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dekePod Episode 004: Stretching a Photo in Illustrator Have you ever wanted to stretch a photo's background but leave the foreground unchanged? Or turn a horizontal photo into a vertical one without making a mess of it? You can't do it in Photoshop CS3, but you can in its companion program, Adobe Illustrator. Deke shows you how in a way that'll make you so happy, you'll think you're on drugs. And wait till you see the new look! Deke is dreamy. Get more dekePod at http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/dekepod/ and at http://www.deke.com/ Tags: deke dekepod photoshop oreilly illustrator howto |
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Jerry Carter at OSCON 2008 Gerald "Jerry" Carter, author of O'Reilly's Using Samba and LDAP System Administration talks about the current state of open source and modern network administration. Tags: Oreilly OSCON Jerry Carter |
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On the Art of Agile Development In this interview from OSCON 2008, authors Shane Warden and Jim Shore describe what agile programming is and why it makes projects succeed. Tags: Oreilly OSCON Shane Warden Jim Shore |
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Steve Souders at OSCON 2008 Steve Souders, author of High Performance Web Sites (O'Reilly), talks about the fresh ground he covers in his upcoming book, Even Faster Web Sites. Tags: Oreilly OSCON Steve Souders |
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A talk with Toby Segaran At OSCON 2008, Toby Segaran, author of Programming Collective Intelligence (O'Reilly), shares his thoughts on technology, open source, and how collective intelligence is put to use in Freebase. Tags: oreilly OSCON Toby Segaran |
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Michael Nielsen: Open Source Science - Science and Sharing Michael Nielsen discusses science and sharing in the context of open source science. What needs to be done to encourage (or require) scientists to participate in open source science? What sort of incentives do scientists need to participate in open research and open science? Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien. Tags: open source science research |
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Armand Leroi: Evolution of Music, Cantometrics Digital Analysis of Music as a Cultural Artifact - Armand Leroi discusses current efforts to catalog and analyze traditional music. Leroi builds upon to previous work of an ethnomusicologist named Alan Lomax, and uses digital technology to analyze music as a cultural artifact. He discusses the eleven cantographic clusters of music and how cantographic data relates to evolutionary biology. Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien. Tags: music digital cantometrics scifoo category: science and technology |
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Victoria Stodden: Open Source Science-Open Research License Victoria Stodden discusses her efforts to create a new license for scientific research which covers both publication and data. She discusses the motivations behind the new license and the issues brought up by releasing scientific research and data under and open source license. Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed at Scifoo 2008 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA by Tim O'Brien. Tags: publishing rights data research science open source scifoo |
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David Heinemeier Hansson - Ruby on Rails, Startups, Culture Article and Transcript: http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/interview-with-david-heinemeie.html O'Reilly News talks to David Heinemeier Hansson about the current state of Ruby on Rails, what is next for the framework? and what Hansson is paying attention to? David also discusses his recent presentation at Y! Combinator's Startup School and his ideas about the culture of technology and innovation. If you want to hear more of Hansson, he will be speaking at RailsConf Europe this December in Berlin. Register Today: http://en.oreilly.com/railseurope2008/public/content/home?CMP=ILC-orm_article_products&ATT=railsconfeuro Copyright 2008 O'Reilly News. All Rights Reserved. Filmed in Chicago, IL by Tim O'Brien. Tags: rails business startup chicago |
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The Ever-Dynamic John Lam at OSCON 2008 John Lam, who heads the Iron Ruby effort at Microsoft, stopped by to tell O'Reilly News all the exciting work going on with dynamic languages at Redmond. John spent some time discussing what makes a language dynamic, what the benefits of dynamic languages are, and how Microsoft is trying to leverage the power of lanaguages such as Ruby inside their CLR framework. Tags: ruby iron microsoft dynamic languages |
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Walking the Thin Line: Novell's Joe Brockmeier at OSCON 2008 Novell has to walk the line between defending Open Source from legal attacks, promoting their OpenSUSE distribution, and negotiating business agreements with Microsoft. Sometimes it's hard to please everyone, especially when Microsoft and the FSF are in the same 'room'. Joe Brockmeier, who manages the OpenSUSE community for Novell, shares the challeneges of that tight-rope act, as well as sharing some of the things we can look forward to out of Novell and SUSE in the near future. Tags: linux novell microsoft sco |
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The Father of perl Persistence Tim Bunce shares stories of DBI at OSCON 2008. The perl DBI library is one of the oldest and best know, practically everyone who has ever connected a database to perl has used it. Tim Bunce, the man behind the library, let O'Reilly News in on some of the strategies he's adopted to encourage wide database coverage without creating infighting between vendors or developers. Tags: perl databases dbi larry wall |
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An interview with Damian Conway An interview with Damian Conway, author of Perl Hacks and Perl Best Practices Perl Best Practices. Tags: O'Reilly Damian Conway Perl |
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What Every Open Source Developer Should Know about IP In this interview, Van Lindberg shares his best tips for open source developers. Tags: O'Reilly Van Lindberg Open Source Intellectual Property |
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Amy Shuen - People Build Connections Amy Shuen author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide talks about how people build connections. Tags: O'Reilly Amy Shuen Web 2.0 |
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Amy Shuen - Users Create Value Amy Shuen author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide talks about users creating value. Tags: O'Reilly Amy Shuen Web 2.0 |
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Amy Shuen - Networks Multiply Effects Amy Shuen author of Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide talks about how networks multiply effects. Tags: O'Reilly Amy Shuen Web 2.0 |
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Josh Berkus at OSCON: Sun, MySQL, PostgreSQL Josh Berkus, who until last week was on the PostgreSQL support team at Sun, stopped by at OSCON 2008 to talk to O'Reilly News about his recent departure, the state of databases at Sun, why PostgreSQL doesn't have the mind share of Oracle and MySQL, and where the demands of the internet are driving database development. Tags: OSCON Oracle MySQL PostgreSQL normalization data warehouses Sun Microsystems |
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dekePod Episode 003: Don't Fear the Lab Mode Color models like RGB and CMYK are frightening enough on their own. But the fact that there's one called CIEL*a*b* D50 (or just Lab), and Photoshop actually encourages you to use it, is terrifying. But Deke says not to worry. RGB and CMYK are for machines. The Lab mode is for you. Get more dekePod at http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/dekepod/ Tags: deke dekepod photoshop oreilly lab mode |
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10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Pictures In this O'Reilly webcast, world-renowned photographer Rick Sammon will share his top digital photography tips, including his "10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Photographs." He'll also discuss his favorite photo philosophies, including: The Camera Looks Both Ways; In Picturing the Subject We Are Also Picturing a Part of Ourselves." You'll get to see Rick's favorite people, landscape and wildlife images from around the world. Some Photoshop talk, too! Tags: O'Reilly Webinar Rick Sammon digital photography Photoshop |