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Welcome to Techotopia

Techotopia is a library of free on-line IT books covering a wide range of topics including operating systems, programming, scripting, system administration, databases, networking and much more. The IT Essentials series of books are designed to provide detailed information that is accessible to both experienced and novice readers. Each on-line book contains everything that is needed to gain proficiency in the corresponding technology subject area.

Latest Books

	It is not an exaggeration to say that MySQL has brought the power of a fully featured, scalable relation database management system into the reach of anyone with a computer and the desire to build a data driven application or web site. With this goal in mind, MySQL Essentials is designed to provide a step by step path to proficiency with MySQL. Beginning with the basics of relational databases and the installation of MySQL, the book goes on to cover everything needed to successfully build, maintain and secure MySQL based databases. Read this book>>
	Fedora Linux Essentials provides detailed information on the use and administration of Fedora Linux. The book covers the basics of configuring the desktop environment, resolving screen resolution issues and configuring the email client to send and receive email messages via web based services such as GMail. Installation topics such as dual booting with Microsoft Windows and configuring wireless networking are covered together with all important security topics such as configuring a firewall. For the experienced user, configuring email and web servers, Xen virtualization, Secure Shell (SSH), remote desktop access and file sharing are described in detail. Read This Book>>
	Visual Basic Essentials is intended to provide everything the aspiring Visual Basic programmer needs to get up to speed with this language. Chapters include the installation of Visual Studio, Variable and Constant types, looping and flow control, Visual Basic string manipulation, form designing, database access, working with arrays, graphics drawing and much, much more. Read this book>>

Featured Books

	Ubuntu Linux Essentials provides the knowledge required to use and maintain an Ubuntu Linux system. From the basics of installation, configuring the desktop and implementing wireless networking through to tasks such as configuring firewalls, setting up a web server and providing remote desktop access via an SSH tunnel, Ubuntu Linux Essentials takes a step by step approach to installing, using and administering Ubuntu Linux. Read This Book>>
	JavaScript Essentials provides detailed information enabling web site designers to utilize this powerful scripting language quickly and effectively to build interactive, dynamic web sites. This book provides detailed and in-depth knowledge of all aspects of JavaScript from language basics through to advanced topics. This book is designed to provide a detailed and comprehensive, yet easy to follow, guide to developing powerful, dynamic web pages using JavaScript. It could be said that the object of JavaScript Essentials is to provide you with everything you need to use JavaScript, and nothing that you don't. Read This Book>>
	PHP Essentials is intended to cover all aspects of PHP. It begins by covering the history of PHP before providing a high level overview of how PHP works and why it is so useful to web developers. It then moves on to cover each area of PHP in detail, from the basics of the scripting language through to object oriented programming, file and filesystem handling and MySQL and SQLite database access. In addition, chapters are also provided covering the creation and handling of HTML based forms and maintaining state using cookies and PHP sessions. All topics are accompanied by extensive real world examples intended to bring theory to life. Read This Book>>
	Coming Soon - Scheduled for completion in November 2007, the Ruby Essentials on-line book is designed to provide a detailed, yet easy to follow guide to developing with Ruby covering both the basic, and more advanced aspects of this powerful language.