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Dear Reader,

How do you help your boss make the right decisions about the project
you're working on? This includes setting expectations, working with
stakeholders, getting things on the right track, and then keeping them
there. In other words, how do you keep your boss from sinking your project?

Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene know how. In a PDF just published by
O'Reilly, they show you how to succeed with your IT or software endeavor.
A few of the topics they cover include:

- Why do projects fail?
- Set expectations early and keep them there
- Keep your manager involved
- Make intelligent course corrections
- Alter your tactics, but stay true to your strategy

You can download this 21-page PDF right now for only $7.99. It's a small
price to pay for keeping your project afloat.

<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/managingsoftprojects/>

Until next week,

-Derrick

Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Editorial Director
derrick@oreilly.com

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Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools
Vista comes with a great suite of diagnostic tools for helping your PC run
better and avoid crashes. Mitch Tulloch gives you the rundown on what they
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<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/06/20/inside-vistas-new-diagnostic-tools.html>

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Playing with Location
We've just returned from the Where 2.0 conference in San Jose, California.
Next week, you'll hear parts of some of the sessions. This week, you'll
hear an interview with the Platial team about their "people's atlas" site,
we visit the Where fair the second night of the conference and speak with
exhibitors, Greg Trefry and Kevin Slavin talk to Brady Forrest about
Games, and we play Pixie Hunt with Microsoft's Jordan Schwartz. (DTF
06-19-2006: 22 minutes, 40 seconds)

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/19/distributing-the-future.html>

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Build Your Own AIM Answerbot
The easiest way to solve a thorny problem is to ask a guru... yet when you
don't have access to a resident expert just across the office, what can
you do? IRC bots solve this problem -- if you have access to IRC. Robert
Treat redeployed that idea within his company across AIM with a bit of
Perl, a database full of answers, and a couple of hours of time.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/15/aim-answerbot.html>

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Brady Forrest on Where 2.0
This year's Where 2.0 conference has just ended and Brady Forrest is
already thinking about next year's show. Where 2.0 2007 is scheduled for
June 19 and 20 back at the Fairmont hotel in San Jose. Brady co-chaired
this year's conference with Nat Torkington. The pair announced that Brady
will be the conference chair next year. Here's Brady's take on what stood
out for him most at this year's show and what he's looking forward to next
year. (1 minute, 41 seconds)

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/15/where-podcast-brady-forrest.html>

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Scaling Up with XQuery, Part 1
In Part 1 of this two-part article, Bob DuCharme shows us how to use three
popular XQuery implementations to access and query large XML document
collections, which is, as he says, "where the real fun begins."

<http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/06/14/scaling-up-with-xquery-part-1.html>

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What Is Jetty
Of course Tomcat is the first Java application server you think of, but is
it the right tool for every job? The open source Jetty serves up JSPs and
servlets in just a fraction of the memory needed by other app servers and
is designed for easy embedding in other applications and non-traditional
Java environments. Ethan McCallum takes a look at the big things in this
small package.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/14/what-is-jetty.html>

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Essential Reading

"Help Me Help You"

"How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project" describes five principle
guidelines for managing upward. You'll learn:

- How you can help your boss make the right decisions about setting
project expectations.
- What problems cause projects to fail and how to fix them.
- The steps that will keep your software project from running into
trouble.

Buy This Downloadable PDF for Just $7.99!
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