Short Cuts are PDF documents that spotlight one specific topic, usually in fewer than 100 pages. Whether it's a first look at a brand new technology, a quick reference, or a thorough explanation of a narrow but crucial subject, Short Cuts bring you focused information in an easy-to-use, portable package.

What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2?
By Rich Bowen
February 2007 
$9.99 USD

What's New in Apache Web Server 2.2? shows you all the new features you'll know to set up and administer the Apache 2.2 web server. Learn how to take advantage… Read more.

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The OpenBSD 4.0 Crash Course
By Jem Matzan
January 2007 
$9.99 USD

OpenBSD is a Unix-like computer operating system that is widely regarded for its excellent documentation and its fanatical focus on security. "The OpenBSD Crash Course" Short Cut will help you… Read more.

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Using XForms with Mozilla
By J. David Eisenberg
January 2007 
$9.99 USD

The XForms technology gives you many advantages over ordinary XHTML forms. The XForms technology separates your form's data and presentation and submits your data as XML. XForms-aware applications can validate… Read more.

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Google Web Toolkit for Ajax
By Bruce W. Perry
January 2007 
$9.99 USD

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite… Read more.

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Eight Great Ways to Get the Most from Your Zune
By Erica Sadun
December 2006 
$7.99 USD

The Zune is Microsoft's new media player. It does music. It does video. It does pictures. Are you ready to get the most out of your Zune? Do you know the… Read more.

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What's New in Windows Vista?
By Brian Culp
December 2006 
$7.99 USD

Get ready for a quick blast through this significant change to Windows! This guide will give you a quick look at many of the most significant new features in Vista,… Read more.

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Introduction to Neogeography
By Andrew Turner
December 2006 
$7.99 USD

Neogeography combines the complex techniques of cartography and GIS and places them within reach of users and developers. This Short Cut introduces you to the growing number of tools, frameworks,… Read more.

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Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle
By Tom Mornini, Marc Loy
December 2006 
$9.99 USD

Learn how to make your Rails deployments pain-free with Capistrano! This Short Cut shows you how to use Capistrano to automate the deployment of your Rails applications. It teaches you… Read more.

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Prototype and Scriptaculous: Taking the Pain out of JavaScript
By Chris Angus
November 2006 
$9.99 USD

This Short Cut demonstrates how to use Prototype for a wide range of tasks, including event handling, DOM processing, string and form process, and Ajax communications. It explores Scriptaculous' visual… Read more.

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Releasing CSS
By Christopher Schmitt
November 2006 
$9.99 USD

In an industry that communicates with terms such as "Browser Hell" and "browser wars," a web designer can be excused for having some anxiety over Microsoft's recent upgrade of Internet… Read more.

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Prototype Quick Reference
By Scott Raymond
November 2006 
$9.99 USD

This short cut provides a complete quick reference to the Prototype JavaScript framework. Prototype is an open-source library that is particularly useful to developers of dynamic Ajax applications, and to… Read more.

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SQL Server 2005 Reporting Essentials
By Bill Hamilton
November 2006 
$7.99 USD

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services allows you to design, create, view, and manage reports. Reports can be distributed and managed over the Web. End users can create, publish, and share… Read more.

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Mongrel
By Angel Dobbs-Sciortino
November 2006 
$9.99 USD

This shortcut teaches you how to use Mongrel, the new high-performance web application container for Rails. It starts with basic setup and installation, but goes well beyond the basics, showing… Read more.

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Saving Money and Time with Virtual Server
By Chris Sanders
November 2006 
$7.99 USD

Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 consistently proves to be worth its weight in gold, with new implementations thought up every day. With this product now a free download from Microsoft, scores… Read more.

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How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed
By Mark Woodman
November 2006 
$7.99 USD

The little orange feed icons are everywhere on the web. From search engines to shopping sites to blogs, Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0) has become one of the hottest web… Read more.

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Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions
By Peter Kahrel
November 2006 
$9.99 USD

If you need to make automated changes to InDesign documents beyond what basic search and replace can handle, you need regular expressions, and a bit of scripting to make them… Read more.

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LINQ: The Future of Data Access in C# 3.0
By Joe Hummel
October 2006 
$9.99 USD

Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is Microsoft's new technology for powerful, general purpose data access. In this Short Cut you'll learn about LINQ and the proposed C# 3.0 extensions that support… Read more.

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Network Monitoring with Nagios
By Taylor Dondich
October 2006 
$9.99 USD

Network monitoring can be a complex task to implement and maintain in your IT infrastructure. Nagios, an open-source host, service and network monitoring program can help you streamline your network… Read more.

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Getting Acquainted with OPML
By Amy Bellinger
October 2006 
$7.99 USD

You've put off figuring out what Outline Processor Markup Language (OPML) is all about and what it can do, right? We'll bring you into the picture quickly with 14 wide-ranging uses… Read more.

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Windows PowerShell Quick Reference
By Lee Holmes
September 2006 
$12.99 USD

For years, support for scripting and command-line administration on the Windows platform has paled in comparison to the support offered by the Unix platform. Unix administrators enjoyed the immense power… Read more.

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Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON
By Tracy Brown
September 2006 
$9.99 USD

Want to make your Ajax apps more dynamic? This Short Cut shows you how. It covers: Using the Apache 2.2.x framework to build MVC applications incorporating design patterns Building custom Apache… Read more.

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Using Microformats
By Brian Suda
September 2006 
$9.99 USD

Microformats let you share structured information in HTML web pages. Although the information is visible to human readers--as it should be--software can also extract structured information. This Short Cut is… Read more.

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Getting Started with .NET 3.0
By Jesse Liberty, Alex Horovitz
September 2006 
$9.99 USD

Learn how to create more dynamic user experiences and build secure web services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two of the foundational pillars of .NET… Read more.

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Running Mac OS X on Windows
By Wei-Meng Lee
September 2006 
$7.99 USD

Despite Apple's move to Intel's CPU architecture, if you want to run the Mac OS X operating system on your Windows PC, the only logical way to do it is… Read more.

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From Darkroom to Lightroom, Second Edition
By Ken Milburn
September 2006 
$7.99 USD

I couldn't resist the title I gave this Short Cut because it captures Adobe's intention in giving Lightroom its name: Lightroom is a program made expressly for photographers. Although Photoshop… Read more.

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Scripting InDesign with JavaScript
By Peter Kahrel
August 2006 
$9.99 USD

InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when… Read more.

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Ajax and Web Services
By Mark Pruett
August 2006 
$9.99 USD

Ajax and web services are a perfect match for developing web applications. Ajax has built-in abilities to access and manipulate XML data, the native format for almost all REST and… Read more.

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Getting Started with Hibernate 3
By James Elliott
August 2006 
$9.99 USD

Hibernate has clearly arrived. Are you ready to benefit from its simple way of working with relational databases as Java objects? This PDF updates the introductory material from the award-winning… Read more.

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Windows Media Center Wizardry
By Tony Campbell
July 2006 
$7.99 USD

Windows Media Center Wizardy is a guide to getting the most out of a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, delving into the hidden features and extended capabilities… Read more.

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FileMaker 8.5: Integrating the Web
By Susan Prosser
July 2006 
$7.99 USD

FileMaker Pro, famed for power and ease of use, has added a suite of new features that can seriously boost your database productivity. This tutorial helps you take full advantage… Read more.

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Windows for Intel Macs
By Todd Ogasawara
July 2006 
$7.99 USD

Even the most devoted Mac OS X user may need to use Windows XP, or may just be curious about XP and its applications. This Short Cut is a concise… Read more.

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RJS Templates for Rails
By Cody Fauser
June 2006 
$9.99 USD

RJS templates are an exciting and powerful new type of template added to Rails 1.1. Unlike conventional Rails templates that generate HTML or XML, RJS templates generate JavaScript code that… Read more.

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bash Quick Reference
By Arnold Robbins
June 2006 
$9.99 USD

In this quick reference, you'll find everything you need to know about the bash shell. Whether you print it out or read it on the screen, this PDF gives you… Read more.

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Your Life in Web Apps
By Giles Turnbull
June 2006 
$5.99 USD

Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles… Read more.

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How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
June 2006 
$7.99 USD

Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle… Read more.

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Atlas UpdatePanel Control
By Matt Gibbs, Bertrand Le Roy
May 2006 
$9.99 USD

This PDF will teach you how to build richer and more interactive Ajax-style web applications using ASP.NET Atlas, Microsoft's framework that extends ASP.NET 2.0. Atlas provides server controls that make… Read more.

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Web Services on Rails
By Kevin Marshall
May 2006 
$9.99 USD

This PDF will show you how your small business or enterprise can publish its APIs (application programming interface) to a developer community just like the behemoths of the Internet--Google, Yahoo!,… Read more.

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Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP
By Jim Bumgardner
May 2006 
$9.99 USD

Tag clouds are everywhere on the web these days. First popularized by the web sites Flickr, Technorati, and del.icio.us, these amorphous clumps of words now appear on a slew of… Read more.

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Search Engine Optimization
By Harold Davis
May 2006 
$9.99 USD

SEO--short for Search Engine Optimization--is the art, craft, and science of driving web traffic to web sites.Web traffic is food, drink, and oxygen--in short, life itself--to any web-based business. Whether… Read more.

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Running Boot Camp
By Chuck Toporek
April 2006 
$7.99 USD

When Steve Jobs jumped on stage at Macworld San Francisco 2006 and announced the new Intel-based Macs, the question wasn't if, but when someone would figure out a hack to… Read more.

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Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
By Wei-Meng Lee
March 2006 
$7.99 USD

ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and easily deploy your Windows apps via web servers, file servers, or even CDs. This step-by-step guide to using… Read more.

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What Are Syndication Feeds
By Shelley Powers
December 2005 
$7.95 USD

Syndication feeds have become a standard tool on the Web. But when you enter the world of syndicated content, you're often faced with the question of what is the "proper"… Read more.

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All About Your iPod Photo
By Wei-Meng Lee
January 2005 
$5.95 USD

Apple has recently released the iPod photo, a fourth generation (4G) iPod capable of displaying color photos. With its new enhanced color screen, you can now do more than ever… Read more.

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Java vs. .NET Security
By Denis Piliptchouk
June 2004 
$5.95 USD

A practical guide for comparison and contrast of security features offered by Enterprise Java and .NET platforms. Read more.

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