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Dear Reader,
I feel safe in saying that Microsoft Word is one of the most widely used
and least understood programs in personal computing. I've seen the most
savvy of gurus humbled by hidden character styles and clunky conversions
of .doc files to other applications.
Fortunately, Andrew Savikas has come to our rescue with his latest book,
Word Hacks. And in his article, "Hacking Word," he provides us with five
killer techniques from the book to help us tame Microsoft Word.
If you're interested in something as mundane as an easy way to build an
org chart in Word, to a technique as wild as using Perl from within a
macro, take a look at Andrew's article. And if you like what you see,
investigate his book too.
Until Next Week,
-Derrick
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*** Featured Articles ***
Hacking Word
How can you make the world's most widely used word processing program work
even better for you? Andrew Savikas, author of Word Hacks, gets you five
steps closer to taming your text with his generous collection of hacks.
Rid yourself of hidden character styles, tap VBScript for powerful string
searching, use Perl from within a Word macro, and more.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/excerpt/wdhks_1/index.html
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This article is the first in a two-part series that illustrates how to
harness the power of Perl and Tcl/Tk along with your .Mac iDisk to build
your own blogging application. You'll also learn about XHTML and bash
scripting along the way.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/09/weblog.html
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Liberty on Whidbey: ASP.NET 2.0 Databinding
In ASP.NET 2.0, a great deal of the ADO.NET object model has been
incorporated into controls that let you interact with data declaratively,
and that spare you from writing boilerplate code to create datasets,
extract tables, bind tables or views to controls, and so forth. Jesse
Liberty shows you how ADO.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET 2.0 are now meaningfully
matched.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/11/08/liberty.html
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text.editor.addicts.txt
If you have a strange fascination with text editors for the Mac, join
Giles Turnbull as he takes you on a tour, line by line, character by
character, into his addiction to the wonderful plain text world.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/05/text_editors.html
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Komodo 3.0 Review
ActiveState has recently released version 3.0 of its Komodo IDE,
supporting agile languages. Jason Purdy reviews the progress made since
the 2.0 release.
http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/11/04/komodo3.html
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Open Source and Free Documentation Licenses, Part 3: The Open Gaming
License
Andrew St. Laurent, author of Understanding Open Source and Free Software
Licensing, offers the last installation of a three-part series on open
source and free documentation licenses. This final part describes the Open
Gaming License (OGL), a license designed to open source certain parts of
the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game, and two related documents, the
d20 System Trademark License and the d20 System Trademark Guide Version
5.0.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/os_licenses_part3.html
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The Month in BSD
OpenBSD 3.6 is released, NetBSD has a new logo, and FreeBSD 5.3 is
delayed. Sam Smith reports on October's BSD news.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a//bsd/2004/11/01/october_news.html
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Interview: Gina Fant-Saez Builds the Global Studio
Top recording engineer, Gina Fant-Saez (Sting, U2, King Crimson), unveils
her laptop studio and web-based collaboration network that offers renowned
session musicians to play on your songs.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/11/03/fant.html
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Featured Photographer: Nick Decarlo: Point of View
Nick deCarlo's approach to photography is similar to the classically
trained musician who first masters scales, then turns to jazz later in his
career. Nick studies every element in the composition before firing the
shutter of his Canon 20D. "I like images that combine reality and
impressionism," he says. See what you think in this selected gallery of
Nick's images.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/11/03/featured.html
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Automatically Import Images into iPhoto
If you're using a Mac OS X Bluetooth-enabled laptop with a Bluetooth
camera phone, it seems like it would be easy to automate the process of
moving images from the phone to iPhoto. Wonk! Not true. There are potholes
along the way. In this article, brian d foy does his best to fill those
dips in the road and create a fully automatic image transfer process.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/11/03/iphoto_import.html
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Hacking Congress: Of Presidents and Ontologies
At the pinnacle of election season in the U.S., Paul Ford returns with
another Hacking Congress column. This time, Ford says things about the
President using RDF and explains why the Semantic Web is about more than
ontologies.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/11/03/congress.html
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Using SSL with Non-Blocking IO
Java 1.4 introduced non-blocking IO in the NIO package, but not a means of
running SSL over it. That forced developers to choose between security and
scalability. In J2SE 5.0, there is now a transport-agnostic SSL API, but
it takes some work to understand. Nuno Santos shows how to put the two
together.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/11/03/ssl-nio.html
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*** O'Reilly Network Top Five Articles Last Week ***
1. Which Open Source Wiki Works For You?
An old idea--user-writable web pages--has taken off again recently. Wikis
are becoming more popular as tools for communication and collaboration.
There are also several dozen packages to create them. Shlomi Fish compares
features of several popular open source Perl, Python, and PHP Wikis.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/04/which_wiki.html
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2. Russian Denies Authoring "SoBig" Worm
SoBig, the computer worm that ran rampant on the internet in 2003, is the
subject of a new, anonymously authored report that definitively claims
Send-Safe as its creator. Ruslan Ibragimov, owner of the accused,
Russian-based bulk email company, flatly denies the report's claim in an
online interview with author Brian McWilliams.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/02/sobig.html
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3. Advanced Linux Installations and Upgrades with Kickstart
Unix is beautifully scriptable. That applies to installations and
upgrades, too. Fedora's Kickstart utility can automate installing entire
labs of computers, installing custom RPMs, and even upgrading old
versions. Ethan McCallum explains advanced Kickstart techniques.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/11/04/advanced_kickstart.html
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4. A Simple Drawing Sample in Quartz 2D
In this tutorial for working in Quartz 2D, Scott Thompson provides you
with some sample code and shows you how to use it in an application. Along
the way you'll learn how Quartz 2D handles colors, and look an some
examples of its coordinate system that can be manipulated to make drawing
easier.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/02/quartz.html
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5. text.editor.addicts.txt
If you have a strange fascination with text editors for the Mac, join
Giles Turnbull as he takes you on a tour, line by line, character by
character, into his addiction to the wonderful plain text world.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/11/05/text_editors.html
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