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IP Telephony: You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
Publish Date: Jan. 5, 2006
Developers now have the right tools and the right motivation to build a wide range of new desktop applications, telephone services, and corporate phone systems that integrate voice with the Web, IM, WiFi, and more. Ed Stephenson talks with program cochair Surj Patel about what's emerging in telephony, and what you can expect to learn at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Telephony Conference.
User Groups Benefit from Safari
Publish Date: Feb. 18, 2005
When OReilly developers needed someone to user-test the new Safari Affiliate Program, Stephen Henry from the North Coast Mac Users Group was the ideal choice. Situated 40 miles north of San Francisco, NCMUG has been active since the Mac first arrived in 1984. Henry created an excellent working example of how user groups can implement the Affiliate Program to benefit their members. Ed Stephenson brings you the details.
The Best Tips from the Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest
Publish Date: Sep. 10, 2004
What's the best way to move an organization to a Linux desktop? Here's a collection of the best tips we received from our Great Linux Desktop Migration contest.
A Guide That Takes the Sci-Fi Out Of Wi-Fi
Publish Date: Jun. 3, 2004
Ed Stephenson writes about the partnership between O'Reilly, Borders, and T-Mobile that resulted in the creation of a free 70-page book, The Guide to Getting Unwired at Borders . With content drawn from several of O'Reilly's popular wireless books, this Wi-Fi pocket guide helps make T-Mobile HotSpots more accessible to customers trying to use Border's in-store wireless network.
O'Reilly's Linux Lab Tests a New Perspective
Publish Date: Nov. 6, 2003
Linux is perceived as a geek's operating system, targeted at advanced users instead of the typical home user. But Linux offers many features that are far cheaper than the Windows alternatives. Step into O'Reilly's Linux Lounge to see how even marketing wonks can build, partition, and customize Linux on an old PC, as well as set up a state-of-the-art AMD 64-bit system running SuSE 9.0 Linux.
Perl and the Power of Web Portals
Publish Date: Sep. 6, 2001
O'Reilly Perl Success Story tells how
GabTown.com lets everyone add portal-like community features to their Web
sites. By Ed Stephenson.
Updating Seven Centuries of Scottish Land Rights
Publish Date: Aug. 20, 2001
O'Reilly Perl Success Story tells how
Siemens chose Perl for reenginnering the application that tracks 700 years
of Scottish land rights. By Ed Stephenson.
Perl Runs Sweden's Pension System
Publish Date: Jul. 6, 2001
O'Reilly Perl Success story tells how Perl
was used to create the application that runs Sweden's national pension.
By Ed Stephenson.
Python Helps Disney Write a New Script
Publish Date: Mar. 1, 2001
This O'Reilly Python Success Story reports
on the use of Python for computerized production at Walt Disney Feature
Animation. By Ed Stephenson.
Charting the Linux Anatomy
Publish Date: Jan. 29, 2001
O'Reilly employees tell how they created
O'Reilly's Anatomy of a Linux System poster. By Ed Stephenson.
Learning to Count on Perl at the Census Bureau
Publish Date: Jan. 2, 2001
Learn how Rachael LaPorte Taylor, senior Internet technology architect at the U.S. Census Bureau, uses Perl to crunch the leading financial and economic indicators, and demographic data, of the United States.
Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Publish Date: Oct. 16, 2000
A Perl Success Story about a company's
creation of a high-end, low-cost helpdesk application for major
corporations with Perl, an open source programming language.