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>Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, December 6
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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>December 6, 2002
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>Spread The Word To Your Members...
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>Highlights This Week:
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>Book News
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>-Running Linux, 4th Edition
>-XML CD Bookshelf
>-Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide
>-Word Pocket Guide
>-PHP Cookbook
>-Java Swing, 2nd Edition
>-Mac OS X Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition
>-Essential System Administration Pocket Reference
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual") will be
>on the Radio December 7
>-David G. Kelly, ("Practical VoIP Using VOCAL"),
>San Jose, CA--December 10
>-Ian Oeschger ("Creating Applications with Mozilla"),
>Mountain View, CA--December 10
>-Cricket Liu ("DNS and BIND"), Boulder, CO--December 12
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>Conference News
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>-O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online
>Registration is Open
>-Proposals are due December 13 for the O'Reilly Emerging
>Technology Conference
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>News
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>-Computers for Albatrosses
>-An Interview with Tim O'Reilly
>-HTML version of the O'Reilly UG Newsletter for your site
>-O'Reilly Gear Available at ThinkGeek
>-Put up a ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book
>-The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar
>-Internationalization and Localization with PHP
>-ApacheCon 2002 Coverage
>-Relational Modeling of Biological Data: Trees and Graphs
>-Data Management in Windows Forms Applications, Part 1
>-C# Generics in Rotor
>-Chapter from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd
>Edition" available online
>-PHP with Apple's Developer Tools
>-Inside RelativeLayout
>-Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap
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> >From Your Peers
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>-The Maryland Apple Corps Will Have Their Annual Holiday Party & Flea
>Market on December 17th
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>***Running Linux, 4th Edition
>Order Number: 2726
>"Running Linux, 4th Edition" delves into installation, configuring the
>windowing system, system administration, and networking. A solid
>foundation text for any Linux user, the book also includes additional
>resources for dealing with special requirements imposed by hardware,
>advanced applications, and emerging technologies. Whether you are using
>Linux on a home workstation or maintaining a network server, "Running
>Linux" will provide expert advice on what you need.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/
>
>Chapter 7, "Upgrading the Software and the Kernel," and Chapter 15,
>"TCP/IP and PPP," are available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/chapter/index.html
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>
>***XML CD Bookshelf
>Order Number: 3358
>The "XML CD Bookshelf" provides convenient online access, from your
>CD-ROM drive, to seven of O'Reilly's indispensable XML books: "XML in a
>Nutshell, 2nd Edition," "XSLT," "XML Schema," "SAX2," "Java & XML, 2nd
>Edition," "Java and XSLT," and "Perl & XML." The CD has a master index
>for all seven books and a powerful search engine; the text is
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>quickly.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlcdbksf/
>
>
>***Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide
>Order Number: 4435
>This book covers the most common hardware and software problems for Mac
>users. This slim guide distills the answers to the urgent questions
>that Tekserve, "the leader in Apple triage services," answers every
>week. It's not just a book for Mac OS X, although it includes tips for
>OS X and Jaguar; it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type--there are
>software tips going back as far as OS 6.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactrblpg/
>
>The table of contents are available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactrblpg/toc.html
>
>
>***Word Pocket Guide
>Order Number: 4451
>Packed with information, this pocket guide is a condensed quick
>reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster, without
>having to plow through a thousand-page tutorial. "Word Pocket Guide"
>covers Word 2002, 2000, and 97, and it includes an explanation of how
>Word works behind the scenes; a guide section for common tasks and
>little-known solutions; and reference tables for keyboard shortcuts,
>regular expressions, and common file locations.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpg/
>
>The table of contents are available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpg/toc.html
>
>
>***PHP Cookbook
>Order Number: 6811
>"PHP Cookbook" provides programmers with solutions and practical
>examples to hundreds of problems they'll encounter when working with
>PHP. With over 250 recipes ranging from simple tasks to entire programs
>that demonstrate complex tasks (such as printing HTML tables and
>generating bar charts), this book offers a unique and extensive
>collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas.
>Novice to advanced PHP practitioners will find a treasure trove of
>useful code in "PHP Cookbook."
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/
>
>Chapter 8, "Web Basics," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/chapter/index.html
>
>
>***Java Swing, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4087
>This new edition thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2
>SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than a reference, this book takes a practical
>approach with hundreds of useful examples, from beginning level to
>advanced, covering every component available in Swing. Whether you're a
>seasoned Java developer or just trying to find out what Java can do,
>you'll find this an indispensable guide.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/
>
>Chapter 14, "Menus and Toolbars," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/chapter/ch14.html
>
>
>***Mac OS X Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4583
>Concise, easy to use, and thoroughly updated to cover Mac OS X 10.2,
>this pocket guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts of Mac OS
>X. It features a handy "Mac OS X Survival Guide" that shows Mac users
>what has changed from Mac OS 9, and it helps Windows and Unix converts
>get acclimated to their new OS. With over 250 tips and tricks, this
>practical guide is a roadmap to the power of Mac OS X.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpg2/
>
>A Sample Excerpt, "Tips for Switchers," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpg2/chapter/index.html
>
>
>***Essential System Administration Pocket Reference
>Order Number: 4494
>This book brings together all the important Unix and Linux system
>administration information in a single compact volume. Not only are
>administrative commands covered, but this reference also includes the
>locations and formats of important configuration files (including both
>general system databases like the password and group files as well as
>the configuration files for major subsystems like DNS, DHCP, and
>sendmail). The book also includes variations in command usage and file
>formats for the most important Unix versions.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esapr/
>
>A Sample Excerpt, "User Accounts," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esapr/chapter/index.html
>
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>Upcoming Events
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>***Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual") will be on the Radio
>December 7
>The Inside Mac Radio Show With Bob LeVitus & Scott Sheppard will
>include author Derrick Story This Saturday, December 7, 11:00am-1:00pm
>PST. Derrick will be talking about Mac OS X, O'Reilly, iPhoto, and
>general computer stuff.
>
>For more information, please see:
>http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/
>
>
>***David G. Kelly, ("Practical VoIP Using VOCAL"),
>San Jose, CA--December 10
>Author David G. Kelly will be presenting "Building a VoIP System" to
>the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of C & C++ Users.
>
>December 10, 7:00pm-9:00pm
>Accent Technology,
>1880 Hartog Dr.
>San Jose, CA 95131
>
>For more information, please see:
>http://www.accu-usa.org/
>
>
>***Ian Oeschger ("Creating Applications with Mozilla"),
>Mountain View, CA--December 10
>Author Ian Oeschger is giving a talk to the Emerging
>Technology Group SIG for the Software Development Forum. He will
>introduce the Mozilla platform and show developers how to begin to
>create applications with Mozilla technologies.
>
>December 10, 7:00pm
>Mountain View Community Center
>201 S. Rengstorff Ave. Room 2
>Mountain View, CA
>
>For more information, please see:
>http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=969
>
>
>***Cricket Liu ("DNS and BIND"), Boulder, CO--December 12
>Author Cricket Liu discusses new threats to the Domain Name Service
>(DNS) at a Front Range UNIX Users Group meeting
>
>December 12, 4:00pm
>CU Academic Computing Center Building
>Room 123
>Arapahoe and Marine Streets in Boulder, CO
>
>For more information, please see:
>http://www.fruug.org/announcement/index.html
>
>
>For more events, please see:
>http://events.oreilly.com/
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>Conference News
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>***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
>
>
>***Proposals are due December 13 for the O'Reilly Emerging
>Technology Conference
>O'Reilly & Associates invites technologists, CTOs, CIOs, programmers,
>business developers, strategists, and policy makers to lead tutorial
>and conference sessions at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
>Conference.
>
>The submission deadline for all proposals is December 13, 2002.
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/create/e_sess
>
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>News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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>General News
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>***Computers for Albatrosses
>A computer small enough to fit on an albatross? This article details
>the datalogger John Catsoulis built in order to track an albatross's
>migration patterns.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/cprog/news/albatross_1202.html
>
>John wrote "Designing Embedded Hardware."
>Order Number: 3625
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/
>
>
>***An Interview with Tim O'Reilly
>Here's what Tim's thinking about these days, from iPod to web services
>to O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference
>http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/03/timinterview.html
>
>The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/
>
>
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>Open Source
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>***The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar
>http://www.perladvent.org/
>
>
>***Internationalization and Localization with PHP
>Making your web sites multilingual doesn't have to mean driving
>yourself crazy. Learn how to deliver translated text and images simply
>and easily, from Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of "PHP Cookbook."
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/index.html
>
>PHP Cookbook
>Order Number: 6811
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/
>
>
>***ApacheCon 2002 Coverage
>Apache Week's coverage of this year's ApacheCon includes a summary of
>Tim O'Reilly's keynote on "Watching the Alpha Geeks."
>http://www.apacheweek.com/features/apachecon2002
>
>For more on Apache see "Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition."
>(Available later this month.)
>Order Number: 2033
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache3/
>
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>Bioinformatics
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>***Relational Modeling of Biological Data: Trees and Graphs
>Aaron Mackey shows how to build and manage a relational database that
>supports hierarchical data.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/11/27/bioconf.html
>
>Aaron will be giving a tutorial called "Relational Databases for
>Bioinformatics" at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics Technology
>Conference.
>For more information, go to:
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/.
>
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>.NET
>---------------------
>***Data Management in Windows Forms Applications, Part 1
>Chris Tavares has always enjoyed doing user interface work. As he puts
>it, the ability to put his work right on the screen in full view is
>what makes UI work different from back-end business logic, and it feels
>more satisfying somehow to write code that does something on the
>screen, rather than just adjust an account balance somewhere in some
>database. In this article, he will show you how the typical Model-View
>architecture works in .NET.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/02/wfdb1.html
>
>
>***C# Generics in Rotor
>If you want to try using generic classes and methods in C#, you don't
>have to wait--Microsoft Research has released an experimental
>implementation. In this article by Dave Berry, he shows you how you can
>start working with it right away.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/02/generics.html
>
>---------------------
>Web
>---------------------
>***Chapter from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd
>Edition" available online
>Chapter 10, "Events and Event Handling," the first of three chapters
>from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition"
>(out later this month) are available for viewing on Macromedia's Flash
>MX Application Development Center.
>http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/articles/actionscript.html
>
>
>ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 396X
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/
>
>
>***PHP with Apple's Developer Tools
>Apple's OS X developer tools were originally developed by NeXT for
>programmers working with Obj-C, but have since evolved for use with a
>wide range of languages. At the heart of these tools is an IDE called
>Project Builder, which is also useful for working with PHP, as this
>article examines.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/11/27/php_apple.html
>
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>Java
>---------------------
>***Inside RelativeLayout
>Here's a look inside the RelativeLayout package that shows you how the
>layout manager works, and how to extend it to support new kinds of
>constraints, by James Elliott, coauthor of "Java Swing, 2nd Edition."
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/27/layout2.html
>
>Java Swing, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4087
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/
>
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>Mac
>---------------------
>***Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/25/gifts.html
>
>***iApp Power Play by Derrick Story
>Derrick Story says "Don't be lulled by those seemingly simple GUI
>interfaces: the iApps are high performance publishing tools. Here's how
>to use them together to create a full-fledged media development
>environment."
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/03/power_iapps.html
>
>================================================
> >From Your Peers
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>*** Maryland Apple Corps, Greater Baltimore Metro Area
>The Maryland Apple Corps. will have their annual holiday party & flea
>market on December 17th at the Towson Library, Towson, MD.
>
>For more information, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
>Until next time,
>
>Marsee
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Puryear Information Technology
Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
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