to the computing to perform. Barroso and Holzle analyzed 5000 servers at Google over six months and found the average CPU utilization was...