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Preface In 1999 I began experimenting with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and immediately became frustrated by lack of documentation. I set out to write the book that I needed, and I believe that I accomplished that goal. After teaching instructional courses on LDAP for the...

Introduction In April 20II, United States Special Forces descended on the hideout of Osama bin Laden, leader of the terrorist group al-Qaida. The ensuing raid killed bin Laden after over a decade of living in hiding and directing attacks by his followers. So who knew where he was located? The...

In 2004, when O'Reilly Media, John Battelle, and CMP announced the Web 2.0 Conference (later renamed the Web 2.0 Summit), we had no idea that we'd be naming the next big thing in the computer industry. The original premise of the Web 2,0 name was much simpler than that. In 2001, after the dot-com...