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>From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, May 16
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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>May 16, 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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>-C++ in a Nutshell
>-The Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Tim O'Reilly at the FreeNetworks Conference in Las Vegas, NV
>--June 7-8
>-Hacks Author Event at Powell's Bookstore in Portland, OR--June 11
>-David Pogue ("Mac OS X: The Missing Manual"), MetroMac Meeting,
>SoHo Apple Store, NY--June 12
>-David Jordan ("Java Data Objects"), Barnes & Noble in Cary, NC
>--June 16th
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>Conferences
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>-O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Registration Ends May 23
>-Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner,
>Get a Free Book
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>News
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>-What I Hate About Your Programming Language
>-Geeking in the Third World
>-Vote for Your Favorite Linux Book
>-How Servlet Containers Work
>-Instrumenting Your .NET Application
>-New on Safari: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
>-Goodbye PDA, Hello iPod?
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>News From Your Peers
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>-Huntsville Windows NT Users Meeting, AL--May 19
>-Portland Linux User Group Meeting, Portland, OR--June 3
>-Hampton Roads Oracle Users Group,Virginia Beach, VA--June 4
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>Book News
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>***C++ in a Nutshell
>Order Number: 298X
>"C++ in a Nutshell" packs an enormous amount of information on C++ (and
>the many libraries used with it) in a lean quick reference that offers
>practical examples for the most important, most often used aspects of
>C++. Cross-references link related methods, classes, and other key
>features. When you're programming, you need answers quickly to
>questions about language syntax or parameters required by library
>routines. This is an ideal resource for students as well as
>professional programmers. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cplsian/
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>Chapter 4, "Statements," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cplsian/chapter/index.html
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>***The Complete FreeBSD, 4th Edition
>Order Number: 5164
>This new edition, covering version 5 of FreeBSD, is now available
>through O'Reilly Community Press. It is an eminently practical
>guidebook that explains not only how to get a computer up and running
>with the FreeBSD operating system, but also how to turn it into a
>highly functional and secure server that can host large numbers of
>users and disks, support remote access, and provide web service, mail
>service, and other key parts of the internet infrastructure.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cfreebsd/
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>Upcoming Events
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>***Tim O'Reilly at the FreeNetworks Conference in Las Vegas, NV
>--June 7-8
>FreeNetworks.org is presenting the first annual FreeNetworks
>conference, bringing together the experts and implementers in community
>wireless networking groups from across the globe, innovators from the
>wired community and municipal networks, and the technologists designing
>the hardware for future phases of this amazing movement. Keynote
>presentations by Tim O'Reilly and Cory Doctorow. Presenters include
>representatives from BAWUG, Seattle Wireless, NoCat NYCwireless,
>Consume, Wireless Leiden, and various other community wireless
>networking efforts from around the world (including O'Reilly's "Linux
>Server Hacks" author Rob Flickenger and the O'Reilly Network's Schuyler
>Erle).
>
>FreeNetworks Conference 2003
>June 7 and 8, 2003
>Alexis Park Hotel & Resort
>375 E. Harmon Ave
>Las Vegas, NV
>http://con.freenetworks.org/
>
>
>***Hacks Author Event at Powell's Bookstore in Portland, OR--June 11
>Rael Dornfest and Rob Flickenger, authors of O'Reilly's best-selling
>Hacks series ("Google Hacks," "Linux Server Hacks," and "Mac OS X
>Hacks"), will be at Powell's to talk about their top-rated tomes,
>answer questions, and reveal a few of the private hacks that didn't
>make the series.
>
>Powell's will be giving away a Hacks book with any O'Reilly book
>purchased, excluding Pocket References, all day June 11.
>
>Powell's Technical Bookstore
>June 11, 7pm
>33 NW Park Avenue
>Portland, OR
>http://www.powells.com/technicalbooks
>
>***David Pogue ("Mac OS X: The Missing Manual"), MetroMac Meeting,
>SoHo Apple, NY--June 12
>David will unveil the "Secrets of iPhoto 2" from his upcoming book
>"iPhoto2: The Missing Manual." First come, first serve seating is
>available in the upstairs theater.
>
>June 12. 6-8pm
>Apple Store SoHo
>103 Prince Street
>New York, NY 10012
>(212) 226-3126
>http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/
>
>
>***David Jordan ("Java Data Objects"), Barnes & Noble in Cary, NC
>--June 16th
>David will be signing copies of his book "Java Data Objects" starting
>at 7:30pm.
>
>Barnes & Noble Booksellers
>Cary II
>760 SE Maynard
>Cary, NC 27511
>919-467-3866
>http://www.barnesandnoble.com
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>
>For more events, please see:
>http://events.oreilly.com/
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>Conference News
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>***O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Discount Ends May 23
>--Sign up now!
>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
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>
>O'Reilly Open Source Convention
>Portland Marriott Downtown,
>Portland, OR
>July 7-11, 2003
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
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>
>***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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>News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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>General News
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>***What I Hate About Your Programming Language
>Choosing a programming language is rarely ever as easy as making a list
>of features and choosing the best ones. Like programming, it can be
>messy and opinionated. Every language has its own philosophy, and
>whether that fits your own mind is often a matter of taste.
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/05/12/languagephilosophy.html
>
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>Open Source
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>****Geeking in the Third World
>Geekcorps volunteers work in third world countries to help companies
>become technically competent IT businesses. Richard Koman interviews
>Geekcorps founder Ethan Zuckerman, who will be participating in
>O'Reilly's Geek Activism Summit at OSCON 2003.
>http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/ethan_0503.html
>
>O'Reilly's Open Source Convention:
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/
>
>
>***Vote for Your Favorite Linux Book
>Cast your votes for the first Linux Business & Technology Readers'
>Choice Awards. Voting for the "Oscars of the Software Industry"
>continues until August 30. Register your vote now!
>http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2003/
>
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>Java
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>***How Servlet Containers Work
>Having explained how a Java web server works, Budi Kurniawan next turns
>his attention to explaining how servlet containers work. He presents
>two examples that handle simple servlets and static content.
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/05/14/java_webserver.html
>
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>.NET
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>***Instrumenting Your .NET Application
>As they refine the .NET story, Microsoft seems to be getting more and
>more serious about pushing into the "enterprise" space. One of the
>latest pieces of evidence of this push is the release of the Enterprise
>Instrumentation framework (EIF), a set of classes and utilities that
>work with the .NET languages to provide white-box monitoring for
>distributed applications. Mike Gunderloy shows you how to add
>instrumentation to your own .NET applications.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/05/12/instrumenting.html
>
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>Mac
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>***New on Safari: Mac OS X: The Missing Manual
>This best-selling Pogue Press/O'Reilly title is now available online
>through the O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf. If you haven't gone on
>Safari yet, try a free trial subscription.
>https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/promo.asp?code=ORA14&portal=oreilly&CMP=IL19183
>
>
>***Goodbye PDA, Hello iPod?
>Many casual PDA users dumped their old handhelds when Apple first
>introduced address and calendar synch to the iPod. But for more serious
>PDA enthusiasts, that just wasn't enough. Now with the new iPods
>running firmware 2.0, notes have been added to the mix (plus a few
>other goodies). Here's a look at how the iPod could become your next
>PDA...with a 10 GB hard drive or bigger!
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/05/03/ipod_pda.html
>
>
>***The Second Coming of the Mac OS X Innovators Contest
>The second Mac OS X Innovators Contest is now open for business. Two
>categories are available this time--U.S. Residents and International.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/05/08/innovators.html
>
>Deadline for entry is Monday, June 16, 2003.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/developer/
>
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>News From Your Peers
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>***Huntsville Windows NT Users Meeting, Huntsville, AL--May 19
>Shawn Travers of Microsoft will be discussing Microsoft's Server 2003
>features. Monday, May 19th, 6 to 8pm at the Intergraph's Building 15
>Auditorium, Huntsville, AL. http://www.huntug.org/map
>
>
>***Portland Linux User Group Meeting, Portland, OR--June 3
>Come Join PDXLUG June 3rd, 2003, 7pm at the Fireside Lodge, located at
>1223 SE Powell Blvd, Portland, Oregon. http://www.pdxlug.org/
>
>
>***Hampton Roads Oracle Users Group Meeting, Virginia Beach, VA--June 4
>HROUG will be holding an evening meeting at Old Dominion University on
>June 4th at 6:30PM For meeting information contact Hazel Zamperini @
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>
>Until next time--
>
>Marsee
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Puryear Information Technology
Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
http://www.puryear-it.com
