books: open source ...     books:       Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing13 reviews Andrew M. St. Laurent O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 A Worthwhile Introduction to Open Source Licensing Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing Andrew M. St. Laurent http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/osfreesoft/ When sharing with others that I was reviewing an O'Reilly book through their User Group & Professional Association Program, the first question was always the same: "What book are you reviewing?" After saying the title was "Understanding Open Source & Free Software Licensing", ...             Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach4 reviews Markus Neteler, Helena Mitasova Springer, 2007 An excelent book for beginners I bought this book because I needed to use GRASS and R to produce maps with the results of statistical analysis. Though I am an experienced programmer, I had never used R neither any GIS. The tutorials available on the Internet were enough to learn R, but GRASS was a brick wall. After reading and trying the examples until page 200, I found myself able to work with raster and vectorial maps. ...             The Open Source Alternative: Understanding Risks and Leveraging Opportunities1 review Heather J. Meeker Wiley, 2008 Stands Apart Three different domains - technology, law and business - intersect in the world of open source software and Meeker's book manages to address each of the three at an expert level while still synthesizing the larger issues relevant to everyone in the field. While the topic of open source has generated a flood of commentary, the type of careful and reasoned analysis offered in this book is in ...             Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project13 reviews Karl Fogel O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Excellent logistical guide for any software project Issues specific to Open Source are well-covered in this book. I found the section titled "Handling Difficult People" especially useful; his advice in this dodgy area is to act eloquent and keep feedback directed at the problem, not the person. If the person *is* the problem, nip in-public issues in the bud and contact the person directly to resolve the personal issue(s). Fogel presents lots of ...             Beginning MapServer: Open Source GIS Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)4 reviews Bill Kropla Apress, 2005 Very good practical guide for mapserver The book is written in a very clear way and goes to the point explaining mapserver thru examples, it should be a reference book for those, that are starting with mapserver, but it lacks a proper cover of raster layers and WCS. Interresting is that the prefered database used, is not PosGIS but MySQL (normally MySQL is pushed aside by PostGIS in spatial databases projects) this was a pleasent ...             Open Source Licensing: Software Freedom and Intellectual Property Law8 reviews Lawrence Rosen Prentice Hall PTR, 2004 Great for reference When I recieved this book I was excited, finally I could read a book which would help my brain really understand all the licenses! I sat down to read it, and was impressed with how the author took the popular licenses and broke them down into more easily understandable. I mean, they *are* fairly straight forward, but the author gets into what they actually mean in legal terms, and that's ...             The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development (The Essential Guide) Aral Balkan, John Grden, ... friends of ED, 2008 Explore the world of open source Flash and discover which tools are available. Learn how to identify which tool you need and how to best fit it into your workflow. Step-by-step walk-throughs guide you through development with the most popular open source Flash tools. Written by the project leads and open source Flash aficionados. The Essential Guide to Open Source Flash Development is a practical development guide to creating ...             The Success of Open Source10 reviews Steven Weber Harvard University Press, 2005 A Real Page Turner I'm a commercial software developer, and found the author's history of the UNIX culture and the story of its evolution into what we now call Open Source to be fascinating. That alone made it a good read for me. Add in the thought provoking analysis of the "whys" (the real point of this book), and it's a killer combo. Warning: the book is *full* of sentences like "Pluralism at many different ...             Penetration Tester's Open Source Toolkit, Volume 2 Chris Hurley Syngress, 2007 Penetration testing a network requires a delicate balance of art and science. A penetration tester must be creative enough to think outside of the box to determine the best attack vector into his own network, and also be expert in using the literally hundreds of tools required to execute the plan. This second volume adds over 300 new pentesting applications included with BackTrack 2 to the pen tester's toolkit. It includes the latest information ...             Open Source for the Enterprise: Managing Risks, Reaping Rewards4 reviews Dan Woods, Gautam Guliani O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 A rational approach to open source adoption... All too often, the discussion about using open source software in an organization takes on an emotional or political tone. And since most information about open source decisions tends to feed that emotion, it's nice to find a book that tries to look at the subject from a rational perspective. This book does a very good job of that... Open Source For The Enterprise by Dan Woods and Gautam ...             Open Source Fuzzing Tools Noam Rathaus, Gadi Evron Syngress, 2007 Fuzzing is often described as a black box software testing technique. It works by automatically feeding a program multiple input iterations in an attempt to trigger an internal error indicative of a bug, and potentially crash it. Such program errors and crashes are indicative of the existence of a security vulnerability, which can later be researched and fixed. Fuzz testing is now making a transition from a hacker-grown tool to a ...             Open Source Database Driven Web Development: A Guide for Information Professionals (Information Professional) Isaac Hunter Dunlap Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd, 2006 The Author: Isaac Hunter Dunlap is an experienced web developer who has created numerous database driven applications with Open Source technology. He is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Systems at Western Illinois University Libraries. Summary: Almost every organization seeks a simple means of managing, publishing and/or providing searchable web access to information. Written by a knowledgeable web developer, this ...             PHP 5: Your visual blueprint for creating open source, server-side content (Visual Blueprint)3 reviews Toby Boudreaux Visual, 2005 Friendly and Practical Reference Programming books tend to fall into two categories, learn by example and reference books. If you are new to programming, it's generally easier to start learning by example suspending your knowledge of everything a language can do in favor of examining a few simple scripts to learn the basics. Once you have written a number of small scripts, a good reference book can guide you in writing more ...             Open Source Security Tools: Practical Guide to Security Applications, A (Bruce Perens' Open Source Series)9 reviews Tony Howlett Prentice Hall PTR, 2004 Outstanding Survey of Open Source Security Tools This book is an excellent resource to help readers understand what open source tools are available to address every dimension of securing a computing infrastructure. What I liked best about this book is that it did not assume an already-existing base of knowledge in the reader. Other books present information that assumes the reader already understands the topic, and therefor only needs the ...             Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System (Using)6 reviews Jason Cole, Helen Foster O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 Excellent resource An excellent introduction to Moodle -- a course management system I'm teaching myself. Yes, much of the information is available online at the Moodle site, but I'm a person who would rather look through a book as opposed to clicking links online and printing what I require.             Open Sources 2.0: The Continuing Evolution3 reviews Chris DiBona, Mark Stone, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Interesting read on different facets of open source movement This collection of essays on the open source movement could be called a second edition to the book "Open Sources: Voices from the Revolution" that was published in 1999. That book spent much space trying to argue that the open source movement was legitimate and here to stay. That argument has long since been settled, so this book takes up the current and future trends of the open source movement. ...             Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (O'Reilly Open Source)22 reviews Chris DiBona, Sam Ockman, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 1999 A fascinating read All the essays are well written, enjoyable, informative and a great read. Anyone interested in open source software, where S/W development might be going and Unix/Linux/GNU software in particular, should read this book. One or two essays showing their age, but still worth every penny. Buy it, read it, then encourage your friends to read it as well.             How Open Is the Future?: Economic, Social & Cultural Scenarios Inspired by Free & Open-Source Software ... ASP-VUB Press, 2008 With the rise of the internet and the growing concern over intellectual property, this study provides an open, constructive platform for a wide range of lawyers, artists, journalists, and activists to discuss their views on the future of free and open-source software. By exchanging both complementary and conflicting opinions, the contributors look ahead to the evolution, prospects, and issues of sharing knowledge and ideas through technology.             Open Source Information: The Missing Dimension of Intelligence (Csis Report) Arnaud De Borchgrave, Thomas Sanderson, ... Center for Strategic & International Studies, 2006             Building Open Source Network Security Tools: Components and Techniques24 reviews Mike Schiffman Wiley, 2002 The open source security scene needs more books like this Books on hacking, cracking, exploiting, and breaking software seem to get all of the attention in the security world. However, we need more works like Mike Schiffman's 'Building Open Source Network Security Tools' (BOSNST). I regret having waited so long to read BOSNST, but I'm glad I did. Schiffman's book is for people who want to build, not break, software, and the way he describes how to ...              search for books alternative, applications, beginning, blueprint, components, continuing, crosstalks, development, dimension, enterprise, evolution, information, intellectual, intelligence, leveraging, management, mapserver, open-source, opportunities, penetration, practical, producing, professional, professionals, revolution, scenarios, server-side, successful, techniques, understanding books:    randomly chosen book: The New Unger's Bible Handbook we recommend Excellent logistical guide for any software project Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox