tag:news.oreilly.com,2008-08-01://44 2009-11-24T16:21:00Z O'Reilly News - Spreading the knowledge of innovators Movable Type Pro 4.21-en tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38581 2009-11-24T16:07:06Z 2009-11-24T16:07:06Z

For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun shares an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on his third book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, this fun, interactive webcast brings you lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion--as well as teaching and learning--directly from a master of the trade. Bring your toughest questions and situations for Scott to answer or solve. Attendance is limited, so register now! More Upcoming Webcasts and Online Conferences: DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a Sustainable Business Where 2.0 Online Conference - An Emphasis on iPhone Sensors Velocity Online Conference - Fast by Default Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events!

O'Reilly Media Confessions of a Public Speaker, this fun, interactive webcast brings you lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion--as well as teaching and learning--directly from a master of the trade. Bring your toughest questions and situations for Scott to answer or solve. Attendance is limited, so register now!

More Upcoming Webcasts and Online Conferences:

• DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven
• Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a Sustainable Business
• Where 2.0 Online Conference - An Emphasis on iPhone Sensors
• Velocity Online Conference - Fast by Default

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English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 English Shellcode (PDF) -- paper presented at ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, showing how to encode arbitrary x86 shell code (the payload in a malware or other attack that elevates privileges and pwns your machine) as something that looks, at first glance, to be English text. Impressive piece of work. This and more in today's Four Short Links.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/english-shellcode.jpg tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38579 2009-11-24T06:41:05Z 2009-11-24T06:41:05Z

SAMBA's Jeremy Allison has a great post Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard. What leaps out to me? First, that the method of requiring complete documentation outside a formalized QA process doesn't work real well. The second thing is that even if there is documentation, some incompatibilities come down to capability mismatches.

Rick Jelliffe http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 Jeremy Allison has a great post Why writing a Windows compatible file server is (still) hard. What leaps out to me? First, that the method of requiring complete documentation outside a formalized QA process doesn't work real well. The second thing is that even if there is documentation, some incompatibilities come down to capability mismatches.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 text tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38578 2009-11-24T05:33:06Z 2009-11-24T05:33:06Z

Rick Jelliffe http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 Schematron and Other Useful Tools at the IPTC Autumn Meeting about how the Associated Press reduced manual checking & QA of incoming iAtom feeds using open source tools.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/ap-schematron.jpg tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38576 2009-11-24T01:46:06Z 2009-11-24T01:46:06Z

Are you looking to take advantage of social media for your business or organization? With easy-to-understand introductions to blogging, forums, opinion and review sites, and social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn, The Social Media Marketing Book will help you choose the best--and avoid the worst--of the social web's unique marketing opportunities.

Mary Rotman http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3061 The Social Media Marketing Book will help you choose the best--and avoid the worst--of the social web's unique marketing opportunities.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3061 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/23/dan_zarrella_lg.jpg tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38560 2009-11-23T21:27:36Z 2009-11-23T21:27:36Z

After posting some thoughts a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader who urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, Frame Analysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts that came to mind as I made my way through that long and rambling work. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks into online interactions.

Andy Oram http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36 posting some thoughts a month ago about Erving Goffman's classic sociological text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, I heard from a reader who urged me to try out a deeper work of Goffman's, Frame Analysis (Harper Colophon, 1974). This blog presents the thoughts that came to mind as I made my way through that long and rambling work. Although the Internet tends to strip away the external meanings Goffman recorded, we still bring our real-life frameworks into online interactions.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/36 text tag:blogs.oreilly.com,2009:/blurbs//59.38575 2009-11-23T20:20:19Z 2009-11-23T20:20:19Z

O'Reilly Media Holiday Gift Guide — Need a gift for the hard-core geek in your life? How about the DIYer or digital photographer? O'Reilly has something for every techie and crafter on your list, from hobbyist to pro. Check out our Gift Guide to see our new titles, and pick up some great gifts for the holidays. Give O'Reilly.]]> text tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38566 2009-11-23T15:55:00Z 2009-11-23T15:55:00Z

William here, continuing the e-reader discussion with an in-depth look at the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Anyone who's been watching the e-reader and e-book market knows, the Nook is the latest entry in this highly competitive space where Sony, Amazon and now Barnes & Noble look to be the global leaders. The Nook features a third generation e-ink VizPlex electronic paper display as well as a touchscreen LCD.

William Stanek http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2573 William here, continuing the e-reader discussion with an in-depth look at the Nook from Barnes & Noble. Anyone who's been watching the e-reader and e-book market knows, the Nook is the latest entry in this highly competitive space where Sony, Amazon and now Barnes & Noble look to be the global leaders. The Nook features a third generation e-ink VizPlex electronic paper display as well as a touchscreen LCD. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2573 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/24/nook-reader.jpg tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.35790 2009-11-23T14:00:00Z 2009-11-23T14:00:00Z

Metadata has the ability to give us context to the media we are dealing with. It also makes for an interesting data source. Using the Flash Platform we can combine information all ready contained in files that you are using along with web services to create an interesting user experience. This tutorial will combine id3 metadata from your mp3's to power an Flickr image search. Our final output will be an AIR application written with Flex Builder 3.

Russ Ferguson http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3715 Metadata has the ability to give us context to the media we are dealing with. It also makes for an interesting data source. Using the Flash Platform we can combine information all ready contained in files that you are using along with web services to create an interesting user experience. This tutorial will combine id3 metadata from your mp3's to power an Flickr image search. Our final output will be an AIR application written with Flex Builder 3. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3715 video http://www.insideria.com/2009/11/24/metadata-flash.jpg tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38546 2009-11-23T11:00:00Z 2009-11-23T11:00:00Z

Top E-Tailers Profiting From Scams -- Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 billion by "misleading" Web shoppers, said members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. [...] The government says the investigation shows that [the companies] "trick" consumers into entering their e-mail address just before they complete purchases at sites such as Orbitz, Priceline.com, Buy.com, 1-800 Flowers, Continental Airlines, Fandango, and Classmates.com. This and more in today's Four Short Links.

Nat Torkington http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 Top E-Tailers Profiting From Scams -- Vertrue, Webloyalty, and Affinion generated more than $1.4 billion by "misleading" Web shoppers, said members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. [...] The government says the investigation shows that [the companies] "trick" consumers into entering their e-mail address just before they complete purchases at sites such as Orbitz, Priceline.com, Buy.com, 1-800 Flowers, Continental Airlines, Fandango, and Classmates.com. This and more in today's Four Short Links.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/149 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/23/senate-scams.jpg tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38570 2009-11-23T05:54:32Z 2009-11-23T05:54:32Z

From Bruce D'Arcus' Darcusblog comes a pointer on a U.S. Library of Congress initiative for a better date format Extended Date Time Format (EDTF). ISO 8601's problem is that almost anything is a date: if my memory serves me, some date values are ambiguous so you need to make a subset or add some attribute to say which kind of date you mean.

Rick Jelliffe http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 Darcusblog comes a pointer on a U.S. Library of Congress initiative for a better date format Extended Date Time Format (EDTF). ISO 8601's problem is that almost anything is a date: if my memory serves me, some date values are ambiguous so you need to make a subset or add some attribute to say which kind of date you mean. ]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1712 text tag:broadcast.oreilly.com,2009://53.38564 2009-11-22T21:08:52Z 2009-11-22T21:08:52Z

Continuing my effort to spare newcomers to Drupal from falling into this powerful content management system's most common traps, this time I look at a frequent cause of white screens - the sudden and scary devolution of a previously healthy Drupal site into a blank browser window. This can be caused by coding mistakes, such as neglecting to conclude a line of custom PHP with a semicolon.

Spencer Critchley http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2093 can be caused by coding mistakes, such as neglecting to conclude a line of custom PHP with a semicolon.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2093 text http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/11/23/drupal-icon.jpg tag:www.insideria.com,2009://34.38563 2009-11-22T19:23:48Z 2009-11-22T19:23:48Z

A few months ago, the team my husband works on was hiring a new developer, and I overheard my husband talking to a friend he was considering recommending for the position. I surprised myself by my gut reaction which was, "I don't care how good Steve thinks this guy's resume is, he's way too nice to be any good as a coder." Now, part of that reaction was probably the fact that I was working in a shop where nice people don't usually make it past the two-week trial period, but there's a part of me that can't quite get past my feeling that people who are too nice don't make good coders.

Amy Blankenship http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3726 A few months ago, the team my husband works on was hiring a new developer, and I overheard my husband talking to a friend he was considering recommending for the position. I surprised myself by my gut reaction which was, "I don't care how good Steve thinks this guy's resume is, he's way too nice to be any good as a coder." Now, part of that reaction was probably the fact that I was working in a shop where nice people don't usually make it past the two-week trial period, but there's a part of me that can't quite get past my feeling that people who are too nice don't make good coders. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3726 text http://www.insideria.com/riaimages/insideria_developer_diary.gif tag:radar.oreilly.com,2009://57.38562 2009-11-22T16:14:21Z 2009-11-22T16:14:21Z

When Twitter decided to slowly roll out a new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked it. But my post is about why I love the new Twitter retweet feature, without ever having to think about it. The reason is that official retweeting represents the new-new arms race for authority among power users.

Mark Drapeau http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3823 new, official retweeting feature, people waited in anticipation. When it actually became available, people almost universally disliked it. But my post is about why I love the new Twitter retweet feature, without ever having to think about it. The reason is that official retweeting represents the new-new arms race for authority among power users.]]> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3823 text http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/11/23/retweet-feature.jpg