Newsletter issue 02-9

[Josette Garcia]

O'Reilly UK User Group Programme
NEWSLETTER
Issue 02-9
May 27th, 2002


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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
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NEWS FROM O’REILLY AND BEYOND
-Tapping the Alpha Geek Noosphere with EtherPEG
-Building Wireless Web Clients, Part 2
-Why Data Binding Matters
-Harnessing XML with Custom Tags or ColdFusion Components
-A Batch Job to Add New User IDs
-Jaguar Preview is Stunning
-iPhoto Tips
-Web Services for Bioinformatics
CONFERENCE NEWS
BOOK NEWS
- Books for review
- Coming soon
YOUR BOOK REVIEWS
YOUR NEWS

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NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND
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GENERAL NEWS
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TAPPING THE ALPHA GEEK NOOSPHERE WITH ETHERPEG
"So there I was at ETech, sitting in the back of the Emergence
discussion, listening to Rael Dornfest, Cory Doctorow, Clay Shirky, and
other extraordinary blogging minds thought about the blogging
world...If only there were some way of getting into the collective
stream-of-consciousness of the crowd, to gauge their actual reactions
to what was really going on up on stage..."

Read the rest of Rob Flickenger's weblog:
http://www.oreillynet.com/1414.html

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JAVA
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BUILDING WIRELESS WEB CLIENTS, PART 2
Get Amazon book info from wireless devices by Kim Topley.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/05/15/j2me2.html

WHY DATA BINDING MATTERS
Brett McLaughlin offers five examples of how data binding can save you
considerable time and energy.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/05/15/databind.html


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COLDFUSION
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HARNESSING XML WITH CUSTOM TAGS OR COLDFUSION COMPONENTS
Rob Brooks-Bilson shows how to use ColdFusion MX's Components and its
XML parsing capabilities in this article from Macromedia's Application
Development Center. Rob is the author of Programming ColdFusion.
http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/custom_cf_tag.html

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LINUX
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A BATCH JOB TO ADD NEW USER IDS
Arnold Robbins shows a script to automate adding many user IDs at
once.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/09/uid.html

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MAC
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JAGUAR PREVIEW IS STUNNING
By now you may have heard some of the announcements at the 2002 WWDC
conference in San Jose, Calif., but here's a detailed overview of just
about everything Steve Jobs covered in his keynote address where he
introduced Apple developers to Mac OS X 10.2, code named Jaguar.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/09/wwdc_overview.html

IPHOTO TIPS
Pro photographer and Mac enthusiast Derrick Story shows you how to get
the most out of iPhoto keeping you up to date with the latest plug-ins
available for Apple's breakthrough digital imaging application.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/collections/iphoto.html

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WEB SERVICES
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WEB SERVICES FOR BIOINFORMATICS
Ethan Cerami explores two bioinformatic Web Services you can try out
today--XEMBL and BQS--and shows code examples of how the interfaces
work.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/05/14/biows.html


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CONFERENCE NEWS
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O'REILLY MAC OS X CONFERENCE
The first O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, September 30-October 3, 2002, in
Santa Clara, CA, explores how Apple's completely rebuilt operating
system is creating fertile ground for Mac users, *nix programmers, and
Java developers alike. Registration opens June 2002.


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BOOK NEWS
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Latest books available for review

Review copies are available please email me, with your postal address, for a
copy - josette at oreilly.co.uk

Ant: The Definitive Guide
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/

Java and SOAP
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/

Learning UNIX for Mac OS X
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/

Mac OS X Pocket Reference
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpr/


Coming soon

Java and XML Data Binding
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxmldatabind/

The Networking CD Bookshelf 2.0
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netcd2/

MySQL Reference Manual
http://oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlref/

Perl in a Nutshell 2e
http://oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut2/

Sed & awk Pocket Reference 2e
http://oreilly.com/catalog/sedawkrepr2/


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YOUR BOOK REVIEWS
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Online reviews only.

Birmingham pm reviewed
·	XSLT - http://birmingham.pm.org/docs/reviews/xslt.html

·	Running weblogs With Slash
http://birmingham.pm.org/docs/reviews/slash.html

·	GIMP Pocket Reference http://birmingham.pm.org/docs/reviews/gimp.html


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YOUR NEWS
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- UKUUG - LINUX Developers' Conference & Tutorial
4th July (Tutorials)  5th - 7th July (Conference),
Bristol, UK
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002

November 15-17 - 2nd European BSD Conference
Hotel Amsterdam a/d Amstel, The Netherlands
http://www.eurobsdcon2002.org/


Anything else you would like me to announce?


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