================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members April 13, 2007 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -40 Digital Photo Retouching Techniques with Photoshop Elements -A Grammar of Game Play -Ajax: The Definitive Guide: Rough Cuts Version -Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model (PDF Shortcut) -C# 3.0 in a Nutshell: Rough Cuts Edition -Checking Java Programs (PDF Shortcut) -Closeup Shooting -Designing BSD Rootkits -Devices of the Soul -DIY Coffee--Make: Projects -Essential SharePoint 2007: Rough Cuts Edition -Facelets (PDF Short Cut) -Ferret (PDF Short Cut) -GarageBand Tips and Tricks -High Performance Web Sites: Rough Cuts Version -Low Budget Shooting -Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum (PDF Short Cut) -No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology -Office 2007: The Missing Manual -QuickBase: The Missing Manual -Release It! -Schematron (PDF Short Cut) -Securing the Vista Environment (PDF Short Cut) -SQL Injection Defenses (PDF Short Cut) -SQL Server Integration Services (PDF Short Cut) -Test Driven Ajax (on Rails) (PDF Short Cut) -Understanding MySQL Internals -Web Scripting Little Black Book -Windows PowerShell: The Definitive Guide: Rough Cuts Version -XQuery ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Peter Krogh, ASMP "It's Your Business" Series, Louis, MO--Apr 14 -Eddie Tapp, Southeastern Professional Photographers Association, Atlanta, GA--Apr 16 -Peter Morville, 2007 Association of Independent Information Professionals Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN--Apr 21 -Stephen Johnson conducts a seminar on color management, Pacifica, CA--Apr 21 -Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz at Microsoft MIX 07, Las Vegas, NV--Apr 30-May 2 -Stephen Few at Technology Transfer in Italy, Rome, Italy--May 5-6 -Stephen Johnson conducts a California Coast Field Workshop, Mendocino, CA--May 5-6 -O'Reilly at CRE8 Conference, Orlando, FL, May 9-10 -Stephen Johnson on digital black and White Photography, Pacifica, CA--May 12 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration is Open for OSCON 2007, Portland, OR--July 23-27 -Registration is Open for Ubuntu Live, Portland, OR--July 22-24 -Last Chance--Register for Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA--Apr 15-18 -Register for the MySQL Conference and Expo, Santa Clara, CA--Apr 23-26 -Register for Where 2.0, San Jose, CA--May 29-30 -Register for the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference, San Jose, CA--Jun 18-20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -April is Web 2.0 Month at O'Reilly -License our Content -Maker Faire 2007 Tickets on Sale, SF Bay Area--May 19-20 -Jolt Award Winners: Third Year in a Row! -What's All This Fuss About Erlang? -Create Your Own O'Reilly Shirt or Mug -O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive a 30% Discount -The lighttpd Web Server -PHP Search Engine Showdown -Lightroom Getting Started: Creating Identity Plates in Lightroom -Robert Leslie on Shooting TED and Using Aperture -Digital Media Insider Podcast 10: Annoying Audio _Build a Photo Gallery Using CakePHP and Flickr -Apple TV: State of the Hacks -Introducing Google Desktop for Mac -A Chat with Nobi -The Logic of Service-Orientation Plus 14 SO Tenets and Practical Principles -Logging with Custom Web Events -Controlling Threads by Example -Using Groovy to Send Emails -The Principles of Beautiful Web Design -How-to Flip A Web Site Fixer-upper -Making Money With Web Communities --------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases--Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, or YoungJin books you purchase directly from O'Reilly. 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In this highly unique book, Koster takes the reader on a thought-provoking journey with the goal being to develop a unique grammar and approach for designing games. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097159/> ***Ajax: The Definitive Guide: Rough Cuts Version Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 059651381X Ajax builds on older technologies and techniques but reaches a tipping point where the results are new. This book gives you a boost to this next stage of web application development, revealing ways to apply Ajax solutions to classically difficult web interface and structure issues. Learn to build browser-based applications that function like desktop programs, using sophisticated server-aware approaches that give users information when they need it. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513818/> ***Beyond Schemas: Planning Your XML Model (PDF Shortcut) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596527705 Have you ever wondered how to get started writing your own schema? 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This clever little book is a creative and valuable resource for most any photographer. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933952105/> ***Managing RPM-Based Systems with Kickstart and Yum (Short Cut PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596513828 Managing multiple Red Hat-based systems can be easy--with the right tools. The yum package manager and the Kickstart installation utility are full of power and potential for automatic installation, customization, and updates. Here's what you need to know to take control of your systems. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513825/> ***No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN 10: 0978739280 The No Fluff, Just Stuff Symposium Series is a traveling conference series for software developers visiting 27 cities a year. No Fluff has put on over 75 symposia throughout the US. and Canada, with more than 12,000 attendees so far. Its success has been a result of focusing on high quality technical presentations, great speakers, and no marketing hype. Now this world-class material is available to you in print for the first time. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780978739287/> ***Office 2007: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596514220 Quickly learn the most useful features of Microsoft Office 2007 with our easy to read four-in-one guide. This fast-paced book gives you the basics of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access so you can start using the new versions of these major Office applications right away. It's a great way to master all 4 programs without having to stock up on a shelf-load of different books. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514228/> ***QuickBase: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596529600 Ready to put Intuit's QuickBase to work? Our new Missing Manual shows you how to capture, modify, share, and manage data and documents with this web-based data-sharing program quickly and easily. You'll learn how to choose among QuickBase's dozens of ready-made applications and customize one to fit your needs so you can filter, sort, and group data, display it several ways, create reports, and assign people to different roles. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529604/> ***Release It! Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf Everything changes after Release 1.0. The consultants leave; key developers get reassigned to new projects, and the wild and free environment of development gets replaced by change review boards and defect reports. And the public starts beating on the system. Your application needs to be ready to live in that environment--without you. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0978739213/> ***Schematron (PDF Short Cut) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596527713 Schematron is a rule-based XML schema language, offering flexibility and power that W3C XML schema, RELAX NG, and DTDs simply can't match. You need Schematron and can't settle for other languages if you have to check rules that go beyond checking the document structures (i.e., checking that an element bar is included in element foo) and their datatypes. Schematron is the right tool for checking conditions such as "startDate is earlier than or equal to endDate." <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527716/> ***Securing the Vista Environment (PDF Short Cut) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596514301 "Securing the Vista Environment" takes you on a quick tour of the most significant security features in Vista, Microsoft's first revision of Windows in almost six years. 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The day is designed to get you comfortable with the concepts and architecture of color management and build practical experience in using profiles in printing. 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Register online: <http://www.oreillyschool.com/?CMP=BAC-ostug> --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The lighttpd Web Server Apache is the 800-pound gorilla in the web server arena, but a plucky young featherweight called lighttpd is knocking at the door--and already powering some of the best-known and highly frequented sites on the Internet. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/05/the-lighttpd-web-server.html> ***PHP Search Engine Showdown Your users know exactly what they want to find on your web site, but they just can't find it. If only your site had a good search engine. Michael Douma and his team recently compared several different search engines for PHP sites. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/02/16/search-engine-showdown.html> --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Lightroom Getting Started: Creating Identity Plates in Lightroom You can personalize the Lightroom environment by creating Identity Plates that appear throughout the application for a nice aesthetic touch. They also have very practical purposes as they can be used to identify slideshows, web galleries, and prints. Heres how to set up an Identity Plate of your own. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/14/identity-plates.html> ***Robert Leslie on Shooting TED and Using Aperture Event photographers need all the help they can get to survive the grueling hours and gigabytes of data they amass. Pro shooter Robert Leslie just completed one of the most challenging events of all, the TED conference in Monterey, California. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/27/robert-leslie.html> ***Digital Media Insider Podcast 10: Annoying Audio Peter Drescher designed the sounds for everything from After Dark screensavers to the T-Mobile Sidekick. Hear what it takes to annoy (and thrill) this top ringtone composer. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/03/29/digital-media-insider-podcast-10-annoying-audio.html> ***Build a Photo Gallery Using CakePHP and Flickr Is the Flickr interface doing justice to your stunning snaps? It's time to consider customization. Jonathan shows us the ropes in his hands-on tutorial, as he uses CakePHP and the Flickr API to build an attractive, fully customized gallery that displays Flickr photos to their best advantage. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/photo-gallery-cakephp-flickr> --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Apple TV: State of the Hacks Erica Sadun has been hacking away on the new Apple TV and presents this "State of the Hacks" roundup of what people are doing with their Apple TV boxes. Discover what kinds of mods are out there and whether they're the right fit for your needs and abilities. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/27/upgrading-apple-tvs-hard-drive.html> ***Introducing Google Desktop for Mac Giles Turnbull takes an in-depth look at Google Desktop for the Mac, putting the recently released OS X version of Google's desktop search product through its paces. Learn what Google Desktop can do for you, how it does it, and why it needs to install itself with high-level permissions on your system. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/09/introducing-google-desktop-for-mac.html> ***A Chat with Nobi Chris Stone interviews longtime Japanese Mac journalist Nobuyuki "Nobi" Hayashi. Nobi shares his thoughts on this year's MacWorld, gives hints for Mac developers wanting to cross the Pacific, and explains why Apple TV won't be the next big thing in Japan, but what might instead. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/03/13/a-chat-with-nobi.html> --------------------- Microsoft/.NET --------------------- ***The Logic of Service-Orientation Plus 14 SO Tenets and Practical Principles What exactly is service orientation, and what does it mean for the future of the software industry? What are the principles that should guide any developer using it? In this excerpt from Programming WCF Services, Juval Lowy explains what it's about and offers practical principles for its use. <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/10/the-logic-of-service-orientation-plus-14-so-tenets-and-practical-principles.html> ***Logging with Custom Web Events Every serious ASP.NET application requires logging. Jesse Liberty shows how to use the little-known ASP.NET Health Monitoring system to create a robust and extensible, yet minimal, logging system that will send email in a crisis and routinely log to a database. <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/03/13/logging-with-custom-web-events.html> --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Controlling Threads by Example The methods people commonly think of for controlling threads were deprecated long ago, and are not safe to use. In this article, Viraj Shetty shows the appropriate techniques for starting, pausing, resuming, and stopping activities taking place in a multithreaded application. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/04/06/controlling-threads-by-example.html> ***Using Groovy to Send Emails Groovy is one of the more popular dynamic languages for the JVM. It has a familiar syntax, reduces large amounts of scaffolding code, and integrates seamlessly with Java. Learning Groovy means gaining access to all of the richness emerging in the dynamic language world while still leveraging the skills, infrastructure, and libraries you already have from the Java world. This is a quick tutorial showing how to send emails from Groovy using Java libraries. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/03/23/using-groovy-to-send-emails.html> --------------------- Web --------------------- ***The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Does your heart soar when you see great web page designs...and break when you look at your own? You don't need to go to art school to create those sweet designs, as Jason explains. Read his hands-on tour of the underlying concepts of web page layout and composition today. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/principles-beautiful-web-design> ***How-to Flip A Web Site Fixer-upper Want to buy and sell web sites for profit? In this practical guide, experienced site flipper Peter steps through the process, providing tips to keep you from the common pitfalls, and showing how to add value that translates to real profits when you sell. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flip-a-web-site> ***Making Money With Web Communities Run a large web community and looking to monetize it? Chris explains the ins-and-outs of monetizing blogs, forums, and more. <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/04/06/making-money-with-communities-part-1-problems/> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ --Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. - Mark Twain -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
