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O'Reilly Gets a New Name -- O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. is now O'Reilly Media, Inc. We've changed our name to O'Reilly Media to reflect our expanding array of products and services, from books, conferences, and the suite of O'Reilly Network web sites, to Safari Bookshelf and SafariU. Read more about it in our press release.

#apache: Making Your Web Site More Welcoming -- In this installment of Rich Bowen's series based on conversations on the IRC channel #apache, Rich describes three error condition scenarios and shows what to do to create a more welcoming, less "Forbidden" web site for users. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Cookbook.

Safari Bucks Industry EBook Trend -- This EContent Magazine article explores why Safari Bookshelf, the premier electronic reference library for IT professionals and programmers, is succeeding in the ebooks market where so many others have failed. If you're not familiar with Safari, try a free trial subscription.

JOLT Award for O'Reilly Network -- Daniel Steinberg, editor of ONJava.com and java.net, writes about this year's JOLT Product Excellence Awards where Head First Java was a finalist in the technical books category, and O'Reilly Network won a productivity award in the category of Websites and Developer Networks. Read about the winners.

CSS: Basic Visual Formatting -- With a thorough grasp of how the visual rendering model works in CSS, you can determine if a behavior is a correct (if unexpected) consequence of the rendering engine CSS defines, or if you've stumbled across a bug. Learn the theoretical underpinnings of visual rendering in CSS from Chapter 7 of Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.

Your O'Reilly Account: New, Single Sign On -- O'Reilly customers and guests now have a single address and one password to access all things O'Reilly, from oreilly.com and Safari Bookshelf to all of the O'Reilly Network sites and DevCenters. When possible, we've consolidated your prior, separate accounts into one new account. Logging into the new system is quick and easy; details on how to do it have been emailed to you, and you can read more about O'Reilly's single sign on in Tony Stubblebine's weblog.

A Day in the Life of #Apache: The History of mod_imap -- In this latest installment in the series based on his conversations on the IRC channel #apache, Rich Bowen takes you on a trip through the history of mod_imap, and why some modules hang around long after they're no longer in use. Rich is a coauthor of O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.

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The Internet and Politics on Sunday Morning -- Author and columnist David Pogue appeared on CBS News Sunday Morning, speaking about the Internet's effect on this year's U.S. presidential election, a topic that was the subject of last month's O'Reilly Digital Democracy Teach-In.

Amazon and Open Source -- Amazon realized early on that amazon.com was more than just a book site, more in fact than just an e-commerce site. It was becoming an e-commerce platform. Open source has been a key part of the Amazon story, and although Amazon has closed code, it has created its own "architecture of participation" that may be even richer than that of many open source software development communities. Tim shares his thoughts in the latest Ask Tim.

Enabling and Disabling Apache Modules -- In the latest installment of "A Day in the Life of #Apache," a series based on conversations from the #apache IRC channel, Rich Bowen delves into the sometimes confusing world of modules, looking at when to enable and disable them, and why. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Cookbook.

Cooking with Apache, Part 3 -- Authors Rich Bowen and Ken Coar solve problems related to authentication, symbolic links, and the ever-troublesome trailing slash, in this third and final batch of sample recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.

Things Squid Administrators Should Know -- New users often struggle with the same frustrating set of idiosyncrasies involved in learning Squid, the popular web caching software. Here are six things you should know about using Squid from the get-go, from Duane Wessels, creator of Squid and author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.

Cooking with Apache, Part 2 -- Learn how to make part of your web site available via SSL; how to place a CGI program in a directory that contains non-CGI documents; and how to redirect a 404 ("not found") page to another page, in these latest sample recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.

#Apache: Configuring Virtual Hosts -- They may be the most documented feature of Apache, but virtual hosts are still confusing and tend not to work the way people expect. In this installment of "A Day in the Life of #Apache," Rich Bowen tackles the most frequent misunderstandings, as well as a few of the more common virtual host misconfigurations. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Cookbook.