================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Tim O'Reilly in the News
"The New York Times," September 28, "Search and Rescue" http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/09/ny_times_op_ed_on_authors_guil.html "Wired," October 2005, "The Trend Spotter": http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.10/oreilly.html ***What Is Web 2.0 Defining just what Web 2.0 means still engenders much disagreement. Some decry it as a meaningless marketing buzzword, while others have accepted it as the new conventional wisdom. Tim O'Reilly attempts to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0, digging into the implications of viewing the web as a platform, which applications fall squarely under its purview, and which do not. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html ***Beta Broadcast 002: Data for Web 2.0 This week, O'Reilly's audio magazine program "Distributing the Future" takes a look at the Data for Web 2.0. Tim O'Reilly explains "What is Web 2.0," Marc Hedlund ponders the browsers of the future that might mash up the private data on your hard drive with data that lives on the Web, NAVTEQ's Robert Denaro discusses why NAVTEQ drives so many miles each day to gather the geographic information you use in your favorite online mapping applications, Phil Torrone is already hacking the iPod nano, and our "FOO Cast" is more of Richard Giles' Gadget show interview with John Batelle. (24 minutes, 52 seconds) http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/23/distributing-the-future.html ***What Is Asterisk? Asterisk is an open source PBX (private branch exchange) that provides all the functionality of high-end business telephone systems, and much more. Brian McConnell explains how Asterisk works, where to get it, and provides an overview of its feature set and platform capabilities. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/09/30/what-is-asterisk.html ***Marking up your Designs with HTMLstamps Alex shows you how to bridge the gap between Website designs done in Photoshop (or any other graphics editor) and the HTML code required to make them real. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/09/22/marking-up-your-designs-with-htmlstamps/ ***Opera goes free without ads It's finally happened. Opera, the 3rd player in the browser market (after Microsoft and Mozilla's Firefox), has finally made its popular browser available for free--without embedded ads. Kevin Yank takes a closer look at the move and what it means. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/09/20/opera-goes-free-without-ads/ ***User Group Members receive a special 50% discount Learning Lab Courses As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series: -Linux/Unix System Administration -Web Programming -Open Source Programming -.NET Programming -Client-Side This offer ends December 31st, 2005. To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1" to save 50%. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online: http://learninglab.oreilly.com/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Perlcast Interviews Jesse Vincent, author of "RT Essentials" http://perlcast.com/2005/09/29/interview-with-jesse-vincent/ ***What Is Free Software? Today, free software is a large body of high-quality code on which much of the internet depends for critical functions. But free software is much more than a collection of programs. Karl Fogel examines free software under three different lights: as a political movement, as a programming methodology, and as a business model. Karl is the author of "Producing Open Source Software." http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/09/29/what-is-free-software.html ****Installing Debian Debian GNU/Linux is a powerful and popular community-developed Linux distribution--and the basis for several other useful and usable distributions. With the recent release of Debian Sarge, it's better than ever. Edd Dumbill, Debian developer and GNU/Linux advocate, walks through a typical installation. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/09/29/installing_debian.html ***Backward Compatibility? We've Heard of It PHP 5's release has sparked a PR disaster for the popular open source programming language because of some significant backwards compatibility issues. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2005/09/15/backward-compatibility-weve-heard-of-it/ ***Using FreeBSD's ACLs The standard Unix permissions scheme works fine if you have simple needs, but juggling groups and users can grow unwieldy very quickly. FreeBSD's Access Control Lists give you more control over who can access files and directories. Dru Lavigne explains how to enable, understand, and use them appropriately. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/09/22/FreeBSD_Basics.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***How to Set Up Backup 3 and Save Your Data Combined with a hefty 1GB of online storage, Backup 3 provides .Mac subscribers with a robust, easy-to-use workflow for protecting their most valuable data. In this tutorial, Derrick Story shows you how to get the most out of version 3, using both your iDisk and DVDs for preserving your work. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/23/backup3.html ***Installing Fink on Mac OS X The Fink project aims to port Unix software to Mac OS X and make it easy to install. In this article, Koen Vervloesem shows you the ins and outs of Fink, with some info about how it compares to DarwinPorts, another package management system for Mac OS X. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/09/30/fink.html --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***What Is ASP.NET? Part of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET allows developers to build dynamic web apps and web services using compiled languages like VB.NET and C#. Wei-Meng Lee provides a look under the ASP.NET hood, describing how it works, its improved support in areas like state management and tracing and debugging, and important new features in version 2.0. Wei-Meng is the author of "ASP.NET: A Developer's Notebook." http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/09/19/what-is-asp-net.html ***Using Windows Explorer with Alternate Credentials Running Windows using administrator credentials can be hazardous to the health of your machine. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows Server Hacks," shows you how you can help solve the problem by using Windows Explorer while running alternate credentials. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/09/20/using-windows-explorer-with-alternate-credentials.html ***What Is C#? Jesse Liberty reveals this little-understood secret: C# is really one of two "coatings" of MSIL, the Microsoft Intermediate Language (the second is Visual Basic 2005). Both C# and VB 2005 produce MSIL, and it is MSIL that runs on the .NET platform. Jesse provides an overview of the C# language and how it works within the .NET platform, and concludes with resources for coding in C#. Jesse is the author of "Programming C#, 4th Edition." http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/10/03/what-is-csharp.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***What Is Quartz? Java programmers: if you've ever needed an application to perform a task at a specific time, automatically, Chuck Cavaness suggests you check out the Quartz Scheduler. Cavaness looks at this open source job-scheduling framework, explains where to get it, how it works, and reviews its feature set. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/28/what-is-quartz.html ***What Is Hibernate? Hibernate is a free open source Java package that makes it easy to work with relational databases. James Elliott describes the "enlightened laziness" that resulted in the development of Hibernate, how it works, and when it makes good sense to use it in your projects. James is the author of "Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/09/21/what-is-hibernate.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Jack Herrington ("Podcasting Hacks") interviewed on the User Group Report on The MUG Center. http://www.mugcenter.com/usergroupreport/2005/534.html (You can also subscribe to this Podcast through iTunes.) ***Nate Howard: Midwestern Photographer in Iraq A photojournalist from Rochester, Minnesota is assigned to cover a local transportation unit on duty in Iraq. The images that Nate Howard returned with document the Iraqi people and American soldiers from a compassionate point of view. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/28/featured.html ***Julian Kwasneski: Inside Game Audio If you've played Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, Indiana Jones, James Bond, or any number of NBA, NFL, PGA, or NCCA console games, you've likely heard the music and sound effects of Bay Area Sound. Cofounder Julian Kwasneski takes us inside the process of optimizing audio for games, then shares five MP3s. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/09/21/bas-kwasneski-game-audio.html --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***Make your own "PowerSquid" Have you seen the "PowerSquid" on ThinkGeek? It's a very cool, five-outlet power strip that allows you to plug in those bulky square adapters. The Make team was going to order one, but they were out of stock and so they made their own--with a total of eight outlets--for almost half the price. Here's the simple cheap version. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/09/how_to_make_your_own_powersqui.html Try a Sample Project from MAKE: http://makezine.com/samples/ MAKE Show Archive: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/ ***For more information on MAKE, go to: http://www.makezine.com/ ================================================ From Your Peers ================================================ ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups around the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi
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