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>From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 4
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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>April 4, 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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>-Outlook Pocket Guide
>-Mastering Visual Studio .NET
>-.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell
>-Content Syndication with RSS
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Brian McConnell ("Beyond Contact"), SFPCUG, San Francisco, CA
>--April 15
>-JavaRanch Online Author Forum--Apr 15-18
>-PHPCon East 2003, New York, NY--Apr 23-25
>-Linuxfest Northwest 2003, Bellingham, WA--April 26
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>Conference
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>-Free Amazon Workshop at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
>-Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention
>-O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation
>-Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner,
>Get a Free Book
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>Safari
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>-"Go On Safari" winner--Hamster, LinuxChix
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>News
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>-Sift, Stir, Code: O'Reilly Cookbooks
>-Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay
>-Cheap IP Takeover
>-What's New in Python 2.3?
>-Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests
>-Inside the Workings of Rotor
>-Oracle 9i Release 2 Developments for PL/SQL Collections
>-iMovie 3 and Other New Books
>-A Photographer's Review of the Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR
>-A Developer's Perspective on Apple's 12-inch PowerBook
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>News From Your Peers
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>-MUG ONE Special Event with Dave Marra, Oneonta, NY--May 6
>-Peninsula Apple Users Group Celebrates 20 years, Redwood City,
>CA--July 19
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>Book News
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>Review books are available--email me for a copy.
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>
>***Outlook Pocket Guide
>Order Number: 4443
>This pocket-size reference explains how Outlook works behind the
>scenes, allowing you to more efficiently manage your schedule,
>contacts, and deadlines. The book includes an extensive guide section
>for common tasks and little-known solutions, as well as reference
>tables for keyboard shortcuts, regular expressions, and common file
>locations.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/outlookpg/
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>
>***Mastering Visual Studio .NET
>Order Number: 3609
>Most developers can perform the basics inside Visual Studio .NET, like
>creating a project, typing some code, compiling, and debugging.
>"Mastering Visual Studio .NET" covers these topics quickly, and then it
>gives intermediate and advanced programmers the kind of depth that's
>really needed: advanced window functionality, macros, advanced
>debugging, add-ins, and so on.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/
>
>Chapter 7, "Integrating Components with Visual Studio .NET," is
>available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/chapter/index.html
>
>
>***.NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell
>Order Number: 3382
>".NET Windows Forms in a Nutshell" offers an accelerated introduction
>to this next generation of rich user-interface development. Experienced
>programmers will find a comprehensive guide to developing Windows
>applications within the .NET Windows Forms platform, along with a
>compact yet complete reference to the .NET Framework Class Library
>(FCL) Windows Forms namespaces and types. The bonus CD-ROM includes an
>add-in that integrates the book's reference directly into the help
>files of Visual Studio .NET.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netwinformian/
>
>Chapter 3, "Forms, Containers, and Applications," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netwinformian/chapter/index.html
>
>
>***Content Syndication with RSS
>Order Number: 3838
>RSS is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and
>syndicate web site content. Written for webloggers, developers, and
>programmers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, or who
>want to use content that other people are syndicating, this book
>explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of
>content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this
>field. Produce your own RSS feed with this step-by-step guide to
>implementation.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/consynrss/
>
>Chapter 4, "RSS 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0 Really Simple Syndication," is
>available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/consynrss/chapter/index.html
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>Upcoming Events
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>***Brian McConnell ("Beyond Contact") at SFPCUG, San Francisco,
>CA--April 15
>Author Brian McConnell will discuss the current status of SETI programs
>and his research with the San Francisco PC User's Group.
>
>7 p.m. meeting; doors open at 6
>Meetings take place in the auditorium of the
>Community College District Office, 33 Gough Street,
>(a half-block south of Market Street) San Francisco, CA.
>www.sfpcug.org
>
>
>***JavaRanch Online Author Forum--April 15-18
>Author Ron Hitchens ("Java NIO") moseys up to the JavaRanch for four
>days, answering questions and responding to Forum topics. On the last
>day, four winners will be randomly selected from all Forum participants
>to win a copy of the book.
>http://www.javaranch.com/bookpromo.jsp
>
>
>***PHPCon East 2003, New York, NY-- April 23-25
>Join O'Reilly author and PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf ("PHP Pocket
>Reference") at PHPCon for his opening keynote and session on "PHP Tips
>and Tricks." Also, don't miss "PHP Cookbook" authors Adam Trachtenberg
>and David Sklar for their session, "Taming Large-Scale PHP Projects."
>
>PHPCon East 2003
>Park Central Hotel
>870 Seventh Avenue at 56th Street
>New York City, New York 10019-4038
>http://php-con.com/
>
>
>***Linuxfest Northwest 2003, Bellingham, WA--April 26
>Brian Aker ("Running Weblogs with Slash") and Randal Schwartz
>("Learning Perl, 3rd Edition") will be speaking at Linuxfest Northwest
>2003, a regional exposition for computer users interested in the Linux
>operating system and other Open Source software. 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.
>
>April 26th, 2003,10am to 4pm
>Bellingham Technical College
>3028 Lindbergh Avenue,
>Bellingham, WA 98225
>For more information:
>http://linuxnorthwest.com
>
>For more events, please see:
>http://events.oreilly.com/
>
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>Conference News
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>***Free Amazon Workshop at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
>This full-day workshop, located at ETech, examines the Amazon platform
>in depth, with a specific focus on web services APIs. Amazon.com
>employees and third party developers share case studies and
>demonstrations. Space is limited (and filling up quickly). Register for
>the workshop by April 14, 2003.
>
>To register, send an email to Linda Holder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
>your contact information.
>
>For more info, read the Slashdot article "REST vs. SOAP In Amazon Web
>Services":
>http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/03/1942235
>
>For more info on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/
>
>
>***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention
>--Portland, OR
>Programmers, developers, strategists, technical staff, and other open
>source votaries from around the world congregate for five days of
>tutorials, conference sessions, and networking of the flesh-and-blood
>variety. Recognizing that open source tools have moved squarely into
>the mainstream, this year's convention focuses on "embracing and
>extending proprietary software."
>
>
>Early Bird Discount--
>User Group members who register before May 23, 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/cs/os2003/create/ord_os03
>
>O'Reilly Open Source Convention
>Portland Marriott Downtown,
>Portland, OR
>July 7-11, 2003
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
>
>
>***O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation
>System administrators, developers, strategists, technical staff, and
>power users are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and
>conference sessions at the second annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference.
>Suggested topics include: Scripting Genius, Amazing Applications,
>Ingenious Hacks, and SysAdmin Mac Style, to name a few.
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
>
>The submission deadline for proposals is May 14, 2003:
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/e_sess
>
>
>***Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner, Get A Free Book
>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 Open Source Convention banner, I will send
>you the O'Reilly book of your choice.
>
>OSCON Conference Banners:
>http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/oscon2003/
>
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>Safari News
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>***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--Hamster, LinuxChix
>
>"Make Safari your first port of call when searching the Web for
>technical information. Search engines return an awful lot of junk, but
>a search on Safari has a 100% signal to noise ratio!!"
>
>
>Your group can also participate in this introductory program just for
>user group members. To "Go on Safari," any of your members who sign up
>for our Safari 14-day free trial send comments on their experiences, or
>tips and tricks for how they used Safari (it only needs to be 2
>sentences long, but it may be longer) to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Every week someone will be chosen from the tips or comments submitted
>to receive fun stuff from O'Reilly (T-shirts, book bags, or other
>surprises). If a member of your user group is selected, your group
>receives free gifts, too. Whatever the individual member receives, your
>UG will get one, too, to give away at your next meeting, or use however
>you see fit. Recipients--and their comments--will be announced in the
>User Group Newsletter.
>
>
>**Please use this special UG URL to sign up for the 14-day trial**
>http://www.oreilly.com/safari/ug
>
>
>For more information on Safari:
>http://safari.oreilly.com/
>
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>News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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>General News
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>***Sift, Stir, Code: O'Reilly Cookbooks
>Looking for the right ingredients to solve a programming problem? Look
>no further than O'Reilly Cookbooks. Each cookbook contains hundreds of
>programming recipes presented in a special Problem/Solution/Discussion
>format, and includes hundreds of scripts, programs, and command
>sequences you can use to solve specific dilemmas.
>http://cookbooks.oreilly.com/
>
>
>***Daddy, Are We There Yet? A Discussion with Alan Kay
>Daniel Steinberg chats with Alan Kay, the creator of Smalltalk, about
>where computing is today and where it's headed. Alan will deliver a
>keynote at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference.
>http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/04/03/alan_kay.html
>
>For more info on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/
>
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>Open Source
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>***Cheap IP Takeover
>Rob Flickenger offers a scheme for monitoring the health of your server
>using ping, bash, and a simple network utility. This is an example of
>the 100 hacks you'll find in Rob's "Linux Server Hacks."
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/04/03/linuxhacks.html
>
>Linux Server Hacks
>Order Number: 4613
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/
>
>
>***What's New in Python 2.3?
>Will the forthcoming Python 2.3 invalidate what you learn from
>O'Reilly's recently released "Python in a Nutshell?" Is it worth
>upgrading to 2.3, or should you stick to 2.2 as long as possible? This
>article, by Alex Martelli, the author of "Python in a Nutshell,"
>answers these questions with a look at the changes and improvements in
>the new version, including reviews of the new modules 2.3 has to
>offer.
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/03/27/pythonian.html
>
>Python in a Nutshell
>Order Number: 1886
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian/index.html
>
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>Java
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>***Top 12 Reasons to Write Unit Tests
>Most programmers don't write tests, which is unfortunate since testing
>improves software quality and design, reduces bugs, and provides
>material for accurate documentation. If those reasons don't convince
>you, here are 12 more, brought to you by Eric M. Burke and Brian M.
>Coyner, coauthors of "Java Extreme Programming Cookbook."
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/02/javaxpckbk.html
>
>Java Extreme Programming Cookbook
>Order Number: 3870
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jextprockbk/
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>.NET
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>***Inside the Workings of Rotor
>Get under the Shared Source CLI hood in this OET interview with David
>Stutz, a former member of Microsoft's .NET Framework core design team
>and a coauthor of the first book on the inside operations of Rotor,
>O'Reilly's "Shared Source CLI Essentials."
>http://www.oetrends.com/cgi-bin/page_display.cgi?194
>
>Shared Source CLI Essentials
>Order Number: 351X
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/
>
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>Oracle
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>***Oracle 9i Release 2 Developments for PL/SQL Collections
>Steven Feuerstein and Bryn Llewellyn explore the extended flexibility
>of the collection syntax, storage, and access in Oracle 9i Release 2,
>which makes it possible to write simpler, more efficient code. Steven
>is a coauthor of "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition."
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/04/01/feuerstein.html
>
>Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition
>Order Number: 3811
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/index.html
>
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>Mac
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>***iMovie 3 and Other New Books
>Author David Pogue talks about a number of upcoming releases that will
>cover everything you need to know about the Apple iLife suite, in the
>latest From David's Desk. http://missingmanuals.com/david/
>
>***A Photographer's Review of the Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR
>The concept of digital photography is exciting. But in reality,
>shooting with a typical digicam elicits a raft of frustrations, from
>shutter lag to those miserable optical viewfinders. The Canon EOS 10D
>digital SLR changes all of that. It's a photographic tool that
>distinguishes itself as a capable camera first, then amazes you that it
>uses CompactFlash media instead of film. Here's a photographer's look
>at what might be your next digital camera.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/all_mac_articles
>
>
>***A Developer's Perspective on Apple's 12-inch PowerBook
>Many of our developers have been eyeing Apple's new 12-inch PowerBook
>as a possible upgrade for their iBooks. Yes, the PowerBook does have a
>G4 processor, but does it pass muster in other areas? Wei Meng Lee made
>the leap and reports on how he landed.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/03/28/powerbook.html
>
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>News From Your Peers
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>
>***MUG ONE Special Event with Dave Marra, Oneonta, NY--May 6
>Dave Marra, Apple Senior Systems Engineer, will be presenting to The
>Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, NY on May 6, 2003 at 7:30 PM in Hogdon
>IRC Classroom 4 on the State University at Oneonta campus for an
>exciting evening exploring the amazing new Macintosh hardware and
>software recently released from Apple.
>http://www.mugone.com/
>
>
>***Peninsula Apple Users Group Celebrates 20 years, Redwood City,
>CA--July 19
>All Macintosh enthusiasts are invited to join Saturday, July 19, 2003
>from 11am-3pm at the Red Morton Community Park in Redwood City,
>California.
>http://homepage.mac.com/ipaug/20-yrs.html
>
>Please RSVP by July 11 to Audrey Hargis at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>Until next time--
>
>Marsee
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Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Puryear Information Technology
Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
http://www.puryear-it.com
