>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 14:13:38 -0700 (PDT) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 5 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >August 5, 2002 > > >Spread The Word To Your Members... > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >***Book News*** >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-IPv6 Essentials >-iPhoto: The Missing Manual >-Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition >-Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >***News*** >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Protecting Privacy with Translucent Databases >-O'Reilly's 250th Book on Safari >-Top 100 Power Picks >-2002 OSCON .NET Report >-The Rotor Architecture Revisited >-Making the Python Cookbook >-Promiscuous Mode Problems >-Flash on Mobile and Embedded Devices >-Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips >-2002 OSCON Java Wrap-Up >-10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 >-Wanted: Bioinformatics User Groups >-Dissecting .Mac >-Jaguar: Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around > >================================================ >Book News >================================================ >Review books are available--please email me for a copy. >If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three >weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and >book reviews. > >Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase >directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. > >Press releases are available on our press page: >http://press.oreilly.com/ > > >***IPv6 Essentials*** >Order Number: 1258 >"IPv6 Essentials" provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new >features and functions in IPv6, guiding you through everything you'll >need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts >and routers, and which applications currently support IPv6. This book >will help you plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current >IPv4 infrastructure. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6ess/ > >Chapter 2, "The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol," is availble for free >online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6ess/chapter/index.html > > >***iPhoto: The Missing Manual*** >Order Number: 365x >Apple's wildly popular iPhoto software is a gorgeous digital shoebox >for downloading, organizing, printing, publishing, and touching up >unlimited numbers of digital photos. In this comprehensive, witty >guide, authors Pogue, Schorr, and Story give iPhoto 1.1 the one feature >it lacks: a manual. With this guide, Macintosh fans can take their >digital photos to the screen, to the Web, to printouts, to hardbound >photo books, even to DVDs. And they'll learn how to take iPhoto far >beyond its seemingly simple feature list. But the software is just the >beginning. The book also covers choosing and mastering a digital >camera, basic photographic techniques, and tips for shooting special >subjects like kids, sports, nighttime shots, portraits, and more. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/iphototmm/ > >Top Ten iPhoto Tips >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/08/iphoto_tips.html > > >***Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition*** >Order Number: 2890 >Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating >text and data. They have spread like wildfire in recent years, now >offered as standard features in Perl, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any >language using the .NET Framework), PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, MySQL, awk, >Emacs, and many other popular tools and languages. If you don't use >regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new >world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll >appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage. If >you think you know all you need to know about regular expressions, this >book is a stunning eye-opener. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/ > >Chapter 8, "Java" and Chapter 9, ".NET" are available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/chapter/index.html > > >***Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition*** >Order Number: 3749 >"The Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition" provides a complete overview >of the Perl programming language, all packed into a convenient, >carry-around booklet. It is updated for Perl 5.8, and covers a summary >of Perl syntax rules, a complete list of operators, built-in functions, >and standard library modules, all with brief descriptions. Also >included are the newest Perl features, such as enhanced regular >expressions, multithreading, the Perl compiler, and Unicode support. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr4/ > >For a complete list of Perl titles, visit: >http://perl.oreilly.com/ > >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ > >------------------------------- >General News >------------------------------- >***Protecting Privacy with Translucent Databases*** >Could translucent databases have helped Yale protect its data? >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/08/02/simson.html > >***O'Reilly's 250th Book On Safari*** >"IPv6 Essential" is a Safari milestone--it is O'Reilly's 250th book in >the subscription-based web service that lets you search hundreds of >best-selling technical titles. >http://safari.oreilly.com/main.asp?bookname=ipv6ess > >Sign up now and get your first 14 days on Safari free. >https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html > >***Top 100 Power Picks*** >The editors of "Enterprise Systems" have selected Tim O'Reilly as one >of the Top 20 IT Leaders in its annual Enterprise Systems Power 100 >issue. The awards look at top influencers, forces, technologies, and >products in large enterprise computing. >http://www.esj.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=108 > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***2002 OSCON .NET Report*** >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/07/29/oscondotnet.html > > >***The Rotor Architecture Revisited*** >Microsoft's Dave Stutz reports on activity around the Rotor project, >which was recently refreshed. Besides .NET developers diving into the >CLI source code, teachers and students are using it for compsci >curriculum development, Microsoft is working on a project to add >generics, and as reported on these pages, "diverse porting activity in >the wild" has been sighted. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/07/22/rotor.html > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >***Making the Python Cookbook*** >Putting together such a collective work presented some unique >challenges. We recently spoke to the book's two editors about the >community effort involved in creating the Python Cookbook. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/08/01/cookbook.html > >Python Cookbook >Order Number: 1673 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook/ > > >***Promiscuous Mode Problems*** >Noel Davis looks at a vulnerability in PHP; buffer overflows in Cisco >IOS, Fake Identd, HylaFAX, and EnGarde Secure Linux's resolver >libraries; and problems in the reporting of Promiscuous Mode by the >Linux kernel, Sun Fire servers, chfn, chsh, Pine, GNU Mailman, and the >VNC challenge and response. >http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/07/30/insecurities.html > >--------------------------- >Web Development >--------------------------- >***Flash on Mobile and Embedded Devices*** >Developers take note: the market is growing! >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/02/flash_embedded.html > >For related reading check out: > >ActionScript: The Definitive Guide >Order Number: 8520 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript/ > >J2ME in a Nutshell >Order Number: 253x >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/ > > >***Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips*** >In the world of Web publishing, lots of effort goes into building >functionality, and to some degree into designing the user interface, >but performance tuning is often overlooked in the mad rush to get to >the next project. Here's a terrific list of top ten performance tips >from Patrick Killelea, author of "Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition." > >Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 172X >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/ > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***2002 OSCON Java Wrap-Up*** >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/29/osconjava.html > > >***10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0*** >It's now seven years since Sun posted the first public release of Java, >and it is showing its age. There are many parts of Java that everyone >agrees should be fixed, but can't be for reasons of backwards >compatibility. Elliotte Rusty Harold imagines a "Java 3" that jettisons >the baggage of the last decade, and proposes numerous changes to the >core language, virtual machine, and class libraries. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/31/java3.html > >------------------------------- >Bioinformatics >------------------------------- >***Wanted: Bioinformatics info*** >Do you know of any bioinformatics groups? Know anyone who does? Have >you read a good bioinformatics article lately? Please let me know at >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***Dissecting .Mac*** >Current iTools enrollees have felt conflicting emotions about Apple's >announced move to .Mac, with its annual pricing structure. Here's a >look at the services being offered, and their value, from an >experienced user's point of view. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/30/dot_mac.html > > >***Jaguar: Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around*** >Debates about Apple's marketing of Mac OS X, upgrade pricing for >Jaguar, and the viability of the Switch campaign are distracting us >from what's important: it's time to move forward with this operating >system as quickly as possible. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/01/jaguar.html > >Until next time, > >Marsee
--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
