>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:17:39 -0800 (PST) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 26 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >November 26, 2002 > > >Spread The Word To Your Members... > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-C Pocket Reference >-Designing Embedded Hardware >-Digital Photography Pocket Guide >-Programming Jakarta Struts >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Upcoming Events >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Mick Bauer, "Building Secure Servers with Linux," >Burlington, MA--December 4 >-Matthew Gast, "802.11 Wireless Networks," >Santa Clara, CA--December 4 >-Visit O'Reilly Dec 8-13 at the XML Conference & Exposition 2002 >in Baltimore, MD >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Conference News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online >Registration Is Open >---------------------------------------------------------------- >News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-O'Reilly Gear Available at ThinkGeek--Finally! >-Put up a ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book >-Try This at Home >-Are Rich Clients Taking Off or Tanking? >-CVS Third-Party Tools >-Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET >-XML Versus the Infoset >-A Webmaster's Guide to Troubleshooting P3P >-Implementing Templates with Struts >-Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2 >-Controlling iTunes with Perl >-Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs >-Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X > >================================================ >Book News >================================================ >Review books are available--please email me for a copy. >Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. >Please allow at least four 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. > >***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** >Please let me know if you are interested. > >Press releases are available on our press page: >http://press.oreilly.com/ > > >***C Pocket Reference >Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for >advanced programmers, this pocket reference consists of two parts: a >compact description of the C language, and a thematically structured >reference to the standard library. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cpr/ > >A sample excerpt, "Statements," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cpr/chapter/index.html > > >***Designing Embedded Hardware >"Designing Embedded Hardware" is the most in-depth, practical, and >up-to-date guide to building your own embedded computer systems. >Whether you're working on cell phones, cars, handheld organizers, or >refrigerators, this book provides software and hardware engineers with >the necessary conceptual and design building blocks to understand the >architectures of embedded systems. Steering between the practical and >the philosophical, the book enables you to both create your own devices >and gadgets and customize and extend off-the-shelf systems. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/ > >Chapter 6, "The AVR Microcontroller," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/chapter/index.html > > >***Digital Photography Pocket Guide >This book gives you the tools and the knowledge to take the kind of >pictures you've always wanted. Consider it your quick-reference photo >mentor that explains each of the camera's components, shows you what >they do, then helps you choose the right settings to accomplish your >goal. When you want to ask an expert, "How can I get that picture?" >simply pull this handy guide out of your camera bag or back pocket, and >you'll find the answer quickly. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotopg/ > >The table of contents are available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotopg/toc.html > > >***Programming Jakarta Struts >As popular as the Struts framework for building web applications with >Servlets and JSPs is becoming, the online documentation is inadequate. >This book takes a real-world, "this is how to do it" approach to >developing complex enterprise applications using Struts. The focus on >the 1.1 version of the framework makes this the most up-to-date book >available on the subject, covering topics such as installation and >configuration, JSP and Jakarta Tag Libraries, and internationalization >and localization code. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakarta/ > >Chapter 14, "Using Tiles," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakarta/chapter/ch14.html > > >=============================================== >Upcoming Events >=============================================== >***Mick Bauer, Burlington, MA--December 4 >Mick Bauer, author of the just-released "Building Secure Servers with >Linux," presents "Internet Server Security With Linux: Risks, Defenses, >and Practices (or, How to Connect Your Linux Box to the 'Net Without >Worrying Yourself to Death)" at Softpro Computer Books. > >Wednesday, December 4 -- 6:00 pm >112 Mall Road >Burlington, MA 01803-5300 >The Burlington store is wheelchair accessible. >Phone: (781) 273-2919 >http://www.softpro.com/events.html > >***Matthew Gast, Santa Clara, CA--December 4 >Author Matthew Gast ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide," >"Network Printing," and "T1: A Survival Guide") is a "Homeland Security >vs. Wi-Fi" panelist at the 802.11 Planet Conference. > >For more conference information: >http://www.jupiterevents.com/80211/fall02/agenda2.html > > >***Be sure to visit O'Reilly Dec 8-13 at the XML Conference & >Exposition 2002 in Baltimore, MD >Booth #333 >Baltimore Convention Center >Baltimore, MD > >For more conference information: >http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/ > > >For more events, please see: >http://events.oreilly.com/ > >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >***Online registration is now open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics >Technology Conference >This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on >February 3-6, 2003. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ > >Early Bird Discount-- >User Group members who register before December 16th, 2002 get a double >discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the >"Early Bird" price. > >To register, go to: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 > >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ >--------------------- >General News >--------------------- >***Official O'Reilly Gear at ThinkGeek >For years, our customers have asked us to make and sell various items >with our animals on them. We are pleased and proud to present our first >collection of official O'Reilly animal swag. >http://www.thinkgeek.com/oreilly > >(Sorry, no User Group discounts available at ThinkGeek) > >***Put Up An O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book >We are looking for user groups to display our ThinkGeek banners on >their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with >our O'Reilly ThinkGeek banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of >your choice. > >O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banners: >http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ > > >***Try This at Home >"InfoWorld" talks with O'Reilly's chief operating officer, CJ Rayhill, >about the technologies that drive O'Reilly and the challenges of >managing them. >http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/ct/xml/02/11/18/021118ctinsider.xml?Template=/storypages/ctozone_story.html > > >***Are Rich Clients Taking Off or Tanking? >O'Reilly's editors discuss the apparent fragmentation of the web-client >space, "rich Internet applications" like DHTML and Flash, and the >consumer versus the developer market, in a new feature called "From the >Editors List." >http://www.oreilly.com/editors/ > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >***CVS Third-Party Tools >CVS is an essential part of many developer toolboxes, but it has its >limitations. Jennifer Vesperman has put together a list of add-ons and >interfaces to the popular source control system. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/21/cvs_third_party.html > >***Managing Bulk DNS Zones with Perl >Automate the creation of DNS zone files. >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/20/dns.html > > >***Cooking with MySQL >Find out how to interpret results from summaries and NULL values, and >how to identify duplicates in a table or record, in this excerpt. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/mysqlckbk/index1.html > >MySQL Cookbook >Order Number: 1452 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlckbk/ > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET >Even after spending the last few years with the C# language, Shawn Van >Ness recently found it worthwhile to step back and analyze what happens >in some very simple scenarios, such as copying a value from one >variable to another, or passing those variables as arguments to a >method call. And that is the focus of this article. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/11/25/copying.html > >***Announcing .NET Framework 1.1 >The next release of Visual Studio .NET is finally available for final >public beta testing. Code named Everett, Visual Studio .NET 2003 comes >with a new version of the .NET Framework. This article will explain >what's in this new release. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/11/25/copying.html > >--------------------- >XML >--------------------- >***XML Versus the Infoset >In his latest Endpoints column Rich Salz opines about the differences >between XML specifications based on XML and those based on the XML >infoset. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/20/ends.html > >--------------------- >Web >--------------------- >***A Webmaster's Guide to Troubleshooting P3P >Read about troubleshooting strategies and common mistakes people make >when enabling their web sites with P3P in this article by Lorrie >Cranor, author of "Web Privacy with P3P." >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/11/19/p3p.html > >Web Privacy with P3P >Order Number: 3714 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webprivp3p/ > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***Implementing Templates with Struts >Creating a portal site gets much easier with templates. This article >shows you how to implement a portal site with Struts Templates. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/20/templatestruts.html > >***Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2 >The JK modules are a conduit between Apache and Tomcat. This series of >articles covers using mod_jk with Apache and Tomcat. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/20/tomcat.html > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***Controlling iTunes with Perl >Use Mac::iTunes to create multiple interfaces. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/22/itunes_perl.html > > >***Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs >A hands-on look at how you can share files between your Mac and your >Windows machines, then explore how Windows applications can be run on >your Mac. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html > > >***Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X >The inside scoop for DBAs looking to go big time. > >Part 1 >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/12/oracle_part1.html > >Part 2 >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/oracle_part2.html > > >Until next time, > >Marsee
--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Puryear Information Technology Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting http://www.puryear-it.com
