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Drupal 6 Social Networking
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dag writes "Drupal 6 Social Networking is an interesting book about how to build social networks and why Drupal is a good choice as a platform for building communities. Even if you don't have any Drupal experience yet, this book explains what is needed when you start from scratch and looks at the different facets of a social network." Keep reading for the rest of Dag's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/1545238/Drupal-6-Social-Networking?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/18/1545238"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/18/1545238/Drupal-6-Social-Networking?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/1imsIcD3rBk/Becoming-Agile
IraLaefsky writes "The appropriately titled Becoming Agile: In An Imperfect World by Greg Smith and Ahmed Sidky offers a realistic path to the family of Agile practices which have become prevalent in software development in the last few years. This family of approaches to software development has been widely adopted in the past decade to replace the traditional Waterfall Model of software development, described in a 1970 article by Winston W. Royce 'Managing the Development of Large Software Systems.' The Waterfall Model stressed rigid functional and design specification of the program(s) to be constructed in advance of any code development. While the this methodology and other early formal tools for Software Engineering were infinitely preferable to the chaos and ad-hoc programming-without-design practices of early systems, these first tools ignored the fallibility of initial interviews used to construct initial design and often resulted in massive time and cost overruns." Read below for the rest of IraLaefsky's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/16/1448204/Becoming-Agile?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/16/1448204"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/16/1448204/Becoming-Agile?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/uhWB46cQSDA/OpenGL-Shading-Language-3rd-Edition
Martin Ecker writes "The “OpenGL Shading Language” (also called the Orange Book because of its orange cover) is back in its third edition, with updated discussions of the OpenGL shading language (up to version 1.40, introduced with OpenGL 3.1). Like the previous edition, the third edition of the book is one of the best introductions to GLSL — the OpenGL Shading Language — that not only teaches the ins and outs of GLSL itself but also explains in-depth how to develop shaders in GLSL for lighting, shadows, animation, and other topics relevant to real-time computer graphics." Keep reading for the rest of Martin's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/13/1712253/OpenGL-Shading-Language-3rd-Edition?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/13/1712253"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/13/1712253/OpenGL-Shading-Language-3rd-Edition?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/NXPmfhQXo5o/The-Big-Questions
Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton changes things up today by reviewing The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics and Physics. Questions that big need a big review and you can learn what Bennett has to say about it all by reading below.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1431227/The-Big-Questions?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/09/1431227"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/11/09/1431227/The-Big-Questions?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/Y1jPQUZYfwk/Drupal-Multimedia
Michael J. Ross writes "Of the leading content management systems used by developers for creating websites, Drupal is highly regarded for many characteristics, including a much smaller initial footprint, compared to Joomla and other CMSs. Yet some developers find this a disadvantage as well, because one of the most common criticisms leveled against Drupal is its lack of built-in support for images and multimedia elements — thereby forcing new Drupal developers to choose from the thousands of contributed Drupal modules those that would be optimal for implementing their websites' multimedia functionality. Aaron Winborn's book Drupal Multimedia is intended as a guide to help such developers." Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1755216/Drupal-Multimedia?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/11/06/1755216"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/06/1755216/Drupal-Multimedia?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/bIfk2vOCtas/Android-Application-Development
stoolpigeon writes "Google's mobile OS Android has received plenty of press. As with a lot of Google products, there was much anticipation before any devices were even available. Now a number of phones are available, with many more coming out world-wide in the near future. Part of the lure of Android is the openness of the platform and the freely available tools for development. The SDK and accompanying Eclipse plug-in give the would be creator of the next great Android application everything they need to make their idea reality. The bar to entry in the official Google Android Marketplace is very low and it doesn't seem to be much of a stretch to predict that the number of developers working on Android is only going to grow. As with any hot technology the number of books will grow as well and O'Reilly's Android Application Development has jumped into the fray, promising to help budding Android developers what they need to get started." Read on for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/10/12/1341218/Android-Application-Development?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/10/12/1341218"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/10/12/1341218/Android-Application-Development?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/WIgFNmXrBrY/Learning-Ext-JS
stoolpigeon writes "Rich Internet Applications (RIA) have often been associated with some type of sandbox or virtual machine environment to make desktop features available via the web. Many applications though, have left behind the restrictions and demands of those technologies, implementing RIAs as pure web interfaces. One key technology in this area is JavaScript. It's been well documented that working with JavaScript can be problematic across various browsers. In response a number of JavaScript libraries have been created to alleviate the issues in dealing with different browsers, allowing developers to focus on application logic rather than platform concerns. One such library, focused on providing tools for building RIAs is Ext JS. For the aspiring developer looking to use Ext JS, Packt provides a guide to the library in the form of Learning Ext JS." Read on for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/28/1425228/Learning-Ext-JS?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/09/28/1425228"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/28/1425228/Learning-Ext-JS?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/gyRmhWQyiGU/The-Magicians
stoolpigeon writes "The popularity of web site Will It Blend? is indicative of how people enjoy mashing things together. Of course this kind of sharing and combining has been going on in the arts for quite some time. The new Lev Grossman novel, The Magicians asks 'will it blend?' of two rather popular fantasy series, J.K. Rowling's world of Harry Potter and the tales of Narnia from C.S. Lewis. Grossman's thoughts on both are tossed on top and then the author begins to play a symphony across the full range of buttons from stir to liquefy. What comes out is not children's fantasy but at times a rather bitter mix." Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1325253/The-Magicians?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/09/08/1325253"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/08/1325253/The-Magicians?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/-jFQeLspBP0/Coders-At-Work
Vladimir Sedach writes "Aside from authoring narrowly focused technical books, teaching university courses, or mentoring others in the workplace, programmers don't often get a chance to pass on the knowledge of the practise of programming as a profession. Peter Seibel's Coders at Work takes fifteen world-class programmers and distills their wisdom into a book of interviews with each of them." Keep reading for Vladimir's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/02/1331233/Coders-At-Work?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/09/02/1331233"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/09/02/1331233/Coders-At-Work?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/1r19A5eAq3A/The-Myths-of-Security
brothke writes "The Myths of Security: What the Computer Security Industry Doesn't Want You to Know is an interesting and thought-provoking book. Ultimately, the state of information security can be summed up in the book's final three sentences, in which John Viega writes that 'real, timely improvement is possible, but it requires people to care a lot more [about security] than they do. I'm not sure that's going to happen anytime soon. But I hope it does.'" Read on for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/1358227/The-Myths-of-Security?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/08/31/1358227"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/08/31/1358227/The-Myths-of-Security?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/2nqAlFd5918/Joomla-15-A-Users-Guide-2nd-Edition
Michael J. Ross writes "There are countless content management systems (CMSs) available for building websites, and they offer varying levels of built-in functionality. But once a site developer has successfully installed any given CMS, a critical form of help (or hindrance) is the CMS's documentation, which for some CMSs is quite impressive, and for others absolutely atrocious. Joomla is a powerful and popular choice for Web developers, but can be daunting to newbies confused by its non-intuitive menu structure and restrictive content hierarchy. The documentation for Joomla is frequently criticized, for various reasons, and that may largely account for the popularity of third-party books — such as Barrie M. North's Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide, now in its second edition." Read on for the rest of Michael and Ethelyn's review.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/1317218/Joomla-15-A-Users-Guide-2nd-Edition?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/08/24/1317218"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/08/24/1317218/Joomla-15-A-Users-Guide-2nd-Edition?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/8Me0nkUc4-Q/Tetraktys
brothke writes "Imagine for a moment what his novels would read like if Dan Brown got his facts correct. The challenge Brown and similar authors face is to write a novel that is both compelling and faithful to the facts. In Tetraktys, author Ari Juels is able to weave an interesting and readable story, and stay faithful to the facts. While Brown seemingly lacks the scientific and academic background needed to write such fiction, Juels has a Ph.D. in computer science from Berkeley and is currently the Chief Scientist and director at RSA Laboratories, the research division of RSA Security." Read below for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1313201/Tetraktys?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/29/1313201"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29/1313201/Tetraktys?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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Michael J. Ross writes "Slow Web page loading can discourage visitors to a site more than any other problem, regardless of how attractive or feature-rich the given site might be. Consequently, many Web developers hope to achieve faster response times using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), since only portion(s) of an AJAX page need to be reloaded. But for many rich Internet applications (RIAs), such potential performance gains can be lost as a result of non-optimized JavaScript, graphics, and CSS files. Steve Souders — a Web performance expert previously at Yahoo and now with Google — addresses these topics in his second book, Even Faster Web Sites: Performance Best Practices for Web Developers." Read on for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/22/1253246/Even-Faster-Web-Sites?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/22/1253246"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/22/1253246/Even-Faster-Web-Sites?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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brothke writes "A recent search on Amazon for travel guides returned over 30,000 results. Most of these are standard travel guides to popular tourist destinations which advise the reader to go to the typical tourist sites. The Geek Atlas: 128 Places Where Science and Technology Come Alive is a radically different travel guide. Rather than recommending the usual trite destinations, which are often glorified souvenir stores, the book takes the reader to places that make science real and exciting, and hopefully those who exit such places are more knowledgeable than when they went in." Read on for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1325215/The-Geek-Atlas?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/20/1325215"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1325215/The-Geek-Atlas?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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bfwebster writes "Over the last forty years, a small set of classic works on risks and pitfalls in software engineering and IT project management have been published and remained in print. The authors are well known, or should be: Gerry Weinberg, Fred Brooks, Ed Yourdon, Capers Jones, Stephen Flowers, Robert Glass, Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister, Steve McConnell, Steve Maguire, and so on. These books all focus largely on projects where actual software development is going on. A new book by Phil Simon, Why New Systems Fail, is likewise a risks-and-pitfalls book, but Simon covers largely uncharted territory for the genre: selection and implementation of enterprise-level, customizable, off-the-shelf (COTS) software packages, such as accounting systems, human resource systems, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. As such, Simon's book is not only useful, it is important." Read on for the rest of Bruce's thoughts on this book.<p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/1255258/Why-New-Systems-Fail?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=09/07/15/1255258"></a></p><p><a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/15/1255258/Why-New-Systems-Fail?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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