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-Wireless Hacks
-Enterprise Services Architecture
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Upcoming Events
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-Louis Rosenfeld, ("Information Architecture for the World Wide
Web"), 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, WA--Sep 28-Oct 2
-Jason Hunter, ("Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Ed" & "Java
Enterprise Best Practices"), SDForum Emerging Technology SIG,
Palo Alto, CA--Oct 14
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-Ends September 24--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Call
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-The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Santa Clara, CA
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-"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Contest Winner--Rory Blyth,
Portland Area Game Developer Interest Group
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-O'Reilly Authors in the News
-Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications
-The Hacker Behind "Hacking the XBox"
-Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE
-Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application
-Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For writing book review tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book your purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ***Wireless Hacks Order Number: 5598 "Wireless Hacks" offers 100 industrial-strength tips about wireless networking, contributed by experts who use the tips every day. Written for intermediate to advanced wireless users, this book is full of direct, practical, ingenious solutions to real-world networking problems. Whether your wireless network needs to extend to the edge of your office or to the other end of town, this collection of non-obvious, "from the field" techniques will show you how to get the job done. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/ Sample Hacks are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/chapter/index.html ***Enterprise Services Architecture Order Number: 5512 "Enterprise Services Architecture" outlines a disciplined and structured approach to understanding how today's enterprise applications will make use of web services. Aimed at senior management and IT professionals, the book presents a forward-looking architecture that can meet future development challenges with ease and agility. This book was commissioned by SAP, but we're making it available to the general public because we believe the information can help the marketplace come to grips with the architectural revolution that is underway. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entservapps/ Chapter 1, "Concepts and Philosophy," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entservapps/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Louis Rosenfeld, ("Information Architecture for the World Wide Web"), 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, WA-- Sep 28-Oct 2 Louis is a featured speaker at the 2003 Dublin Core Conference: Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice-Metadata Research and Applications. http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html Bell Harbor International Conference Center 2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66 Seattle, WA 98121 http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/venue.html ***Jason Hunter, ("Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Ed" & "Java Enterprise Best Practices"), SDForum Emerging Technology SIG, Palo Alto,CA--Oct 14 Jason will be presenting XQuery, a W3C specification for querying XML or anything that can have an XML facade such as a relational database. It has the backing of all the big players including Oracle, IBM, BEA, and Microsoft, and has several open source implementations as well. In this talk you'll learn how to use XQuery, when to use XQuery, and which implementations to trust. For more information, including cost, go to: http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1188&mo=10&yr=2003 7pm, Tuesday, October 14 Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1 Palo Alto, CA ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Ends September 24--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Call for Participation Programmers, technologists, researchers, CTOs, CIOs, hackers, and entrepreneurs are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the 3rd Annual O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference slated for February 9-12, 2004 in San Diego, CA. Suggested topics include: Interfaces and Services, Social Software, Untethered, Location, Hardware, and Business Models, as a start. The submission deadline for proposals is September 24, 2003. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon/?CMP=NLC-W80C43814372 ***The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Santa Clara, CA--October 27-30 Tracks this year include Fearless Programming, Scripting Genius, Sys Admin and Networking Mac Style, Media and Publishing, and Emerging Topics. User Group members can use code DSUG to register and receive 20% off conference pricing. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/ord_mac03 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference October 27-30, 2003 Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ ================================================ Safari News ================================================ ***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Contest Winner--Rory Blyth, Portland Area Game Developer Interest Group "Social Ramifications--The benefits of Safari go even beyond its intended scope. Just walk into a room full of nerds and say, 'I've got Safari.' About 10% of them will be scratching their heads, wondering why it is that you're bragging about having the latest and greatest OS X web browser, but the rest will be drooling and calling you horrible names. They will call you horrible names because they're jealous. They'll be jealous because they're sick of finding lewd photos of tennis rackets when what they really want is help." For the rest of Rory's review go to: http://www.neopoleon.com/blog/safari.aspx User Group members can participate in our "Go On Safari" introductory program. To "Go on Safari," any UG member who signs up for our Safari 14-day free trial can 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Please include your UG name in the email.) 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 a free gift, 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 this 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/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly Authors in the News *Google on NPR Listen to this "Talk of the Nation" interview with Google co-founder Sergey Brin and Rael Dornfest, coauthor of O'Reilly's "Google Hacks." http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1421546 *An Interview with Paul Bausch Listen in on this IT Conversations interview with Paul Bausch, the author of "Amazon Hacks." Paul talks about topics covered in the book, including the Amazon Associates program and the Amazon Wish List. http://www.itconversations.com/index.php For more info on our Hacks: http://hacks.oreilly.com/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications Jason Garman walks you through the implementation of SPNEGO, which allows for single sign-on of your web applications with Apache and Kerberos. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/11/kerberos.html Jason is the author of "Kerberos: The Definitive Guide." Order Number: 4036 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/kerberos/ ***The Hacker Behind "Hacking the XBox" Reverse engineering seems a mysterious and dark art, aided, perhaps, by the specter of the U.S. DMCA. Andrew "Bunnie" Huang risked penalties for his self-published "Hacking the Xbox." Howard Wen recently interviewed Huang on reverse engineering, disclosure, and the guts of the Xbox itself. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/11/bunniehuang_interview.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE >From their experience as web-era application designers, Ganesh Prasad, Rajat Taneja, and Vikrant Todankar saw a need for a set of named ways of doing things at the application or subsystem level, in the same manner that the original design patterns fulfilled a need for standardization of lower-level functionality. In part one of a two-part series, the authors discuss their Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns in the Partitioning and Scope categories. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/09/10/patterns.html --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application Flash Remoting has not changed much for the release of Flash MX 2004, which is good news for programmers building complex Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Flash Remoting still offers the most flexible, intuitive way to add an application server to an RIA. Tom Muck, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Flash Remoting: The Definitive Guide," offers ten tips for building a Flash Remoting application that will help programmers deliver the most efficient RIA possible. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/09/16/flashremoting.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint Apple's Keynote is the first major-company presentation software in years to step up to bat against ruling giant Microsoft PowerPoint. Ian Darwin provides a detailed comparison of the two presentation heavyweights. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/12/keynote.html Until next time--
