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.

Win a Free Copy of eBay Hacks -- Participate in this eBay Hacks promotion, and you're automatically eligible to win a free autographed copy of eBay Hacks. All registered eBay users currently residing in the United States or Canada can win. Simply place the little "Powered by eBay Hacks" button on your eBay auctions, then, every week, a listing that contains the button will be selected from a random search. If your auction is chosen, you'll win a free copy of eBay Hacks.

#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.

Brian Behlendorf: Open Source Luminary -- Writing for The Mercury News, Dan Gillmor profiles some of Silicon Valley's lesser-known business leaders and innovative technologists. Among them is Brian Behlendorf, the man who brought us Apache and the Apache Software Foundation, and the CTO of CollabNet.

O'Reilly Partners with No Starch, Paraglyph, and Syngress -- We're pleased to announce a collaboration between like-minded companies: As of January 1, 2004, O'Reilly is the North American distributor for three innovative small presses: No Starch Press, Paraglyph Press, and Syngress Publishing. O'Reilly will handle retail and direct sales, warehousing, and shipping, as well as provide direct marketing and PR support for these publishers with whom our philosophies are aligned. We invite you to give them a close look.

Understanding Cryptography -- Using cryptography, you can transform messages and other data so they are unintelligible to anyone who does not possess a specific mathematical key necessary to unlock the message. Chapter 7 of Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition explains the basics. Get a free trial to read this and four other O'Reilly books on Safari.

Gastronomy for Geeks -- Pizza, Twinkies, and Jolt are geek haute cuisine for a stereotypical few. Many of you know the difference between au jus and baba ghanoush, and that Thai shish kabob isn't called saut辿. So, you Geek Gourmets, come share your favorite recipes, and see what your peers are cooking.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.