Linux Books
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Hardening Linux
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by James Turnbull, Apress
James Turnbull is an IT&T Security Consultant at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. He is an experienced infrastructure architect with a background in Linux/Unix, AS/400, Windows, and Storage systems. He has been involved in security consulting, infrastructure security design, SLA & support services design, and business application support.
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SQLite (Developer's Library)
Published 16 years ago
by Chris Newman, Sams
SQLite is a small, fast, embeddable database. What makes it popular is the combination of the database engine and interface into a single library as well as the ability to store all the data in a single file. Its functionality lies between MySQL and PostgreSQL, however it is faster than both databases. In SQLite, author Chris Newman provides a thorough, practical guide to using, administering and programming this up-and-coming database.
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From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by Oliver Kiddle, Peter Stephenson, Jerry Peek, Apress
Some areas are covered in other books, but this one goes into some little-seen side streets and alleyways to show you the shortcuts to more efficient use of the shell. ...The material here is invaluable: you're not going to get it from the manual pages! I strongly recommend it. — Ernest J. This is a totally neat idea for a book... the command line gets addictive quickly.
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The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by Nathan Yocom, John Turner, Keir Davis, Apress
This book is?one nice and convenient package that I will keep on the shelf as a reference manual. — Derek Anderson, JavaRanch GreenHorn The Definitive Guide to Linux Network Programming offers a clear, concise treatment of creating clients and servers under the Linux operating system. This book assumes that you know C and have experience developing code on Linux, but it provides everything else you'll need as a programmer for real-world network programming.
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Mono: A Developer's Notebook
Published 16 years ago
by Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein, O'Reilly Media
The Mono Project is the much talked-about open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's .NET Development Framework. Its purpose is to allow Unix developers to build and deploy cross-platform .NET applications. The project has also sparked interest in developing components, libraries and frameworks with C#, the programming language of .NET. The controversy? Some say Mono will become the preferred platform for Linux development, empowering Linux/Unix developers.
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The Definitive Guide to Plone
Published 16 years ago includes sample chapter
by Andy McKay, Apress
"Enjoyable to read?it has plenty of cautionary notes, hints, and other bits of advice that keep the reader awake and interested." ? Samuel Sotillo, ZopeMag.com This unique guide to Plone covers everything from installing Plone (on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) to writing code for the system. As part of the Apress library of Python programming and content management tools, The Definitive Guide to Plone is authored by a member of Plone's core development team, Andy McKay.
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Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Published 16 years ago
by Hugh E. Williams, O'Reilly Media
PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly.
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Eclipse
Published 16 years ago
by Steve Holzner, O'Reilly Media
Java programmers know how finicky Java can be to work with. An omitted semi-colon or the slightest typo will cause the Java command-line compiler to spew pages of annoying error messages across your screen. And it doesn't fix them--that's up to you: fix them, compile again, and hope that nothing goes wrong this time. Eclipse, the popular Java integrated development environment (IDE) provides an elegant and powerful remedy for this common, frustrating scenario.
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Pro Apache (Expert's Voice)
Published 17 years ago includes sample chapter
by Peter Wainwright, Apress
"...a behemoth of a resource for everything you ever wanted to know about Apache." ? Doug Schasteen, member, Kansas City's PHP User Group "This is by far the best ?know all, end all? reference, bar none. My hat goes off to Peter Wainwright and Apress for opening up a whole new world to me." ? Eric Wolf (a.k.a. "nawlej"), Codewalkers.com This book aims to teach you everything you need to know to build, install, and configure every aspect of Apache, the world's most popular Web server.
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J2EE Open Source Toolkit : Building an Enterprise Platform with Open Source Tools (Java Open Source Library)
Published 17 years ago
by John T. Bell, James Lambros, Stan Ng, Wiley
* The first book that shows how to harness the full power of open-source tools to build a free J2EE development platform without using any commercial products * Tools covered include Apache Tomcat, Struts, Jetspeed, MySQL, Joram, and jBoss * Shows developers how to integrate all of the most popular open-source tools into a single, integrated platform * Companion Web site provides source code plus a fully working example of the development platform created in the book