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>O'Reilly User Group Program
>Newsletter
>August 13, 2003
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>Highlights This Week:
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>Book News
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>-Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
>-.NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition
>-Programming .NET Security
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>Upcoming Events
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>-Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#" & "Programming ASP.NET"),
>Cape Cod .NET User Group, Hyannis, MA--August 23
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>Conferences
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>-What to "See and Do" while you are at the 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--Mike Caprio, Worcester
>Macromedia User Group
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>News
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>-When Is 54 Not Equal to 54?
>-Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript
>-Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
>-The Java Speech API, Part 1
>-The Factory Design Pattern
>-Comments in a "No comment" World
>-Outboard Brains for Mac OS X
>-Open Directory and Active Directory, Part 1
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>Fun Stuff
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>-Take the Geek Test
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>***Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition
>Order Number: 3803
>The first edition of this book has been called "the best reference
>available on the subject." This new edition goes even further,
>documenting the latest techniques for using ColdFusion MX to develop
>and serve dynamic web page content. It's an exhaustive guide that
>covers everything from the basics to advanced topics, with examples you
>can use for your own applications. Packed with insider hints, tips, and
>tricks, this book will help you make the most out of ColdFusion MX.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coldfusion2/?CMP=NLC-95OC69668232
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>Chapter 11, "Advanced Database Techniques," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coldfusion2/chapter/index.html
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>***.NET Framework Essentials, 3rd Edition
>Order Number: 5059
>Fully updated for version 1.1 of the .NET Framework, this new edition
>of .NET Framework Essentials is an objective, no-nonsense overview of
>.NET. It touches all the bases, from the Common Language Run-Time (CLR)
>and key class libraries to the specialized packages for ASP.NET,
>Windows Forms, XML web services, and data access (ADO.NET). Written for
>intermediate to advanced VB, C/C++, Java, and Delphi developers, the
>book is also useful to system leaders and architects who are assessing
>tools for future projects.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess3/?CMP=NLC-2MV239432998
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>Chapter 2, "The Common Language Runtime," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess3/chapter/index.html
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>***Programming .NET Security
>Order Number: 4427
>With the spread of web-enabled desktop clients and web server-based
>applications, developers can no longer afford to treat security as an
>afterthought. In fact, .NET forces you to address the topic since
>Microsoft has placed security-related features at the core of the .NET
>Framework. Even so, carelessness and lack of experience can enable a
>program to be used in an unintended way. This book shows programmers
>how to use .NET's various tools to write secure applications.
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetsec/?CMP=NLC-B12M76941348
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>Chapter 4, "The Lifetime of a Secure Application," is available online:
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetsec/chapter/index.html
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>***Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#" & "Programming ASP.NET"),
>Cape Cod .NET User Group, Hyannis, MA--August 23 Author Jesse Liberty
>presents an all-day "crash course" on ASP.NET for the Cape Cod .NET
>User Group.
>http://www.ccdevgroup.net/
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>Saturday, August 23, 9am-5 pm
>Cape Cod Community College
>Hyannis Campus
>Adult Learning Center
>540 Main Street
>Hyannis, MA 02601
>http://www.capecod.mass.edu/directions/
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>Conference News
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>***What to "See and Do" while you are at the O'Reilly Mac OS X
>Conference
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>to "See & Do" in Santa Clara.
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/25/see_do.html
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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
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>"Early Bird" price.
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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/
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>Safari News
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>***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--Mike Caprio,
>Worcester Macromedia User Group
>"I'm a partner in a three person software consulting firm; simply put,
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>very reliable source."
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>News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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>General News
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>***When Is 54 Not Equal to 54?
>"Protection" mechanisms added to 802.11g to ensure backward
>compatibility with legacy 802.11b clients can cut throughput by 50
>percent or more. Matthew Gast, author of "802.11 Wireless Networks: The
>Definitive Guide," explains.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/08/08/wireless_throughput.html?CMP=NLC-2439WB792718
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>802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide
>Order Number: 1835
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/802dot11/
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>
>***E-Commerce Pioneers Split on Patent Rights
>In this "Associated Press" article, Tim O'Reilly talks about why he
>didn't patent the idea of using advertising revenue to run a web portal
>as a "business method"--a move that would have changed the course of
>internet history.
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2001274072_btpatents28.html
>
>
>***Introduction to OOP in Flash and ActionScript
>One of the greatest stumbling blocks in learning object-oriented
>programming is the inherent abstractness. Enter the simplicity of Flash
>and ActionScript. In this first of two articles, Joey Lott offers an
>introduction to basic OOP with ActionScript.
>http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/08/12/actionscriptckbk.html
>
>Joey is the author of "ActionScript Cookbook."
>Order Number: 4907
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscptckbk/
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>Open Source
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>***Five Lessons You Should Learn from Extreme Programming
>Extreme Programming (XP) is yet another popular idea gaining press. It
>adapts the best ideas from the past decades of software development.
>Whether or not you adopt XP, it's worth considering what XP teaches.
>chromatic, author of "Extreme Programming Pocket Guide," offers five
>lessons you should learn from Extreme Programming.
>http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/07/31/extremeprogramming.html?CMP=NLC-Q87B09432775
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>Extreme Programming Pocket Guide
>Order Number: 4850
>http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/extprogpg/index.html
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>Java
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>***The Java Speech API, Part 1
>Speech technology has advanced to the point where it's practical to
>consider speech synthesis and speech recognition in certain
>applications. In the first of two articles, Mandar Chitnis and Lakshmi
>Ananthamurthy explore JSAPI, an API for accessing various speech
>engines, building a simple application with speech synthesis.
>http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/08/06/jsapi.html?CMP=NLC-4G1A98664309
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>.NET
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>***The Factory Design Pattern
>Many popular software libraries make extensive use of design patterns
>so that the APIs can be abstracted out at a high level for the end
>programmer. The .NET Framework Class Library (FCL) is no exception.
>Given that the FCL builds on the strengths of Microsoft's experience
>with developing software libraries, one can assume that instances of
>design patterns found in the FCL are fairly appropriate usages of these
>patterns. In this article, Amit Goel describes some instances of a
>commonly occurring design pattern in the FCL: the Factory Method design
>pattern.
>http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/08/11/factorypattern.html
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>XML
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>***Comments in a "No comment" World
>In this month's XML Q&A column, John E. Simpson examines two issues
>related to documentation of, and comments in, XML documents and
>schemas.
>http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/07/30/qa.html
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>Mac
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>***Outboard Brains for Mac OS X
>Here's a brief look at some applications designed to be digital
>brain-dumps; electronic Pensieves into which you can throw any
>information you want, knowing that it will still be there when you need
>it later. Giles Turnbull looks at a variety of "outboard brains"
>utilities and highlights their particular strengths.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/08/05/outboard_brains.html
>
>***Open Directory and Active Directory, Part 1
>For the last number of months, Michael Bartosh has been working on this
>series of articles for Mac DevCenter readers that examines Mac OS X's
>Directory Services architecture in depth and explores how to integrate
>these services with Microsoft's Active Directory.
>http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/08/05/active_directory.html?CMP=NLC-J9A196900446
>
>This is the same topic that Michael will be discussing in person at the
>O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference.
>http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/view/e_sess/4513
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>Fun Stuff
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>***Take the Geek Test
>http://www.innergeek.us/geek.html
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>Until next time--
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>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.
