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Around the office, we're getting ready for Macworld San Francisco <http://www.macworldexpo.com/live/20/> in January. We'll have a great booth with many of our digital photography experts including Derrick Story, Mikkel Aaland, Deke McClelland, and Harold Davis. If you're going to be at the show, please let me know. I'd love to meet you in person. I'll be working at the O'Reilly booth on Tuesday, January 15 and Wednesday, January 16. Here's a list <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/mwsf/> of the O'Reilly happenings at Macworld. I'm looking for Amazon and Slashdot reviews for "Visualizing Data," "The Art of Agile Development," "Programming Collective Intelligence," and the "Linux Networking Cookbook." Send me email if you can help. And if you're a Facebook user (or want to learn more) don't forget to join the O'Reilly Media group <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5307144459>. Please note: I'll be on vacation December 17-January 1. Back in the office on January 2. O'Reilly will be closed down completely from December 24-January 1. If you would prefer to receive this email in text instead of HTML, drop me a line. Happy Holidays, Marsee ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders December 11, 2007 ================================================================ ***Put Up a Banner, Get a Free Book We're looking for user groups to display our discount banners on their web sites. If you send me your group's site with one or more banners, I'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. 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Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion describes the state of Perl, the language and the community. In his 11th address, he discussed the past, present, and future of scripting languages, including the several dimensions of design decisions important to the development of Perl 6. <http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html> ***Building Mashup-Friendly Sites in Rails Mashups have been the hot web technology lately. Rather than try to do everything yourself, why not present the data that makes your site special in an easy to consume fashion, and let users design applications that mix your data in with others. Jack Herrington walks us through an example showing how to create mashup-friendly using Ruby on Rails. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/building-mashups-in-rails.html> ***An Interview with Toby Segaran Toby Segaran is the author of "Programming Collective Intelligence." 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This time around, he tackles dynamic tables, switching out form elements, and putting prompting text in text boxes. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/20/advanced-javascript-iii.html> ***Sal Soghoian on Leopard, Automation, and Aperture Apple's product manager of automation technologies is the same guy who many of us consider the ultimate AppleScript guru: Sal Soghoian. Even though Sal and I live only a few hours apart, I had to go all the way to the Caribbean to chase him down for this podcast interview. It was worth it. Sal talks about Leopard, automation improvements, and of course, how this all affects Aperture. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/11/27/sal-soghoian.html> For more articles, go to: <http://www.oreillynet.com/> --------------------- Blogs ------------------- Shopping for the geek in your life? Here's help. <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/12/shopping_for_the_geek_in_your_1.html> Bad Math Among eBook Enthusiasts <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/bad_math_ebooks_kindle.html> Hidden Influences on Software Design <http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/11/hidden_influences_on_software.php> Groovy StAX builder <http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/11/groovy_stax_builder.html> ETech = Energy + Food Hacking + Arduino + Processing + Worldwide Tech <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/etech_energy_fo.html> Open Source Hardware Gift Guide <http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/open_source_hardware_gift.html> Books for Makers - A gift guide of lost arts and new tech <http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/books_for_makers_a_gift_g.html> Some geeks just wanna live forever (well, say, 1,000 years or so) <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/11/some_geeks_just_wanna_live_for.html> Naked Light <http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/12/naked_light.html> For more blogs, go to: <http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================
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