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Buona lettura

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From: Josette Garcia <Josette at oreilly.co.uk>
Date: Dec 13, 2007 5:09 PM
Subject: O'Reilly UK User Group Programme - Newsletter Issue 11-07
To: josetteorama at gmail.com

O'Reilly UK User Group Programme
 NEWSLETTER
 Issue 11-07

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BOOK NEWS
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YOUR BOOK REVIEWS
CONFERENCE NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS
NEWS FROM O'REILLY AND BEYOND

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***Adobe InDesign CS3 One-on-One
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***Advanced Rails
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***Advanced Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 10: 0978739221
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0978739221/>

***Apache Cookbook, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596529945
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529949/>

***C# 3.0 Cookbook, Third Edition
ISBN 10: 059651610X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516109/>

***C# 3.0 Design Patterns
ISBN 10: 059652773X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527730/>

***The Creative Digital Darkroom
ISBN 10: 0596100477
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596100476/>

***Digital Astrophotography (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 1933952164
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952161/>

***Groovy Recipes (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 10: 0-978739299
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780978739294/>

***Head First JavaScript
ISBN 10: 0596527748
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***Head First Software Development
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***iPhone UK: The Missing Manual
ISBN 10: 0955750601
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***Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual
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***Programming C# 3.0, Fifth Edition
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***Prototype and script.aculo.us (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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***Take Your Photography to the Next Level (Rocky Nook)
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***MMUG, Dublin reviewed –
Dynamic Learning Flash CS3 Professional Review -
http://www.mmug-dublin.com/blog/?p=10
Also sent their review to amazon.co.uk (thank you)

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LDAP System Administration -
http://edinburgh.pm.org/book-reviews/ldap-system-administration.html

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***Registration for ETech is now open, San Diego, CA--March 3-6 Body
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***RailsConf 2008 Call For Participation Ends December 13
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***O'Reilly Editor Andy Oram is running a survey about how people
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The next time you have to search for information on any topic, try
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***Top Ten Tips for Linux Network Admins
Carla Schroder, author of the newly released Linux Networking Cookbook
offers her top ten tips for being a superior Linux network
administrator --great advice regardless of your level of experience.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/11/carla_schroders_top_ten_tips_f.html>

***Mac OS X Leopard: The Missing Manual Sneak Preview
Five Tips and Tricks from David Pogue and an ultratip.
<http://missingmanuals.com/pogue/mac_os_x_leopard_tips.csp>

***Programming is Hard, Let's Go Scripting...
Larry Wall's annual State of the Onion describes the state of Perl,
the language and the community. In his 11th address, he discussed the
past, present, and future of scripting languages, including the
several dimensions of design decisions important to the development of
Perl 6.

<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2007/12/06/soto-11.html>

***Building Mashup-Friendly Sites in Rails
Mashups have been the hot web technology lately. Rather than try to do
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special in an easy to consume fashion, and let users design
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us through an example showing how to create mashup-friendly using Ruby
on Rails.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/building-mashups-in-rails.html>

***An Interview with Toby Segaran
Toby Segaran is the author of "Programming Collective Intelligence."
We recently spoke to him about his new book and why these kind of
machine learning techniques are so important in the Web 2.0 era.

<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2007/11/14/an-interview-with-toby-segaran.html>

***Introducing Raven: An Elegant Build for Java
Build processes in Java haven't evolved much since the introduction of
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bear on the build process. This article discusses Raven, a build
system for Java that uses JRuby.

<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/12/05/introducing-raven-an-elegant-build-for-java.html>

***Advanced JavaScript III
JavaScript guru Howard Feldman completes his voyage through the world
of JavaScript hacking with this article. This time around, he tackles
dynamic tables, switching out form elements, and putting prompting
text in text boxes.

<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/20/advanced-javascript-iii.html>

***Sal Soghoian on Leopard, Automation, and Aperture
Apple's product manager of automation technologies is the same guy who
many of us consider the ultimate AppleScript guru: Sal Soghoian. Even
though Sal and I live only a few hours apart, I had to go all the way
to the Caribbean to chase him down for this podcast interview. It was
worth it. Sal talks about Leopard, automation improvements, and of
course, how this all affects Aperture.

<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/11/27/sal-soghoian.html>

For more articles, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/>

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Blogs
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Shopping for the geek in your life? Here's help.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/12/shopping_for_the_geek_in_your_1.html>

Bad Math Among eBook Enthusiasts
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/bad_math_ebooks_kindle.html>

Hidden Influences on Software Design
<http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/11/hidden_influences_on_software.php>

Groovy StAX builder
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/11/groovy_stax_builder.html>

ETech = Energy + Food Hacking + Arduino + Processing + Worldwide Tech
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/12/etech_energy_fo.html>

Open Source Hardware Gift Guide
<http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/open_source_hardware_gift.html>

Books for Makers - A gift guide of lost arts and new tech
<http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2007/12/books_for_makers_a_gift_g.html>

Some geeks just wanna live forever (well, say, 1,000 years or so)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/11/some_geeks_just_wanna_live_for.html>

Naked Light
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/12/naked_light.html>

For more blogs, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/>

Season's Greetings!
Will talk to you again in January

Josette