>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:44:34 -0800 (PST) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 22 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >NEWSLETTER >March 22, 2002 > > HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: > >NEWS: >-Listmania! on Amazon >-Build Your Own Bookshelf on the Web >-Emerging Technology Briefs: JXTA >-Megnut:Attendee-Centered Conference Design >-Cocoa for your Python? >-Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux >-A Perl Hacker's Foray into .NET >-Secure Mail Reading on Mac OS X >-JavaOne in San Francisco >-Java Recipe of the Day >-JSP Standard Tag Libraries, Part 1 >-Web Service Sublimation >-Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part Two > >BOOK NEWS: >-Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition >-J2ME in a Nutshell >-Transact-SQL Cookbook >-Java Web Services > >CONFERENCE NEWS: >-Early Bird Registration Extended Through April 5, 2002 >-The Emerging Technology Conference--Community Meetings >(All community meetings are free and open to the public.) >================================================ >NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND >================================================ > >Spread the word to your members.... > >------------------------------- >GENERAL NEWS >------------------------------- >LISTMANIA! ON AMAZON >User Group Members--please remember to add your favorite O'Reilly books >to your lists. http://www.amazon.com/ > >BUILD YOUR OWN BOOKSHELF ON THE WEB >Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books >Online, with 600 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly >and other top publishers. This special offer lets you select up to ten >books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. >Find your answers fast. Access a world of technical knowledge at your >fingertips. >For more information: >https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html > >EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS: JXTA >Here's a look at Sun's JXTA, a peer-to-peer networking framework, from >O'Reilly Research's series of one-page technology summaries. Don't miss >the tutorial on writing JXTA applications at O'Reilly's upcoming >Emerging Technology Conference. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/03/12/jxta.html > >MEGNUT:ATTENDEE-CENTERED CONFERENCE DESIGN >"Since this is my first monthly Megnut column for O'Reilly Network, I >thought it would be polite to introduce myself. My name is Meg >Hourihan, you may know me from megnut.com, my weblog, or from The >Megway, a Segway parody some friends and I created. I co-founded a >small company called Pyra, and until February 2001 I was the director >of development for our product, Blogger. " See Megnut: >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/03/19/megnut.html >--------------------- >PYTHON >--------------------- >COCOA FOR YOUR PYTHON? >Stephen Figgins wonders,"I am suffering from Mac lust. I feel >irresistibly drawn to the new iMac. That lovely TFT monitor has cast a >spell on me. Yet I still have wits enough to wonder, what is the state >of Python and OS X?" Find out here: >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/1/31/pythonnews.html >--------------------- >LINUX >--------------------- >OPENING UP THE PLAYSTATION 2 WITH LINUX >Howard Wen takes a look at Sony's upcoming Linux distribution kit for >the PlayStation 2. The bout between Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft with >their video game consoles could become even more heated when Linux >enters the fray this spring. Sony will sell online the "Linux (for >PlayStation 2)" Release 1.0 in the U.S. in May 2002. (A European >version will come out that month, too, and the Japanese version earlier >in April.) >http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/03/21/linuxps2.html >-------------------- >PERL >-------------------- >A PERL HACKER'S FORAY INTO .NET >By Simon Cozens >"No, I haven't sold out; I haven't gone over to the dark side; I >haven't been bought. I'm one of the last people to be using >closed-source software by choice. But one of the traits of any >self-respecting hacker is curiosity, and so when he hears about some >cool new technology, he's almost obliged to check it out and see >whether there's anything he can learn from it. So this particular Perl >hacker took a look at Microsoft's .NET Framework, and, well, Mikey, I >think he likes it." >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/19/dotnet.html >--------------------- >MAC >--------------------- >SECURE MAIL READING ON MAC OS X >In this article Jason McIntosh describes a danger inherent in most >mail-reading methods, and ways to work around it on OS X, using the >Mail program. He will also give you a brief tour of some SSH client >tools that subtly stow away in the Mac OS X distribution. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/19/secure_mail.html > >Check out more OS X articles at the Mac Devcenter on O'Reilly Network >http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/ >-------------------- >JAVA >-------------------- >JAVAONE IN SAN FRANCISCO March 25-29, 2002, >Moscone Convention Center Come by and visit O'Reilly at booth #1725 The >2002 JavaOne conference includes industry leaders, visionaries, >forecasters, and inventors star as this year's cast of keynote >speakers. Experience the wisdom of such luminaries as Scott McNealy, >James Gosling, Paul Saffo, John Gage, and many more. >For more information: >http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/home/0-sf2002.jsp > > >JAVA RECIPE OF THE DAY >All receipes are from "The Java Cookbook," by Ian Darwin. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/javacook/solution.html > >"The Java Cookbook" is still available for review. >Order Number: 1703 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/ > >JSP STANDARD TAG LIBRARIES, PART 1 >Custom tags make working with JSP easier and more efficient, but >wouldn't it be good to have standard ways to perform common tasks? >Enter JSP Standard Tag Libraries, an attempt to provide a common and >standard set of custom tags. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jsp.html >-------------------- >XML >-------------------- >WEB SERVICE SUBLIMATION >By Timothy Ewald, Martin Gudgin March 20, 2002 This month's Endpoints >column examines the characteristics of Web Service applications, >including typing and message coupling. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/endpoints.html > >INTRODUCING XML::SAX::MACHINES, PART TWO >This month, Kip Hampton's introduction to Perl's XML::SAX::Machines >tool continues, adding flexibility to Apache-based apps and >demonstrating the construction of a SAX controller. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/machines.html >================================================ >BOOK NEWS >================================================ >REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your >books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for >shipping. > >Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase >direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. > >Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ > >JAVA IN A NUTSHELL, 4TH EDITION >Order Number: 2831 >Java just keeps growing, adding features, functionality, complexity, >and tempting developers to growl with frustration. The new 1.4 release >of Java 2 Standard edition increases the size of the platform by 50%, >to 2757 classes in 135 packages. The new 4th edition still contains an >accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key >APIs so you can start writing code right away. And with more than 250 >new pages, author David Flanagan quickly brings you up to speed. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut4/ > >Read Chapter 4 "The Java Platform" >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/javanut4_ch04/index.html > >For more informatin on David Flanagan >http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/156?x-t=book.view > > >J2ME IN A NUTSHELL >Order Number: 253x >This book provides a solid, no-nonsense reference to the "alphabet >soup" of micro edition programming, covering the CLDC, CDC, KVM and >MIDP APIs. The book also includes tutorials for the CLDC, KVM, MIDP and >MIDlets, MIDlet user interfaces, networking and storage, and advice on >programming small handhelds. Combined with O'Reilly's classic quick >reference to all the core micro-edition APIs, this is the one book that >will take you from curiosity to code with no frustrating frills in >between. >http://oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/ > >Chapter 3 "The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets" >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/chapter/ch03.html > > >TRANSACT-SQL COOKBOOK >Order Number: 7567 >This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that >SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to >perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling >issues that are more complicated, like set algebra. Authors Alex Spetic >and Jonathan Gennick, two authorities with extensive database and SQL >programming experience, include a discussion with each recipe to >explain the logic and concepts underlying the solution. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/transqlcook/ > >Chapter 8 "Statistics in SQL" >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/transqlcook/chapter/ch08.html > > >JAVA WEB SERVICES >Order Number: 2696 >This book gives the experienced Java developer a way into the Web >Services world. It helps you to understand what's going on, what the >technologies mean and how they relate, and shows Java developers how to >put them to use to solve real problems. You'll learn what's real and >what isn't; what the technologies are really supposed to do, and how >they do it. "Java Web Services" shows you how to use SOAP to perform >remote method calls and message passing; how to use WSDL to describe >the interface to a web service or understand the interface of someone >else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (publish) and look up >services in each local or global registry. "Java Web Services" also >discusses security issues, interoperability issues, integration with >other Java enterprise technologies like EJB; the work being done on the >JAXM and JAX-RPC packages, and integration with Microsoft's .NET >services. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawebserv/ > >Chapter 6 "UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration" >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawebserv/chapter/ch06.html > >================================================ >CONFERENCE NEWS >================================================ >EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 5, 2002 >As a part of our extended family, take an additional 30% off of your >fees when you register with the discount code ET02FF Early bird >registration ends April 5, 2002! >Registration: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/create/ord_et02 > >THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE--COMMUNITY MEETINGS >The emerging Internet Operating System benefits greatly from your >participation in a special interest community focused on building one >of the critically important pieces of this puzzle. Please join us for >one of these community meetings during the week of the conference. ALL >COMMUNITY MEETINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/18/community.html > >JXTA Community Meeting >Date: Tuesday, May 14 >Time: 7:00pm >Location: Stevens Creek Room > >JXTA will hold a community meeting Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 7 PM at the >Westin Santa Clara, in conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology >Conference. Project JXTA started as a research project at Sun to address >the peer-to-peer space. JXTA is a set of open, generalized peer-to-peer >protocols that allow any connected device (cell phone, to PDA, PC to >server) on the network to communicate and collaborate. >Check the JXTA web site for more information: >http://www.jxta.org/ > >Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) >Date: Wednesday, May 15 >Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm >Location: Stevens Creek Room > >The Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) will hold its monthly meeting >at the Westin Santa Clara in conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging >Technology Conference. BAWUG was founded to promote wireless use for >the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. >Visit the BAWUG website for more information: http://www.bawug.org/ > > >Until next week, > >Marsee
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