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<td>The Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) Conference explores
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Have you done something stunningly cool or staggeringly useful with
Perl
in the past year? Conference season will be here soon; it's time to
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present it.
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<br>
Nearly every developer fosters a secret desire to create cool video
games, but for most of us, the barriers to entry (knowing how to create
performant graphics code) has kept us out of the game. But there are
several toolkits for Ruby that can get you on your way without a Ph.D.
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Part 1:
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Adobe's Flex offers a rich client-side user experience, but how do you
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how
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Derrick Story interviews Senior Product Manager Joe Schorr, on some of
the most enticing and useful features for Aperture photographers.
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Steinberg was on hand for the unveiling and files this report about all
the new hardware, iPhone updates, and more.
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<b>LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple</b></a><br>
LILO and Grub are the most popular Linux bootloaders. Usually, your
Linux distribution chooses and configures one or the other for you, but
this article provides a handy comparison of the two, and offers some
troubleshooting and configuration tips if you ever want to do it by
hand.
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Art & Science of JavaScript</b></a><br>
In this tutorial, we'll look at a technique for using CSS and
JavaScript
to build a first-person-perspective maze, in homage to old-school
adventure games like Dungeon Master and Doom.
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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JavaScript: Learn Outside the Book</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Kelby--Katrin's New Book is a Winner, and I Know Eight People I'm
Sending a Copy to This Week</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2007/12/freaking-multitudes-of-htacces.html">Freaking
Multitudes of .htaccess great balls of fire</a>
<br>
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Mobile Weekly Roundup</a>
<br>
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-> The Right Way to Do It</a>
<br>
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<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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on Firefox 3.0</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2008/01/what_do_you_want_to_hear_from.html#more">What
Do You Want to Read from Head First Authors?</a>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Presents for Under Your Tree (for next year)</a>
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