Rails is one of the leading frameworks for developing the new generation of Web 2.0 applications using the increasingly popular Ruby scripting language. This new Cookbook title is for all web developers, regardless of experience, who want learn about the fastest growing web application framework on the market. (more…)

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Samba, the Server Message Block (SMB) server software that makes it relatively easy to integrate Unix or Linux servers into networks of Microsoft Windows workstations, has to date been mostly explained as an afterthought. Most often, it’s appeared in the latter chapters of books about Linux. It deserves better, and the authors of Using Samba have delivered exactly that. (more…)

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SQL is the ANSI-standard language for accessing and manipulating relational databases. Anyone (programmers, administrators, or designers) who work with a relational databases need to understand the SQL language. While most books on the market do not properly cover the basics, this book differs: it explains fundamentals in detail, supported by realistic examples.You will gain full competence to define, access, and manipulate data in an Oracle database. (more…)

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Many Java developers tend to treat Oracle as a “black box”; as a consequence, developers tend to write incorrect, non-scalable code. If you don’t intimately know how Oracle works and expects you to program, you might avoid Oracle extensions to the (more…)

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