[LUGSB] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 25
lugsb
lugsb at ic.sunysb.edu
Wed Apr 30 14:12:38 EDT 2003
We get this newsletter once a month now that we are part of the
O'Reilly User Group Program. It gets sent to the club email
account (lugsb at ic.sunysb.edu) and I'll forward it to the list
from there. Enjoy.
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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
To: lugsb at ic.sunysb.edu
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 25
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:41:45 -0700
O'Reilly User Group Program
Newsletter
April 25, 2003
Please share this information with your members...
Highlights This Week:
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Book News
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-Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
-JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
-Programming .NET Components
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Upcoming Events
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-Author Matthew Gast ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The
Definitive
Guide"), Networld+Interop, Las Vegas, NV--Apr 28-May 1
-JavaRanch Online Author Forum--May 13-16, 2003
-Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) is on the road May 14 & 15
to
Dallas, TX and Salt Lake City, UT
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Conferences
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-The Perl Conference at OSCON
-Coming to OSCON on a Budget?
-O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation--
Deadline is May 14
-Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner,
Get a Free Book
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Safari
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-"Go On Safari" winner--Casey Milford, Conway Perl Mongers
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News
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-PC World: Tech Books to Enter Public Domain
-Wired: Where Real Cyber Worlds Collide
-"Amazon Hacks" Announced
-Swarms and Mobs at This Year's ETech
-Twisted Python
-Secure Programming Techniques
-How Java Web Servers Work
-Using PL/SQL Records in SQL Statements
-Isolated Storage Basics
-At Microsoft's Mercy
-Online Magazines with Apache Cocoon
-NetNewsWire and Spring Earn Top Awards
-Power Tunes Playback
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News From Your Peers
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-Bay Area Web Services User Group Meeting, San Francisco,
CA
--April 29
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Book News
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Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book
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***Group purchases with better discounts are available***
Please let me know if you are interested.
Press releases are available on our press page:
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***Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
Order Number: 5466
"Samba Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition" covers Samba 2.x
and the most
important features of 3.0, which was under development as this
book
went to print. New 3.0 options covered in this pocket reference
include
Samba's acting as a primary domain controller and as a
domain member
server, its support for the use of Windows NT/2000/XP
authentication
and filesystem security on the host Unix system, and access to
shared
files and printers from Unix clients. System administrators who
are
familiar with Samba and want a handy reminder of how to
administer it
will find this pocket reference invaluable.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sambapr2/
***JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook
Order Number: 4672
This new Cookbook answers the question "How do I. . . ?" with
a
comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical
examples. The book's more than 150 recipes range from
simple tasks,
such as manipulating strings and validating dates in
JavaScript, to
entire libraries that demonstrate complex tasks, such as
cross-browser
positioning of HTML elements and table sorting. Learn
practical and
sensible applications of scripting, along with how and why it all
works. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jvdhtmlckbk/
Chapter 10, "Page Navigation Techniques," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jvdhtmlckbk/chapter/index.html
***Programming .NET Components
Order Number: 3471
"Programming .NET Components" offers a complete
introduction to the new
Microsoft .NET component model, focusing on the aspects of
.NET that
make it ideal for building reusable, maintainable, and robust
components. The book covers the intricacies and related
system issues
of .NET application development, along with design guidelines,
tips,
best practices, and known pitfalls.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetcomp/
Chapter 1, "Introducing Component-Oriented Programming," is
available
online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetcomp/chapter/index.html
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Upcoming Events
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***Author Matthew Gast ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The
Definitive
Guide") Networld+Interop, Las Vegas, NV--Apr 28-May 1
Matthew is instructing the iLabs wireless LAN security class at
Networld+Interop. The class is open to anyone, not just
registered
conference attendees.
For more information:
http://www.interop.com/
***JavaRanch Online Author Forum--May 13-16, 2003
Authors Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner ("Java Extreme
Programming
Cookbook") mosey into the JavaRanch for four days,
answering questions
and responding to Forum topics. On the last day, four winners
will be
randomly selected from all forum participants to win a copy of
the
book. http://www.javaranch.com/bookpromo.jsp
***Author Ron Hitchens ("Java NIO") is on the road May 14 &
15 to
Dallas, TX and Salt Lake City, UT
Ron will be speaking to Java Metroplex User's Group in Dallas
on May 14
and to the Utah Java User group in Salt Lake City on May 15.
Java Metroplex User's Group
For current meeting location and to RSVP go to:
http://www.javamug.org/
Utah Java User Group
For current meeting location go to:
http://www.ujug.org/index.html
For more events, please see:
http://events.oreilly.com/
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Conference News
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***The Perl Conference at OSCON
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2003/perl/
O'Reilly Open Source Convention
Portland Marriott Downtown,
Portland, OR
July 7-11, 2003
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
Early Bird Discount--
User Group members who register before May 23, 2003, get a
double
discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get
20% off the
"Early Bird" price.
To register, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/ord_os03
***Coming to OSCON on a Budget?
Save money on your housing costs by sharing a room while
you're in
Portland. We have a room-share mailing list to facilitate finding
a
suitable roommate. Please visit the room sharing page to
submit your
information. The list will be updated and emailed weekly.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/rs
***O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for
Participation--Deadline is May
14 System administrators, developers, strategists, technical
staff, and
power users are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and
conference sessions at the second annual O'Reilly Mac OS X
Conference.
Suggested topics include: Scripting Genius, Amazing
Applications,
Ingenious Hacks, and SysAdmin Mac Style, to name a few.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
The submission deadline for proposals is May 14, 2003:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/e_sess
***Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner, Get A
Free Book
Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is:
We are looking for user groups to display our conference
banners on
their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site
with
our O'Reilly Open Source Convention banner, I will send
you the O'Reilly book of your choice.
OSCON Conference Banners:
http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/oscon2003/
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Safari News
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***"Go On Safari" Weekly Winner--Casey Milford, Conway Perl
Mongers
"When one cycles to work, it becomes difficult to carry more
than a
couple books...With that said, online documentation has
become a staple
in my daily referencing...I've found the Safari service to be
*very*
useful for day to day work."
Your group can also participate in this introductory program
just for
user group members. To "Go on Safari," any of your members
who sign up
for our Safari 14-day free trial send comments on their
experiences, or
tips and tricks for how they used Safari (it only needs to be 2
sentences long, but it may be longer) to
safari_talk at oreilly.com.
Every week someone will be chosen from the tips or comments
submitted
to receive fun stuff from O'Reilly (T-shirts, book bags, or other
surprises). If a member of your user group is selected, your
group
receives free gifts, too. Whatever the individual member
receives, your
UG will get one, too, to give away at your next meeting, or use
however
you see fit. Recipients--and their comments--will be announced
in the
User Group Newsletter.
**Please use this special UG URL to sign up for the 14-day
trial**
http://www.oreilly.com/safari/ug
For more information on Safari:
http://safari.oreilly.com/
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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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General News
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***PC World: Tech Books to Enter Public Domain
Computer book publisher O'Reilly & Associates is taking a
dramatic
stand against automatic extensions of U.S. copyrights by
voluntarily
limiting its own copyright protection on hundreds of technical
titles--and promising they'll enter the public domain after that.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,110419,00.asp
***Wired: Where Real Cyber Worlds Collide
Although the speakers and attendees are gathered here in
Silicon
Valley, much of the real action at this week's O'Reilly Emerging
Technology Conference is happening in cyberspace.
http://wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58622,00.html
***"Amazon Hacks" Announced
The newest book in O'Reilly's Hacks series, "Amazon Hacks"
(due to
release in August), is a collection of real-world tips, tricks, and
full-scale solutions to practical uses of Amazon.com and the
Amazon Web
Services API.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/amazonhks/
If you have an Amazon hack you'd like to contribute, visit:
http://hacks.oreilly.com/
***Swarms and Mobs at This Year's ETech
Individually, Eric Bonabeau's keynote on Biological Computing
and
Howard Rheingold's address on Smart Mobs would have been
interesting.
Taken together you can see the application of emergent
behavior
described by Bonabeau to the technological challenges issued
by
Rheingold. And that's what makes conferences like ETech so
powerful.
Here's a look at what exceeds the sum of its parts with these
two
keynotes.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/25/swarms_mobs.html
Find more up-to-the-minute news, photos, and weblogs in our
Emerging
Technology Conference Coverage:
http://www.oreillynet.com/et2003/
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Open Source
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***Twisted Python
The Twisted application framework provides rocket-powered
tools for
your next network application.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/4/24/pythonnews.html
***Secure Programming Techniques
O'Reilly authors Simson Garfinkel, Gene Spafford, and Alan
Schwartz
bring you tips and general design principles to code by to help
you
avoid security-related bugs, in this excerpt from "Practical Unix
&
Internet Security, 3rd Edition."
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/PUIS3_chap16/index1.html
Practical Unix & Internet Security, 3rd Edition
Order Number: 3234
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/puis3/
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Java
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***How Java Web Servers Work
At the heart, web servers are really very simple. If you can set
up a
socket connection and parse some headers, you're well on the
way to
writing your own mini web server. Though Apache and Tomcat
are already
stable, mature, and featureful, you may find yourself curious as
to how
they work--or interested in something a little smaller and easier
to
embed. In this article, Budi Kurniawan demonstrates a basic
Java web
server.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/23/java_webserver.html
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Oracle
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***Using PL/SQL Records in SQL Statements
The PL/SQL RECORD datatype has been available for years;
however, its
usefulness was limited because it wasn't possible to use
records inside
SQL statements. Oracle 9i Release 2 corrects this deficiency.
In this
final installment in their series on new Oracle 9i features,
Steven
Feuerstein, coauthor of "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd
Edition," and
Bryn Llewellyn demonstrate how you can now employ records
in UPDATE,
INSERT, DELETE, and SELECT statements.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/04/22/feuerstein.html
Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition
Order Number: 3811
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/index.html
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NET
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***Isolated Storage Basics
It's not unusual for an application to need to store some data
for
later use; maybe your application allows the user to set
persistent
options or save work in progress. But even the simple act of
saving
data can be fraught with dangers in today's world. In this
article,
Mike Gunderloy shows you how to use isolated storage to
save your
data.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/04/21/isolatedstorage.html
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XML
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***At Microsoft's Mercy
The future of XML editing is pretty much in Microsoft's hands,
writes
Kendall Grant Clark, reporting on community reaction to the
news that
Microsoft Office 2003's much-hyped XML features will be
restricted to
the higher-end versions of the suite.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/23/deviant.html
***Online Magazines with Apache Cocoon
Apache Cocoon makes publishing magazines easy. Steven
Punte brings
together HTML and RSS documents to show how Cocoon's
XML-directed
architecture lends itself to elegant publishing solutions.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/04/23/cocoon-magazine.html
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Mac
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***NetNewsWire and Spring Earn Top Awards
Brent Simmons and Robb Beal were the winning entrants in the
inaugural
Mac OS X Innovators Contest, run by O'Reilly & Associates
and sponsored
by Apple Developer Connection.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/04/24/innovators.ht
ml
***Power Tunes Playback
Digital technology's impact on photography and video has
changed the
way we use these media. And thanks to MP3 and Ogg Vorbis
encoding,
we're seeing a similar revolution in the world of music. Through
my
work as a wedding photographer, I've noticed another evolution
underway. The bulky DJ's music cart brimming with hundreds
of CDs (and
requiring a van to lug around) seems to be shrinking in
size--possibly
as small as a 1" thick PowerBook. Here's what I've noticed and
how it
works.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/18/tibook_dj.html
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News From Your Peers
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***Bay Area Web Services User Group Meeting, San
Francisco, CA
--April 29
Ivan Lumala from Microsoft will be talking about Programming
XML Web
Services with .NET. This is a free event from 1:00PM-2:30PM.
Please
RSVP by sending an email to nelkarra at myspotter.com or visit:
http://www.bawsug.org/events.shtml for more details.
Until next time--
Marsee
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