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RSS and Atom

Dave Johnson, author of RSS and Atom in Action

Features include RSS 2.0 Feed Elements, Atom 1.0 Feed Elements, The Metaweblog API, The Blogger API, The Atom Protocol, Hot Tips and more.

GlassFish Application Server

Masoud Kalali

Features include Installing GlassFish, GlassFish Domains Profile, Common Administration Tasks, Create a JMS Resource, Clustering and Load Balancing, Hot Tips and more.

IntelliJ IDEA

Hamlet D'Arcy

Features include basics of navigating and understanding IDEA, Running and Debugging Your Project, Write Less Code, Hot Tips and more...

Silverlight 2

Chad A. Campbell, author of Silverlight 2 in Action

Features include the Silverlight Plug-in, Calling Managed Code from JavaScript, Using Managed Code to Manage the HTML DOM, Accessing the User’s Browser Window, Hot Tips and more.

Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2

Peter Armstrong, author of Flexible Rails: Flex 3 on Rails 2

Features include Overview of Rails 2, Overview of Flex 3, Flex 3 and Rails 2 Together, Building a Flex + Rails Application, Hot Tips and more.

Design Patterns

Jason McDonald

Features include class diagrams, explanation, usage information, and a real world example.

jQuery Selectors

Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz, authors of "jQuery in Action"

Features include Types of jQuery Selectors, Basic CSS Selectors, Positional Selectors, Custom jQuery Selectors, Hot Tips and more...

Dependency Injection in EJB 3

Debu Panda, author of "EJB 3 in Action"

Features include Dependency Injection in EJB 3, Resource Injection, Injection of EJB References, Injecting JPA Resources, Using Spring with EJB 3, Hot Tips and more..."Compact and extremely useful reference from one of the world's foremost authorities on EJB 3." --Reza Rahman 

Windows PowerShell

Bruce Payette, author of Windows PowerShell in Action

Features The Language, Operators, Basic Tasks—Text and Files, Types and Objects, Building Custom Objects, Hot Tips and more..."This is a very good concept, and will be useful to people new to PowerShell." --Marco Shaw, MVP - Windows Server – Admin Frameworks

Spring Configuration

by Craig Walls, author of "Spring In Action"

Features Dependency Injection in a Nutshell, Configuring Spring with XML, Namespaces, Annotations, Hot Tips and more..."From a value and accuracy perspective, this card is spot on." --Ryan Breidenbach

Getting Started with Eclipse

by Adam Houghton & Ed Burnette, author of "Eclipse In Action"

Features Getting Eclipse, Workbench 101, Development with Eclipse, Keyboard Shortcuts, Plug-ins, Community Web Sites, Hot Tips and more... 

Getting Started with Ajax

by Dave Crane, author of "Ajax In Action"

Features Getting to Know HTTP, Tips for Using XHR, Ajax and Architecture, Ajax Toolkits, Ajax User Interfaces, Hot Tips and more... 

GWT Style, Configuration and JSNI Reference

by Robert Hanson, author of "GWT In Action"

Features Official GWT Web Sites, Styling Widgets with CSS, GWT Module Configuration, JavaScript Native Interface, Hot Tips and more...