O'Reilly Book Excerpts
Apache
Apache Under Windowsby Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie
This excerpt is from Chapter 1 of Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Covers installing an Apache binary under Windows and, for more adventurous souls, compiling from source.
Cooking with Apache
by Ken Coar and Rich Bowen
The recently released Apache Cookbook contains over 100 solutions to problems that webmasters, web administrators, programmers, and anyone who works with Apache have come upon at one time or another. This week we've excerpted sample recipes from the book that contain solutions to problems with virtual hosting, highlighting PHP source, and enabling WebDAV.
SysAdmin
Cooking with Apache, Part 2by Rich Bowen and Ken Coar
At the end of 2003, we published our first batch of recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook. This week, we've excerpted three more samples. Find out how to make part of your web site available via SSL, how to place a CGI program in a directory that contains non-CGI documents, and how to redirect a 404 ("not found") page to another page (such as the front page of the site) in these latest samplings.
Cooking with Apache, Part 3
by Rich Bowen and Ken Coar
We've three more samples this week from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook to tempt you with. Learn how to set up authentication requirements for a proxied server, how to optimize performance of symbolic links, and how to solve the "trailing slash" problem.
Apache
Securing Your Apache Serverby Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie
This excerpt is from Chapter 13 of O'Reilly's book Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Enable Apache to communicate securely over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL). Covers building, configuring, and securing an SSL-enabled Apache server under Unix.
Setting Up a Win32 Server
by Ben Laurie and Peter Laurie
This excerpt from Chapter 2 of Apache: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition discusses starting, stopping, and basic configuration of Apache under Win32.
BSD
Hacking BSD, Part 1by Dru Lavigne
In these two excerpts from O'Reilly's BSD Hacks, learn a few administrator tricks: make it easier for your users to find files in Unix, and add more temporary files or swap space without having to repartition.
Hacking BSD, Part 2
by Dru Lavigne
Last week's excerpts from O'Reilly's BSD Hacks offered a few administrator tricks -- finding files easily, and managing disk space without reinstalling. This week's excerpt provides administrators and users alike with a hack on how to get the most out of FTP using macros and scripts.
Databases
Cooking with MySQLby Paul DuBois
Paul DuBois has selected sample recipes from the hundreds you'll find in his book, MySQL Cookbook. In this second article in a three-part series showcasing these recipes, find out how to manage simultaneous
AUTO_INCREMENT values, and how to use AUTO_INCREMENT values and related tables.Digital Media
Hacking Digital Videoby Josh Paul
Need an inexpensive dolly to capture moving footage? Want to have some fun turning digital video into Matrix-style symbols? How about learning a way to create text on screen? You'll find hacks that provide the answers to these questions, and more, in these excerpts from Digital Video Hacks. If you're a digital video addict, be sure to check out the book for more hacks you'll find you can't live without.
Hacking iPod and iTunes
by Hadley Stern
Hadley Stern, author of iPod and iTunes Hacks, has chosen five useful hacks to help you push the envelope of your iPod's capabilities. Your favorite toy just got better; learn how to turn your iPod into a universal remote, install it in your car permanently, and run Linux on it. In addition, make smart playlists and tame iTunes with AppleScript.
Managing Digital Images: Applying Ratings and Keywords
by Peter Krogh
The explosion of digital imaging has left professional and serious amateur photographers drowning in photographs, with little guidance on how to store, sort and organize them. In this excerpt from The DAM Book, Peter Krogh shows you expert techniques for applying ratings and keywords so you can begin to take control of your digital photo library.
Six Fresh Tips from iPod: the Missing Manual
by J.D. Biersdorfer
The fifth edition of O'Reilly's action-packed iPod guide just hit the streets, and here are six free excerpted tips you can put to use right now. Learn how to load high-res photos, where to get free vids, how to share your player among multiple computers, and more.
General
An Excerpt from Search Engine Optimizationby Harold Davis
To give you a sampling of what you'll find in Search Engine Optimization, one of O'Reilly's newest downloadable PDFs, we've excerpted the section on how to view your website as a search bot sees it, using an all-text browser. Viewing your site with an all-text browser is the only way to know for sure if a bot will be able to crawl your site; if a bot can't find your site, it can't be indexed by a search engine.
Cooking with Cisco, Part 1
by Kevin Dooley
Kevin Dooley, author of Cisco Cookbook, has selected recipes to showcase here from among the hundreds you'll find in his book. In this first installment in a two-part series, Kevin provides a recipe on using a feature called "Frame-Relay Traffic Shaping" to ensure that the router doesn't overrun the capacity of the individual PVCs in a Frame Relay WAN, and a script to use to automatically scan and analyze your log files.
Cooking with Cisco, Part 2
by Kevin Dooley
In this second installment in a two-part series of recipes excerpted from Cisco Cookbook, author Kevin Dooley shows you how to use a little-known IOS feature called IP Multicast Helper, as well as a simple way to ensure that your routers never send unimportant messages.
Cooking with DNS & BIND
by Cricket Liu
Here are five sample recipes from the recently released DNS & BIND Cookbook. The problems and solutions in this excerpt range from how to determine the amount of memory a name server needs to how to modify zone data without restarting the name server.
Cooking with DNS & BIND
by Cricket Liu
Here are five sample recipes from the recently released DNS & BIND Cookbook. The problems and solutions in this excerpt range from configuring a name server to work with a firewall to configuring an authoritative-only name server.
Flash: Workflow and Workspace Tips
by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
Robert Hoekman, author of Flash Out of the Box, has an excerpt offering to help improve your workflow and organize your workspace while using Flash. Learn how to adjust preferences under each tab, customize the keyboard shortcuts, and personalize the panel layout.
Hacking Google
by Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest
With access to more than three million documents in over 30 languages, Google is a researcher's dream. But like any invaluable tool, knowing the insider tricks of the trade is a must to save time and needless effort. Tara Calishain and Rael Dornfest, authors of Google Hacks, 2nd Edition, have set out to educate the masses to the ins and outs of Google. In today's excerpt, they offer the inside scoop on scattersearching, cartography, Google on the go, gmail-lite, and AdSense. With over 150 million Google searches conducted every day, why be just a number?
Hacking Maps: Who Are the Neighbors Voting For?
Michael Frumin presents this hack on Fundrace, which he contributed to the recently released Mapping Hacks. Fundrace can show you which political candidates and parties have the most support in your area--and which of your neighbors are supporting them. Michael has prepared a talk on Fundrace, called "Visualizing Democracy," which he'll present at O'Reilly's upcoming Where 2.0 Conference.
Online Investing Hacks
by Bonnie Biafore
Bonnie Biafore offers 100 tips and tricks to help you get a better handle on your finances in her new book, Online Investing Hacks. In this sample excerpt, Bonnie walks you through the steps you should consider for picking the best brokerage (or broker) for your trading style.
Online Investing Hacks, Part 2
by Bonnie Biafore
In Online Investing Hacks, author Bonnie Biafore presents 100 tips and hacks to help you reach your investment goals. In these two sample hacks from the book, Bonnie covers ways to manipulate stock screens to your advantage, and how to avoid manual data entry when evaluating financial ratio trends in the statements you download.
Secure Cooking with C and C++
by Matt Messier and John Viega
In this first in a three-part series of sample recipes from Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++, the authors offer nine basic rules for proper data validation, which they recommend all programmers follow. From their first rule: "Assume all input is guilty until proven otherwise" to their last: "The better you understand the data, the better you can filter it," the advice presented here will help programmers keep unwanted, malicious data out of their applications.
Secure Cooking with C and C++, Part 2
In part two in this three-part series of sample recipes from Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++, the authors discuss some of the factors to consider to properly decode a URL, and they provide example code programmers can use to securely decode URLs.
Secure Cooking with C and C++, Part 3
In the final installment in this three-part series of sample recipes from Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++, the authors discuss what you need to do to verify that a supplied email address, which your program has accepted as input, is valid.
Java
Hacking Swing: A JDBC Table Modelby Chris Adamson, Joshua Marinacci
Databases have tables, Swing has tables. Why should it be a hassle to bring the two together? In this excerpt from Swing Hacks, authors Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson show you how to put some JDBC behind your table model, and bring your database to life in Swing.
Hacking Swing: Translucent Windows
by Chris Adamson, Joshua Marinacci
All Java windows are absolutely rectangular, so you can forget about creating a nice Winamp-like window for your Swing app, right? Wrong. In this excerpt from Swing Hacks, authors Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson show how you can use some imaging trickery to create arbitrarily shaped windows with Swing.
Advanced Synchronization in Java Threads, Part 1
by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong
J2SE 5.0 introduces sophisticated new options for coordinating multiple threads. In this excerpt from Java Threads, 3rd Edition, Scott Oaks and Henry Wong look at new scheduling strategies represented by the java.util.concurrent package.
Advanced Synchronization in Java Threads, Part 2
by Scott Oaks and Henry Wong
J2SE 5.0 introduces new utilities for coordinating multiple threads. But where you have synchronized threads, you have a risk of deadlock. In this excerpt from Java Threads, 3rd Edition, Scott Oaks and Henry Wong look at deadlock and how to deal with it.
An Introduction to JDBC, Part 1
by William Crawford, Jim Farley and David Flanagan
In this excerpt from Chapter 2 of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, the authors introduce the JDBC architecture.
An Introduction to JDBC, Part 2
by William Crawford, Jim Farley and David Flanagan
Part Two of this excerpt from Java Enterprise in a Nutshell focuses on database connection, statements and results.
An Introduction to JDBC, Part 3
by William Crawford, Jim Farley and David Flanagan
In part three of this four-part excerpt on JDBC from Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, learn about error handling, prepared statements, BLOBs and CLOBs.
Business Logic, Part 1
by Brett McLaughlin
In this excerpt from Chapter 8 of Building Java Enterprise Applications, Vol I: Architecture, Brett McLaughlin discusses the façade pattern, in which you use session beans to access entity beans. This access method is used instead of allowing direct access to entity beans, and is key to a sound strategy in building enterprise applications.
Business Logic, Part 2
by Brett McLaughlin
In Part 2 of our excerpt from Chapter 8 of Building Java Enterprise Applications, Vol I: Architecture, Brett McLaughlin builds a UserManager component, and illustrates why managers are a good thing.
Business Logic, Part 3
by Brett McLaughlin
In Part 3 of our excerpt from Building Java Enterprise Applications (Vol. 1, Architecture), Brett McLaughlin addresses issues of statelessness and statefulness.
Compiling an AspectJ Project Using Eclipse
by Russell Miles
You may be ready for aspect-oriented programming, but are your tools? In this PDF excerpt from AspectJ Cookbook, Russell Miles shows you how to install and use an AspectJ-aware plugin for the Eclipse IDE.
Cooking with Eclipse
by Steve Holzner
In these sample recipes from O'Reilly's Eclipse Cookbook learn how to create a custom perspective in Eclipse, and how to speed up the JDT Editor.
Cooking with Eclipse, Part 2
by Steve Holzner
In this second batch of recipes from O'Reilly's Eclipse Cookbook, find out how to connect Eclipse to a CVS repository and how to use Swing and AWT inside of SWT for Eclipse 3.0.
Cooking with Java Servlets & JSP
by Bruce W. Perry
Learn how to use the Java Plug-in HTML Converter tool to generate the tags for embedding an applet, how to configure a
javax.sql.DataSource for use in a servlet with the Tomcat web container, and how to use the JSTL's XML and
XSLT-related tags, in these sample recipes from O'Reilly's Java Servlets & JSP Cookbook.Cooking with Java Servlets & JSP, Part 2
by Bruce W. Perry
In this second and final batch of recipes excerpted from Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook, author Bruce Perry shows you how to access an EJB from a servlet on WebLogic, and how to connect to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with a servlet or JSP.
Cooking with Java XP
by Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner
In this recipe from Chapter 5 of Java Extreme Programming Cookbook, learn how to configure your development environment to support test-first development with HttpUnit, JUnit, Tomcat, and Ant.
Cooking with Java XP, Part 2
by Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner
In these two recipes, excerpted from Chapter 6 of Java Extreme Programming Cookbook, learn how to create a mock implementation of an event listener interface, and how to avoid duplicated validation logic in your tests. And check back here next week for recipes on creating a load test and executing a custom template.
Cooking with Java XP, Part 3
by Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner
Here are more sample recipes from Java Extreme Programming Cookbook. From Chapter 8 ("JUnitPerf"), learn how to create a load test; and from Chapter 9 ("XDoclet"), find out how to execute a custom template.
Creating Toolbars Using SWT
by Tim Hatton
The final element that end users expect to see in a well-designed window is the toolbar. In this PDF excerpt from SWT: A Developer's Notebook, Tim Hatton succinctly explains each step and guides you through the development of the toolbar.
Creating Varargs in Java 1.5 Tiger
by Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan
This excerpt from Java 1.5 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook, by bestselling Java authors Brett McLaughlin and David Flanagan, shows you how to create and iterate over Java 1.5 varargs (variable-length argument lists). Learning to use varargs will have you writing better, cleaner, more flexible code in no time.
Demonstrating Spring's Finesse
by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland
In this excerpt from Better, Faster, Lighter Java, authors Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland provide an example of Spring (their counter-example to the J2EE Pet Store application) in action, to show why you too will come to appreciate this simple framework as elegant and important.
Developing a Simple JMS Example
by David A. Chappell
This excerpt from Chapter 2 of Java Message Service provides a gentle introduction to JMS using the publish-and-subscribe messaging model.
Developing Custom Tag Libraries as Tag Files
by Hans Bergsten
This excerpt from Hans Bergsten's JavaServer Pages, 3rd Edition describes implementing custom tag library actions as plain text files and packaging them as tag libraries that can be used in JSP pages.
Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 1
by Steve Holzner
Developing for the Web is bread and butter for Ant developers. In part one of this two-part excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, author Steve Holzner covers the tasks specifically designed for packaging web applications, including
war, cab, ear, and jspc. And stay tuned for part two next week, which will cover the tasks for deploying web apps, including get, serverdeploy, and scp. Developing for the Web with Ant, Part 2
by Steve Holzner
In this second installment of a two-part excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, Steve Holzner covers the tasks for deploying web apps with
get, serverdeploy, and scp.
Developing Your First EJBs, Part 2
by Bill Burke, Richard Monson-Haefel and Sacha Labourey
In part one of this two-part excerpt from Chapter 4 of Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition, the authors walked through what you need to do to develop your first entity bean. This week concludes this series with a look at how to develop a session bean, building on the examples presented in part one.
Developing Your First Enterprise Beans, Part 1
by Bill Burke, Richard Monson-Haefel and Sacha Labourey
In this first installment of a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 4 of Enterprise JavaBeans, 4th Edition, you'll learn how to develop your first entity bean. This segment covers how to define the remote interface, how to create a deployment descriptor, how to deploy, and more. Code examples step you through everything you need to do to create and use your first entity bean.
Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide
by Steve Holzner
A beta preview of Steve Holzner's Eclipse: A Java Developers Guide. This chapter is titled "Building Eclipse Projects Using Ant."
EJB Message-Driven Beans
by Richard Monson-Haefel
In this excerpt from Chapter 13 of Enterprise JavaBeans, Richard Monson-Haefel explains EJB 2.0 Message-Driven Beans, and shows you how to use these in your enterprise Java and Web services development efforts.
Enterprise Servlets and J2EE
by Jason Hunter and William Crawford
Jason Hunter demonstrates how the robust Servlets API and its containers are used and integrated with other J2EE API on a growing number of enterprise-based Web sites in this excerpt from O'Reilly's Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition.
Generic Types, Part 1
by David Flanagan
In part one of this two-part excerpt from Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition author David Flanagan explores the basic use of generics in typesafe collections, and then delves into their more complex uses. In addition, he covers type parameter wildcards and bounded wildcards. In part two next week, David tackles how to write your own generic types and generic methods.
Generic Types, Part 2
by David Flanagan
In part one of this two-part excerpt from Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition, David Flanagan described how to use generic types. This week David details how to write your own generic types and generic methods, and concludes with a tour of important generic types in the core Java API.
Getting Started with JXTA, Part 1
by Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat and Li Gong
In part one in this series of excerpts from JXTA in a Nutshell, learn about setting up the JXTA Java environment as well as JXTA class files, shells, and peers.
Getting Started with JXTA, Part 2
by Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat and Li Gong
In part two of this series of book excerpts on getting started with JXTA, from JXTA in a Nutshell, learn about peergroups and discovery, which are important for understanding peer-to-peer Web services.
Getting Started with JXTA, Part 3
by Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat and Li Gong
In part three in this series of excerpts from JXTA in a Nutshell, learn how to configure a JXTA application.
Getting Started with JXTA, Part 4
by Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat and Li Gong
In part four in this series of book excerpts from JXTA in a Nutshell, learn about JXTA pipes.
Getting Started with JXTA, Part 5
by Scott Oaks, Bernard Traversat and Li Gong
In this fifth and final excerpt on getting started with JXTA from JXTA in a Nutshell, learn about advertisements: structured XML documents for JXTA infrastructure.
Getting Started with Maven
by Vincent Massol, Timothy M. O'Brien
In this excerpt from Maven: A Developer's Notebook, authors Vincent Massol and Timothy M. O'Brien show you how to install and start working with Maven, the do-it-all Java project builder/manager.
Handling Events in JavaServer Faces, Part 1
by Hans Bergsten
In this excerpt from Chapter 8 of JavaServer Faces, author Hans Bergsten looks at the event model in JSF and how it relates to the request processing lifecycle. Next week, in part two of this excerpt, Hans implements event handling for parts of the sample application.
Handling Events in JavaServer Faces, Part 2
by Hans Bergsten
In the JSF event model, user actions take place in a client separated from the server, causing delays in the delivery of some types of events. In last week's part one of this two-part excerpt from JavaServer Faces, author Hans Bergsten provided examples to show how JSF deals with this, by using a strict request processing lifecycle. Here in part two, Hans implements event handling for parts of the sample application discussed in part one.
Integrating Ant with Eclipse, Part 1
Ant and Eclipse are the top Java build system and IDE, both by wide margins, so it's only natural you'd want to integrate them. In this excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, Steve Holzner shows how to create and run Ant build.xml files from within Eclipse.
Integrating Ant with Eclipse, Part 2
It's one thing to be able to run Ant builds from within Eclipse, but the integration of the top Java build tool and IDE goes deeper than this. In this excerpt from Ant: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition, Steve Holzner shows how to customize your Ant/Eclipse integration.
Internationalization, Part 1
by David Flanagan
Writing software that is truly multilingual is not an easy task. In this excerpt from Chapter 8 of Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition, author David Flanagan offers programming examples for the three steps to internationalization in Java: using Unicode character encoding, handling local customs, and localizing user-visible messages.
Internationalization, Part 2
Having your Java apps run correctly both down the street and across the globe presents some hefty challenges. Part one of this two-part excerpt from Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition covered the first two steps to internationalization in Java: using Unicode character encoding and handling local customs. This week deals with the third step in the process: localizing user-visible messages.
Java and Security, Part 1
by Avinash Chugh, Jon Mountjoy
In part one in a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 of WebLogic: The Definitive Guide, authors Avinash Chugh and Jon Mountjoy examine WebLogic's various security mechanisms, beginning with a look at the Java Security Manager and how WebLogic filters connection requests. They also cover WebLogic's authentication and authorization framework and how it supports the standard J2EE security services.
Java and Security, Part 2
by Avinash Chugh, Jon Mountjoy
This second and final excerpt from Chapter 17 of WebLogic: The Definitive Guide covers WebLogic's various security providers and their default implementations, along with a look at how to authenticate using JAAS, and examples of Authentication and Identity Assertion Providers.
Java and Sound, Part 1
by David Flanagan
Where can you learn how to play simple audio clips with the
java.applet.AudioClip class, as well as how to use the javax.sound.sampled and javax.sound.midi packages to do such things as load and play sound clips, and monitor and change the playback position within a clip? In these first excerpts in a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 ("Sound") of Java
Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition.Java and Sound, Part 2
by David Flanagan
This second installment in a two-part series of excerpts from Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition follows last week's (on playing streaming sounds in both sampled audio and MIDI formats) with examples of how to read a simple musical score and convert it into a MIDI sequence. Author David Flanagan also shows you how to make music by directly controlling a
MidiChannel of a Synthesizer.Java and XML: SOAP
by Brett McLaughlin
In this excerpt from Chapter 12 of Java & XML, 2nd Edition, Brett explains what SOAP is, and why it is such an important part of where the web development paradigm is moving. That will help you get the fundamentals down, and prepare you for actually working with a SOAP toolkit.
Java and XML: Web Publishing Frameworks
by Brett McLaughlin
In this excerpt from Chapter 9 of Java and XML, McLaughlin takes a detailed look at using Java and XML to create web publishing frameworks.
Java Application Security
by Scott Oaks
In this excerpt from Chapter 1 of Java Security, 2nd Edition, Scott Oaks covers Java application security by defining security; bounding the Java security model; and finally debugging Java security in an applet or application.
Java Development on Eclipse, Part 1
by Steve Holzner
Steve Holzner contends that Eclipse makes it easier to create Java code from scratch. In this excerpt from Chapter 2 of his book, Eclipse, Steve shows how Eclipse makes it easy to create new methods, classes, and packages, as well as how to build and run the code.
Java Development on Eclipse, Part 2
by Steve Holzner
In this conclusion of a two-part series of excerpts from Eclipse, author Steve Holzner provides still more examples of how Eclipse makes it easier to create Java code from scratch. This week he covers creating Javadocs, refactoring, adding certain skills to your Eclipse toolbox, and customizing the development environment.
Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 1
by Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler
In this excerpt from Java Generics and Collections, authors Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler show how to make the switch to Java 5.0 generics, not by expecting you to flip a switch across your whole code base, but by having you gradually work generics into your code while maintaining compatibility.
Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 2
by Maurice Naftalin, Philip Wadler
In the second part of an excerpt from Java Generics and Collections, authors Maurice Naftalin and Philip Wadler continue their study of how to adopt Java 5.0 generics in a measured, sustainable fashion. Having shown how to genericize a library while leaving the library in legacy mode, they now present three approaches to the opposite scenario: genericizing a client that uses a non-genericized library.
Java Programming with Oracle JDBC: Performance
by Donald Bales
When it comes to JDBC performance issues, there are two major factors to consider: performance of the database structure and the SQL statements used against it and relative efficiency of the different ways you can use the JDBC interfaces to manipulate a database. This excerpt from Java Programming with Oracle JDBC explores these.
Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ: Contexts and Multithreading
by Jason Price
A multithreaded program is one that is able to carry out several tasks in parallel using Java threads. As you will see in this excerpt from Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ, execution contexts are very important when writing a multithreaded SQLJ program.
Java RMI: Serialization
by William Grosso
In this excerpt from Java RMI, William Grosso drills down on the serialization mechanism; by the end of it, you will understand exactly how serialization works and how to use it efficiently within your applications.
Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 1
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In this excerpt from Java Swing, 2nd Edition, learn how to use Swing menus.
Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 2
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In this excerpt from Java Swing, 2nd Edition, learn about menu selections and the JMenuBar class.
Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 3
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In this third excerpt from Java Swing, learn how to add strings and icons to menus with the
JMenuItem class.Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 4
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In the fourth excerpt from Java Swing, learn how to create context-sensitive menus with the
JPopupMenu class.Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 5
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In this fifth excerpt from Java Swing, learn how to attach menus to menu bars with the
JMenu class.Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 6
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In this sixth excerpt from Java Swing, learn how to use complex menu items like radio buttons and checkbox menus.
Java Swing: Menus and Toolbars, Part 7
by Brian Cole, Robert Eckstein, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Dave Wood
In the final excerpt from Java Swing, learn how to use toolbars.
JavaServer Pages: Generating Dynamic Content
by Hans Bergsten
Chapter 5 -- excerpted from the O'Reilly book "Java Server Pages" --covers using JSP to create dynamic content with a few simple examples to get a feel for how the basic JSP elements work.
JDO Architectures
by David Jordan and Craig Russell
In this excerpt from Java Data Objects, authors David Jordan and Craig Russell provide a high-level overview of the architectural aspects of JDO, as well as examples of environments in which JDO can be used.
JDO Persistence, Part 1
by George Reese
In this first of three excerpts from Chapter 7 of Java Database Best Practices, author George Reese describes all the available persistence options for Java architects and developers, and provides data to help you choose the persistence option that best fits the requirements and scale of your application.
JDO Persistence, Part 2
by George Reese
In part two in this three-part series of excerpts on JDO persistence from Java Database Best Practices, author George Reese covers basic JDO persistence best practices for transaction management and query control.
JDO Persistence, Part 3
by George Reese
In this third and final excerpt from Chapter 7 of Java Database Best Practices, author George Reese covers using JDO as a bean-managed persistence tool.
JSP Overview, Part 1
by Hans Bergsten
In part one of two book excerpts on JSP Overview from JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition, understand the problem with Servlets as well as the anatomy of a JSP page.
JSP Overview, Part 2
by Hans Bergsten
In this excerpt from JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition, the second in a two-part series providing an overview of JSP, you'll find an introduction to JSP application design with MVC and learn about JSP processing.
Killer Game Programming in Java: A 3D Checkerboard, Part 1
Our book excerpt today is for all you Java gamers, especially the 3D junkies--we know you're out there. In part one of a two-part series taken from Chapter 15 of Killer Game Programming in Java, author Andrew Davison describes how to create a scene in a Checkers3D application, using Java 3D. And check back next week when Andrew shows how to create a floating sphere for the Checkers3D app.
Killer Game Programming in Java: A 3D Checkerboard, Part 2
In part one of this two-part excerpt from Killer Game Programming in Java, author Andrew Davison strode through some complex programming issues for developing Java 3D graphics, such as how to add shapes, lighting, and backgrounds to a Checkers3D application. Here in part two, Andrew continues the theme by demonstrating how to create a floating sphere for the Checkers3D app.
Managing and Monitoring JBoss, Part 1
In part one of this two-part excerpt from JBoss: A Developer's Notebook, you'll learn how use the Web Console (an advanced version of the JMX Console), how to work with its enhanced monitoring capabilities and MBeans, and how to create snapshots of your data over regular intervals.
Managing and Monitoring JBoss, Part 2
In part one of this two-part excerpt from JBoss: A Developer's Notebook, authors Norman Richards and Sam Griffith covered how to use the Web Console and its MBeans to manage your web apps. In today's excerpt, learn how to create a monitor for your app, how to configure alerts to be sent via email, and how to manage JBoss from the command line.
Maven Project Reporting and Publishing, Part 1
Maven's not just about building; it's about viewing, understanding, and managing your projects. In this first part of a two-part excerpt from Maven: A Developer's Notebook, authors Vincent Massol and Timothy M. O'Brien introduce Maven's reporting features for issue tracking, dependencies, code style, and more.
Maven Project Reporting and Publishing, Part 2
Maven helps you not only with building and tracking your project, but also with releasing it. In this second excerpt from Maven: A Developer's Notebook, authors Vincent Massol and Timothy M. O'Brien show how Maven can publish artifacts like JAR/WAR/EAR files, automate announcements, generate changelogs, and publish a project website.
MIDP GUI Programming, Part 1
by Qusay Mahmoud
This is the first in a series of excerpts from Chapter 5 of Learning Wireless Java. Why not use AWT? Well, MIDP contains its own abbreviated GUI, which is much different from AWT. This chapter excerpt introduces you to the MIDP GUI APIs.
MIDP GUI Programming, Part 2
by Qusay Mahmoud
This is the second in a series of excerpts from Chapter 5 of Learning Wireless Java. It discusses how the various classes in the high-level MIDP API can be used to create GUI components.
MIDP GUI Programming, Part 3
by Qusay Mahmoud
This is the third in a series of excerpts from Chapter 5 of Learning Wireless Java. It discusses how the various classes in the low-level MIDP API can be used to create GUI components.
Nested Classes, Part 1
by Robert Simmons, Jr.
One aspect of the Java language that is not widely understood is the concept of nested classes. But because you're bound to encounter one or more of them in other people's code, it's important to understand how they work. Chapter six of Hardcore Java covers the various nested classes. In this first excerpt in a three-part series of excerpts from the chapter, author Robert Simmons covers the first of the three basic categories of nested classes: inner classes.
Nested Classes, Part 2
Robert Simmons continues his efforts to clarify confusion over the use of nested classes in Java. In this week's installment, excerpted from Chapter 6 ("Nested Classes") of Hardcore Java, Robert discusses the somewhat troublesome limited-scope inner classes; one specific type within this category, known as anonymous classes; and the problems programmers encounter with limited-scope classes.
Nested Classes, Part 3
by Robert Simmons, Jr.
In this third and final installment on nested classes, excerpted from Hardcore Java, author Robert Simmons covers static nested classes, double nested classes, and nested classes in interfaces.
NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 1
by Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr
In part one in this series of book excerpts from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, learn how to work with XML within the NetBeans framework by installing XML support and working with XML editors.
NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 2
by Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr
In part two of this three-part series excerpted from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, go beyond editing XML in your editors, within the open source NetBeans framework.
NetBeans: Working with XML, Part 3
by Tim Boudreau, Jesse Glick, Simeon Greene, Vaughn Spurlin, Jack J. Woehr
In this final installment on working with XML, excerpted from NetBeans: The Definitive Guide, learn how to generate Java classes.
Persistence in Spring
by Bruce A. Tate and Justin Gehtland
Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland continue where they left off in part one of this two-part series on Spring. This week, the authors of Better, Faster, Lighter Java take you through adding persistence to their Pet Store counter-example, and look at the use of presentation logic in the Spring framework.
Programming Jakarta Struts: Using Tiles, Part 1
by Chuck Cavaness
In part one in this series of book excerpts on using tiles from Programming Jakarta Struts, learn how to use tiles, and gain an understanding of templates.
Programming Jakarta Struts: Using Tiles, Part 2
by Chuck Cavaness
In part two in this series of book excerpts on using tiles from Programming Jakarta Struts, learn how to install and configure tiles, as well as get an overview on tiles.
Programming Jakarta Struts: Using Tiles, Part 3
by Chuck Cavaness
In part 3 in this series of book excerpts on using tiles from Programming Jakarta Struts, learn how to use the tile tag library.
Programming Jakarta Struts: Using Tiles, Part 4
by Chuck Cavaness
We conclude this book excerpt series on using tiles from Programming Jakarta Struts by showing you how to use definitions. You'll also find coverage on support for internationalization of tiles.
Servlet Best Practices, Part 1
by The O'Reilly Java Authors and Robert Eckstein
Servlets have dominated the recent server-side Java landscape and have become the standard way to interface Java to the Web. This chapter, the first of three book excerpts from Java Enterprise Best Practices, discusses effective servlet-based development and deployment.
Servlet Best Practices, Part 2
by Jason Hunter and Robert Eckstein
In part two of three in this series of book excerpts on servlet best practices from Java Enterprise Best Practices, learn about caching with servlets.
Servlet Best Practices, Part 3
by The O'Reilly Java Authors
In this final excerpt on servlets from Java Enterprise Best Practices, we present how to effectively send files for download. Getting it right across Web browsers takes a bit of work, but with this tip you'll have it right in no time.
The Java Platform
by David Flanagan
In this excerpt from O'Reilly & Associates' Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition, David Flanagan shows you a number of the Java 2SE platform packages, using examples of the most useful classes in these packages.
The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets, Part 1
by Kim Topley
This is the first of a five part book excerpt series based on O'Reilly's J2ME in a Nutshell by Kim Topley. Part one is an overview of the Mobile Independent Device Profile and the MIDP Java platform.
The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets, Part 2
by Kim Topley
This is the second of a five part book excerpt series based on O'Reilly's J2ME in a Nutshell by Kim Topley. Part 2 focuses on MIDlets and their suites.
The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets, Part 3
by Kim Topley
Part three of a five-part book excerpt from O'Reilly's J2ME in a Nutshell by Kim Topley. This installment focuses on a MIDlet's three states: paused, active, and destroyed.
The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets, Part 4
by Kim Topley
In Part 4 of this five-part excerpt from J2ME in a Nutshell, author Kim Topley shows you how to develop MIDlets.
The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets, Part 5
by Kim Topley
This is the final excerpt in a series on MIDP and MIDlets from J2ME in a Nutshell, focusing on the delivery and installation of MIDlets.
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 1
by Tyler Jewell and David A. Chappell
UDDI -- Universal Description, Discovery and Integration -- is a key Web services technology. In this series of excerpts from Java Web Services, you'll learn how to program UDDI services. The first excerpt provides a basic understanding of UDDI.
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 2
by Tyler Jewell and David A. Chappell
UDDI -- Universal Description, Discovery and Integration -- is a key Web services technology. In this series of excerpts from Java Web Services, you'll learn how to program UDDI services.
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 3
by David A. Chappell, Tyler Jewell
This excerpt from O'Reilly's Java Web Services focuses on UDDI programming with the Java API for XML Registries.
UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration, Part 4
by Tyler Jewell and David A. Chappell
The final installment in an excerpt from Java Web Services, focusing on WSDL definitions using UDDI.
URLs and URIs, Proxies and Passwords
by Elliotte Rusty Harold
Java networking is seldom as simple as it first seems. In this excerpt, one of a series from Java Network Programming, 3rd Edition, Elliotte Rusty Harold shows how to encode and decode URLs, work with URIs, use multiple proxy servers, query servers with HTTP GET, and use password-based authentication.
Web Server Java -- Servlets and JSP
by Ian F. Darwin
Ian Darwin gives us two examples in this book excerpt from Java Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Java Developers using Servlets and JSP: Task of displaying a web page with five randomly chosen integer numbers and a dictionary (list of terms).
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 1
by Robert Englander
In this excerpt on complex data types from Java and SOAP, the authors discuss passing arrays as parameters.
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 2
by Robert Englander
In part two in this series of book excerpts from Java and SOAP, learn about returning arrays.
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 3
by Robert Englander
The third in a series of excerpts from Java and SOAP, this article excerpt covers passing custom types as parameters.
Working with Complex Data Types, Part 4
by Robert Englander
This is the last in a series of book excerpts on working with complex data types from Java and SOAP. In this excerpt, learn about returning custom types, using a stock market example.
XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 1
by Jonathan Knudsen and Patrick Niemeyer
This is the first in a series of book excerpts on XML for Java developers from Learning Java, 2nd Edition. This excerpt covers XML fundamentals.
XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 2
by Jonathan Knudsen and Patrick Niemeyer
In this second part in a several part series on XML for Java developers from Learning Java, 2nd Edition, learn about SAX and the SAX API.
XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 3
by Jonathan Knudsen and Patrick Niemeyer
In part three in this series of book excerpts on XML basics for Java developers from Learning Java, 2nd Edition, learn about the Document Object Model (DOM).
XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 4
by Jonathan Knudsen and Patrick Niemeyer
In part four in a series of XML basics for Java developers book excerpts from Learning Java, 2nd Edition, learn about validating documents.
XML Basics for Java Developers, Part 5
by Jonathan Knudsen and Patrick Niemeyer
In this final in a series of XML basics for Java developers book excerpts from Learning Java, 2nd Edition, get an introduction to XSL/XSLT and Web services.
XSLT Processing with Java
by Eric M. Burke
This chapter from Java and XSLT is devoted to Java and XSLT programming techniques that work for both standalone applications as well as servlets, with a particular emphasis on Sun's Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) API.
Zero Configuration Networking: Using the Java APIs, Part 1
by Stuart Cheshire, Daniel H. Steinberg
Zeroconf, also known as Bonjour and previously known as Rendezvous, offers a robust system for self-networking that has been adopted by many applications. With a provided Java API, now it's easy to make Zeroconf applications hop platforms. In this excerpt from Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide, Stuart Cheshire and Daniel H. Steinberg show how to register a service with Zeroconf.
Zero Configuration Networking: Using the Java APIs, Part 2
by Stuart Cheshire, Daniel H. Steinberg
In this second part of an excerpt from Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide, Stuart Cheshire and Daniel H. Steinberg show how Java clients can browse for and resolve Zeroconf services, and how to register and add, update, and delete services with DNS TXT attributes.
Zero Configuration Networking: Using the Java APIs, Part 3
by Stuart Cheshire, Daniel H. Steinberg
In this final excerpt from Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide, Stuart Cheshire and Daniel H. Steinberg take the Java bindings to Apple's Zeroconf implementation and apply them to creating a networked Swing tic-tac-toe game, in which each instance can discover and compete against other instances on the network.
Linux
A Linux Quick Reference to Useful Commandsby Daniel J. Barrett
Daniel J. Barrett, author of O'Reilly's Linux Pocket Guide, has compiled a quick-reference guide to the most essential Linux commands and the tasks they perform. We are presenting this quick reference as a PDF download. Print it and keep it by your keyboard for quick answers to problems that arise.
SysAdmin
Adding Permissions Using SELinuxby Bill McCarty
As an SELinux administrator, one of the most frequent SELinux policy customizations you're likely to perform is adding permissions to coax the security engine into accepting an operation. In today's excerpt from SELinux, author Bill McCarty considers an actual situation based on Fedora Core 2's SELinux implementation and shows how it's resolved.
Linux
Hacking the Linux DesktopModifying stuff to suit individual desire is the credo of hackers everywhere. These two excerpts from Linux Desktop Hacks let you modify Linux to suit your desires: The first hack uses Virtual Network Computer (VNC) to access Windows and Mac OS X from your Linux desktop. The second shows how to lock down KDE with Kiosk mode, allowing you to control exactly what users can and can't change.
Hacking the Linux Desktop, Part 2
In Part 1 of this two-part excerpt from Linux Desktop Hacks, we offered hacks on controlling desktop access. In this second installment, learn how to view Microsoft Word documents in a terminal and how to create an internet phone.
How Your Computer Boots
by Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati
Have you ever wondered what happens right after you switch on your Linux computer? Here's an article that explains exactly how the Linux kernel image is copied into memory and executed -- in other words, how it's "bootstrapped." Excerpted from Understanding the Linux Kernel.
PC Hacks for Linux
by Jim Aspinwall
PC Hacks author Jim Aspinwall handpicks two Linux-specific hacks to share from his new book. Whether Linux just won't boot or it isn't as zippy as you'd expect, help is merely a hack away. Jim will teach you how to recover your system's boot-ability as well as how to test and optimize Linux's settings for the best hard drive performance.
Red Hat and Debian GNU/Linux Package Managers
by Stephen Figgins, Jessica P. Hekman, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
Learn about the two major Linux packaging systems, the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) and the Debian GNU/Linux Package Manager, in this complete chapter excerpt from "Linux in a Nutshell."
Secure Cooking with Linux, Part 1
by Daniel J. Barrett, Robert G. Byrnes, Richard E. Silverman
The authors of Linux Security Cookbook have selected a number of recipes from their book to present on ONLamp. These recipes are organized into basic, intermediate, and advanced categories. This week's set consists of three recipes of a basic flavor. You'll find recipes on authenticating by public key, encrypting backups, and combining log files. Over the next two weeks we'll present the intermediate and then advanced recipes. There'll be something for everyone here. Enjoy.
Secure Cooking with Linux, Part 2
by Daniel J. Barrett, Robert G. Byrnes, Richard E. Silverman
In part two in our series of sample recipes from Linux Security Cookbook, the authors have selected two recipes of an intermediate flavor. Learn how to restrict access to network services by time of day, and how to use sudo to permit read-only access to a shared file.
Secure Cooking with Linux, Part 3
by Daniel J. Barrett, Robert G. Byrnes, Richard E. Silverman
This week's set of recipes from Linux Security Cookbook fall into an advanced category. Learn how to use PAM to restrict authentication on Linux systems and how to use SMTP to accept connections from arbitrary clients securely.
Mac
Hacking Mac OS X PantherRael Dornfest, coauthor of Mac OS X Panther Hacks, has selected three hacks from the book for your sampling pleasure. The first two detail how to find anyone in your Address Book who has an Amazon Wish List, and how to build a GUI to your Unix scripts with some Perl or Python glue code; the third is just for fun.
Mac Modding Shortcuts
by Erica Sadun
Make repetitive tasks simpler and maximize ergonomic efficiency with this excerpted chapter from Erica Sadun's Modding Mac OS X. Neat, concise, and easy-to-use, this excerpt helps you add, remove, and change keyboard shortcuts to meet your personal computing needs. Keep your hands on the keyboard and give that mouse a rest.
Mac OS X Power Hound Helpful Hints, Part 1
by Rob Griffiths
Mac OS X Power Hound author Rob Griffiths has hand-picked 16 of his favorite hints and organized them into this two-part series. This week, in part one, you'll discover eight tricks to help your Mac OS X system run smoother, and see new ways to personalize your working environment. Examples include activating Exposé with a multi-button mouse, saving iTunes Music Store videos and trailers, and customizing the Dock "poof."
Mac OS X Power Hound Helpful Hints, Part 2
by Rob Griffiths
Last week, in part one of this two-part series, Mac OS X Power Hound author Rob Griffiths shared eight of 16 hand-picked favorite OS X hints. This week, Rob shares his knowledge on creating a smart iPhoto album for general searching, using Internet shortcuts, creating a disk image from a directory in the terminal, and more.
Memory Management in Cocoa
by James Duncan Davidson and Apple Computer, Inc.
This excerpt from Learning Cocoa with Objective-C provides a concise description of how memory management in Cocoa works, as well as a set of rules to help you manage things correctly.
Scheduling Tasks in Panther
by James Duncan Davidson
Mac OS X gives you several tools to help execute tasks at certain times of day and on a regular basis. To manage this, the system uses a set of utilities called cron and periodic. In this book excerpt from Running Mac OS X Panther, James Duncan Davidson takes you inside the ticking brain of your Mac.
Unix on Panther: Accessing the Internet
by Dave Taylor and Brian Jepson
This excerpt from Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther introduces Unix networking: remotely accessing your Mac from other computers and copying files between computers. It also shows you how the Connect to Server capability of Terminal can make common connections a breeze once you've set them up the first time.
Mozilla
Hacking FirefoxThis excerpt from Firefox Hacks shows you how to use overlays (essentially hunks of UI data) to make something you want to appear in the Firefox default application, perhaps to carry out a particular function of your extension. For example, you might want to add a menu item to the Tools menu to launch your extension. Overlays allow existing Firefox GUIs to be enhanced.
ONLamp
Cooking with MySQLby Paul DuBois
Paul DuBois has selected sample recipes from the hundreds you'll find in his book, MySQL Cookbook. In this first in a three-part series showcasing these sample recipes, find out how to interpret results from summaries and NULL values and how to identify duplicates in a table or record.
Cooking with MySQL
by Paul DuBois
Paul DuBois has selected sample recipes from the hundreds you'll find in his book, MySQL Cookbook. In this third and final series of excerpts showcasing these recipes, learn how to compute team standings, how to calculate the differences between successive rows, and how to find cumulative sums and running averages.
SysAdmin
Cooking with sendmailby Craig Hunt
You need to configure sendmail to use the IETF Internet Draft LDAP schema and to read internal mail-routing information from the LDAP server. Get the solution and the configuration code fast in this excerpt from sendmail Cookbook. This is just one of hundreds of recipes in the book that administrators can use to quickly solve configurations problems.
Cooking with sendmail, Part 2
by Craig Hunt
Last week we published a sample recipe from O'Reilly's sendmail Cookbook on using LDAP for sendmail routing information. This week, we offer two more configuration recipes from the book: the first on configuring sendmail for STARTTLS, and the second on limiting the SMTP command set.
ONLamp
Design Tips for Building Tag Cloudsby Jim Bumgardner
To give you a sampling of what you'll find in Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP, a new, downloadable PDF from O'Reilly, we've excerpted this section on tips for designing the most effective tag clouds.
Ethereal and NMap
by Richard Forno and Kenneth R. van Wyk
This is the first in a series of excerpts from Chapter 7 of Incident Response, covering the nmap port scanner and the Ethereal network scanner.
Gaming Hacks for Geeks, Part 2
by chromatic and Simon Carless
Last week, in part one of this two-part series of hack excerpts from Gaming Hacks, author Simon Carless showed you how to write your own MMORPG macros. This week, Simon is back, giving you the hacking tools you need to create your own animations using this hack by chromatic .
Getting Started with FreeRADIUS
by Jonathan Hassell
This excerpt from Chapter 5 of RADIUS focuses on practical applications of this protocol: implementing it, customizing it for your specific needs, and extending its capabilities to meet other needs in your business--all using a RADIUS server called FreeRADIUS.
Hacking TiVo
by Raffi Krikorian
TiVo addicts: View the latest sports scores, weather forecasts, stock quotes, and more without ever leaving your couch. This excerpt from O'Reilly's TiVo Hacks shows you how to use the TiVo Control Station to populate your TV screen with whatever information it is that you just can't live without.
Hacking TiVo, Part 2
by Raffi Krikorian
This week we bring you two more sample hacks from TiVo Hacks. Learn how to use TiVoWeb to schedule recordings of your favorite programs while you're on the road, and how to play downloaded video streams right from your TiVo over your home network. Break out the popcorn!
How to Write a Basic Gtk# Program with Mono
Gtk#, the Mono API for the GTK+ UI toolkit, is the open source alternative to Windows.Forms. This article shows how to install Mono on Windows, how Gtk# works, and how to write a simple Gtk# program. This kind of mini-project is just the sort you'll find in O'Reilly's upcoming Mono: A Developer's Notebook.
Name Resolution and Browsing in Samba, Part 1
by David Collier-Brown, Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts
This excerpt from Chapter 7 of Using Samba, 2nd Edition focuses on name resolution using WINS, which is supported by Samba with the nmbd daemon. Learn how to configure your network to handle name resolution any way you want.
Name Resolution and Browsing in Samba, Part 2
by David Collier-Brown, Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts
Part two of this excerpt from Chapter 7 of Using Samba, 2nd Edition starts by describing browsing in a network that contains only Windows systems, then shows you how to add a Samba server.
Running Samba on the Mac OS X Server
by David Collier-Brown, Robert Eckstein, Jay Ts
Mac OS X Server differs from Mac OS X in how it deals with the configuration of Samba-based services. In this excerpt from Using Samba, 2nd Edition, learn how to set up SMB files and printer shares, enable client user access, and monitor activity, all on Mac OS X Server 10.
Secure Programming Techniques
by Simson Garfinkel, Alan Schwartz, Gene Spafford
In this first installment in a multipart series of excerpts from Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition, you'll find tips and general design principles to code by that will help you avoid security-related bugs. And check back to this space over the next few week for additional tips, all selected from Chapter 16 on "Secure Programming Techniques."
Secure Programming Techniques, Part 2
by Simson Garfinkel, Alan Schwartz, Gene Spafford
In part two in this multipart series of excerpts from Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition, you'll find tips both on what to do and what not to do when you are coding a new network program. And check back to this space over the next few weeks for more tips, all selected from Chapter 16 on "Secure Programming Techniques."
Secure Programming Techniques, Part 3
An overwhelming number of Unix security problems have been caused by SUID/SGID programs. In this week's excerpt from Chapter 16 ("Secure Programming Techniques") of Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition, we offer tips on writing SUID and SGID programs. And as an added bonus, this excerpt also includes advice on using the
chroot( ) system call to enhance the security of your programs. Secure Programming Techniques, Part 4
In this fourth and final excerpt from Chapter 16 ("Secure Programming Techniques") of Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition, we offer tips on using passwords more securely, and on generating random numbers, both of which play important roles in maintaining computer security.
Snort 'n Dragon
by Richard Forno and Kenneth R. van Wyk
Snort and Dragon are two intrusion-detection programs that allow you to detect hackers trying to break into your system. This is the third in a series of excerpts from Chapter 7 of Incident Response.
SSH Port Forwarding
by Daniel J. Barrett and Richard E. Silverman
Port forwarding is another method of allowing SSH through a firewall. This excerpt also touches on some security concerns and SSH authentication. Excerpted from Chapter 11 of SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.
SSH Public-Key Authentication
by Daniel J. Barrett and Richard E. Silverman
Passwords--even encrypted ones--sent over the Internet can still pose a security problem. However, with public-key authentication, you don't need to send passwords at all. Excerpted from Chapter 8 of SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide.
Traffic Engineering: Finding the Right Route
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
In this first installment on Traffic Engineering, excerpted from O'Reilly's BGP, learn how to find the best route in a multihomed setup--the one that will take advantage of all available bandwidth.
Traffic Engineering: Incoming Traffic
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
In this third installment on Traffic Engineering, excerpted from O'Reilly's BGP, learn how to balance inbound traffic.
Traffic Engineering: Local Routing Policy
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
In this second installment on Traffic Engineering, excerpted from O'Reilly's BGP, learn how to influence the BGP path-selection process.
Traffic Engineering: Queuing, Traffic Shaping, and Policing
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
In the fifth and final installment in this series of excerpts on Traffic Engineering from O'Reilly's BGP, learn how to increase performance for certain protocols or sessions using special queuing strategies, traffic shaping, and rate limiting.
Traffic Engineering: Specific Routes
by Iljitsch van Beijnum
In this fourth installment on Traffic Engineering, excerpted from O'Reilly's BGP, learn how to balance incoming traffic by announcing more specific routes.
Tripwire
by Richard Forno, Kenneth R. van Wyk
When a hacker gets through your primary defences, its hard to tell what they may have done to your system. Tripwire can reliably detect changes to your system, including rootkits. This is the second in a series of excerpts from Chapter 7 of Incident Response.
ONLamp Security
Anatomy of an Attack: The Five Psby Kerry J. Cox, Christopher Gerg
The five Ps--Probe, Penetrate, Persist, Propagate, and Paralyze--represent a model of how a security attack progresses. In this excerpt from Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools, the authors discuss an attack's progression through these five steps, whether the attack is sourced from a person or an automated worm or script, with emphasis on the Probe and Penetrate phases, the stages that Snort monitors.
Open Source
Version Control with Subversion: Basic Conceptsby Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato
Subversion is an open source version control system that can access its file repository across networks. Various users are able to modify and manage the same set of data from their respective locations. Collaboration is fostered, and changes can occur more rapidly. This preview of Chapter 2 from Version Control with Subversion highlights the basic concepts of this important new version control system.
Version Control with Subversion: Introduction
by Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, C. Michael Pilato
Subversion is an open source version control system that can access its file repository across networks. Various users are able to modify and manage the same set of data from their respective locations. Collaboration is fostered, and changes can occur more rapidly. This preview of Chapter 1 from Version Control with Subversion gives you the history, features, architecture, and components of this important new version control system.
P2P
The Power of Metadataby Rael Dornfest and Dan Brickley
The Web is a big, glorious mess of unstructured, unlabeled data of every possible flavor. Will P2P go down the same road? Now is the time to adopt some metadata standards that will allow P2P to become truly interoperable. This essay is an excerpt from Peer-To-Peer.
PHP
PHP Pocket Referenceby Rasmus Lerdorf
The introductory chapter excerpted from O'Reilly's "PHP Pocket Reference," a handy quick reference for PHP, an open-source, HTML-embedded scripting language that can be used to develop web applications.
PHP Session Management With Cookies
by David Lane and Hugh E. Williams
The stateless nature of HTTP allows applications to distribute content across multiple servers. However, applications that require complex user interaction can't be implemented as stateless web pages. Using sessions and cookies is one way around this. Excerpted from Chapter 8 of Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL.
Policy
Protect Your OSP with logfinderby Richard Koman
Do you keep all your logs? Get ready for trouble. The EFF has issued a warning to online service providers, including ISPs, web site publishers, and bloggers, to start deleting their log files ASAP. To help, the EFF has created a free tool called logfinder that makes it easier to find and delete those log files.
Python
A Python Quick Reference to Useful CommandsPlucked from the pages of Python in a Nutshell and Learning Python, 2nd Edition, these excerpts, available for download as a PDF (55K), offer a quick reference to useful Python commands, covering methods, common file operations, and much more. Print it out to keep by your keyboard as you program.
Cooking with Python, Part 1
In these sample recipes from Python Cookbook, Second Edition, learn how to use Unicode to handle international text strings that include non-ASCII characters, and how to select the nth smallest element of a sequence. Check back here next week for two more recipes on implementing a ring buffer and computing prime numbers.
Cooking with Python, Part 2
Recipes from part one of this two-part series of excerpts from Python Cookbook, 2nd Edition covered how to handle international text with Unicode and how to select elements from an unsorted sequence. In today's recipes, learn how to implement a ring buffer and how to compute prime numbers.
Python Programming on Win32
by Mark Hammond, Andy Robinson
Excerpt from Chapter 20 of O'Reilly's book Python Programming on Win32.