Amazon's Top 10 Editors' Picks -- Two O'Reilly titles have made the cut in Amazon's 2003 Top 10 "Computers & Internet" books: Head First Java ranks in at number seven, and the favorite book of the year is Google Hacks.

More Spidering Hacks -- Learn how to grab--or scrape--the information you need, whether it's the link count for a particular Yahoo! category, or the quick answer for the word that's on the tip of your tongue, in these sample hacks from O'Reilly's Spidering Hacks.

A Day in the Life of #Apache -- Rich Bowen spends a lot of time fielding questions on the IRC channel, #apache. In the first of a series of articles based on those conversations, Rich chronicles a user's troubles getting his .htaccess file working, and he shows what you can do to solve the problem. Rich is a coauthor of Apache Cookbook.

Five XSLT Basics -- This article by Michael Fitzgerald introduces newbies to the five basics of XSLT 1.0, from what it is to how to get it to work--information you'll also find in the first chapter of Michael's book, Learning XSLT.

Spidering Hacks -- Want to save time as well as extra trips to your favorite web sites? Here are two hacks--the first on using Template::Extract, a Perl module that allows you to scrape a web page to generate RSS feeds; and the second on using a program called dailystrips to grab all your favorite online comic strips in one HTML file--excerpted from the recently released Spidering Hacks.

Using JPEG2000 -- Is JPEG2000 the killer image file format for lossless storage? Ken Milburn thinks so. Ken details the options available in the JPEG2000 plugin, which were designed to help photographers losslessly compress and store their highest-quality images as efficiently as possible. Ken is the author of the upcoming Digital Photographer's Handbook.

PHP Web Services Without SOAP -- Adam Trachtenberg demonstrates how to access Amazon Web Services (AWS) with PHP and REST; no special tools needed. Adam is a coauthor of PHP Cookbook.

Apache SOAP Quick Start -- Looking for a quick-start introduction to using Apache SOAP? Chapter 3 of Web Services Essentials includes installation instructions, a client/service application for demonstrating basic SOAP RPC coding, an overview of deploying and managing SOAP services, and tips for viewing live SOAP conversations. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

Fail-Safe Amazon Images -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows anyone with coding skills to create applications using Amazon's data, including its images. But relying on someone else's data on someone else's servers introduces challenges. Learn how to display Amazon product images in a dependent, distributed application, from Paul Bausch, author of Amazon Hacks.

Spidering Hacks, releasing this month, gives you expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll learn spidering concepts, tools, and ethics, along with how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it, and build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. Beta Hacks are online now.

Why the Hacks Series -- Why is O'Reilly publishing its new Hacks Series? Editor Rael Dornfest says that bringing the hacker ethic, the air of enthusiastic participation, to the consumer is what the series is all about. Find a hack, submit a hack, and see what Hacks books are currently available at hacks.oreilly.com.

Google Code Jam 2003 -- Google's programmers face some tough coding challenges. If you're motivated by impossible demands and looming deadlines, register for this programming competition. Great code is its own reward, but there will also be cash prizes. In the meantime, brush up on your hacking skills with O'Reilly's Google Hacks.

Cooking with ActionScript, Part 2 -- Learn how to pause and resume a sound, save a local shared object, and search XML, in these sample recipes from ActionScript Cookbook.

Top Ten Tips for Developing CFCs -- ColdFusion Components allow you to move from totally procedural development to a more object-oriented approach. Here are ten tips to keep in mind when developing with CFCs, from Robert Brooks-Bilson, author of Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition.

Changing the Content of Multiple Frames at Once -- A single button or hyperlink can change the content of two or more frames in a frameset. Find out how in this recipe from JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook. There are hundreds of power user recipes in this book, all presented in a problem/solution/discussion format. Get a free trial to read it and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

Hacking eBay -- Learn three ways to hack the view of eBay from your browser in these sample hacks from eBay Hacks.

Create Desktop Applications with Java-Based Web Technologies -- Will Iverson provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for building a point-and-shoot installer for a basic web application using Apache Jakarta Tomcat and a combination of free tools and various Apache-license projects. Will is speaking at the upcoming O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference.

Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application -- Flash programmers: Tom Muck offers ten tips for building a Flash Remoting application that will help you deliver the most efficient RIA (Rich Internet Application) possible. Tom is the author of the upcoming Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide.

An Interview with Paul Bausch -- Listen in on this IT Conversations interview with Paul Bausch, the author of Amazon Hacks. Paul talks about topics covered in the book, including the Amazon Associates program, and the Amazon Wish List, both of which you can read about in the latest sample hacks.