UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides

[Peter Hessler]

Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides

As part of O'Reilly Media's commitment to delivering vital technology
information to people who need it, when they need it, O'Reilly is
launching an ongoing series of PDF publications to address cutting edge
technologies. O'Reilly's PDF guides are in-depth, immediate, timely, and
authoritative. Readers can purchase and download the PDFs through the
O'Reilly online store, with no restrictions on the ability to save,
copy, or print them.

The advantages to readers are numerous. O'Reilly authors can disseminate
crucial information as the need arises, without having to wait for
enough material to fill an entire book. Production time is reduced
dramatically, giving IT professionals and others immediate access to
the knowledge they want. Plus, readers can easily search the text, copy
and paste handy bits of code into their applications, and take the PDF
with them even when they're offline. But most importantly, readers
won't have to compromise in their pursuit of timely information--these
PDFs provide the high-quality content for which O'Reilly has come to be
known.

This month's PDF offerings are available now:

"Build Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP" by Jim Bumgardner
First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us,
these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of web sites as
visual evidence of their membership in the elite corps of "Web 2.0."
This PDF analyzes what is and isn't a tag cloud, offers design tips for
using them effectively, and then shows how to collect tags and display
them in the tag cloud format. Scripts are provided in Perl and PHP.
ISBN: 0-596-52794-2, 46 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CAN
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tagclouds/


"Web Services on Rails" by Kevin Marshall
In recent years, web services have become increasingly useful to smaller
web site developers.  Thanks to standards like SOAP and XML-RPC as well
as frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, developers can easily create web
service clients and servers with fewer errors. This guide looks at how
Ruby on Rails makes building web service clients and servers simple and
fun, with plenty of working examples and code details so you can see
just how everything works.
ISBN: 0-596-52796-9, 32 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/websor/


"Atlas UpdatePanel Control" by Bertrand Le Roy and Matt Gibbs
The key to making ASP.NET applications more responsive to user input is
the UpdatePanel control. In this tutorial, you'll learn from the
experts: Bertrand Le Roy, UpdatePanel control's architect and
experts: developer, and Matt
Gibbs, Atlas dev team manager. This PDF document contains all you need
to get started implementing AJAX functionality in existing ASP.NET
applications.
ISBN: 0-596-52747-0, 56 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlasupc/


"Search Engine Optimization" by Harold Davis
SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and
science of driving web traffic to web sites. Whether your web site
depends on broad, general traffic, or high-quality, targeted traffic,
this PDF has the tools and information you need to draw more traffic to
your site, and build your bottom line. You’ll learn how to effectively
use PageRank and Google itself--effective use of SEO means
understanding how Google works: how to boost placement in Google search
results, how not to offend Google, and how best to use paid Google
programs. You’ll also learn how to best organize your web pages and web
sites, apply SEO analysis tools, establish effective SEO best
practices, and much more.
ISBN: 0-596-52786-1, 41 pages, $9.99 US, $12.99 CA
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seo/


Other PDFs from O'Reilly can be found in the O'Reilly Store at:
http://pdfs.oreilly.com




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