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DocBook 1.1 (Simplified DocBook branch)

DocBook 1.1 (Simplified DocBook branch) 04/02/2005 06:16 PM
DocBook is an XML/SGML vocabulary that enables you to create document content in a presentation-neutral form that captures the logical structure of the content. Using the DocBook stylesheets, you can publish DocBook content as HTML pages and PDF files and other formats, including man pages, HTML Help, and JavaHelp.

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This official release contains no technical changes from 1.1CR2.

DocBook Simplified DocBook 1.1b1

DocBook Simplified DocBook 1.1b1 12/22/2003 12:55 AM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

DocBook DocBook Menu 0.90

DocBook DocBook Menu 0.90 11/06/2003 06:30 AM
DocBook stylesheets, schemas, documentation, and resources.

Google Indexes Flash

Google Indexes Flash 05/03/2004 11:40 PM

Google Search: skip intro filetype:swf: Various blogs have noted today that Google is indexing Flash files.

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Reconstituting the Russell Indexes

Reconstituting the Russell Indexes 06/23/2004 02:10 PM
Now we know the additions and deletions to the wide-ranging index.

Spatial (R-Tree) Indexes in MySQL 4.1

Spatial (R-Tree) Indexes in MySQL 4.1 01/07/2003 02:46 PM
I've been playing around a bit with MySQL 4.1's spatial indexes as I write chapter three (Indexes) for the book. Here's a quick demonstration in which I add three points to a table and then ask MySQL which points fall...

Google Indexes 6 Billion Items

Google Indexes 6 Billion Items 02/17/2004 03:51 PM
Search Engine Lowdown Feb 17 2004 8:10PM GMT

Technical Analysis: Indexes Turn Up

Technical Analysis: Indexes Turn Up 03/30/2005 08:56 PM
Internet News Mar 31 2005 12:19AM GMT

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web
Directory

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web
Directory 06/05/2005 11:40 PM
Stickysauce Jun 5 2005 10:20PM GMT

Technical Analysis: Indexes At Support

Technical Analysis: Indexes At Support 07/15/2004 07:02 PM
Internet News Jul 15 2004 11:00PM GMT

Technical Analysis: Indexes Break Down

Technical Analysis: Indexes Break Down 09/22/2004 06:29 PM
Internet News Sep 22 2004 10:36PM GMT

NYPL - Databases and Indexes Online

NYPL - Databases and Indexes Online 03/19/2005 02:27 AM
NYPL - Databases and Indexes Online
http://www.nypl.org/dat abases/index.cfm

The New York Public Library subscribes to over 300 commercially-produced research databases. To begin your search, first choose a database to find articles and other information. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

Python and XML: Full XML Indexes with
Gnosis

Python and XML: Full XML Indexes with
Gnosis 12/19/2004 03:48 PM
In his latest Python and XML column, Uche Ogbuji shows us how to index XML documents using Python's Gnosis Utilities.

Mastering Red Hat Linux 9

Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 11/10/2003 10:57 PM
Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 is a huge, very complete guide to Red Hat Linux 9. It's over 900 pages, and includes the "Publisher's Edition" of RH9 on 2 CDs. It is written in a style which should accommodate Linux newcomers and more experienced users alike. There are a lot of examples, code snippets, and screenshots throughout the book. In fact, sometimes the abundance of these tend to make the material a little long to wade through. Experts should have no trouble skipping over the sections they don't need, though. Read on for the rest of Dan's review.

Mastering phpMyAdmin

Mastering phpMyAdmin 06/03/2004 07:01 AM

phpMyAdmin is usually installed quickly, out of acute necessity. You need to do something with your database, and you can't do it via telnet or SSH or anything else, so you download the latest version, FTP it up, and away you go. More often than not, the install is forgotten about as soon as your need is over.

The downside of this is that you're not getting nearly the value you should out of a phpMyAdmin install. Most people work with phpMyAdmin superficially and in very narrow usage corridors — like kids walking barefoot on a painted line through a very large parking lot. There's so much about the app that you don't know.

Enter this book: "Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management." This is the first book I know of solely on phpMyAdmin (though a lot of MySQL books cover it briefly in an appendix or something). It was released by Packt Publishing a few weeks ago.

It's a departure from a lot of tech books in that (1) it's short and sweet (just under 200 pages — not nearly the 600-page monolith some of these things become), and (2) it seems more...conversational. Concepts are explained in plain English. I normally hate that cliche, but it fits here. I got a sense of simply having a casual conversation with a fellow geek.

I read it over the course of a week, putting in a chapter or two each night. I learned something new in every chapter, and I'd implement them in my phpMyAdmin install right after reading the chapter. By the end of the book, I'm left with a superb phpMyAdmin install that does a thousand times more than I've ever accomplished with the app before.

There's a lot of phpMyAdmin functionality under the hood that you've likely never seen. For instance, you can set it up to enforce relational integrity in your database. This is just good database design, but it also enriches the interface considerably. Foreign key fields now become drop-down lists to the foreign table with a selection of entries. You can print a PDF summary document with descriptions of all tables and columns and an entity relationship diagram showing field relationships. Bet you haven't seen that trick before.

I suddenly have a sense of liberation with phpMyAdmin. We all hate writing admin interfaces, especially for one-off apps we do in a hurry. Thankfully, phpMyAdmin can support an enormous amount of administration chores in an interface not nearly as utilitarian as the default one you get on install. It won't work for administering the data of every app you right, but I bet it will handle a lot of them.

I can now see writing apps and doing things that I stayed away from before just because I didn't want to write all the data entry and database admin scripts that easily dominate the work required to put these things together. Instead, I can concentrate on the fun of the front-end pages, while phpMyAdmin sucks up all the back-end work.

The book also includes some good information about PHP and MySQL in general. On page 86, in the chapter on importing data, there's a solid little discussion about PHP file upload and execution limits that trumps anything I've read before. I'm a better developer for having read these four paragraphs about the "upload_max_filesize," "memory_limit," and "post_max_filesize" parameters.

As for MySQL, did you know about InnoDB tables? This is a table format that builds referential integrity into MySQL — something the database has been missing for so long. I'll admit to being utterly ignorant about this feature until this point.

There's a chapter at the end of the book about MIME-based transformations that summarizes the general level of apathy about this app. I can't believe I haven't run across a discussion about this feature before —

You may have known on the periphery that you could store files directly into a MySQL database using a BLOB column. But did you know that phpMyAdmin will support this with a file upload field in the interface, so your users can upload files directly? Or that you can sent a MIME Transformation on that field to display a thumbnailed view of stored images in the row when browsing the database? And that you can link that thumbnail to the full-size version or the image, pulled directly from the field? I'll bet the percentage of phpMyAdmin users who know that trick is in the single digits.

So, good book. If you find yourself writing a lot of throwaway admin interfaces and hating every minute of it, the $30 cover price for this text is probably looking mighty attractive right now.

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Mastering Menus

Mastering Menus 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Just in case anyone missed it, Menu Master 1.1 is available. More info: Menu Master Download: Menu Master 1.1 Biggest...

Technical Analysis: The Indexes Push
Ahead

Technical Analysis: The Indexes Push
Ahead 08/17/2004 07:05 PM
Internet News Aug 17 2004 11:04PM GMT

Stock Indexes Reach New Lows for Year
(AP)

Stock Indexes Reach New Lows for Year
(AP) 04/14/2005 04:23 PM
AP - The major stock indexes struck fresh lows for the year Thursday as a cautious forecast from Apple Computer Inc. unsettled investors, who are growing uneasy about the economy despite signs of continued improvement in the labor market.

Mastering Internet Video

Mastering Internet Video 09/18/2004 04:07 AM
WebTalkGuys Radio Sep 18 2004 8:19AM GMT

Stocks Fall on Data, Indexes at Year
Lows

Stocks Fall on Data, Indexes at Year
Lows 08/06/2004 11:49 AM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 6 2004 3:59PM GMT

OpenOffice Off-the-Wall: ToCs, Indexes
and Bibliographies in OOo Writer

OpenOffice Off-the-Wall: ToCs, Indexes
and Bibliographies in OOo Writer 01/04/2005 06:43 AM
A new way of thinking about and tagging a document's table of contents and other supporting features makes sense and is more convenient.

Speedy Searching: MySQL Full-Text
Indexes

Speedy Searching: MySQL Full-Text
Indexes 08/26/2002 09:32 AM

T-RackS 24 audio mastering app ships for
Mac OS X

T-RackS 24 audio mastering app ships for
Mac OS X 06/30/2004 07:52 AM
IK Multimedia has announced that the Mac OS X version of its T-RackS audio mastering application is now shipping. The software mimics the sound of analog processing with a six-band parametric equalizer, a stereo tube compressor/leveler, a multi-band master stereo limiter and an output stage with soft-clipping. The Mac OS X version is also the first IK Multimedia release to include an Authorization Wizard designed to give a step-by-step guide to audio authorizing. Pricing is €299 (US$299) for the full version, €89 ($79) for those who originally purchased it before Dec. 1, 2003 and want to upgrade and free for those who bought it after that date.

ArticleCity: Mastering Regular
Expressions in PHP

ArticleCity: Mastering Regular
Expressions in PHP 04/05/2005 09:18 AM
PHP Magazine has a quick pointer to a short article today over on ArticleCity about "Mastering Regular Expressions in PHP".

PHP Magazine: Review - Mastering
phpMyAdmin...

PHP Magazine: Review - Mastering
phpMyAdmin... 07/29/2004 08:30 AM
Mastering phpMyAdmin approaches the usage of the popular PHP-based database administration application, phpMyAdmin. It is targeted at "the serious phpMyAdmin user who would like to use this outstanding application to its full power." It is a compliment to the authors of this hugely popular application to say that there is not much for this book to cover, as the interface of phpMyAdmin is famous for its ease of use. Read Mitch Pirtle's review of "Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management" here - complete with a chapter overview, the style points, and the interesting lowdown.

Ecasound Mastering Interface 1.2 beta

Ecasound Mastering Interface 1.2 beta 08/17/2004 05:32 PM
A Python front end to Ecasound.

Ecasound Mastering Interface 1.0 beta

Ecasound Mastering Interface 1.0 beta 05/07/2004 10:00 PM
A Python front end to Ecasound.

Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL
Management

Mastering phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL
Management 05/19/2004 07:20 PM
If you have been using or want to use phpMyAdmin and would like to obtain maximum benefit from this Web application, this book will be particularly valuable whether you are developing MySQL database applications in PHP or any other language.

BIAS releases Mastering & Restoration
Edition

BIAS releases Mastering & Restoration
Edition 07/26/2004 12:31 AM
BIAS has announced a special bundled edition of Peak 4.1 (which has a suggested retail price of US$499) that includes SoundSoap Pro ($599) and SuperFreq ($79) for $899 -- a savings of nearly $300 off the combined list prices if purchased separately...

Dragon Burn 4 adds VCD/SVCD mastering,
more

Dragon Burn 4 adds VCD/SVCD mastering,
more 06/22/2004 02:08 PM
NewTech Infosystems Inc. announced on Tuesday the release of Drago n Burn 4.0. The new version of the company's CD/DVD burning tool adds several new features, including mastering Video CDs (VCDs) and Super VCDs from standard MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 files; the ability to burn movie DVDs from VIDEO_TS folders full of .VOB files; Picture CD creation, complete with compatibility with DVD players that can handle the JPEG format; support for Dual Layer DVD+R discs; better Dynamic Drive Support for wider compatibility with a range of CD and DVD burners; and more. The full version is US$49.95, and NewTech is offering a $9.99 upgrade to the owners of any other CD/DVD burning software for Mac OS X. You can download a trial version from the company's Web site. System requirements call for Mac OS X v10.1.5 or higher, 128MB RAM and 20MB free hard drive space.

DevArticles: Mastering Making
Multipurpose Pages

DevArticles: Mastering Making
Multipurpose Pages 10/15/2002 07:15 AM

Intel's next challenge: mastering
physical world

Intel's next challenge: mastering
physical world 05/05/2004 07:42 PM
Company researchers hope a number of projects will help solve some of society's pressing problems--like finding a parking space.

Dragon Burn 4.0 adds VCD/SVCD mastering,
more

Dragon Burn 4.0 adds VCD/SVCD mastering,
more 06/22/2004 02:13 PM
NewTech Infosystems today released Dragon Burn 4.0, an update to its CD/DVD burning software...

Bias offers Peak 4.1 Mastering &
Restoration Edition

Bias offers Peak 4.1 Mastering &
Restoration Edition 07/26/2004 09:09 AM
Bias Inc. has posted details to its Web site about its new Peak 4.1 Mastering & Restoration Edition, first announced late last week at NAMM in Nashville, Tenn. The special edition of Bias' popular audio recording, editing, processing and mastering software for the Mac comes bundled with SoundSoap Pro, a professional audio restoration tool, as well as SuperFreq, a 10-band parametric equalization software tool. The collection costs US$899, or almost $300 less than each tool sold separately.

Japanese Stocks Decline, Led by DoCoMo;
South Korean, Taiwan Indexes Gain

Japanese Stocks Decline, Led by DoCoMo;
South Korean, Taiwan Indexes Gain 04/06/2005 11:57 PM
Bloomberg Apr 7 2005 2:53AM GMT

How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal
Infrared Remote Control - Features -
features.engadget.com

How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal
Infrared Remote Control - Features -
features.engadget.com 07/27/2004 02:41 PM
How-To Turn your iPod in to a Universal Infrared Remote Control

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Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room -
Features - features.engadget.com

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must
each do to win the living room -
Features - features.engadget.com 08/12/2004 01:20 PM
Excellent article at Engadget yesterday by guest commentator Thomas Hawk .. Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room

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Book Review: Mastering phpMyAdmin for
Effective MySQL Management

Book Review: Mastering phpMyAdmin for
Effective MySQL Management 12/17/2004 06:23 PM
This well-written book by one of the leaders of the phpMyAdmin community covers a lot of ground--and might get you interested in working on the project.

Microstaq Mastering Electronic Controls
for Fluid-Control Industry

Microstaq Mastering Electronic Controls
for Fluid-Control Industry 06/05/2005 11:15 PM
Microstaq’s revolutionary MEMS valve technology holds great promise for the miniaturization of flow control systems across a number of automotive, biomedical, refrigeration, aeronautical and other flow control opportunities. The company’s silicon chip-based flow control technology leverages proven silicon wafer processing techniques to create a single-structure, ‘solid state’ valve capable of controlling a range of fluids in today’s high-pressure, high-flow rate control environments. [PRWEB May 25, 2005]
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