NEWS

New Course Featuring AJAX O’Reilly/University of Illinois Certificate Series O’Reilly Learning is proud to announce their new Client-Side Web Programming Certificate Series, which provides a complete understanding of front-end web development, from HTML and CSS, to JavaScript DOM and AJAX.

http://oreillylearning.com/courses/clientsidecert.php3

BOOKS Beware of Vista "Craplets" When Windows Vista finally ships in a few weeks, don’t expect your PC to run fast and trouble-free, warns Microsoft officials — depending on the PC you buy, it may be weighed down with "craplets." What can you do about it? Check my blog for details. http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/bewareofvista_craplets.html

Windows Developer Tools Day: Join the Celebration by Blogging About Your Favorite Tool To celebrate the tools that make Windows developers lives easier O’Reilly has declared January 19th to be Windows Developer Tools Day. It’s an ad hoc and spontaneous effort on our part to draw attention to the growing number of free and open source software (FOSS) tools that support developers who do their work on the Windows platforms. Blog about your favorite tool, post a copy, or describe a tool you want to see, then tell us about it. For more details, see John Osborn’s blog. http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/announcingwindowsdeveloper_t.html

Also, O’Reilly is launching a new title, "Windows Developer Power Tools," by Jim Holmes and James Avery, which documents more than 170 of the FOSS tools available today for Windows. Check it out at this URL:http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527549/

Upgrading a Cheap PC to Windows Vista Ultimate Edition: Surprises Abound! Think Windows Vista will only run on high-end hardware? Think again. Todd Ogasawara installed Windows Vista Ultimate Edition on a cheap home PC that doesn’t even have a dedicated video card — it has a system board graphics chip set that uses 128 MB of shared video RAM (from the 1 GB RAM installed). You’ll be surprised at what he found out. http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/01/upgradingacheappcto_window.html

Join us February 27 for the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony Conference. ETel compares and contrasts web telephony technology, business, and culture, articulating how they conspire and inform consumers, creators, and purveyors. ETel gets rid of the hype and "conventional wisdom" of the past, presenting a whole new way of looking at the industry for newcomers and established players alike.

And to ease the winter chill, register today with code etel07fnf40 for a 40% friends and family discount.

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/50/register.html