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Best way to teach programming to children? What motivates you to become a programmer? How to activate a Motorola Droid without a Verizon data plan How to measure Facebook activity with the Facebook API and Perl What's new in Photoshop CS5Share knowledge, ask questions on O'Reilly Answers today. O'Reilly Media 2010-06-10T20:58:03-08:10

Google Hiring by the Lake Wobegon Strategy -- having just run some interviews myself, I recognise the wisdom in what they say. Another hiring strategy we use is no hiring manager. Whenever you give project managers responsibility for hiring for their own projects they'll take the best candidate in the pool, even if that candidate is sub-standard for the... Nat Torkington 2010-05-19T07:28:25-08:11

I often write HTML pages or documentation that includes code samples. When the code is presented this way, it's much easier to follow if it features syntax highlighting. I had found a script that could highlight Perl code, and then I realized I needed the same thing for C code as well. I've posted a new script on my web site that inserts HTML markup into source code files to provide colored syntax highlighting. Kyle Dent 2010-04-19T15:58:17-08:12

We're launching the beta of O'Reilly Answers, and I'm inviting you to be part of it. In brief, O'Reilly Answers is a community site for sharing knowledge, asking questions, and providing answers that brings together our customers, authors, editors, conference speakers, and Foo (Friends of O'Reilly). O'Reilly is at the center of an amazing exchange of knowledge sharing and idea generation, and we want you to join us in changing the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. Allen Noren 2009-11-04T09:58:13-08:13

Anatomy of SSDs -- A teeth-rattlingly technical Linux Magazine article explaining the different types of SSDs (Solid State Disks--imagine a hard drive made of rapid-access Flash memory). Artur Bergman told me that installing an SSD drive in his MacBook Pro gave the greatest performance increase of any computer upgrade he'd performed since he went from no computer to one. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Nat Torkington 2009-10-29T08:04:08-08:14

The Programming Language With The Happiest Users (Dolores Labs) -- Dolores Labs asks, "Which languages make programmers the happiest?" In examining recent tweets related to mentions of programming languages and analyzing whether the content of the tweet expressed something positive, neutral or negative about the language, Dolores Labs has concluded that users of certain programming languages are happier than others with their choice of code. You'll be surprised at the results of this interesting study. This and more in today's Four Short Links. Nat Torkington 2009-09-02T18:26:53-08:15

Opening dispatch from OSCon: another look at the effects of Software as a Service on opens source plus awards, APIs, and more. Andy Oram 2009-07-23T16:57:14-08:16

Today I received the following from Tom Christiansen, author of several of our bestselling Perl books, frequent speaker at OSCON, and Perl consultant extraordinaire. He asked that we publish this special news on his behalf. If you're at all interested... Allen Noren 2009-07-23T16:57:14-08:17

Tools to Make You More Efficient David N. Blank-Edelman 2009-05-21T23:50:46-08:19 PRINT or PDF

Detailed Solutions in Eight Programming Languages Steven Levithan, Jan Goyvaerts 2009-05-22T23:50:59-08:18 PRINT or PDF

Design, Perl, Heresy, and Ephemera: Product Panic: 2009 -- Bruce Sterling essay on design for recession-panicked consumers. As is usual with Bruce, I can't tell whether he's wryly tongue-in-cheek or literally advocating what he says. Great panic products are like Roosevelt’s fireside chats. They’re cheery bluff. The standard virtues of fine industrial design—safety, convenience, serviceability, utility, solid construction … well,... Nat Torkington 2009-03-27T20:50:48-08:20

Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. Think along with Adin D. Falkoff (APL), James Gosling (Java), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), and others whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry. You'll find advice you can apply to systems you're developing, even if you don't use the specific languages being discussed. Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden 2009-03-27T23:47:34-08:21 PRINT or PDF

Learning Perl, popularly known as "the Llama," is the book most programmers rely on to get started with Perl. The bestselling Perl tutorial since it was first published in 1993, this new fifth edition covers recent changes to the language up to Perl 5.10. Reflecting years of classroom testing and experience, this edition is packed with exercises that let you practice the concepts while you follow the text. brian d foy, Tom Phoenix, Randal L. Schwartz 2008-06-27T23:48:09-08:22 PRINT

Unearthing the Excellence in JavaScript Douglas Crockford 2008-05-08T14:06:37-08:23 PRINT or INSTANT ACCESS

This handy little book offers programmers a complete overview of the syntax and semantics of regular expressions that are at the heart of every text-processing application. Ideal as a quick reference, Regular Expression Pocket Reference covers the regular expression APIs for Perl 5.8, Ruby (including some upcoming 1.9 features), Java, PHP, .NET and C#, Python, vi, JavaScript, and the PCRE regular expression libraries. Tony Stubblebine 2007-07-18T18:23:51-08:24

This is the third in O'Reilly's series of landmark Perl tutorials, which started with Learning Perl, the bestselling introduction that taught you the basics of Perl syntax, and Intermediate Perl, which taught you how to create re-usable Perl software. Mastering Perl pulls everything together to show you how to bend Perl to your will. brian d foy 2007-07-16T18:23:17-08:25