In the revised second edition of this book, co-authors Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein guide you through important new features like: Twitter lists, the subtleties of the retweet button, local trends, location-aware tweets, and advertising on Twitter.

Volume 02 focuses on Retrogaming and HD Recorders, and features coverage of HDTV Recorders, The Atari2600 PC Project, Podcasting, Mouse Robot, and Star Wars Robot Builders.

Demonstrates how to blend sewing and assembly techniques with traditional electronics to assemble simple circuits using conductive thread, solder joints for snaps, and switches for buttons. This book explains how to use materials such as thermo- and photochromatic inks that change color by touch or sunlight, magnetic and conductive paints.

This cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling issues that are more complicated, like set algebra.

Mastering Visual Studio .NET provides the experienced programmer with all the information needed to get the most out of the latest development tool from Microsoft. The book covers the basics inside Visual Studio .NET, like creating a project, typing some code, and compiling and debugging.

Intended for people who rely on workshop notebooks for a living. This work includes non-repro grid-printed pages that work well with media from mechanical pencils to India ink and paste-downs. It offers sections that includes electronics symbols, Ohm's law, resistor codes, and measures, common tech abbreviations, and screw/bolt sizing chart.

Users demand applications that are well behaved, good-looking, and easy to use. This bestselling book captures UI best practices and reusable ideas as design patterns -- solutions to common design problems, tailored to the situation at hand.

Guides you through the labyrinth of options and choices you face from the moment you see a photo opportunity to the time you share your final results. This shows you how to: Be prepared with the right equipment; Get the basic shots right; Organize your photos and find the gems; Make reversible adjustments; Refine your images with care; and more.

With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language in computing and business. This book contains chapters on productivity hacks, user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and, debugging. It is aimed at experienced developer or a dabbler who simply enjoys exploring technology.

Helps you troubleshoot secure networks that run ScreenOS firewall appliances. This book offers recipes that address a range of security issues; provides solutions; and, includes discussions of why the recipes work, so you can set up and keep ScreenOS systems on track.

A guide to Ruby that provides coverage of versions 1.8 and 1.9 of the language. It explains the language from the bottom up: from lexical and syntactic structure to datatypes to expressions and statements and on through methods, blocks, lambdas, closures, classes and modules.

Provides information that helps readers to use Oracle's PL/SQL language, including the Oracle Database 11g features. This guide describes such Oracle Database 11g elements as PL/SQL's function result cache, compound triggers, the Continue statement, the Simple_Integer datatype, and improvements to native compilation, and regular expressions.

Contains the commands and programming information for version MySQL 5.1. This title presents a reference to MySQL statements, functions, and administrative utilities. It provides programming language APIs for PHP, Perl, and C. It also covers replication, triggers, and stored procedures.

MySQL contains so many features that no administrator or programmer can memorize all the functions. This book is a useful on-the-job companion, organized to help you find the statements you need at work. It gives you reminders on how to use important MySQL functions, especially in conjunction with key parts of the LAMP open source infrastructure.