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>From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Feb 21
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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>February 21, 2003
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>Please share this information with your members...
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>Highlights This Week:
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>Book News
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>-Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
>-What books does O'Reilly have coming up?
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Feb. 25, Adam Trachtenberg & David Sklar ("PHP Cookbook") at NYPHP
>-Visit O'Reilly's booths at the XML Web Services One Conference
>(Mar 3-6) and South by Southwest (Mar 7-11)
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>Conference News
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>-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
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>News
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>-Create a T-shirt Slogan That Any Geek Would Love
>-Don't Forget to Vote for Your Favorite O'Reilly Java Book
>-Oracle Cross Tab Views: A Case for Code
>-Christoph Reichenbach and Lars Skovlund on FreeSCI
>-ONJava.com Survey-Got a Minute?
>-Parsing and Writing QuickTime Files in Java
>-Plumbing the Depths of the ThreadAbortException Using Rotor
>-Five Quick Tips for Using XSLT
>-FreeBSD Basics
>-Securing Your TiBook (or Any Other Mac OS X Machine)
>-Introduction to FileMaker Pro
>-Six Great Tips for Homemade Dot Mac Servers
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>Announcements From Your Peers
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>-Attention Java and Sun ONE users
>-Biotechnology discussion group looking for members
>-LinuxFest Northwest--Bellingham, WA--April 26
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>Book News
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>Review books are available--email me for a copy.
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>***Please include the book order number on your requests.
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>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.
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>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/
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>***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/
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>
>***Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4729
>This new edition boils down the most vital information from "Oracle
>PL/SQL Programming," the bestseller that many consider "the Bible" for
>PL/SQL development.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr2/
>
>A Sample Excerpt, "Bulk Binds," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr2/chapter/index.html
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>
>***What books do we have coming up?
>Visit our New & Upcoming books:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html
>
>Let me know if you would like to see any of these. I can preorder them
>for you.
>
>For a complete list of all O'Reilly books, go to:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html
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>Upcoming Events
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>***Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar ("PHP Cookbook") will be at the
>New York PHP User Group meeting February 25.
>They will discuss two important PHP programming topics: "Implementing
>Web Services" and "Web Application Security Vulnerabilities."
>Please RSVP at http://nyphp.org/rsvp
>
>Tuesday, February 25th, 6:30pm
>Digital Pulp, Inc.
>220 East 23rd Street, Suite 900 (9th floor)
>New York, NY
>http://nyphp.org/
>
>
>***Visit O'Reilly's booth at the following events:
>
>XML Web Services One Conference
>Mar 3-6, 2003,
>Santa Clara Marriott
>Santa Clara, CA
>http://www.xmlconference.com/
>
>South by Southwest
>Mar 7-11, 2003
>Austin Convention Center
>Austin, TX
>http://www.sxsw.com/
>
>
>For more events, please see:
>http://events.oreilly.com/
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>Conference News
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>***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/
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>News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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>General News
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>***Create a T-shirt Slogan That Any Geek Would Love
>Enter your slogan on our site. We'll sort through the entries and,
>using our in-house panel of geek writers, editors, programmers, and sys
>admins, we'll choose a winner, based on our own biased criteria for
>cleverness, creativity, and general geek appeal. The winner will
>receive a $50 shopping spree at ThinkGeek--and a T-shirt with the
>winning slogan. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2003.
>http://www.oreilly.com/contest/tshirt_0203.html
>
>
>***Don't Forget to Vote for Your Favorite O'Reilly Java Book
>The 2003 "Java Developer's Journal" Readers' Choice Awards
>http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/
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>Oracle
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>***Oracle Cross Tab Views: A Case for Code
>Tom Birch makes a case for coding when he explores both the power and
>the limits of Oracle's Cross Tab query for turning data in a report
>from vertical to horizontal.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/02/19/tombirch.html
>
>For coverage on the full range of Oracle SQL features, check out
>O'Reilly's "Mastering Oracle SQL."
>Order Number: 1290
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastorasql/
>
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>Open Source
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>***Christoph Reichenbach and Lars Skovlund on FreeSCI
>The FreeSCI project seeks to bring life back to Sierra On-Line's
>adventure games. What kind of pitfalls have the developers faced in
>reverse engineering the engine?
>http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/02/20/freesci.html
>
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>Java
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>***ONJava.com Survey-Got a Minute?
>We could use your help. We'd like to hear what topics you like, what
>you'd like more of, and what you're working on. Give us a hand on our
>survey and you'll be eligible to win in our survey drawing. The winners
>get to choose three O'Reilly books and get a T-shirt to boot.
>http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?ID=B2424QF5BX35&PIN=TAXE2M15FP5P
>
>
>***Parsing and Writing QuickTime Files in Java
>QuickTime files in Java is easy, if you understand the file format.
>Chris Adamson argues that it makes a lot of sense. This article
>explains how the file format works, demonstrating how to read and write
>to QT files.
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/19/qt_file_format.html
>
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>.NET
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>***Plumbing the Depths of the ThreadAbortException Using Rotor
>Chris Sells was asked the other day how calling Thread.Abort could
>raise an exception in a completely different thread. Finding the answer
>led him on a merry chase.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/02/18/threadabort.html
>
>Chris is coauthor of the upcoming "Mastering Visual Studio .NET"
>Order Number: 3609
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/
>
>
>***Five Quick Tips for Using XSLT
>Like so many acronyms before it, XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language
>Transformations) comes across as YAOT--Yet Another Obfuscated
>Technology. But it doesn't have to be that way. XSLT promises many
>advantages when applied to the right problems. All you need is a quick
>guide on using the XSLT basics.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/02/10/xslttips.html
>
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>BSD
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>***FreeBSD Basics
>Dru Lavigne provides practical advice for completing common tasks under
>FreeBSD.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15
>
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>Mac
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>***Securing Your TiBook (or Any Other Mac OS X Machine)
>Here's how to make your Mac OS X laptop just a bit more secure by
>enabling a BIOS password, and by plugging some of the local and network
>openings. Ian Darwin takes you deep into your Mac's firmware and shows
>you how.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/18/secure_tibook.html
>
>
>***Introduction to FileMaker Pro
>In this first installment in our new FileMaker Pro series, we introduce
>you to this polished, powerful relational database. Alan Graham sets
>the table for things to come.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/14/filemaker.html
>
>
>***Six Great Tips for Homemade Dot Mac Servers
>Now that you have your own Dot Mac server up and running, here are six
>new things you can do with it -- including "iTunes Central," "iPhoto
>online," and the "Safari Rendezvous mod."
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/04/homemade_dot_mac.html
>
>Alan Graham is a contributor to the upcoming "Mac OS X Hacks"
>Order Number: 4605
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/
>
>================================================
>Announcements From Your Peers
>================================================
>***Attention Java and Sun ONE users
>Sun Microsystems, Inc. offers a free bulletin board for Java User
>Groups. Post information about your group and upcoming meetings, or
>search for a group to join. You can also look up information about
>upcoming Sun sponsored JUG events, the JUG Ambassador program, and
>other JUG resources. Just visit the JUGs web site at
>http://java.sun.com/jugs
>
>Did you know that Sun Microsystems, Inc. sponsors regional User Groups
>for several Sun ONE products? Visit the Sun Software User Groups web
>site for membership details:
>http://sunonedev.sun.com/community/usergroups
>
>
>***Biotechnology discussion group looking for members-- St. Louis, MO
>The St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society
>(http://www.umsl.edu/~acs/) is forming a biotechnology discussion
>group, to meet occasionally and discuss computational biology, analysis
>of genomic and proteomic data, and biomedical information and related
>topics. Anyone interested in participating should contact Lisa Balbes
>at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more details.
>
>
>***LinuxFest Northwest--Bellingham, WA
>This regional exposition for computer users interested in the Linux
>operating system and other Open Source software, will be held on April
>26 at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) in Bellingham, Washington.
>This event is being organized by Linux User Groups from Bellingham,
>Kitsap Peninsula, Seattle, and Tacoma, and hosted by BTC. Admission to
>the event is free. John "Maddog" Hall will be featured as the keynote
>speaker. Events will include introductory to advanced lectures and
>tutorials presented by Open Source experts. For more info go to:
>http://www.linuxnorthwest.com.
>
>Until next time--
>
>Marsee
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Puryear Information Technology
Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
http://www.puryear-it.com
