From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Nov 5 12:50:08 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: I'm Really Not Qualified Message-ID: Hey everyone, This is not Perl related so feel free to bail at this point. Still here? Cool. I have undertaken a fairly large project for my company (because no one else here wants it) for which I am really not qualified. For lack of a better term, I am setting up a sort of groupware for our company of 13 employees. There will be no chat clients or crap like that. The primary function of this will be a better calendar/scheduling system than we are currently using with more robust project scheduling tools. Back Story: To date, we have been using FileMaker Pro for anything and everything that is database related. We do time tracking, estimates, correspondence and scheduling in it. Our environment consists primarily of Macs (since we are a graphic design house) and a handful of PC?s. So far, FileMaker has allowed us to do what we needed to do and do it across the two platforms and do it inexpensively. But we now want it to do much more and it simply isn?t capable of keeping up. My company does print design as well as web/interactive design. Print design is much more scheduling intensive due to the various stages of production. A typical print job includes loose color proofing, film, plating and offset printing. It may also include embossing, folding and assembly, etc. A different vendor may be responsible for each stage of production. You can see how a simple letterhead/business card project can quickly become a management nightmare if you aren?t on your toes. Part of the problem with all of this production craziness is that our production manager and project leads are running all over the place as details and problems are developing in their jobs. We all have cell phones and PDAs but they are pretty useless at the moment because they don?t link up to our data. FileMaker has one tool called FileMaker Mobile for getting FileMaker data onto a handheld, but it does not support multi-user databases and several other features. Basically, it is useless to us. So, one of the solutions we looked at was Microsoft?s Exchange Server. It will do about 80% of what we want right out of the box, which leaves me either having to write the other 20% and find a way to glue it to Exchange, or just start at ground zero and build our own solution from the ground up. So here is where I am at the moment: I am planning to install Microsoft?s Small Business Server suite, which includes Exchange, SQL, etc. This instantly gets me syncability with handheld devices through Outlook (as well as cross-platform support) and covers the majority of the functionality we need. The one major thing that Exchange doesn?t do (at least not out of the box) is robustly handle project scheduling in a way that is useful to us (job numbers, people involved on a project, shifting an entire schedule ahead a week, etc.). It also has to be able to print reports that match our graphic standards and other correspondence materials. To get the scheduling and production management tools that we want, I am using PHP and MySQL to build a web-based module. This is where things get icky because I need to somehow link it to Exchange using PHP?s LDAP or something similar so that data can be synced onto the handhelds as well as edited, created, deleted, etc. and then reconciled (safely) during the next sync. Multiple people may be making changes to the same project at the same time; some on a PDA, some from a workstation. Has anyone in the group ever had to deal with this sort of scenario? I can handle setting up Exchange and building the online tools that we need. But I have no experience with LDAP or Active Directory so getting my custom app to work and play nicely with Microsoft just might kill me. My day-to-day job is that of web/interactive designer so I don?t usually deal with anything beyond the scope of a website or whatever I can cram onto a CD. Being a web/interactive designer has made me the ?technical guy? in the office so I end up shouldering this sort of thing. Any ideas, cautions, suggestions, insults, condolences etc. are welcome. Thanks, Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20011105/03ec5110/attachment.htm From albert.tobey at priority-health.com Mon Nov 5 12:23:43 2001 From: albert.tobey at priority-health.com (Albert P Tobey) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: I'm Really Not Qualified In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1004984623.8633.24.camel@linuxws1> As usual, I'd like to point you to one or two open source options for this project, since we all know that if you deploy exchange, you'll never be able to get rid of it. Trust me. http://www.phpgroupware.org/index.php You mentioned PHP, right? Well, here's a PHP tool. It doesn't have a PDA syncronization app, but I think I saw that it does iCal, so that might be enough. (you can import iCal into most desktop PIM apps). Also, a search on www.freshmeat.net will show a few addon modules for this package, indicating at least some degree of extensibility. http://www.tutos.org/homepage/index.html Another one. Searching freshmeat shows quite a few, these two are just a couple of the more advanced OSS products. Some of the closed applications look nice, too. I'm not sure, but last I checked, Netscape had a nice application for groupware based on their directory server. http://www.bynari.net/ A company creating an Exchange/Outlook competitive product that likely costs less, but doesn't run on Windows. Darn. Just my obligatory OSS/Anti M$ plug. -Al Tobey On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 13:50, Brandon Gohsman wrote: > Hey everyone, > > This is not Perl related so feel free to bail at this point. > > Still here? Cool. I have undertaken a fairly large project for my > company (because no one else here wants it) for which I am really not > qualified. For lack of a better term, I am setting up a sort of > groupware for our company of 13 employees. There will be no chat clients > or crap like that. The primary function of this will be a better > calendar/scheduling system than we are currently using with more robust > project scheduling tools. > > Back Story: > To date, we have been using FileMaker Pro for anything and everything > that is database related. We do time tracking, estimates, correspondence > and scheduling in it. Our environment consists primarily of Macs (since > we are a graphic design house) and a handful of PC's. So far, FileMaker > has allowed us to do what we needed to do and do it across the two > platforms and do it inexpensively. But we now want it to do much more > and it simply isn't capable of keeping up. > > My company does print design as well as web/interactive design. Print > design is much more scheduling intensive due to the various stages of > production. A typical print job includes loose color proofing, film, > plating and offset printing. It may also include embossing, folding and > assembly, etc. A different vendor may be responsible for each stage of > production. You can see how a simple letterhead/business card project > can quickly become a management nightmare if you aren't on your toes. > > Part of the problem with all of this production craziness is that our > production manager and project leads are running all over the place as > details and problems are developing in their jobs. We all have cell > phones and PDAs but they are pretty useless at the moment because they > don't link up to our data. FileMaker has one tool called FileMaker > Mobile for getting FileMaker data onto a handheld, but it does not > support multi-user databases and several other features. Basically, it > is useless to us. > > So, one of the solutions we looked at was Microsoft's Exchange Server. > It will do about 80% of what we want right out of the box, which leaves > me either having to write the other 20% and find a way to glue it to > Exchange, or just start at ground zero and build our own solution from > the ground up. So here is where I am at the moment: > > I am planning to install Microsoft's Small Business Server suite, which > includes Exchange, SQL, etc. This instantly gets me syncability with > handheld devices through Outlook (as well as cross-platform support) and > covers the majority of the functionality we need. The one major thing > that Exchange doesn't do (at least not out of the box) is robustly > handle project scheduling in a way that is useful to us (job numbers, > people involved on a project, shifting an entire schedule ahead a week, > etc.). It also has to be able to print reports that match our graphic > standards and other correspondence materials. > > To get the scheduling and production management tools that we want, I am > using PHP and MySQL to build a web-based module. This is where things > get icky because I need to somehow link it to Exchange using PHP's LDAP > or something similar so that data can be synced onto the handhelds as > well as edited, created, deleted, etc. and then reconciled (safely) > during the next sync. Multiple people may be making changes to the same > project at the same time; some on a PDA, some from a workstation. > > Has anyone in the group ever had to deal with this sort of scenario? I > can handle setting up Exchange and building the online tools that we > need. But I have no experience with LDAP or Active Directory so getting > my custom app to work and play nicely with Microsoft just might kill me. > My day-to-day job is that of web/interactive designer so I don't usually > deal with anything beyond the scope of a website or whatever I can cram > onto a CD. Being a web/interactive designer has made me the "technical > guy" in the office so I end up shouldering this sort of thing. > > Any ideas, cautions, suggestions, insults, condolences etc. are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Brandon Gohsman > Square One Design > 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 > Grand Rapids, MI 49504 > > T 616.774.9048 > F 616.774.8003 > E brandon@squareonedesign.com > W http://www.squareonedesign.com > ******************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Priority Health Information Services Department at (616) 942-0954. ******************************************************************** From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Nov 5 13:32:55 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: I'm Really Not Qualified In-Reply-To: <1004984623.8633.24.camel@linuxws1> Message-ID: Thanks for the info. Yeah, I've actually already setup PHP Groupware as an option. Unfortunately it has two strikes against it: One is the aforementioned lack of PDA support (although a group is working on a Palm conduit for it) and the other is that its calendar would have to be rewritten to accommodate all of our scheduling idiosyncrasies. I've spent a lot of time at SourceForge.net looking at various scheduling tools but I keep running into the same limitations. We are such a small company with such unique scheduling needs that there just isn't a general tool out there to accommodate us. But I'm open to any short-cut out of the hole I'm in. This is the price one pays for being "different". Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -----Original Message----- From: owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org [mailto:owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org]On Behalf Of Albert P Tobey Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:24 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Cc: Perl Mongers Subject: Re: I'm Really Not Qualified As usual, I'd like to point you to one or two open source options for this project, since we all know that if you deploy exchange, you'll never be able to get rid of it. Trust me. http://www.phpgroupware.org/index.php You mentioned PHP, right? Well, here's a PHP tool. It doesn't have a PDA syncronization app, but I think I saw that it does iCal, so that might be enough. (you can import iCal into most desktop PIM apps). Also, a search on www.freshmeat.net will show a few addon modules for this package, indicating at least some degree of extensibility. http://www.tutos.org/homepage/index.html Another one. Searching freshmeat shows quite a few, these two are just a couple of the more advanced OSS products. Some of the closed applications look nice, too. I'm not sure, but last I checked, Netscape had a nice application for groupware based on their directory server. http://www.bynari.net/ A company creating an Exchange/Outlook competitive product that likely costs less, but doesn't run on Windows. Darn. Just my obligatory OSS/Anti M$ plug. -Al Tobey On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 13:50, Brandon Gohsman wrote: > Hey everyone, > > This is not Perl related so feel free to bail at this point. > > Still here? Cool. I have undertaken a fairly large project for my > company (because no one else here wants it) for which I am really not > qualified. For lack of a better term, I am setting up a sort of > groupware for our company of 13 employees. There will be no chat clients > or crap like that. The primary function of this will be a better > calendar/scheduling system than we are currently using with more robust > project scheduling tools. > > Back Story: > To date, we have been using FileMaker Pro for anything and everything > that is database related. We do time tracking, estimates, correspondence > and scheduling in it. Our environment consists primarily of Macs (since > we are a graphic design house) and a handful of PC's. So far, FileMaker > has allowed us to do what we needed to do and do it across the two > platforms and do it inexpensively. But we now want it to do much more > and it simply isn't capable of keeping up. > > My company does print design as well as web/interactive design. Print > design is much more scheduling intensive due to the various stages of > production. A typical print job includes loose color proofing, film, > plating and offset printing. It may also include embossing, folding and > assembly, etc. A different vendor may be responsible for each stage of > production. You can see how a simple letterhead/business card project > can quickly become a management nightmare if you aren't on your toes. > > Part of the problem with all of this production craziness is that our > production manager and project leads are running all over the place as > details and problems are developing in their jobs. We all have cell > phones and PDAs but they are pretty useless at the moment because they > don't link up to our data. FileMaker has one tool called FileMaker > Mobile for getting FileMaker data onto a handheld, but it does not > support multi-user databases and several other features. Basically, it > is useless to us. > > So, one of the solutions we looked at was Microsoft's Exchange Server. > It will do about 80% of what we want right out of the box, which leaves > me either having to write the other 20% and find a way to glue it to > Exchange, or just start at ground zero and build our own solution from > the ground up. So here is where I am at the moment: > > I am planning to install Microsoft's Small Business Server suite, which > includes Exchange, SQL, etc. This instantly gets me syncability with > handheld devices through Outlook (as well as cross-platform support) and > covers the majority of the functionality we need. The one major thing > that Exchange doesn't do (at least not out of the box) is robustly > handle project scheduling in a way that is useful to us (job numbers, > people involved on a project, shifting an entire schedule ahead a week, > etc.). It also has to be able to print reports that match our graphic > standards and other correspondence materials. > > To get the scheduling and production management tools that we want, I am > using PHP and MySQL to build a web-based module. This is where things > get icky because I need to somehow link it to Exchange using PHP's LDAP > or something similar so that data can be synced onto the handhelds as > well as edited, created, deleted, etc. and then reconciled (safely) > during the next sync. Multiple people may be making changes to the same > project at the same time; some on a PDA, some from a workstation. > > Has anyone in the group ever had to deal with this sort of scenario? I > can handle setting up Exchange and building the online tools that we > need. But I have no experience with LDAP or Active Directory so getting > my custom app to work and play nicely with Microsoft just might kill me. > My day-to-day job is that of web/interactive designer so I don't usually > deal with anything beyond the scope of a website or whatever I can cram > onto a CD. Being a web/interactive designer has made me the "technical > guy" in the office so I end up shouldering this sort of thing. > > Any ideas, cautions, suggestions, insults, condolences etc. are welcome. > > Thanks, > > Brandon Gohsman > Square One Design > 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 > Grand Rapids, MI 49504 > > T 616.774.9048 > F 616.774.8003 > E brandon@squareonedesign.com > W http://www.squareonedesign.com > ******************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the Priority Health Information Services Department at (616) 942-0954. ******************************************************************** From beaker457 at hotmail.com Tue Nov 6 15:19:41 2001 From: beaker457 at hotmail.com (Ben Carlson) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: I'm Really Not Qualified Message-ID: With such a unique needs what you are going to end up doing is finding something that is close and having to write extensions to meet the needs you require. Or start from the ground up and build your own. Those are the only two solutions out there for such as you put it "different company with different needs". Maybe you should think about hiring the Al Tobey/Ben Carlson consultants. :) Special needs consultants, guns for hire, technology is our slave! Ben Carlson >From: "Brandon Gohsman" >Reply-To: >To: "Perl Mongers" , >"Albert P Tobey" >Subject: RE: I'm Really Not Qualified >Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 14:32:55 -0500 > >Thanks for the info. > >Yeah, I've actually already setup PHP Groupware as an option. Unfortunately >it has two strikes against it: One is the aforementioned lack of PDA >support >(although a group is working on a Palm conduit for it) and the other is >that >its calendar would have to be rewritten to accommodate all of our >scheduling >idiosyncrasies. > >I've spent a lot of time at SourceForge.net looking at various scheduling >tools but I keep running into the same limitations. We are such a small >company with such unique scheduling needs that there just isn't a general >tool out there to accommodate us. But I'm open to any short-cut out of the >hole I'm in. > >This is the price one pays for being "different". > >Brandon Gohsman >Square One Design >560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 >Grand Rapids, MI 49504 > >T 616.774.9048 >F 616.774.8003 >E brandon@squareonedesign.com >W http://www.squareonedesign.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org >[mailto:owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org]On Behalf Of Albert P Tobey >Sent: Monday, November 05, 2001 1:24 PM >To: brandon@squareonedesign.com >Cc: Perl Mongers >Subject: Re: I'm Really Not Qualified > >As usual, I'd like to point you to one or two open source options for >this project, since we all know that if you deploy exchange, you'll >never be able to get rid of it. Trust me. > >http://www.phpgroupware.org/index.php > >You mentioned PHP, right? Well, here's a PHP tool. It doesn't have a >PDA syncronization app, but I think I saw that it does iCal, so that >might be enough. (you can import iCal into most desktop PIM apps). >Also, a search on www.freshmeat.net will show a few addon modules for >this package, indicating at least some degree of extensibility. > >http://www.tutos.org/homepage/index.html > >Another one. > >Searching freshmeat shows quite a few, these two are just a couple of >the more advanced OSS products. Some of the closed applications look >nice, too. I'm not sure, but last I checked, Netscape had a nice >application for groupware based on their directory server. > >http://www.bynari.net/ > >A company creating an Exchange/Outlook competitive product that likely >costs less, but doesn't run on Windows. Darn. > >Just my obligatory OSS/Anti M$ plug. > >-Al Tobey > > > > >On Mon, 2001-11-05 at 13:50, Brandon Gohsman wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > This is not Perl related so feel free to bail at this point. > > > > Still here? Cool. I have undertaken a fairly large project for my > > company (because no one else here wants it) for which I am really not > > qualified. For lack of a better term, I am setting up a sort of > > groupware for our company of 13 employees. There will be no chat clients > > or crap like that. The primary function of this will be a better > > calendar/scheduling system than we are currently using with more robust > > project scheduling tools. > > > > Back Story: > > To date, we have been using FileMaker Pro for anything and everything > > that is database related. We do time tracking, estimates, correspondence > > and scheduling in it. Our environment consists primarily of Macs (since > > we are a graphic design house) and a handful of PC's. So far, FileMaker > > has allowed us to do what we needed to do and do it across the two > > platforms and do it inexpensively. But we now want it to do much more > > and it simply isn't capable of keeping up. > > > > My company does print design as well as web/interactive design. Print > > design is much more scheduling intensive due to the various stages of > > production. A typical print job includes loose color proofing, film, > > plating and offset printing. It may also include embossing, folding and > > assembly, etc. A different vendor may be responsible for each stage of > > production. You can see how a simple letterhead/business card project > > can quickly become a management nightmare if you aren't on your toes. > > > > Part of the problem with all of this production craziness is that our > > production manager and project leads are running all over the place as > > details and problems are developing in their jobs. We all have cell > > phones and PDAs but they are pretty useless at the moment because they > > don't link up to our data. FileMaker has one tool called FileMaker > > Mobile for getting FileMaker data onto a handheld, but it does not > > support multi-user databases and several other features. Basically, it > > is useless to us. > > > > So, one of the solutions we looked at was Microsoft's Exchange Server. > > It will do about 80% of what we want right out of the box, which leaves > > me either having to write the other 20% and find a way to glue it to > > Exchange, or just start at ground zero and build our own solution from > > the ground up. So here is where I am at the moment: > > > > I am planning to install Microsoft's Small Business Server suite, which > > includes Exchange, SQL, etc. This instantly gets me syncability with > > handheld devices through Outlook (as well as cross-platform support) and > > covers the majority of the functionality we need. The one major thing > > that Exchange doesn't do (at least not out of the box) is robustly > > handle project scheduling in a way that is useful to us (job numbers, > > people involved on a project, shifting an entire schedule ahead a week, > > etc.). It also has to be able to print reports that match our graphic > > standards and other correspondence materials. > > > > To get the scheduling and production management tools that we want, I am > > using PHP and MySQL to build a web-based module. This is where things > > get icky because I need to somehow link it to Exchange using PHP's LDAP > > or something similar so that data can be synced onto the handhelds as > > well as edited, created, deleted, etc. and then reconciled (safely) > > during the next sync. Multiple people may be making changes to the same > > project at the same time; some on a PDA, some from a workstation. > > > > Has anyone in the group ever had to deal with this sort of scenario? I > > can handle setting up Exchange and building the online tools that we > > need. But I have no experience with LDAP or Active Directory so getting > > my custom app to work and play nicely with Microsoft just might kill me. > > My day-to-day job is that of web/interactive designer so I don't usually > > deal with anything beyond the scope of a website or whatever I can cram > > onto a CD. Being a web/interactive designer has made me the "technical > > guy" in the office so I end up shouldering this sort of thing. > > > > Any ideas, cautions, suggestions, insults, condolences etc. are welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Brandon Gohsman > > Square One Design > > 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 > > Grand Rapids, MI 49504 > > > > T 616.774.9048 > > F 616.774.8003 > > E brandon@squareonedesign.com > > W http://www.squareonedesign.com > > > > > > >******************************************************************** >This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential >and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity >to whom they are addressed. If you have received this >email in error please notify the Priority Health Information >Services Department at (616) 942-0954. >******************************************************************** > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp From brandon at squareonedesign.com Thu Nov 8 15:56:35 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 8th Message-ID: <001c01c168a0$3d2697c0$cace5541@brandon> Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 4:52 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 8th O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER November 8, 2001 Highlights this week... 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Phil will be discussing the latest and greatest features of Macs OS X operating system, highlighting the recent release of version 10.1. He will also detail the future of the Digital Hub as Apple continues to specialize in the integration of digital electronic equipment such as cameras, video cameras, mp3 players and cd burners with their computers. *This meeting is FREE and open to the public* O'Reilly will have a table at the meeting, so stop by and meet us and support NCMUG! ================================================== UPCOMING O'REILLY EVENTS ================================================== O'REILLY BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE You've heard by now that we're hosting our first O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference, January 28-31, 2002 in Tucson, AZ. As an O'Reilly User Group Program member, you get a double discount. If you register early, you not only receive Early Bird pricing, you also get 20% off the Early Bird price by using the DSUG discount code. Early Bird registration ENDS DECEMBER 7TH. Programmers (especially Perl, Python, Java and XML) should be interested in this rapidly growing field. For more conference information, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ I hope you are doing well, and life is good. Until next week.... --Denise From brandon at squareonedesign.com Fri Nov 16 08:43:07 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:44 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 15 Message-ID: New O'Reilly Newsletter BTW, the books are really piling up here. Now if I can just drag myself to the next meeting... Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 8:34 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 15 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER November 15, 2001 Highlights this week... Books: - 3 New Pocket References News: - Apple to be at NCMUG's November 20th meeting - An Interview with Tim O'Reilly by the Staff of La Fnac - NoCatAuth: Authentication For Wireless Networks - Demining Challenge for Engineering Students - Hailstorm's Principal Architecht Speaks on Microsoft - Wireless Java: MIDP GUI Programming - Getting Started with LDAP - David Pogue on the Real Mac OS X - Feds Discover the PowerPoint-QuickTime Connection - Programming Perl is Best of 2001 ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members... GENERAL INTEREST -------------------- NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: North Coast Mac Users Group proudly presents: PHIL SCHILLER, APPLE VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE MARKETING November 20, 2001 7:00 p.m. Doubletree Hotel One Doubletree Drive Rohnert Park, CA 94928 OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, FREE OF CHARGE O'Reilly will have a table at the meeting (it's local for us) http://www.ncmug.org/ The event is getting press: IGM (Insanely Great Mac) gets excited about it: http://www.insanely-great.com/news/01/1167.html AN INTERVIEW WITH TIM O'REILLY In this interview with La Fnac, France's largest book and music retailer, Tim O'Reilly talks about next-generation operating systems, Linux in embedded systems, how open source can play a kingmaker role in the battle between Java and .NET, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/news/fnacinterview_1101.html NOCATAUTH: AUTHENTICATION FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS Even an open community wireless network needs to keep track of who's using it, says Rob Flickenger, who describes the authentication system used by NoCat. Rob is the author of the upcoming "Building Wireless Community Networks: Implementing the Wireless Web." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/11/09/nocatauth.html Rob also leads the NoCatNet Developer's Group: http://nocat.net/ DEMINING CHALLENGE FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS Leftover land mines are one of the world's thorniest problems. Ed Scott suggests that we challenge US engineering students to tackle this problem, following the model of a project in Canada. This could be an extremely worthwhile project; check it out on Tim's weblog: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/854 HAILSTORM'S PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT SPEAKS ON MICROSOFT Mark Lucovsky, principal architect of HailStorm, was a keynote speaker at the recent O'Reilly P2P Conference. His "thank you" email said a lot about current attitudes at Microsoft. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/856 JAVA --------------------- WIRELESS JAVA: MIDP GUI PROGRAMMING Learn about the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) API in this sample chapter from O'Reilly's upcoming "Wireless Java: Programming with the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelessjava/chapter/ch05.html LINUX --------------------- Getting Started with LDAP The 2nd article on LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) has sparked a lot of interest...In his first article, Luke Kanies explained LDAP. Now Luke shows you how to set up a basic LDAP directory to store Unix user accounts, along with a script to pull those accounts to a Unix system: http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/08/ldap.html MAC --------------------- DAVID POGUE ON THE REAL MAC OS X Mac OS X is unlike anything Mac users have ever seen before, and the latest Missing Manual, which covers version 10.1, will help you understand Mac OS X's Unix roots, says David Pogue, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/11/09/missingmanual.html FEDS DISCOVER THE POWERPOINT-QUICKTIME CONNECTION Derrick Story, O'Reilly Network's managing editor reports that the State Department is using PowerPoint and Quicktime to produce a promotional film ("Defeating Terror, Defending Freedom") for its current efforts. The film weighs in at a hefty 45 megabytes, but using a few tricks, Derrick was able to trim it down to only 4.4 megabytes, without much loss in quality: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/11/12/qy_authoring.html PERL --------------------- PROGRAMMING PERL IS BEST OF 2001 O'Reilly's "Programming Perl, 3rd Edition" topped Fatbrain's list of the Best Computing & Internet Books of 2001. O'Reilly also took top honors in the Medicine and Biotech category with Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills: http://www1.fatbrain.com/fbt/offers/computing/2001/home.asp?FBPROMO=eb110201 ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. O'REILLY CAN FIT IN YOUR POCKET WITH 3 NEW REFERENCES: ------------------------------------------------------ Oracle SQL Tuning Pocket Reference Order #2688 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orsqltunpr/ Sample excerpt: The SQL Optimizers http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orsqltunpr/chapter/excerpt.html Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Order #1894 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr2/ Sample excerpt: Specific Statements http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr2/chapter/excerpt.html Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference Order #2335 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rman/ Article from the author: http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclerman_1001.html =============================================== AUTHORS WANTING TO SPEAK TO YOUR GROUP =============================================== Pennsylvania: James Tisdall, author of O'Reilly's "Beginning Perl for Bioinoformatics" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/, is located in Kimberton, PA. Virginia: Fred Drake, coauthor of O'Reilly's "Python & XML" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/, is located in Reston, VA. If either of these authors appeal to your group, let me know. I'll try to set something up for you. =============================================== HELP O'REILLY, EARN SOME DOOR PRIZES =============================================== We're trying to get the word out about the upcoming O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference. If you'd be willing to post a banner on your web site, we'd truly appreciate the effort. Banners can be found at: http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/banners/ Please let me know if you're able--we'll provide some door prizes for your meetings, in exchange. =============================================== WHERE YOU'LL SEE US NEXT =============================================== DECEMBER ----------------- Oracle Open World December 2-7 Booth #614 Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA LISA 2001 December 5-6 Town & Country Resort Hotel Booth #511 San Diego, CA While at the Conference, don't miss presentations and tutorials by our merry band of authors, listed at: http://events.oreilly.com/ JANUARY 2002 ----------------- Macworld January 8-11, 2002 Moscone Convention Center Booth #416 San Francisco, CA Don't miss presentations by O'Reilly authors: David Pogue, Adam Engst and Matt Neuburg http://www.macworldexpo.com/index.html IF YOU'D LIKE FREE PASSES, LET ME KNOW. I have a few to give out ($29 value). Also, Marsee Henon and I will be staffing an O'Reilly table during the Apple User Group University at Apple headquarters in Cupertino on January 7th--hope to see you there! O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference January 28-31, 2002 Tucson, AZ http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Reminder: You can receive a double-discount if you register during the Early Bird pricing by using your 20% discount code: DSUG. Early Bird ends December 7th. Have a wonderful holiday next week. You'll hear from me again on the 29th. --Denise