Joomla is a very easy-to-use content management system. There’s also plenty of information on the internet about all aspects of its use. Yet this book is still very welcome, at least for those who’d like to know more about Joomla 1.5 and 1.6…

Details: Price £38.50 Author Tim Riley & Adam Goucher Publisher O’Reilly ISBN 978-0596159818 Contrary to popular belief, open source software isn’t written by a couple of disorganised hippies who live in San Jose in California. Many hundreds of thousands of people sit around using the ...

In the preface, the author explains that his desire to write the book came from discovering a lack of published literature on the subject…

Virtualisation has become a big industry. Large numbers of desktop machines and servers are being run in this way. So it’s not surprising that there is a high demand for more information for the end user about virtualisation and what can be done with it…

To some people the idea of parsing text data in GNU/Linux or UNIX might not sound like a worthwhile way of doing things. However, this is the kind of administrational task that a lot of system administrators and programmers perform every day of the week. Flex and Bison have proven ...

Linux System Administration Recipes is an easy-to-understand problem-solving book by an experienced system administrator, says Richard Ibbotson...

There are some technical publications which are just like some novels in that you either don't want to put them down or you don't want to stop reading them. When O'Reilly first published their GNU/Linux series of books Linux in a Nutshell and Running Linux were quickly seen to be ...

Written by Keir Thomas, a former editor of Linux User & Developer magazine, this is a very handy guide for beginners. If you are new to GNU/Linux, you are most likely using Ubuntu Linux for your desktop.