>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>July 28, 2003
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>Please share the information your members would be interested in....
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>Highlights This Week:
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>Book News
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>-RTF Pocket Guide
>-Practical RDF
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Come See Me at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, CA--Aug 5
>-James Duncan Davidson ("Cocoa in a Nutshell"),
>Utah Java User Group, West Valley City, UT--Aug 21
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>Conferences
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>-Call For Participation: The 2004 O'Reilly Life Science
>Informatics Conference
>-The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
>-Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get a Free Book
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>Safari
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>-"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--John Davey,
>Philadelphia Area Computer Society, Web Design SIG
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>News
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>-Amazon Hacks: Beta Chapter available online
>-New User Group page and Book Review Guideline section
>for the O'Reilly UG Program
>-Secure Cooking with C and C++
>-Simplify Your Life with Apache Virtual Hosts
>-Why Web Developers Need JavaServer Faces
>-StringBuilders Explained
>-Why Choose RSS 1.0?
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>News From Your Peers
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>-Mactopia interview with Lorene Romero NCMUG, CA
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>Book News
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>***RTF Pocket Guide
>Order Number: 4753
>Any programmer working with text files today needs a way to deal with
>Microsoft Word documents and their underlying Rich Text Format. Our
>handy quick reference is the only book available on this notoriously
>difficult format. Small and easy to use on the job, RTF Pocket Guide
>focuses on the "workhorse" codes that programmers can't do without,
>including text style codes, paragraph formatting codes, and page
>formatting codes--all with real-world examples.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtfpg/?CMP=EMC-OC5466230545
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>A Sample Excerpt, "RTF Tutorial," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rtfpg/chapter/index.html
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>
>***Practical RDF
>Order Number: 2637
>The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a structure for describing
>and interchanging metadata on the Web. "Practical RDF" explains RDF
>from the ground up, providing real-world examples and descriptions of
>how the technology is being used in applications like Mozilla, FOAF,
>and Chandler, as well as infrastructure you can use to build your own
>applications. This book cuts to the heart of the W3C's often obscure
>specifications, giving you tools to apply RDF successfully in your own
>projects.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracrdf/?CMP=EMC-79IF02722688
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>Chapter 8, "Jena: RDF in Java," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pracrdf/chapter/index.html
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>Upcoming Events
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>***For more events, please see:
>http://events.oreilly.com/
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>***Come See Me at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, CA--Aug 5
>Stop by the O'Reilly booth #1473 and say hi to me on Tuesday, August 5.
>The show runs August 5-7. Here is the list of O'Reilly Events at
>LinuxWorld:
>http://linux.oreillynet.com/linux/linuxworld2003/
>
>
>***James Duncan Davidson ("Cocoa in a Nutshell"), Utah Java User Group,
>West Valley City, UT--Aug 21
>Author James Duncan demonstrates techniques for writing clear and
>robust code at this UJUG event. For more information and to RSVP please
>go to:
>http://www.ujug.org/meetings.html
>
>IHC Lake Park Facility,
>4646 West Lake Park Blvd.
>West Valley City, UT
>http://www.ujug.org/location.html
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>Conference News
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>***Call For Participation: The 2004 O'Reilly Life Science
>Informatics Conference
>O'Reilly & Associates invites biologists, computer scientists, software
>engineers, mathematicians, and experts in other related fields to
>submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the
>O'Reilly Life Science Informatics Conference, slated for February 9-12,
>2004 at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA.
>Proposals are due September 1, 2003.
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/lsi2004/
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>
>** The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
>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
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>O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
>October 27-30, 2003
>Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
>http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
>
>
>***Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference 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 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/
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>Safari News
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>***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--John Davey,
>Philadelphia Area Computer Society, Web Design SIG
>"...Safari dovetails very well with your print library. I have a couple
>books that now have second editions. Safari lets me review the new
>editions on the Safari bookshelf for reference when I need them. And of
>course, when looking to buy a book on a subject, Safari lets you search
>the catalogs of several publishers and read as much of each book as you
>need to make a decision."
>
>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
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>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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>***Amazon Hacks: Beta
>O'Reilly's upcoming "Amazon Hacks" is a collection of real-world tips,
>tricks, and full-scale solutions to practical uses of amazon.com and
>the Amazon Web services API.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/amazonhks/chapter/index.html?CMP=EMC-UO9997498356
>
>
>***New User Group page and Book Review Guideline section for the
>O'Reilly UG Program
>We have decided to give the UG page (http://ug.oreilly.com/) a new look
>by updating the graphics section, adding a "User Group Programs and
>Resources" section, and a "Book Review Guidelines and Suggestions"
>section. Writing a review has never been so easy....
>http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html?CMP=NLC-6DT281319197
>
>
>***Secure Cooking with C and C++
>In this first in a three-part series of sample recipes from "Secure
>Programming Cookbook for C and C++," the authors offer nine basic rules
>for proper data validation, which they recommend all programmers
>follow. From their first rule: "Assume all input is guilty until proven
>otherwise" to their last: "The better you understand the data, the
>better you can filter it," the advice presented here will help
>programmers keep unwanted, malicious data out of their applications.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/spcookbook_chap03/index.html
>
>Secure Programming Cookbook for C and C++
>Order Number: 3943
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/secureprgckbk/index.html
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>Open Source
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>***Simplify Your Life with Apache Virtual Hosts
>Not every web site needs its own server or IP address. Apache and HTTP
>1.1 both allow different sites to share a single box and an IP address.
>Russell Dyer explains how virtual hosts can make your life easier as a
>web developer and a system administrator.
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/07/24/vhosts.html
>
>***Defending Your Site Against Spam
>To users, unsolicited commercial email 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.
>
>Part one:
>http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/26/blocklist.html
>
>Part two:
>http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/07/24/blocklist.html
>
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>Java
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>***Why Web Developers Need JavaServer Faces
>Several good frameworks exist to make the Java server programmer's life
>easier. Unfortunately, several hard problems still exist, including
>multiple output-format support and separation of content from
>presentation. In this first Java Q&A column, Chuck Cavaness explains
>why JSF matters.
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/07/23/java_qa.html
>
>Chuck is the author of the "Jakarta Struts Pocket Reference"
>Order Number: 5199
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakartapr/index.html
>
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>.NET
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>***StringBuilders Explained
>Visual Basic programmers have long enjoyed ease in string
>manipulations. It is easy to create a string, split it up, concatenate
>multiple strings, etc. However, this seemingly innocent piece of code
>is not the recommended way to perform string manipulations in .NET.
>Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to make sense of the StringBuilder class.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/07/21/stringbuilder.html
>
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>XML
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>***Why Choose RSS 1.0?
>Part of RSS 1.0's value is in retaining its roots as primarily a
>metadata specification. A journal publisher explains why they chose RSS
>1.0 as the basis for distributing RSS feeds of their publications.
>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/23/rssone.html
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>Mac
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>***Penny-Pinching PowerBook
>Do you need portability for email and word processing, but don't want
>to plunk down a pile of cash for a new Apple laptop? Diehard Mac user
>Michael Norton describes his penny-pinching Odyssey that explored the
>PowerBook 280c and the 1400.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/22/cheap_powerbook.html
>
>
>***Welcome to Swaine Manor
>Swaine Manor is a new column for Mac DevCenter written by technology
>veteran Michael Swaine. In this debut, Michael comments on dancing with
>Apple, Mac rumors, REALbasic, and more.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/07/18/swaine.html?CMP=NLC-A5T991393753
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>News From Your Peers
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>***Mactopia interview with Lorene Romero NCMUG, CA
>Lorene is a board member and past president for the North Coast Mac
>Users Group in Northern Cailfornia.
>http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/usergroups/usergroups.aspx?pid=whyjoin&page=romero
>
>
>Until next time--
>
>Marsee
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Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Puryear Information Technology, LLC <http://www.puryear-it.com>
Providing expertise in the management, integration, and
security of Windows and UNIX systems, networks, and applications.
