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>From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 18
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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>April 18, 2003
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>Highlights This Week:
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>Book News
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>-Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition
>-The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, Version 1.0
>-O'Reilly Pocket References
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Rael Dornfest ("Mac OS X Hacks" & "Google Hacks") A32 and SVMUG
>Meeting, Cupertino, CA--April 21
>-Simon St. Laurent ("Programming Web Services with XML-RPC"),
>XML Special Interest Group of New York, NY--April 22
>-Directory Experts Conference, Scottsdale, AZ--Apr 28-May 1
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>Conferences
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>-Day Passes are available for 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--Alfredo Octavio, Caracas Macintosh User Group
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>News
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>-Interview with Tim O'Reilly
>-Eight Search Engine "C" Changes
>-Special Offer--Free 'Intro to XML' Online Class
>-Knoppix: A Painless Introduction to Linux
>-PHP and Heredocs
>-Reading and Writing Excel Files with POI
>-.NET Streams Explained
>-Migration to Windows Server 2003 Now Easier
>-Getting Dreamweaver MX Up to Speed with PHP
>-Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
>-Apache Web Serving with Jaguar, Part 2
>-Tell Us What You Think: The First Survey of Mac DevCenter Readers
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>News From Your Peers
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>-SF Java By The Bay Meeting, San Francisco, CA--April 23
>-MD25MD: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of The Maryland Apple Corps,
>Baltimore, MD--June 1
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>Book News
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>***Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4389
>"Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition" is the complete guide to
>application development using VB.NET. Thorough, entertaining, and easy
>to follow, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of
>the language, object-oriented programming, and the .NET Framework. Then
>it goes further, showing you how to create Windows and web
>applications, as well as web services.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progvbdotnet2/
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>Chapter 15, "Building Web Applications with Web Forms," is online now:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progvbdotnet2/chapter/index.html
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>
>***The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, Version 1.0
>Order Number: 5105
>We've packed six of our best-selling web programming guides into this
>CD-ROM, giving you 4,668 pages of O'Reilly references and tutorials,
>all fully searchable and cross-referenced. You can search either the
>individual index for each book, or the master index for the entire
>collection.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wprogcdbs/
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>
>***O'Reilly Pocket References
>Our pocket references and pocket guides are comprehensive, inexpensive,
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>details of programming and web syntax, focused tutorials that explain
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>http://pocketrefs.oreilly.com/
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>Upcoming Events
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>***Rael Dornfest ("Mac OS X Hacks" & "Google Hacks"),
>A32 and SVMUG meeting, Cupertino, CA--April 21
>Author Rael Dornfest will be speaking with the Association of A32 Users
>and the Silicon Valley Mac Users Group about his two new Hacks books.
>
>April 21, 7 pm
>Beatles Conference Room, DeAnza Building Three
>Apple Corporate Campus
>Cupertino, California
>Meeting Directions:
>http://www.a32.org/inner_pages/map.html
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>For more info:
>http://www.a32.org
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>
>***Simon St. Laurent ("Programming Web Services with XML-RPC"),
>XML Special Interest Group of New York, NY--April 22
>O'Reilly author and editor Simon St. Laurent will be presenting the XML
>used in Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 will include
>enormous new XML functionality, especially in Microsoft Word and
>Microsoft Excel, as well as a new (though limited-distribution)
>application, InfoPath. This talk will take a close look at what's
>included and not included in this set of tools, as well as how
>developers can integrate them with their own systems.
>
>April 22, 7-9pm
>Goldman Sachs
>180 Maiden Lane, Room 30C1
>New York, NY
>
>To reserve a place at this meeting please send a request to
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] You will receive a confirmation by return email.
>Security requires that those attending this meeting be registered at
>least a day in advance so that their names are available to check
>against attendance at the door. Please register before Monday, April
>21, to insure that you will be admitted.
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>
>***Directory Experts Conference, Scottsdale, AZ--Apr 28-May 1
>Authors Robbie Allen ("Active Directory, 2nd Edition" and "Active
>Directory Cookbook," both coming in summer 2003) and Cricket Liu ("DNS
>and BIND," "DNS on Windows NT," and "DNS on Windows 2000") are featured
>keynote speakers.
>
>April 28-May 1
>Scottsdale Mountain Shadows Marriott Resort & Golf Club
>5641 East Lincoln Drive
>Scottsdale, Arizona
>http://www.netpro.com/welcome/decadus/index.cfm
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>Conference News
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>***Day Passes are available for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
>Conference
>Can't make the whole conference? Buy a day pass for
>April 23, 24, or 25.
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/create/ord_et03
>
>For more info on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/
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>
>***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."
>
>O'Reilly Open Source Convention
>Portland Marriott Downtown,
>Portland, OR
>July 7-11, 2003
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
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>
>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 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
>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 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--Alfredo Octavio,
>Caracas Macintosh User Group
>"Even if you have a University library or a big bookstore nearby,
>you'll find Safari's accessibility and sheer number of books very
>convenient...There are books by Sun, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press,
>Apprentice Hall, Que, Adobe Press, Sams, Macromedia Press, Cisco Press,
>and Microsoft Press among others. The variety of publishers guarantees
>that you will find a book on a topic with any experience level you
>need."
>
>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]
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>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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>***An Interview with Tim O'Reilly
>Tim isn't just talking about open source; he's talking about the basic
>human impulse to share and participate. In this Switch interview, he
>places art, western science, music, and the movies squarely in the
>middle of open source culture.
>http://switch.sjsu.edu/~switch/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?artc=268
>
>Tim will be talking about these kinds of topics at next week's Emerging
>Technology Conference.
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/
>
>
>***Eight Search Engine "C" Changes
>Tara Calishain, a self-proclaimed search engine addict, ponders the
>future direction search engines could take. How might pay-for-inclusion
>programs and other revenue generators change the way we search?
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/04/11/googlehacks.html
>
>Tara is a coauthor of "Google Hacks."
>Order Number: 4478
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/
>
>
>***Special Offer--Free 'Intro to XML' Online Class
>Enroll in any Linux/Unix online certification class at the Learning Lab
>and get a free 'Intro to XML' course, a $298 value. Receive hands-on
>experience in sys admin with a live coach. Graduates of the four course
>series receive certification from the University of Illinois, one of
>the top five engineering schools in the U.S.
>http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/sysadmin.php3
>
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>Open Source
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>***Knoppix: A Painless Introduction to Linux
>A new release of Knoppix has hit the mirrors. Burn a copy and give it
>to a friend.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3065
>
>***PHP and Heredocs
>Tired of having PHP, HTML, and even SQL jumbled together in the same
>file? Are your designers, coders, and DBAs going crazy trying to keep
>everything in check? A clean layer of separation can help. Daniel Smith
>explains how PHP's heredocs can make your life much easier by
>separating presentation, content, and logic.
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/04/10/php_heredocs.html
>
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>Java
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>***Reading and Writing Excel Files with POI
>The Jakarta POI project provides a nice Java API for reading and
>writing Microsoft file formats. After learning about the project, most
>people ask, "How can I write a spreadsheet?" Andrew C. Oliver and the
>POI folks demonstrate how to read and write Excel files using the
>Horrible SpreadSheet Format class.
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/16/poi_excel.html
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>.NET
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>***.NET Streams Explained
>On of the common challenges facing beginning .NET programmers is the
>large number of classes in the .NET Class Library. Looking for the
>correct class to use for file handling can be confusing. There are many
>classes in the System.IO namespace, each looking not much different
>from the others. Wei-Meng Lee explains the differences between the
>Stream classes.
>HTTP://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/04/14/streams.html
>
>
>***Migration to Windows Server 2003 Now Easier
>Gartner Research suggests that up to 70 percent of Microsoft Windows
>users still run NT. If you or your company are considering migrating to
>Server 2003 in the next year, you'll need a copy of the bestselling
>book for both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, "Active Directory,
>2nd Edition." http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=112816
>
>Active Directory, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 4664
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actdir2/
>
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>Web Development
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>***Getting Dreamweaver MX Up to Speed with PHP
>David McFarland has updated his article on Dreamweaver's PHP extensions
>to include some free and commercial products from Interakt. If you
>missed his article the first time around, Dave has written a
>comprehensive list of available add-ons for using PHP with
>Dreamweaver.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/02/07/dreamweaver.html
>
>Dave is the author of" Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual."
>Order Number: 3498
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/drmweavmxtmm/
>
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>Mac
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>***Implementing BIND on Mac OS X
>The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) distribution is a suite of
>Unix utilities that works with the Domain Name System. The nslookup and
>dig utilities are a part of the BIND distribution, but the named DNS
>server is what people most often refer to as BIND. The DNS server
>portion is what we will be focusing on in this article.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/15/bind.html
>
>
>***Apache Web Serving with Jaguar, Part 2
>Kevin Hemenway explores the world of CGI access in his continuing
>series of articles on Apache Web Serving with Jaguar.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/11/apache_jaguar_pt2.html
>
>Kevin is a coauthor of "Mac OS X Hacks."
>Order Number: 4605
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/
>
>
>***Tell Us What You Think: The First Survey of Mac DevCenter Readers
>If you want to know, you've got to ask. We're asking Mac DevCenter
>readers to participate in an online survey. We've sweetened the pot
>with a chance to win books and T-shirts. Here's how it works.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/11/survey.html
>
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>News From Your Peers
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>***SF Java By The Bay Meeting, San Francisco, CA--April 23
>Java By The Bay, the Java user group for San Francisco presents Grid
>Computing: An introduction to Open Grid Services Infrastructure by
>Sastry Malladi and Creating a Java Development Environment with Open
>Source Tools and Oracle9i JDeveloper on Linux by Rob Clevenger.
>Registration and refreshments at 5:30pm and speakers begin at 6 pm.
>Please RSVP at http://www.vircon.com/events/javabythebay.htm
>
>Wednesday April 23, 2003
>The Commonwealth Club
>595 Market Street,
>San Francisco, CA
>
>
>***MD25MD: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of The Maryland Apple Corps,
>Baltimore, MD--June 1
>The Maryland Apple Corps, in cooperation with The Mid-Atlantic
>Macintosh User Groups Team celebrates twenty-five years as the Greater
>Baltimore area's Apple/Macintosh Users Group! Very special keynote
>address by Steve Wozniak, Apple Co-Founder/Technology & Industry
>Innovator with special guests: Chuck Joiner (Apple User Group Advisory
>Board Chairman/Hershey Apple Core President), Dave Marra (Apple K-12
>Senior Systems Engineer/User Group Guru), Daniel M. East (Mid-Atlantic
>Macintosh User Groups Team President), Victor Nazarian (Technologies
>Expert/Consultant/Maryland Apple Corps Member), Fred Showker
>(Association of Apple Computer Users & Groups Editor/User Group Network
>President), Gail Murphy Glore (WiredWomen Founder/Apple Consultants
>Network Member/Fmr. User Group Advisory Board), and others.
>
>June 1, 2:00pm,
>Baltimore Hebrew Congregation
>7401 Park Heights Avenue
>Baltimore, MD 21208-5490
>*event location subject to change based on capacity.
>http://www.mamugs.org/md25md/
>
>
>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
