-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 15 > Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:03:21 -0700 > > ================================================================ > O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders > October 15, 2003 > ================================================================ > -User Group Discount Coupons for O'Reilly Available Online > -Do You Have a Tip, Suggestion, or Question to Share? > -Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get a Free Book > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book Info > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > ***Review books are available > Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- > send me an email and please include the book order number on > your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain > date. 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This book is rich with examples > that you can run on your own system, and concludes with a Flash Remoting > API reference. > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/flashremoting/ > > Chapter 1, "Introduction to Flash Remoting," is available online: > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/flashremoting/chapter/index.html > > > ***Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition > Order Number: 4877 > "Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition" covers everything you need to know to > be effective with ASP.NET. The book includes a comprehensive tutorial on > Web Forms, which, in conjunction with Visual Studio .NET 2003, allows you > to apply Rapid Application Development techniques (such as drag-and-drop > control placement) to web development. Programming ASP.NET has extensive > coverage of each type of server control, including web server controls, > HTML server controls, and custom controls. 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J2EE Design Patterns also extends > design patterns into areas not covered in other books, presenting > original patterns for data modeling, transaction/process modeling, and > interoperability. > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2eedp/ > > Chapter 5, "Presentation Tier Scalability," is available online: > http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2eedp/chapter/index.html > > ================================================ > Upcoming Events > ================================================ > ***For more events, please see: > http://events.oreilly.com/ > > ***Brent Chapman ("Building Internet Firewalls"), BayLISA Author Event, > Cupertino, CA--Oct 16, 2003 > Author Brent Chapman answers the question "MBAs for Sysadmins: Why would > a hard-core techie like me get an MBA?" for members of the Bay Area Large > Installation System Administrators. > http://www.baylisa.org/events/ > > > ***Louis Rosenfeld ("Information Architecture for the World Wide Web"), > Enterprise Information Architecture Seminar, San Francisco, CA-- > Oct 20, 2003 > This author leads a daylong seminar to help managers and web > professionals tie together content in a rational, user-centered way and > develop a unified web site or intranet. > http://louisrosenfeld.com/presentations/seminars/eia/ > > > ***David Jordan ("Java Data Objects"), Colorado Software Summit, Summit > County, CO--Oct 26-31, 2003 > Author David Jordan is speaking at this conference focusing on Java and > XML programming. > http://www.softwaresummit.com/ > > > ***USENIX LISA Conference, San Diego, CA--Oct 26-31, 2003 > Authors David N. Blank-Edelman ("Perl for System Administration"), Gerald > Carter ("LDAP System Administration"), D. Brent Chapman ("Building > Internet Firewalls"), AEleen Frisch ("Essential System Administration, > 3rd Edition"), Jeff Sedayao ("Cisco IOS Access Lists"), and Elizabeth > Zwicky ("Building Internet Firewalls") are speakers at the 17th Systems > Administration Conference. > http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa03/ > > ================================================ > Conference News > ================================================ > ***Virginia Tech Building Power Mac G5 Supercomputer > The director of this Virginia Tech project, Srinidni Varadarajan, will > take you inside the G5 supercluster to show you the challenges, > opportunities, and rewards resulting from building the world's most > impressive Mac cluster, at this year's O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. > http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31485.html > > O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference > October 27-30, 2003 > Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA > http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ > > To register for the conference, go to: > http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/ord_mac03 > > ================================================ > News From O'Reilly & Beyond > ================================================ > --------------------- > General News > --------------------- > ***Enter the Great TiVo Giveaway > Answer these questions for your chance to win an upgraded Philips HDR > Tivo from WeaKnees with two 160GB hard drives for a total capacity of 344 > hours. 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You need not envy Mac users anymore. > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/10/10/sms.html > --------------------- > Open Source > --------------------- > ***Adding System Calls > Kernel programming sometimes feels like a dark art where application > programmers should never venture, but sometimes it's the right way to > solve a problem. (Oh, and it's also very interesting.) One of the easiest > places to start is by adding a new system call to a kernel. Kevin Lo > explains how and why, with the OpenBSD kernel. > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/09/adding_system_calls.html > > > ***PHP Survey > Are you currently using PHP? What do you use it for? What database do you > use most frequently with PHP? Please take a few minutes to tell us in our > PHP Survey. Your answers will help us shape both our online and book > publishing programs. > http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?ID=3Y1XRB4LBP95&PIN=7RNG1N74P7F4&PANEL= > > > ***Denial-of-Service Attacks > Noel Davis looks at denial-of-service attacks against Apache, OpenSSL, > and FreeBSD, and problems in Perl, lsh, Teapop, ProFTPD, TclHttpd, > MPlayer, Node, mpg123, and Freesweep. > http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/10/06/insecurities.html > --------------------- > Java > --------------------- > ***XML Parsing in a Producer-Consumer Model > Decent APIs such as SAX have made XML parsing much easier than in the old > DOM and pre-DOM days. That doesn't mean it's completely natural, though, > in all circumstances. Throw XML parsing into a multithreaded application > and things can get weird quickly. That's where a different approach can > help. Prabu Arumugam demonstrates the producer-consumer model, which can > allow multithreaded XML processing. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/08/multithreaded_xml.html > > > ***SearchAssist: A Portable Search Engine in Java > While server-side Java solves many problems, it's not always available. > Besides, there's more to a good UI than HTML can provide. Sometimes an > applet can fit the bill. Ashwin Jayaprakash demonstrates a search engine > applet designed for portability and power. > http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/01/searchassist.html > --------------------- > .NET > --------------------- > ***.NET Serialization, Part 1 > Many a time, you may need to persist the value of an object to secondary > storage. For example, you may wish to save the values of a couple of > Point objects, representing the positioning of an item on screen, to > secondary storage. The act of "flattening" an object into a serial > form is known as serialization. Wei-Meng Lee discusses serialization > as supported in the .NET framework--Binary and SOAP serialization. > http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/10/13/serializationpt1.html > > > ***Understanding Reflection, Part 1 > Sometimes it is useful to be able to examine information about the > objects in your applications. In this article, Nick Harrison starts you > out with the basics of reflection. > http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/10/06/reflectionpt1.html > --------------------- > Web > --------------------- > ***Cooking with ActionScript > In part one learn how to format currency amounts, create timers and > clocks, and use a unique depth when creating a movie clip. > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpt/ActionScriptCkbk_chap1/index.html > > In part two learn how to pause and resume a sound, save a local shared > object, and search XML, in these sample recipes. > http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/excerpt/ActionScriptCkbk_chap1/index1.html > --------------------- > Mac > --------------------- > ***Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Tips and Tricks > The new Apple Wireless Mouse and Keyboard and two great peripherals that > can spice up your computing life; here's how to make the most of them. > http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/14/wireless.html > > > ***Ten Things I Dig About Panther > Now that the release of Panther is officially announced, it's time to > take a close look at its key features. O'Reilly author James Duncan > Davidson shows you the aspects of Panther that he really digs. > http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/10/panther.html > > > ***Fast Picture Previews > Many photographers like to peek at their digital photos before uploading > them into their digital shoebox. If that appeals to you, here's an easy > to use procedure to preview and sort in the Mac Finder--even while the > pictures are still on the memory card! > http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/07/picture_preview.html > > Until next time-- > > Marsee > > > >
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