 Programming Perl is a classic O'Reilly book. O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. They have achieved distinctive branding by featuring a woodcut of an animal on many of their book covers. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (502x659, 112 KB) Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
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Wil Wheaton meets Tim OReilly at the 2003 book-signing of Dancing Barefoot at Powells in Portland, Oregon Tim OReilly (born 1954, Cork, Ireland) is the founder of OReilly Media (formerly OReilly & Associates) and a booster of the free software and open source movements. ...
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Company The company began in 1978 as a private consulting firm doing technical writing, based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts area. In 1984, it began to retain publishing rights on manuals created for Unix vendors. A few 70-page "Nutshell Handbooks" were well-received, but the focus remained on the consulting business until in 1988, when the company was practically mobbed at a conference for its preliminary Xlib manuals, an event which indicated there was an under-served audience for their kind of books. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
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Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Xlib is an X Window System protocol client library in the C programming language. ...
In 1992, when there were only 200 web sites, O'Reilly Media published the first book about the web, devoting a whole chapter to it, in Ed Krol's groundbreaking Whole Internet User's Guide and Catalog (1992). O'Reilly Media also created the first web portal (and the first internet site to do advertising), the Global Network Navigator, or GNN, in 1993. GNN was sold to AOL in 1995 in one of the first big transactions of the dot com boom. WWWs historical logo designed by Robert Cailliau The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is a global, read-write information space. ...
Ed Krol is an important figure in Internet history. ...
The Whole Internet Users Guide & Catalog, by Ed Krol, was published in 1992 by OReilly. ...
The Global Network Navigator was a website established by OReilly & Associates in 1993, making it one of the first commercial websites on the World Wide Web. ...
AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc) is an American-based online service provider, bulletin board system, and media company operated by Time Warner. ...
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In 1997, Programming Perl was one of the top 100 books in any category at Borders during all of 1996 despite a lack of mainstream computer industry recognition. O'Reilly launched a Perl Conference to raise the profile of Perl. Many of the company's other software bestsellers were also on topics that were off the radar of the commercial software industry. So in 1998, O'Reilly invited many of the leaders of these software projects to a meeting. Originally called the freeware summit, the meeting became known as the Open Source Summit because it was at this gathering that the group formally got behind a new term to tell their combined story. The O'Reilly Open Source Convention (which includes the Perl conference) is now one of O'Reilly's flagship events. Other key events include the Emerging Technology Conference and FOO Camp. Programming Perl book cover Programming Perl, best known as the camel book among hackers, is a book about writing programs or scripts using the Perl programming language. ...
Borders Group (sometimes written BORDERS) (NYSE: BGP) is an international bookseller based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ...
Perl, also Practical Extraction and Report Language (a backronym, see below) is a dynamic procedural programming language designed by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ...
Freeware is copyrighted computer software which is made available for use free of charge, for an unlimited time, as opposed to shareware where the user is required to pay after some trial period. ...
The OReilly Emerging Technology Conference (not to be confused with the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference) is OReilly Medias premier conference about the new technologies that are on the OReilly Radar. ...
Foocamp is the annual exclusive, invitation only, no-structure, no plan, tent on the lawns, hacker event hosted by publisher Tim OReilly. ...
The company describes itself as "thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world," and on many topics, computer programmers consider an O'Reilly title to be the definitive book on the topic. While many think of O'Reilly in terms of their popular guides that feature an animal woodcut design on the cover, this is only one of several lines that they publish. Four horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrecht Dürer. ...
Besides publishing, the company hosts many annual conferences, and provides online services for the open source community. Among such conferences are O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in California and O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. The open source movement is an offshoot of the free software movement that advocates open-source software as an alternative label for free software, primarily on pragmatic rather than philosophical grounds. ...
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The OReilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) is an annual convention for the discussion of open source software, such as Linux, MySQL, Perl and Python. ...
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In May 2006, CMP Media, a company that helps O'Reilly Media sponsor their Web 2.0 conference, sent a cease and desist letter to a non-profit in Ireland which was organizing a conference that also had Web 2.0 in its name. Since then it was revealed that CMP Media had filed trademark applications in the United States, the European Union and elsewhere that cover the term Web 2.0 used in titles of conferences and other events. This caused a massive uproar in the blogosphere and resulted in an agreement between CMP and the Irish non-profit.[1] Cease-and-desist is a legal term meaning essentially stop: It is used in demands for a person or organization to stop doing something (to cease and desist from doing it). ...
Books
Animal books For many years the most typical O'Reilly books, the "animal books" are meant as a basic but thorough guide to working with a given technology. There are also subdivisions within the line of "animal" books; for example, O'Reilly recently released a series of Cookbooks that provide prescriptive "recipes" for accomplishing specific tasks with a heavy emphasis on automation and scripting. Examples include the Perl Cookbook (ISBN 1-56592-243-3) and the Exchange Server Cookbook (ISBN 0-596-00717-5). Programming Perl book cover Programming Perl, best known as the camel book among hackers, is a book about writing programs or scripts using the Perl programming language. ...
Learning Perl book cover Learning Perl, also known as the llama book, is a tutorial book for the Perl programming language, and is published by OReilly. ...
Head First The "Head First" series stresses a reader-involving combination of puzzles, jokes, attractive layout and direct-address to immerse the reader in a given topic. An example of a simple jigsaw puzzle. ...
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- Head First Java (ISBN 0-596-00920-8)
- Head First Design Patterns (ISBN 0-596-00712-4)
Hacks The "Hacks" series says it "reclaims the term 'hacking' for the good guys--innovators who explore and experiment, unearth shortcuts, create useful tools, and come up with fun things to try on their own." Google Hacks from OReilly Media. ...
Internet The Whole Internet Users Guide & Catalog, by Ed Krol, was published in 1992 by OReilly. ...
In a Nutshell The "In a Nutshell" series offers compact reference coverage of a technology. Often, a Nutshell book will contain all the commands available for a given technology, or a complete listing of an API of some language or framework, and compress the description of the topics to a more high-level overview. An application programmatic interface (API) is the interface that a computer system, library or application provides in order to allow requests for services to be made of it by other computer programs, and/or to allow data to be exchanged between them. ...
- Unix in a Nutshell (ISBN 1-565-92427-4)
- PC Hardware in a Nutshell (ISBN 1-56592-599-8)
Developer's Notebook The "Developer's Notebook" series aims to mimic the lab notebooks of high school and college science classes, complete with scribbled marginal notes of important thoughts, points, and "gotchas". Describing itself as "all lab, no lecture", books in this series usually show specific tasks in detail, illuminating how they work, but not attempting to provide a complete overview of design, theory, and implementation of a given technology. - JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
- Maven: A Developer's Notebook
Missing Manual The "Missing Manual" series, produced with David Pogue's Pogue Press, claims to be "the book that should have been in the box", providing a broad overview of the functionality of consumer technology. David Pogue is a New York Times technology columnist and author of several books on Macintosh-related topics including Macs for Dummies and Macworld Macintosh Secrets, later Macworld Mac and Power Mac Secrets, an enormous book on the Macintosh, circa 1993. ...
- Mac Os X: The Missing Manual
Cookbook The "Cookbook" series aims to produce book that contain a general set of recipes for a particular technology. Each recipe contains a specific problem, a specific solution, and a discussion about how to apply the solution in a general sense. - PHP Cookbook
- Java Cookbook
- Jakarta Commons Cookbook
Other books O'Reilly sometimes produces books that are not in any particular series, especially when the title is of a manifesto nature. A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political in nature. ...
The company also launched a travel book series, "Traveler's Tales," and spun it out into a separate company. They also published books on health care under the "Patient-Centered Guides" brand, but this series is currently inactive. The Cathedral and the Bazaar (abbreviated CatB) is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on software engineering methods, based on his observations of the Linux kernel development process and his experiences managing an open source project, fetchmail. ...
Travel is the transport of people on a trip or journey. ...
Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions [1]. The organised provision of such services may constitute a healthcare system. ...
Magazines Since 2005, O'Reilly has published a quarterly magazine known as Make: technology on your time. The magazine contains articles on hardware hacking, as well as several technology-related do-it-yourself instructions for hobbyists. 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Make, volume 01. ...
Hardware hacking is a technically-oriented hobby enjoyed by many people around the world. ...
See also: DIY Network, a cable TV network. ...
A hobby is a spare-time recreational pursuit. ...
Former ventures Over the years O'Reilly tried many other types of products. In 1993, they launched one of the first web-based resources, Global Network Navigator, which was later sold to AOL. Around that time, they started two short-lived book lines: one of travel books (including Travelers' Tales Mexico) and one of general business books (including Love Your Job! and Building a Successful Software Business). They produced a line of audio tapes version of the interview show Geek of the Week by Internet Talk Radio. They sold Windows based software for six years, including the first commercially available web server, Web Site. The Global Network Navigator was a website established by OReilly & Associates in 1993, making it one of the first commercial websites on the World Wide Web. ...
AOL LLC (formerly America Online, Inc) is an American-based online service provider, bulletin board system, and media company operated by Time Warner. ...
Online resources O'Reilly's "Safari Bookshelf" makes the complete text of over 3,000 technical books available for online preview or subscription reading. It includes books from Adobe Press, Alpha Books, Cisco Press, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Microsoft Press, New Riders Publishing, O'Reilly, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall, Prentice Hall PTR, Que and Sams Publishing. The "SafariU" service lets educators compile custom textbooks from individual chapters of books in the Safari Bookshelf, and from their own uploaded materials. There is also a "Safari Affiliates" program that lets other web pages link into Safari Bookshelf books, embed Safari search results in web pages or blogs, and gives web services access to the books. Cisco Press is a publishing alliance between Cisco Systems®(NASDAQ: CSCO) and the Pearson Education division of Pearson plc (NYSE: PSO). ...
Microsoft Press is the publishing arm of Microsoft, usually releasing books dealing with various current Microsoft technologies. ...
Peachpit Press is one of the oldest and most prolific computer publishers, responsible for the MacBible series (after the first few editions), the Real World series, the Visual QuickStart (VQS) series, and most of Robin Williamss titles, including The Mac is Not a Typewriter and the Little Mac Book. ...
Pearson can mean Pearson PLC the media conglomerate. ...
QUE or que is a three-letter abbreviation with various meanings:- A common misspelling for queue. ...
The O'Reilly Network is a collection of sites with articles, blogs, and other items of interest to developer and expert user communities. The sites are:
The company also produces dev2dev (a WebLogic-oriented site) in association with BEA, java.net (an open-source community for Java programmers) in association with Sun Microsystems and CollabNet, and O'Reilly Connection with participation from Greenplum. For alternate usages of BEA see Bea (disambiguation) Hawker-Siddeley Trident 1C (G-ARPC), built 1962 and destroyed in a fire at London (Heathrow) Airport in 1975. ...
Sun Microsystems, Inc. ...
CollabNet is a software and services company. ...
Notes - ^ Ivry, Sara, "Squabble Over Name Ruffles a Web Utopia", New York Times, May 29, 2006.
See also Dover Publications is a book publisher founded in 1941. ...
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