Some of these might be of interest to the list members...<br><br>Sean<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Marsee Henon</b> <<a href="mailto:marsee@oreilly.com">
marsee@oreilly.com</a>><br>Date: May 30, 2006 1:07 PM<br>Subject: UG News--Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides<br></span><br><br>Good. Fast. Cheap. O'Reilly Launches PDF Guides<br><br>As part of O'Reilly Media's commitment to delivering vital technology
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In recent years, web services have become increasingly useful to smaller<br>web site developers. Thanks to standards like SOAP and XML-RPC as well as<br>frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, developers can easily create web service
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