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Lara Croft back in new 'Tomb Raider'

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/06/20/tomb.raider.anniversary/ind...

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Genius Grigori Perelman shuns fame, lives with mum and is a fine example, says robert matthews

He looks like someone who lives in a box begging from strangers. The truth is hardly less downbeat: unemployed Grigori Perelman (right) lives in penury with his mum in a St Petersburg flat.

IEEE Computer Society Conference Calendar

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Last year Yahoo CEO Terry Semel's pay package totaled nearly $108 million, including 6.8 million in stock options, according to shareholder advisory group Institutional Shareholder Services, cited in a New York Times report Tuesday. The company said Semel's pay last year was worth $39.8 million, according to the company's recent proxy statement.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/06/12/technology/yahoo_stockholders/index.htm

Version Control with Subversion

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Book description

Version Control with Subversion introduces the powerful new versioning tool designed to be the successor to CVS. An introduction to Subversion is followed by a guided tour of its capabilities. Later chapters cover more complex topics of branching, repository administration, and other advanced features. If you've never used version control, you'll find everything you need to get started. And if you're a seasoned CVS pro, it will help you make a painless leap into Subversion.

Data Crunching Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.

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Programmers always need to move data around, to translate it from one format to another, or extract useful information from it. This book shows the best approaches to "crunching" data in several programming languages; all widely-used data formats are covered, including plain text, XML, relational, and binary data.

Ferret

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PDF description

With the introduction of Ferret, Ruby users now have one of the fastest and most flexible search libraries available. And it's surprisingly easy to use.

Mongrel

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PDF description

Web Services on Rails

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This PDF will show you how your small business or enterprise can publish its APIs (application programming interface) to a developer community just like the behemoths of the Internet--Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon. We'll look at how Ruby on Rails makes building web service clients and servers simple and fun. Along the way, we'll give working examples and code details so you can see just how everything works.

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Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle

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