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Dear Reader,
Over the years I've listened to some terrific keynotes at O'Reilly
conferences -- Larry Lessig, Guy Kawasaki, and George Dyson just to name a
few. Another notable speaker to add to that list of favorites is Andy
Hertzfeld, who was a key member of the original Macintosh engineering
team.
Andy has captured some terrific anecdotes form those early Mac days and
published them on his Folklore.org web site. If you're interested in what
really went on behind the scenes, this is a site for you. The characters
include Burrell Smith, Jef Raskin, Bill Atkinson, John Sculley, and of
course, Steve Jobs.
I also had the opportunity to look at some of the layouts for Andy's book
on the same subject that O'Reilly will publish later this year. The
photographs, drawings, and words create a sense of actually being there.
Much of this has to do with Andy's ability to tell a story well.
That's why I'm so darned excited that he has agreed to keynote at our
upcoming Mac OS X Conference in Santa Clara, CA, the last week of October.
It's true, Andy has already published many good anecdotes about the
efforts of those behind the original Mac. But he hasn't shared all of
them. At least not yet. Those attending his talk are in for a real treat.
Early Bird Registration (with its hefty discount) ends this Friday, Sept.
10. You might want to hop over to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/macosx2004/
right now and sign up. This is a keynote you don't want to miss.
Until next week,
-Derrick
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Derrick Story
O'Reilly Network Managing Editor
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These days, we no longer simply browse the Web as much as we mine it. You
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Lightweight XML Editing in Word 2003
Strictly speaking, you can edit custom XML in Word, but there are
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The Page Turn Effect in Flash MX
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MP3 Sound Bites
Jon Udell demonstrates an MP3 clipping service he wrote to enable
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Hypermedia column.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/09/03/primetime.html
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Wrong-Errors Bugs: A New Class of Bug?
Dan Tow, author of SQL Tuning, has a fascinating proposal to present: the
recognition of a new class of database bug, dubbed the wrong-error bug.
Dan proposes ways to eliminate most of these bugs, including significant
changes to the RDBMS vendor SQL implementations to bulletproof against
these bugs, while increasing the optimizer's freedom to find the best path
to the data.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/09/02/wrongerrorbugs.html
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Keeping Up Developer Relations Worldwide
Paris is bustling with Mac users from all over Europe. The big news, of
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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/09/02/paris_expo.html
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Professional Product Shots Made Easy
How do you get professional-looking product shots without spending a
ransom on equipment and studio space? Here are a few clues: wireless
flash, umbrella softbox, and a trip to the hardware store. Derrick Story
shows you how to shoot products like a pro--with an amateur's budget.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/09/01/product_shots.html
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Parsing and Processing Large XML Documents with Digester Rules
In-memory XML representations such as DOM can be impractical for large XML
files, for which different approaches are needed. As Eugene Kuleshov
shows, Jakarta Digester offers a lighter, event-driven alternative.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/01/digester.html
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Screenscraping the Senate
In Paul Ford's first Hacking Congress column, he shows us how to turn
information on the U.S. Senate site into RDF.
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/09/01/hack-congress.html
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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/08/31/traveller.html
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For massive, high-performance systems, thread-per-client systems may not
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4. Mac OS X for the Traveler, Part 2
This is the second part of a series that will run over the next few weeks
discussing how to travel safely with your Mac OS X laptop. Now that you've
made your travel preparations as described in part one, you can now think
about getting all of your equipment on the plane safely.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/09/03/traveller.html
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5. Parsing and Processing Large XML Documents with Digester Rules
In-memory XML representations such as DOM can be impractical for large XML
files, for which different approaches are needed. As Eugene Kuleshov
shows, Jakarta Digester offers a lighter, event-driven alternative.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/09/01/digester.html
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