>Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:10:40 -0800 (PST) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 31 > > >O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >January 31, 2003 > > >Please share this information with your members... > > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell >-Mac OS X in a Nutshell >-Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 >-JDBC Pocket Reference >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Upcoming Events >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Matt Welsh (Running Linux, 4th Ed.) at SDForum's Emerging Technology >SIG, Palo Alto, CA--February 11 >-chromatic (Running Weblogs with Slash) The Linux in Boise Club, >Boise, ID--February 18 >--------------------------------------------------------------- >Conference News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Last chance to Register 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 >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Looking for User Group Members to submit book reviews to Slashdot >-Want to know what the top 25 best-selling books on our site are? >-Stein on Bioinformatics >-Network Impact of the MS SQL Worm >-Building Dependency Webs in J2EE >-Using NAnt to Build .NET Projects >-Distributed .config Files with Smart Clients >-What Is a Flash MX Component? >-Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2 >-The DigiCam Chronicles: Sound Is Half the Picture >-Sundance Gets in the Digital Groove >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Announcements From Your Peers >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-From LinuxChix--What are good books for Linux beginners? > >================================================ >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/ > >***Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell >Order Number: 494X >"Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell" pulls together all of the vital >information about the most commonly used databases, analytical tools, >and tables used in sequence analysis. The book contains details and >examples on using GenBank, EMBL, and SWISS-PROT, as well as the >GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ Feature Table Definitions. This book draws together >essential information for bioinformaticians in industry, academia, and >undergraduate programs. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seqanalyian/ > >Chapter 7, "BLAST," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seqanalyian/chapter/index.html > > >***Mac OS X in a Nutshell >Order Number: 3706 >"Mac OS X in a Nutshell" offers a thorough treatment of Mac OS X >version 10.2, from its BSD Unix foundation to new Aqua interface. The >book's "Unix Command Reference" is the most complete coverage of Mac OS >X Unix commands you can find anywhere. Serious users who want more from >their system will find everything they need to know systematically >documented in this book. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxian/ > >Chapter 14, "Web Publishing with a DAMP System," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxian/chapter/index.html > > >***Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 >Order Number: 3927 >"Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0" packs a stack of essential Unix books >into one comprehensive, immensely convenient, and portable package: >"Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition;" "Learning the Unix Operating System, >5th Edition;" "Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition;" "Mac OS X for Unix >Geeks;" "Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition;" "sed & awk, 2nd >Edition;" and "Unix in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition." The CD has a master >index, a powerful search engine, and all the text is extensively >hyperlinked, so you'll find what you're looking for quickly. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixcdbs3/ > > >***JDBC Pocket Reference >Order Number: 4575 >This pocket reference offers quick look-ups for all methods of the >standard JDBC classes. These include concise reviews of the procedures >for common JDBC tasks such as connecting to a database, executing >stored procedures, and executing DDL. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jdbcpr/ > >An excerpt, "User-Defined Data Types," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jdbcpr/chapter/index.html > >=============================================== >Upcoming Events >=============================================== >***Matt Welsh (Running Linux, 4th Edition) at SDForum's Emerging >Technology SIG, Palo Alto, CA--February 11 >Matt will be presenting "Extreme Overload and Concurrency in Internet >Services." >For event information: >http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1003&mo=2&yr=2003 > >Emerging Technology SIG, SDForum >6:30pm, February 11, 2003 >Cubberley Community Center >4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1 >Palo Alto, CA >For directions, go to: >http://www.sdforum.org/p/l1.asp?SID=1&PID=324 > > >***chromatic (Running Weblogs with Slash) at the Linux in Boise Club, >Boise, ID--February 18 >chromatic's topic will be "Perl and the Pyramids of Giza." chromatic is >also the technical editor for the O'Reilly Network >(http://www.oreillynet.com/). > >The Linux in Boise Club >7PM, February 18, 2003 >ExecuTrain Of Boise >8950 W. Emerald Street >Suite 178 >Boise, ID 83704 >http://www.libc.org/ > > >For more events, pleas see: >http://events.oreilly.com/ > >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >***Last chance to Register 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 is looking for User Group Members to submit book reviews to >Slashdot.org Here is what they are looking for: > >"Choose a book that you enjoyed, hated, thought was worth the money, or >definitely wasn't. Slashdot reviews cover a wide range of topics and >styles, but this is "News for Nerds," so books by Danielle Steele or >Oprah are unlikely to appear on the Slashdot home page. Also, use the >Slashdot search engine to see whether the book has already been >reviewed. Depending on circumstances, we may run more than one review >of a single book. If more than one reviewer submits a review, we may >only run the one we think is better, run both in full, or excerpt to >present elements of both." > >For more information on their book review guidelines, go to: >http://slashdot.org/book.review.guidelines.shtml > > >***Want to know what the top 25 best-selling books on our site are? >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/top25.html > >--------------------- >Bioinformatics >--------------------- >***Stein on Bioinformatics >Lincoln Stein is an associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor >Laboratory and a keynote speaker at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics >Technology Conference. We talk with Lincoln about the bioinformatics >technologies and tools he's most excited about. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/bio/news/lincolnstein.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 >--------------------- >***Network Impact of the MS SQL Worm >Iljitsch van Beijnum, the author of "BGP" and a network manager, >describes how he dealt with the MS SQL worm attack. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/01/28/msworm.html > >BGP >Order Number: 2548 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/ > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***Building Dependency Webs in J2EE >J2EE applications are complex. Good programming means managing >complexity, especially if you're making changes to a stable system. In >this article, Alex Iskold and Daniel Kogan introduce Dependency Webs, a >technique for visualizing and analyzing source code dependencies. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/29/depweb.html > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***Using NAnt to Build .NET Projects >With Visual Studio .NET, you can easily build and compile .NET projects >that contain any number of sub-projects--collections of interdependent >web pages, executables, DLL assemblies, and so forth--with a single >menu command. This article by Jeffrey P. McManus shows you how to use >NAnt to build complicated projects. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/nant.html > > >***Distributed .config Files with Smart Clients >The new model provided by .NET smart clients has really taken hold in >the imaginations and the business plans of .NET developers. The idea of >getting the best of both the richness of real Windows applications and >the zero-touch installation of web-based applications is turning the >heads of many an IT professional. Of course, as soon as a brand new >model starts being put to real use, problems show themselves. In this >article, Chris Sells shows you how to solve these problems. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/ztd.html > >--------------------- >Web Development >--------------------- >***What Is a Flash MX Component? >With the release of Flash MX, Macromedia added an extensible library of >user interface widgets called Flash UI Components. Colin Moock explains >what they are, and he includes several resources for creating and using >them. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/01/28/actionscript.html > >Colin is the author of "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive >Guide, 2nd Edition." Order Number: 396X >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/ > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2 >In part 2 in his series on using Jaguar's Terminal application, Chris >Stone shows you how to configure cron to email a report to you each >time it runs a job. Chris is a coauthor of the recently released "Mac >OS X in a Nutshell." >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/24/terminal_osx.html > > >***The DigiCam Chronicles: Sound Is Half the Picture >You can add pro-quality voiceovers to your digital imagery with just a >few simple tools and Mac OS X. Derrick Story shows you how to easily >record and edit QuickTime audio. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/28/digicam_chronicles.html > > >***Sundance Gets in the Digital Groove >Digital Video is becoming more accepted among serious filmmakers, as >witnessed at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Susan Boyer reports on >new DV tools and discusses some of the more popular digital video >entries at the festival. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/28/dv_video.html > >================================================ >Announcements From Your Peers >================================================ > >***From LinuxChix--What are good books for Linux beginners? >http://www.linuxchix.org/content/recommends/books/beginner_list > > >Until next time-- > >Marsee
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