From ghenry at perl.me.uk Thu May 5 04:58:52 2005 From: ghenry at perl.me.uk (Gavin Henry) Date: Thu May 5 05:00:23 2005 Subject: [Aberdeen-pm] Free Books if you Review one. [Fwd: O'Reilly UK - User Group Newsletter Issue 07-05] Message-ID: <61101.193.195.148.66.1115294332.squirrel@webmail.suretecsystems.com> Points to note. If you want to review a book, i.e. any book, you get a free copy to keep, if the review goes on the aberdeen.pm.org site or on our blog. Send me a list of books!!!! ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: O'Reilly UK - User Group Newsletter Issue 07-05 From: "Josette Garcia" Date: Thu, May 5, 2005 12:49 pm To: "Josette Garcia" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Guys I am a little puzzled - 1. You are not asking many review copies (free to the reviewer by the way) 2. I am not getting many reviews Should your members be a little weary of writing reviews I am adding below some points that might help - * Include the book's title, author(s), publisher, and price. * Create a rating system with your members. Be creative * Be honest. * The length is up to you. Reviews can be short and sweet or long and detailed. Do what works best for you. * If you like something in a book, say what it is and why you like it. If you don't like something in the book, say what it is and say why you don't like it. Be as specific as you can--this information is important to other readers. * If something was omitted in the book say what it is and why it is important. * End the review with an overall summary. * If your members are having trouble writing a review, creating a set of questions that need to be answered might help them get started. * Do what works best for your group. * If you find an error you would like to submit, please go the "Errata" section on the book page from our online catalogue * Have Fun! And now for the Newsletter! O'Reilly UK User Group Programme NEWSLETTER Issue 07-05 ===============================================HIGHLIGHTS ==============================================NEWS FROM O'REILLY AND BEYOND -O'Reilly Radar Blog Launched -Mapping Hacks Safari Exclusive -Wired, MAKE, And MacGyver -Revitalizing the Pay-Per-Call System -The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 -Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy -Housecleaning Tips for Tiger -Mac Mini Eye for the Linux-Windows Guy -Protect Yourself from WiFi Snoops -XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0 -Five Favorite Features from 5.0 -Adding Custom Buttons to Internet Explorer -Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data -Johnny "Juice" Rosado: Digital Public Enemy BOOK NEWS - Books for review - Coming soon CONFERENCE NEWS YOUR BOOK REVIEWS YOUR NEWS ================================================NEWS FROM O'REILLY AND BEYOND ==============================================--------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly Radar Blog Launched O'Reilly is constantly watching the horizon for emerging technologies and trends sure to affect you and your business. Featuring links, articles, and blog entries posted by Tim O'Reilly, Rael Dornfest, Marc Hedlund, and Nathan Torkington, the group weblog offers a window into the O'Reilly predictive sense, letting you track what O'Reilly tracks. Be sure to read the About page for an overview: ***"Mapping Hacks" Safari Exclusive "Mapping Hacks," a collection of one hundred simple techniques for digital mapmaking, is scheduled for a June release, but your advance purchase gives you full access to the book's content right now. "Mapping Hacks" is currently available as a Safari Exclusive, meaning only subscribers to Safari's e-library can read it before its release. Purchase now and receive 45 days of free access to the book with no subscription necessary. ***Wired, MAKE, And MacGyver The evolution of the geek mag. ***Revitalizing the Pay-Per-Call System The 900 number, long associated with porn and psychics, is a technology that was ahead of its time. Despite its reputation, pay-per-call service is a proven and practical way to collect micropayments and create a competitive marketplace for information services. Brian McConnell suggests that third-party wireless providers use pay-per-call as a means to build and profit from voice and data services. --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 Daniel Steinberg's report from the 2005 MySQL Users Conference covers David Axmark and Michael Widenius' "State of the Dolphin" keynote and Michael Tiemann's keynote. For all the announcements, press coverage, blogs, and photos from the MySQL Conference, check out our Conference Coverage page: ***Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy Advocacy is critical to the spread of open source and free software. Good advocates build trust in their audiences, explaining how, and if, F/OSS can help them solve their problems. Jono Bacon explains how to build trust and avoid overzealous advocacy. --------------- Mac --------------------- ***Housecleaning Tips for Tiger Is your Mac ready for a smooth transition to Tiger? Maybe you're in need of a spring housecleaning anyway. Check out these tidy tips from Derrick Story, then roll out the red carpet for Mac OS X 10.4. ***Mac Mini Eye for the Linux-Windows Guy Todd had no intention of giving up his Linux and Windows boxes to become a "Mac switcher." But he had heard good things about OS X, so the Mac mini presented the opportunity for him to become a Mac-tryer. He details his experiences here. --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Protect Yourself from WiFi Snoops You needn't be at the mercy of WiFi snoops. There's a lot you can do to protect your home or business network, without spending a lot of time or even any money. Preston Gralla, author of "Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition," shows you how with step-by-step guides to hiding your network SSID, filtering out MAC addresses, and using encryption. ***XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0 With .NET 2.0's XML DataSource control, you can bind to an XML document just as easily as you bind to tables in a database. If the XML document you load is hierarchical, the data is exposed hierarchically, which makes it ideal for mapping an XML document to a TreeView control. Jesse Liberty explains how the XML DataSource works in ASP.NET. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Five Favorite Features from 5.0 David Flanagan reviews five of his favorite new Java 5.0 features: the Callable and Future interfaces, new APIs for varargs and autoboxing, new ability interfaces, the @Override annotation, and MatchResult. Read to the end, where David reveals a bonus sixth feature, a new language syntax supported by Java 5.0 but known to very few. David is the author of "Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition." ***Adding Custom Buttons to Internet Explorer Have you ever wanted to extend the Internet Explorer toolbar by adding your own buttons? It's not that tough to do. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows Server Hacks," walks you through it in a few easy steps. --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data With Pd (Pure Data), the graphical music toolkit for Windows, Linux, and Mac, you can wire up custom music programs no commercial software can duplicate--for free. Generate and process complex streams of MIDI and audio for live performance, build your own software synthesizer and effects, and even process video. Here's how to get started. ***Johnny "Juice" Rosado: Digital Public Enemy Chuck D right-hand man explains the high-tech (and surprisingly low-tech) secrets behind the Public Enemy sound, then shares a track from the group's upcoming album. ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ ****Latest books available for review * 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition If you want to deploy your own wireless network--at home or at the office?you must first understand the capabilities and risks associated with the 802.11 protocols. And 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition is the perfect place to start. This updated edition covers everything you need to know about integrating wireless technology into your current infrastructure. * Access Hacks With this valuable guide, experienced users of Microsoft Access can finally take their database skills to the next level. Access Hacks offers direct, hands-on tips and tools that help relieve the frustrations of users struggling to master the program's various complexities. Also ideal for beginners looking to grasp the fundamentals of this popular database management program. * The Art of Project Management In The Art of Project Management, you'll learn from a veteran manager of software and web development how to plan, manage and lead projects. This personal account of hard lessons learned over a decade of work in the industry distills complex concepts and challenges into practical nuggets of useful advice. Inspiring, funny, honest, and compelling, this is the book you and your team need to have within arms reach. It will serve you well with your current work, and on future projects to come. * Developing Feeds with RSS and Atom This step-by-step guide offers bloggers, web developers, and programmers an understanding of content syndication and the technologies that make it possible. It highlights all the new features of RSS 2.0, and offers complete coverage of its rival technology, Atom. Confidently teaches you how to produce your own data feeds to syndicate news and blogs. * Digital Audio Essentials Join the digital audio revolution! Whether it's downloading music, ripping CDs, organizing, finding, and creating higher quality music files, buying music players and accessories, or constructing a home stereo system, Digital Audio Essentials helps you do get it done. For music enthusiasts, digital archivists, amateur musicians, and anyone who likes a good groove. * Don't Click on the Blue E! For anyone who has grown disenchanted with Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser, Don't Click on the Blue E! offers help. It gives non-technical users a convenient roadmap for switching to a better web browser--Firefox. As the only book that covers the switch to Firefox, this how-to guide is a must for all those who want to browse faster, more securely, and more efficiently. * iMovie HD & iDVD 5: The Missing Manual For both professional and amateur moviemakers, David Pogue's witty and entertaining guide not only details every step of iMovie HD video production--from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs--but provides a firm grounding in basic film technique so that the quality of a video won't rely entirely on magic. It's your moviemaking-made-easy guide. * Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One This collection, by Photoshop expert Deke McClelland, provides valuable tips on creating great images for print, e-mail, and the Web using Adobe? Photoshop Elements software. It contains 12 step-by-step lessons on real-world tasks along with two hours of video tutorials. You don't have to be an expert, you'll just look like one. If you want to make your images the best they can be, then Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One is for you. * Test Driving Linux This detailed step-by-step guide provides both home and business users with a hassle-free way to investigate this operating system before they purchase and install a complete Linux distribution. Quickly learn how to use Linux to perform the tasks you do most: surf the web, send and receive email, instant message with friends, write letters, create spreadsheets, and even how to enhance your digitial photos. * Visual Basic 2005: A Developer's Notebook To bring you up to speed with Visual Basic 2005, this practical book offers nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the language, with emphasis on changes that can increase productivity, simplify programming tasks, and help you add new functionality to your applications. You get the goods straight from the masters in an informal, code-intensive style. Part of our new Developer's Notebook series. Visual C# 2005: A Developer's Notebook Microsoft's C# language has attracted millions to .NET. Now, to make development on this platform quicker and easier, C# 2.0 offers some key changes as part of the upcoming Visual Studio 2005. The C# 2.0 beta is already available, and our unique "all lab, no lecture" guide offers 50 hands-on projects to explore each new feature. Learn what C# 2.0 can do for you now. ****Coming Soon ? .NET Gotchas ? Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook ? Classic Shell Scripting ? Database in Depth ? Designing Embedded Hardware, 2nd Edition ? Essential Mac OS X Server Administration ? Essential SharePoint ? GDB Pocket Reference ? Killer Game Programming in Java ? Learning Java, 3rd Edition ? MySQL in a Nutshell ? SSH,The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition ===============================================CONFERENCE NEWS ==============================================***Where 2.0 Conference Registration Open, San Francisco, CA--June 29-30 Join us at the first O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference. Location-based services and mapping are becoming mainstream technologies. Meanwhile, innovative new software makes it possible to apply the wealth of new data to old business problems. Come explore the emerging consumer and enterprise ecosystems around location-aware technologies that increasingly impact the way we work and play. For more information, go to: User Group members who register before May 31, 2005 get a double discount. Use code "WHEREUG" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ***EuroOSCON Call for Papers Now Open, Amsterdam, The Netherlands--October 17-20 EuroOSCON 2005, to be held October 17-20 in Amsterdam, will explore the best and newest open source technologies, with a focus on what's particularly useful to companies, governments, and non-profits. Session and tutorial proposals are due by midnight, May 23rd. We're interested in all aspects of building applications, services, and systems that utilize the new capabilities of the open source platform. Submit your proposal: ===============================================YOUR BOOK REVIEWS ===============================================***Udruzenje Linux Korisnika reviewed - . Linux Cookbook - . Linux Device Drivers (3rd) - . 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Upcoming Tradeshows *************************************** 1. eBookshop at Apress.com Apress is pleased to announce its new eBookshop, http://ebookshop.apress.com. You can choose from dozens of recently released Apress titles in PDF format, each at 50% off the regular price. Through June 2005, we'll take an ADDITIONAL 50% off the discount price of the first eBookshop title you purchase - for a total savings of 75% off the book's regular price! Please visit http://www.apress.com/userGroups/ebookpromotion.html to obtain your special user group member discount. There you will enter your user group name, your e-mail address, and this password: apressug2563493. If you have any questions about redeeming your discount, please contact support at apress.com. *************************************** 2. Let 'Em Rip Have a computer book you don't like? Think you overpaid for what turned out to be a waste of your valuable time? 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Send ripped-out copyright pages to: Apress Let 'Em Rip Promotion 2560 Ninth Street, Suite 219 Berkeley, CA 94710 Let 'em rip. *************************************** 3. User Group Tools at Apress.com Please visit the updated Apress User Groups page soon, which will contain lots of helpful information to supplement your group experience: http://www.apress.com/userGroups/. New features include downloadable Apress logos to post on your site and use in printed materials. We also offer a User Group Finder to locate other groups in your area. (Or just take a peek to see who's registered around the world.) You'll also find a convenient form for requesting an Apress author to speak with your group. *************************************** 4. Apress Beta Community On June 6, Apress will launch its Apress Beta Community (ABC), a new portal for .NET professionals. The ABC will provide the best in expert opinion, articles, and peer-to-peer discussion about Microsoft's .NET 2.0 Beta. 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This coupon will save you an additional 50% off the already discounted eBook price, saving you a total of 75% off an eBook purchase. Your one-time use coupon is: ugPPNLIWUFEF Please visit http://ebookshop.apress.com and select the eBook you'd like to purchase. After you've added the book to your shopping cart, please enter this coupon code in the box provided. Then click Recalculate Price. If you have any questions about redeeming your coupon, please contact support at apress.com.