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Greetings readers,
Can you believe how quickly this year is flying by? We are a little
less than 40 days away from being half way through the year. Have you
kept all those resolutions you made in January? Did you teach yourself
something new this year? Hopefully we have some content that can help
you tackle whatever you have planned for the second half of 2007.
Next week we are having our first Ignite Boston event in Cambridge, MA.
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>Articles
In our first recommended article for the week, we have a very
interesting piece on "Cookin' with Ruby on Rails" by Bill Walton. Go
check out how Bill shows you a quick way to build Rails apps with
planning, migrations, and unit tests.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/05/17/cookin-with-ruby-on-rails---may.html
So if you are a programmer and you target the .NET platform with any of
your applications, you need to read Wei-Meng Lee's article "Using the
Cryptography APIs in .NET." It will give you insight into how to use some of
the most common security APIs. Read it and start making your .NET apps more secure today:
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/22/using-the-cryptography-apis-in-net.html
In today's development environments, there are more geographically
distributed teams trying to build software together. Geographically distributed development (GDD)
offers a number of rewards as well as challenges. Check out "Tools for
Geographically Distributed Software Development" by Ryan Bagueros and see what technologies
and tools you can use to get significant gains out of GDD, within the context of
the challenges posed by GDD. Check it out here:
>Blogs
The top blogs for the moment are found here http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs
and include two posts on JavaFX and two posts by chromatic that are thought-provoking.
Go check them out and get into the discussions by offering your thoughts in the comment
sections. If you want to kick the tires of JavaFX, you need to read
Timothy M. O'Brien's post on "JavaFX: First Steps - "Hello OnJava" App."
http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/05/javafx_first_steps_hello_onjav_1.html
>Stats
The final post in my four part series on the State of the Computer Book
Market was posted and now lives here. It contains links to the other three as well:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/05/state_of_the_co_10.html
You may also be interested in seeing what folks are searching for on the
O'Reilly Network. You can find it by subject area here:
http://www.oreillynet.com/feeds/widgets/organic_search_tagcloud/
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