[Chicago-talk] Books and Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 14

Fri Jan 16 08:16:16 CST 2004

I would like to review Perl Template Toolkit, if no one else has already claimed it.  This is my first time, so hopefully I have the protocol correct.

Sam

 --- On Thu 01/15, Ed Summers < ehs at pobox.com > wrote:
From: Ed Summers [mailto: ehs at pobox.com]
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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:59:03 -0600
Subject: [Chicago-talk] Books and Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 14

If you want to review any of the following titles let me know and I'll pass along the info: - Security Warrior - Perl Template Toolkit			[PICK ME, PICK ME] - Learning Python, 2nd Edition - Running Mac OS X Panther - Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther - Postfix: The Definitive Guide - sendmail Cookbook - Apple Confidential 2.0 - Degunking Windows - Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, Second Edition ORA news follows: ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members January 14, 2004 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Security Warrior -Perl Template Toolkit -Learning Python, 2nd Edition -Running Mac OS X Panther -Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther -Postfix: The Definitive Guide -sendmail Cookbook -Apple Confidential 2.0 -Degunking Windows -Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, Second Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Sanjay Mishra (Mastering Oracle SQL), Dallas, TX--January 15 -O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, New York, NY--January 20-23, 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Digital Democracy Teach-In--February 9 -OSCON Survey: Participate to Win -OSCON 2004: Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Partners with No Starch, Paraglyph, and Syngress -Quantum Dots and Programmable Matter -Global Developer Survey -The State of Perl -Brian Behlendorf: Open Source Luminary -ONJava: 2003 in Review -Design Considerations for Microsoft Smartphone Applications -New Data Controls in ASP.NET Whidbey -Cooking with ADO.NET -Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Mac OS X -Confident Apple for 2004 -Control Your Mac with Your PDA ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference and Seminars, Bellevue WA--February 9-10 -The St. Louis Web Developers Organization and local chapter of the IWA/HTML Writers Guild presents the 5th Annual Web Design Awards Ceremony, St Louis, MO--February 17 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, or Syngress book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Security Warrior ISBN: 0-596-00545-8 "Security Warrior" is based on the principle that the only way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in depth. "Security Warrior" reveals how your systems can be attacked, covering everything from reverse engineering to SQL attacks, and including topics like social engineer
 ing, antiforensics, and common attacks against UNIX and Windows systems. This book teaches you to know your enemy and how to be prepared to do battle. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/swarrior/ Chapter 2, "Windows Reverse Engineering," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/swarrior/chapter/index.html ***Perl Template Toolkit ISBN: 0-596-00476-1 "Perl Template Toolkit" guides you through the entire process of installing, configuring, using, and extending the Template Toolkit. Written by core members of the technology's development team, the book begins with a fast-paced but thorough tutorial on building web content with the Template Toolkit, and then walks you through generating and using data files, particularly with XML. The book also provides detailed information on the Template Toolkit's modules, libraries, and tools, in addition to a complete reference manual. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/ Chapter 2, "A Complete Web Site Using Template Toolkit," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perltt/chapter/index.html ***Learning Python, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0-596-00281-5 "Learning Python, 2nd Edition" is a self-paced, comprehensive learning tool that allows programmers to focus on the core Python language in depth. Thoroughly updated, this guide introduces the basic elements of the latest release of Python, Python 2.3, and covers new features such as list comprehensions, nested scopes, and iterators/generators. The book also includes fresh overviews of object-oriented programming and dynamic typing, new discussions of program launch and configuration options, new coverage of documentation sources, and much more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython2/ Chapter 19, "OOP: The Big Picture," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpython2/chapter/index.html ***Running Mac OS X Panther ISBN: 0-596-00500-8 "Running Mac OS X Panther" is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife for power users who want to customize, rev up, and get the most out of their Macs. The book takes readers deep inside Mac OS X's core, revealing the inner workings of Panther. Learn where Mac OS X came from, how it's put together, and how it works; get the tools you to need to examine how your Mac is running and adjust all the knobs behind its operation; and learn all the ways Mac OS X interfaces with the world around it. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runmacxpanther/ ***Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther ISBN: 0-596-00617-9 "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther" provides a user-friendly tour of the Mac Unix base. You'll explore Terminal and familiarize yourself with the command line, learning as you go about the power and flexibility of the hundreds of Unix programs that come with your Mac. And if Unix isn't new to you, you'll discover how it translates into this latest Mac incarnation. Updated to cover Panther, this book will keep you current with the latest features of your Mac. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixpanther/ Chapter 5, "Printing," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixpanther/chapter/index.html ***Postfix: The Definitive Guide ISBN:0-596-00212-2 "Postfix: The Definitive Guide" eases readers from the basic configuration to the full power of Postfix. It discusses the interfaces to various tools that round out a fully scalable and highly secure email system, tools including POP, IMAP, LDAP, MySQL, Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL), and Transport Layer Security (TLS, an upgrade of SSL). A reference section for Postfix configuration parameters and an installation guide are included. From compiling and installing Postfix to troubleshooting, "Postfix: The Definitive Guide" gives you an all-in-one, comprehensive tutorial and reference to this mail transfer agent. ***sendmail Cookbook ISBN: 0-596-00471-0 "sendmail Cookboo
 k" provides step-by-step solutions for administrators who need to solve configuration problems fast. Each recipe outlines a configuration problem, presents the code that solves that problem, and explains the code in detail. The book provides lots of material that doesn't get much coverage elsewhere: STARTTLS and AUTH are given entire chapters, and LDAP is covered in recipes throughout the book. Don't wade through dense documentation to work out custom solutions; just grab a recipe and solve the problem. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/ Sample Chapter 2, "Delivery and Forwarding," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmailckbk/chapter/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Publishing Partners New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company No Starch Press ISBN: 1-59327-010-0 "Apple Confidential" examines the tumultuous history of America's best-known Silicon Valley start-up--from its legendary founding almost 30 years ago, through a series of disastrous executive decisions, to its return to profitability, and including Apple's recent move into the music business. This updated and expanded edition is full of juicy quotes, timelines, charts, and photos. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270100/ ***Degunking Windows Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1-932111-84-0 "Degunking Windows" covers the basics to help you quickly get your PC back to top performance. The book is organized according to special "cleaning" processes that will improve the performance of your computer. Shortcut and time calculation charts are provided at the beginning of the book to help you determine how much time is required to perform different degunking tasks from small to large. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932111840/ ***Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, Second Edition Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1-932111-87-5 "Windows Admin Scripting Little Black Book, 2nd Edition," shows you how to perform Windows XP and 2003 management and administrative tasks using powerful scripts for just about every important task imaginable. It covers ways to implement these scripts in an everyday environment automating repetitive tasks, and features example scripts on every new topic you can easily modify or combine to perform myriad tasks. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932111875/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Sanjay Mishra (Mastering Oracle SQL), Dallas, TX--January 15 Author Sanjay Mishra discusses "Oracle 10g: SQL New Features" at the next meeting. For more info and locaton, go to: http://www.doug.org/meetings2004.cfm ***O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, New York, NY--January 20-23 C'mon by our booth (#357) and get your mitts on our latest Linux and open source titles. We'll also be showing off Safari Bookshelf, our online reference library, and will have live presentations by O'Reilly authors. Javits Center, New York, NY http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Digital Democracy Teach-In--February 9 We've just added a Digital Democracy Teach-In to the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. It's a stand-alone, full-day session that explores the Internet's impact on the political process. If you're interesting in theintersection of technology, politics, and culture, you won't want to miss it. Hear from the people who are defying conventional wisdom and changing the rules of the game--the founders of MoveOn and MeetUp, Dean campaign staffers, influential political 
 bloggers, and grassroots advocates. They'll explain how, as political outsiders with technology chops and an urge to change the world, they've hacked the old guard's system. You'll come away with a potent new Internet-based toolset for flexing your political muscle. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2004/edemo.csp To register, go to: (Sorry, no user group discounts apply.) http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/create/ord_et04?x-t=edemo.create.form For more information on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ ***OSCON Survey: Participate to Win Help us refine our program for the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention by answering our OSCON survey. It'll take only five minutes, and participation makes you eligible to win one of two free passes to OSCON. To fill out the survey, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/survey/oscon04_planning/oscon04_planning_1.htm For more information on the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ***OSCON 2004: Call for Participation Individuals and companies interested in making presentations or giving tutorials at next summer's O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon are invited to submit proposals. This year's theme is "Opening the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver.".Tracks of interest run the open source gamut from Apache to XML, and we're also looking for proposals for sessions that help attendees add open source to their companies. The deadline for submitting proposals is February 9. To submit a proposal, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly Partners with No Starch, Paraglyph, and Syngress We're pleased to announce a collaboration between like-minded companies: As of January 1, 2004, O'Reilly is the North American distributor for three innovative small presses: No Starch Press, Paraglyph Press, and Syngress Publishing. We'll be sending user groups information and review copies for our new partners. No Starch Press http://nostarch.oreilly.com/ Paraglyph Press http://paraglyph.oreilly.com/ Syngress Publishing http://syngress.oreilly.com/ ***Quantum Dots and Programmable Matter Wil McCarthy introduces the concepts of programmable matter and the quantum dot, a device capable of trapping electrons in a space so small it forms artificial atoms that can be controlled in real time. If you'd like to learn more about this "programmable matter," Wil plans to explore the social and technological implications of quantum dots at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/01/09/quantumdots.html ***Global Developer Survey Software and application development have become a global endeavor. In response, MediaLive and O'Reilly have launched a survey to profile developers around the world, and we want you to be a part of it. Participate in this first study of its kind for a chance to win $500 USD. http://www.worldquery.com/qaglobal/Survey.cfm?c=5&fr=5475&s=8&g1=2&gp=32&r=0 --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The State of Perl A new year is a good time to take a look at the state Perl's in: its weaknesses, strengths, and future directions. Adam Turoff takes a long look at where Perl's going and why, and finds that Perl 6 doesn't have to be the last great hope. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/01/09/survey.html ***Brian Behlendorf: Open Source Luminary Writing for "The Mercury News," Dan Gillmor profiles some of Silicon Valley's lesser-known business leaders and innovative technologists. Among them is Bria
 n Behlendorf, the man who brought us Apache and the Apache Software Foundation, and the CTO of CollabNet. http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/7532827.htm --------------------- Java --------------------- ***ONJava: 2003 in Review A look back at ONJava articles from 2003, summarizing the big topics and major trends of the year in Java. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/30/2003-yearender.html --------------------- Wireless --------------------- ***Design Considerations for Microsoft Smartphone Applications Microsoft has recently announced support for the .NET CF in the new SmartPhone 2003. Here are some things to keep in mind when developing .NET CF SmartPhone applications: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/01/07/smartphone.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***New Data Controls in ASP.NET Whidbey One of the design goals of the next release of ASP.NET, codenamed ASP.NET Whidbey, is to reduce the amount of code you write for common tasks such as data access. Wei-Meng Lee discusses two new controls that drastically reduce the amount of code you typically need to write in ASP.NET. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/01/12/whidbey_datacontrols.htm ***Cooking with ADO.NET O'Reilly's recently released "ADO.NET Cookbook" contains over 150 solutions and best practices for everyday dilemmas. This week, we're excerpting three recipes from the book that show how to asynchronously update data in a database, how to protect login credentials during network transmissions, and how to enforce a business rule with column expressions. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/ado.netckbk_chap01/index.html ADO.NET Cookbook ISBN: 0-596-00439-7 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/adonetckbk/index.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Dreamweaver MX 2004 for Mac OS X Dreamweaver has always facilitated web design in the visual graphic art tradition. It's also famous for its accurate HTML code and organic way of letting users alternate between code and design view. Dreamweaver MX 2004 has some improvements that may tempt you to take another look at this application for your work. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/13/dreamweaver.html ***Confident Apple for 2004 You can have an entertaining, inspiring keynote without introducing the next big thing. Apple and Steve Jobs did just that at Macworld SF '04, and it bodes well for the year ahead. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/07/apple_2004.html ***Control Your Mac with Your PDA You bought a Bluetooth Mac, and now you have a Bluetooth PDA, so there must be something cool that the two can do together, right? There is, when you add Salling Software's Clicker to the mix. Clicker lets your Bluetooth devices (phones and PDAs) act as a remote control for your Mac. Dori Smith, coauthor of "Mac OS X Unwired," walks you through the install and use of Clicker, then looks at some examples of Clicker in action, using PowerPoint and iPhoto. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/06/macosxunwired.html Mac OS X Unwired ISBN:0-596-00508-3 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxunwire/index.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference and Seminars, Bellevue WA--February 9-10 Five parallel session tracks and 25 sessions on Monday the 9th. Two optional all-day seminars on Tuesday the 10th. The conference takes place at the Meydenbauer Center, Bellevue WA For more information, go to: http://www.nwoug.com ***The St. Louis Web Developers Organization and local chapter of the IWA/HTML Writers Guild presents the 5th Annual Web Design Awards Ceremony, St Louis, MO--February 17 The event will be held at the St. Lou
 is Science Center beginning at 6:00pm and is open to the public. Refreshments are provided and prizes will be given to the top 3 web page winners in 7 categories. For more information, go to: http://www.stlwebdev.org/resources/awards/ _______________________________________________ Chicago-talk mailing list Chicago-talk at mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/chicago-talk

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