>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 18:08:52 -0800 (PST) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24 > > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >January 24, 2003 > > >Please share this information with your members... > > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Linux Server Hacks >-Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Upcoming Events >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-O'Reilly authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, >San Francisco >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Conference News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology >Conference >-Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology >Conference >-Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book-O'Reilly Emerging >Technology Conference >---------------------------------------------------------------- >News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-O'Reilly Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek to $9.99! >-Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" >-Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics >-Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize >-Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java >-Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET >-802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence >-PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Announcements From Your Peers >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming Meetings > >================================================ >Book News >================================================ >review books are available--email me for a copy. > >***Please include the book order number on your requests. > >Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. >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. >http://www.oreilly.com/ > >***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/ > >***Linux Server Hacks >Order Number: 4613 >This first book in O'Reilly's new Hacks Series shows you how to tune >the Linux kernel to make your system run more efficiently, and use CVS >and RCS to track revisions to system files. You'll also learn >alternative ways to do backups, how to use system monitoring tools to >track performance, and a variety of secure networking solutions. "Linux >Server Hacks" also helps you manage large-scale web installations >running Apache, MySQL, and other open source tools. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ > >Chapter 3, "Backups," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/index.html > > >***Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition >Order number: 3773 >Java application performance is heavily tied to the underlying Java >Virtual Machine, and the new 1.4 version of Java has significant >changes. Revised and expanded, this second edition covers Java 1.4 and >adds new coverage of JDBC, NIO, Servlets, EJB, and JavaServer Pages. >Learn how to create a tuning strategy, use profiling tools to >understand a program's behavior, and avoid performance penalties from >inefficient code. You'll end up with code that's robust, maintainable, >and fast. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/ > >Chapter 12, "Distributed Computing," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/chapter/index.html > > >=============================================== >Upcoming Events >=============================================== >***Come meet our authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, >San Francisco >Join O'Reilly authors G. Andrew Duthie (ASP.NET in a Nutshell), Ken >Getz (Access Cookbook), Juval Lowy (COM and .NET Component Services), >and Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET) at the tenth annual >VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference. >http://www.vslive.com/2003/sf/ > >For more events, please see: >http://events.oreilly.com/ > >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >***Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology >Conference >Can't make the whole conference? Consider a day pass for February 4, 5, >or 6. This event takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ > >To register, go to: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 > > >***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference >Join the leaders from the many worlds of pervasive computing to explore >and invent the new internet infrastructure and culture. Speakers >include: Howard Rheingold, Alan Kay, Clay Shirky, Eric Bonabeau, Tim >O'Reilly, David S. Isenberg, and many others. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ > >Early Bird Discount-- >User Group members who register before March 14th, 2003, 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/pub/w/22/register.html > > >***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** >Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is: >We are looking for user groups to display our conference banners on >their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with >our O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference banner, I will send >you the O'Reilly book of your choice. > >Conference Banners: >http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/etech2003/ > >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ >--------------------- >General News >--------------------- >***O'Reilly Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek >There's still time to get your official, limited edition, full-color >25th Anniversary Wall Calendar, jam-packed with pictures, tales, >O'Reilly lore, pithy quotes, and more. Since we are almost through one >month of the year, ThinkGeek has lowered the price from $14.99 to $9.99 >http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/ > >Download a sample PDF of January's page: >ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/calendar/oreilly_calendar_jan03.pdf > >Bored with the ThinkGeek banner on your site? >Check out the new ones we have: >http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ > > >***Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" >Hacks: Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks--O'Reilly's new Hacks Series >proudly reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys. Hackers use >their ingenuity to solve interesting problems, and now you can have >their real-world, tested solutions at your fingertips. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/hacks/news/0103_tim-hacker.html > >Linux Server Hacks (Available now) >By Rob Flickenger >Order Number: 4613 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ > > >Google Hacks (Available in February) >By Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest >Order Number: 4478 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/ > > >Mac OS X Hacks (Available in March) >By Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway >Order Number: 4605 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/ > >--------------------- >Bioinformatics >--------------------- >***Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics >Tim O'Reilly interviewed Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Mathematica >program and author of "A New Kind of Science," about his research, his >new book, and its connection to bioinformatics. Wolfram will give a >keynote at O'Reilly's 2003 Bioinformatics Technology Conference. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/bio/news/wolfram_0120.html > >The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference takes place at the >Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. >http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >***Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize >Screen-scraping is the job of programmatically navigating through a >usually visual task--like a web site--and then dealing with the result; >and WWW::Mechanize is the best screen scraper out there for Perl! Chris >Ball puts the two things together, to ensure that he never misses his >favourite TV shows again. >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java >Microsoft's file formats were once black arts to developers on >non-sanctioned platforms. Thanks to Jakarta POI, however, it's possible >to read and write them from Java. Apache's Andrew C. Oliver and Avik >Sengupta explain the basics of the project in the first of a series of >three articles. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/22/poi.html > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***Hosting Windows Forms Controls in COM Control >Containers As wonderful as the new WinForms control model is, if you >still need to host controls in COM control containers, you are limited >to exactly one control host that also supports the hosting of WinForms >controls: Internet Explorer. If you want to host your controls in COM >containers, Chris Sells shows you how in this article. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/20/winformshosting.html > > >***Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET >In many situations, an ADO.NET developer will want to use the Order By >and Group By semantic of SQL. This article by Satya Komatineni will >show you how to do it. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/14/groupbyds.html > >--------------------- >Wireless >--------------------- >***802.11g's >"Extreme" Emergence The 802.11g spec uses a relatively new method of >encoding bits onto radio waves in such a way as to squeeze up to 54 >Mbps of raw data across a single channel. Apple has embraced this new >technology in its AirPort Extreme radio cards. Here's how it works. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/01/23/80211g.html > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X >The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an online >repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a >rigorous coding standard. In this article, Jason Perkins shows you how >to install, configure, and use the PEAR Package Manager on Mac OS X >10.2 http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/21/pear_macosx.html > >================================================ >Announcements From Your Peers >================================================ >***Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming >Meetings February 4, March 5, and April 2 > >Time: 8:30-10:00am for all meetings >Location: Virginia Beach Central Library for all meetings > >For more information, contact Hazel Zamperini: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >Until next time-- > >Marsee
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