>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:40:28 -0700 (PDT) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Aug 28 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >August 28, 2002 > > >Spread The Word To Your Members... > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition >-Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition >-HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition >-XSL-FO >-Perl for Oracle DBAs >-XPath and Xpointer > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Conference News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Mac OS X Conference Early Registration Pricing Extended to September 9 > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-The Growing Politicization of Open Source >-Web Basics with LWP >-Exegesis 5 >-OSCON presentation Files Available Online >-Mastering Visual Studio .NET >-XSLT Processing in .NET >-Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix >-Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger >-A Pet Market with Flash >-Rethinking the Java Curriculum: Goodbye, HelloWorld! >-Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed >-iBooks and TiBooks and MyBooks >-Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar > >================================================ >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/ > > >*Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition >Order Number: 3439 >Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide >administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an >understanding of basic administrative functions, "Essential System >Administration" is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book >combines the author's years of practical experience with technical >expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and >painlessly as possible. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/ > >Chapter 11, "Backup and Restore" is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/chapter/index.html > > >*Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 0359 >Want to design distinctive, cohesive web sites that "work"? This >updated bestseller teaches you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics >for web sites and intranets that are easy to navigate, appealing to >your users, scalable, and simple to maintain. Most books on web >development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues >of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two >together. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/ > >Chapter 8, "Search Systems," is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/chapter/index.html > > >*HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition >Order Number: 382X >"HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition" is the most >comprehensive, up-to-date book available on HTML and XHTML. The authors >cover every element of HTML/XHTML in detail, explaining how each >element works and how it interacts with other elements. With hundreds >of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective >web pages and for mastering advanced features like style sheets and >frames. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html5/ > >Chapter 7, "Formatted Lists," is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html5/chapter/index.html > > >*XSL-FO >Order Number: 3552 >Extensible Style Language-Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a set of >tools developers and web designers use to describe page printouts of >their XML (including XHTML) documents. XSL-FO teaches you how to think >about the formatting of your documents and guides you through the >questions you'll need to ask to ensure that your printed documents meet >the same high standards as your computer-generated content. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/ > >Chapter 6, "Inline Elements," is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/chapter/index.html > > >*Perl for Oracle DBAs >Order Number: 2106 >Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but >too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, >and tuning Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and earlier databases. You don't need to >be a Perl expert to reap the rewards of reading "Perl for Oracle DBAs." >The book explains what you need to know about Perl, profiles the best >Perl open source applications available to DBAs, and provides the Perl >DBA Toolkit, a comprehensive suite of ready-to-use scripts designed to >ease the burden of Oracle database administration. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/ > >Chapter 1, "Perl Meets Oracle," is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/chapter/index.html > > >*XPath and XPointer >Order Number: 2912 >Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little >like finding a needle in a haystack. XPath and XPointer are two closely >related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing >developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xpathpointer/ > >Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and Xpointer: >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/14/xpath_tips.html > >Chapter 3, "Location Steps and Paths," is available free online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xpathpointer/chapter/index.html > >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >*Mac OS X Conference Early Registration Pricing Extended to September 9 >User Group members who register before September 9, 2002 get a double >discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the >early registration price. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/ord_mac02 > >O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference >Westin Santa Clara >September 30 - October 3, 2002 -- Santa Clara, CA >Hear from Tim O'Reilly, Jordan Hubbard, David Pogue, James Gosling, and >others. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ > >The cutoff date for room reservations has been extended to September >13, 2002. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/hotel.html > >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >*The Growing Politicization of Open Source >Legislation to require open source software in California opens >Pandora's box. Tim O'Reilly says It's a slipperyslope once you ask the >government to legislate what software people can use! >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1840 > > >*Exegesis 5 >Are Perl 6's regular expressions messing with your head? Damian Conway >describes what real programs using Perl 6 grammars look like. >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/22/exegesis5.html > >For a list of O'Reilly's Perl books and articles see: >http://perl.oreilly.com/ > > >*Web Basics with LWP >This Perl.com article by Sean M. Burke offers sample recipes for >performing common tasks with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl). >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html > >Sean is the author of O'Reilly's "Perl & LWP" >Order Number: 1789 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/ > > >Did you miss out on an OSCON presentation? >Want to know what you missed? >You can now download the presentation files from the O'Reilly Open >Source Convention. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/presentations.html > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >*Mastering Visual Studio .NET >This upcoming (February 2003) O'Reilly book will give intermediate and >advanced VS.NET programmers in-depth coverage of advanced window >functionality, macros, advanced debugging, add-ins, and more. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/ > >Beta chapters are online in PDF format: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/chapter/index.html > > >*XSLT Processing in .NET >Joe Feser gives an overview of the many ways XML can be transformed >using XSLT within the .NET Framework. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/14/dotnetxslt.html > >For more info on XSLT take a look at: >XSLT >Order Number: 0537 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/index.html > > >*Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix >ASP.NET Web Matrix is Microsoft's latest offering for .NET programmers. >Positioned somewhere between Visual Studio .NET and plain text editors, >it provides a useful tool to accelerate web development. This article >looks at the ASP.NET Web Matrix's capabilities. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/08/12/aspmatrix.html > >For complete ASP.NET reference and tutorial information: >ASP.NET in a Nutshell >Order Number: 1169 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ > >--------------------------- >Web Development >--------------------------- >*Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger >What about the notion to pay people to blog for commercial sites >covering genre-specific content? By providing financial incentive for >great bloggers to publish, we remove economic constraints and enable >them to devote their energies full-time to producing compelling content >and to creating outstanding Weblogs. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/12/megnut.html > > >*A Pet Market with Flash >This article gives an overview of Macromedia's Pet Market, an example >of a Flash-powered enterprise application architecture to compete with >J2EE and .NET. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/16/pet_market.html > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >*Rethinking the Java Curriculum: Goodbye, HelloWorld! >In this series, Daniel Steinberg applies Extreme Programming concepts >to the problem of teaching Java. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/21/javaxp.html > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >*Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed >David Pogue writes, "If you're among the 23 million Mac fans who have >been watching the skies for a sign that it's safe to upgrade to X, >version 10.2 is it." >http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/technology/circuits/22STAT.html?ex=1031168181&ei=1&en=259e2d7d81910a96 > >David will present a keynote at O'Reilly's upcoming Mac OS X Conference: >http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon > > >*iBooks and TiBooks and MyBooks >Apple's Switch campaign is great, but nobody tells you what you REALLY >need to know when switching. Here is Nathan Torkington's top-ten list >of switching essentials. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1839 > > >*Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar >Mac OS X 10.2 is a lean, mean site serving machine. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html > > >Until next time, > >Marsee
--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
