>O'Reilly User Group Program >Newsletter >July 3, 2003 > > >Please share the information your members would be interested in.... > > >Highlights This Week: >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Book News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Digital Video Pocket Guide >-Learning Web Design, 2nd Edition >-Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Conferences >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-Registration Is Open for the Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X >Conference >-Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get A Free Book >-Can't Make OSCON the whole time? Day Passes are available >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Safari >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--Christian Gagnon, >MELUG-North >---------------------------------------------------------------- >News >---------------------------------------------------------------- >-The Future of Mozilla Application Development >-Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book >-Writing for O'Reilly >-Defending Your Site Against Spam >-MySQL FULLTEXT Searching >-Using the Jakarta Commons, Part 1 >-Understanding Interfaces in .NET >-Super-Efficient Image Rollovers >-Self-Enhancing Stylesheets >-Making Movies with the Apple iSight > >================================================ >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/ > > >***Digital Video Pocket Guide >Order Number: 5237 >The "Digital Video Pocket Guide" is organized into three chapters: >"What Is It?", "How Does It Work?", and "How Do I...Tips, Tricks, and >Techniques." Its compact size, organization, and detailed illustrations >make it easy to find the information you need. This is the ultimate >shooting companion that will help you create the videos you want to >show to friends, family, or even the world at large. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dvideopg/ > >Sample Excerpts, "Tip 4: How to overcome backlighting," and "Tip 5: How >to cope with wind," are available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dvideopg/chapter/index.html > > >***Learning Web Design, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 4842 >In "Learning Web Design," author Jennifer Niederst shares the knowledge >she's gained from years of web design experience, both as a designer >and a teacher. This book starts from the beginning--defining the >Internet, the Web, browsers, and URLs--so you don't need to have any >previous knowledge about how the Web works. After reading this book, >you'll have a solid foundation in HTML, graphics, and design principles >that you can immediately put to use in creating effective web pages. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnweb2/ > >Chapter 6, "Creating a Simple Page," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnweb2/chapter/index.html > > >***Building Wireless Community Networks, 2nd Edition >Order Number: 5024 >"Building Wireless Community Networks" is about getting people online >using wireless network technology. The 802.11b standard (also known as >WiFi) makes it possible to network towns, schools, neighborhoods, small >business, and almost any kind of organization. All that's required is a >willingness to cooperate and share resources. The first edition of this >book helped thousands of people engage in community networking >activities. This revised and expanded edition adds coverage on new >network monitoring tools and techniques, regulations affecting wireless >deployment, and IP network administration, including DNS and IP >Tunneling. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet2/ > >Chapter 3, "Network Layout, " is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet2/chapter/index.html >================================================ >Conference News >================================================ >***Registration Is Open for the Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference >Do you want to tame Panther quickly, or live Apple's iLife to the >fullest? If so, the second annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference can take >you where you want to go with Apple's newest software and hardware. One >day of in-depth tutorials and three days of conference sessions cover >topics like network security, Cocoa, Java, Rendezvous, Quartz, AirPort >Extreme, workflow management, Unix administration, and much more. Some >of the many experts presenting at the conference include David Pogue, >Adam Engst, mmalcolm Crawford, Dan Wood, Andy Ihnatko, Robb Beal, and >Dan Frakes. > >O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference >October 27-30, 2003 >Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA >http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ > >User Group members who register before September 12, 2003 get a double >discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the >"Early Bird" price. > >To register, go to: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/ord_mac03 > > >***Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get A Free Book >Yet another new banner offer-- >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 Mac OS X Conference banner, I will send you the >O'Reilly book of your choice. > >O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banners: >http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/macosx2003/ > > >***Can't Make OSCON the whole time? Day Passes are available >(Sorry UG discount not available.) > >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/ >================================================ >Safari News >================================================ >***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner-- Christian Gagnon, MELUG-North >"Presently, I have a number of reference books in multiple locations, a >number of books I keep in my car, and a few that I carry around with >me. (Perhaps your situation is similar?) My next experiment with >Safari will be to add these references to my bookshelf and lighten my >load." > >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 can 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] (Please include your UG name in the email.) > >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/ >================================================ >News From O'Reilly & Beyond >================================================ >--------------------- >General News >--------------------- >***The Future of Mozilla Application Development >Recently, mozilla.org announced a major update to its development >roadmap. David Boswell and Brian King provide an analysis of the new >roadmap, and demonstrate how to convert an existing XPFE-based >application into an application that uses the new XUL toolkit. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2003/06/27/mozilla.html > >Brian and David are coauthors of "Creating Applications with Mozilla." >Order Number: 0529 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozilla/index.html > > >***Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book >We are looking for user groups to display our ThinkGeek banners on >their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with >one of our O'Reilly ThinkGeek banners, I will send you the O'Reilly >book of your choice. > >O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banners: >http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ > > >***Writing for O'Reilly >We're always looking for new authors and new book ideas. Our ideal >author has real technical competence and a passion for explaining >things clearly. We're happy to work with first time authors, and >encourage inquiries about virtually any topic. However, it helps if you >know that we tend to publish "high end" books rather than books for >dummies, and generally don't want yet another book on a topic that's >already well covered. >For more information, please check out: >http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.html > >--------------------- >Open Source >--------------------- >***Defending Your Site Against Spam >To users, unsolicited commercial e-mail is an annoyance. To mail server >administrators, it's a threat. Dru Nelson recently had his network >attacked by spammers. He explains the various defenses he considered >for protecting against future attacks. >http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/26/blocklist.html > > >***MySQL FULLTEXT Searching >Storing text in your database is handy, but searching can be a pain. >MySQL's FULLTEXT search can save your sanity. Joe Stump demonstrates >how it works and gives several ideas on how to use it in your own >applications. >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/06/26/fulltext.html > >--------------------- >Java >--------------------- >***Using the Jakarta Commons, Part 1 >Ever find yourself thinking "Someone's surely solved this problem >before?" That's the beauty of open source. In this first of three >articles, Vikram Goyal explores the Jakarta Commons, mature and >well-defined reusable Java components. >http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/25/commons.html > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >***Understanding Interfaces in .NET >.NET introduces the potentially confusing concept of an interface. An >interface is a contract that defines the signature of some piece of >functionality. Throughout the .NET framework, interfaces are used to >define that certain types have well-known behaviors. Nick Harrison >explains what interfaces are and how to use them in your own classes. >http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/06/30/interfaces.html > >--------------------- >Web >--------------------- >***Super-Efficient Image Rollovers >Danny Goodman shows you how to reduce the number of individual image >files downloaded to a browser to accomplish three-state image >rollovers. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/07/01/bonusrecipe.html > >Danny is the author of "JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook." >Order Number: 4672 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jvdhtmlckbk/index.html > >--------------------- >XML >--------------------- >***Self-Enhancing Stylesheets >Developing new stylesheets can be a chore. So why not let XSLT take the >load? This article shows how to easily check the coverage of your XSLT >and create skeleton stylesheets. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/02/xslt2.html > >--------------------- >Mac >--------------------- >***Making Movies with the Apple iSight >Online conferencing is great, but what else can you do with your new >iSight? Actually, quite a bit. In this first installment of an ongoing >series, Derrick Story shows you how to make professional-looking >QuickTime movies with just an iSight and some very inexpensive >software. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/01/isight.html > > >Until next time-- > >Marsee
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