From bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com Tue Oct 23 13:53:13 2001 From: bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com (bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:43 2004 Subject: Reminder: GR.pm October meeting Friday (10/26) @ 11:30am @ Priority Health Board Room B Message-ID: <85256AEE.00686861.00@corpnj148ls01.mcgraw-hill.com> The October meeting is Friday Priority Health at 1231 East Beltline in board room B. For those not bringing their own, lunch will be catered by Yen Ching Downtown (see attached menu). Please send your orders to Bill Day (bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com) before 9am Friday morning. The presentation will be "Tools for Asynchronous Programming in Perl" by Al Tobey (This started as POSIX/IPC, and morphed towards SysV shared memory, pipes, and domain sockets). The agenda is typical: 1. Lunch & Hellos 2. Lending Library 3. Nomination of FoodOfficer.GR.pm 4. Presentation: Tools for Asynchronous Programming in Perl 5. Ideas/Requests/Offers for Future Presentations and Other Miscellany 6. 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Name: yen_ching.gif Type: image/gif Size: 44280 bytes Desc: Compuserve GIF Url : http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20011023/a5427056/yen_ching.gif From brandon at squareonedesign.com Thu Oct 25 15:35:13 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:43 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 25th Message-ID: 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, October 25, 2001 3:59 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 25th O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER October 25, 2001 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books - Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition News - Registration Open for O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference - Learning Command Objects and RMI - With REALbasic, Object-Oriented Programming is Easy - Hailstorm in Hand - Perl Debugging for Beginners - An Interview with Philip Hazel, The Creator of Exim - Oddball Wireless Devices ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members... BIOINFORMATICS: ------------------- REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR THE O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference January 28-31, 2002, Tucson, AZ Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ AN INTERVIEW WITH EWAN BIRNEY: KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT O'REILLY'S BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Ewan is a biochemist by training and a programmer by practice, and he is currently a Team Leader for Genomic Annotation at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/10/18/birney.html TIM O'REILLY'S REASONS TO ATTEND http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2002/pub/w/17/tim.html JAVA: ------------------- LEARNING COMMAND OBJECTS AND RMI William Grosso introduces the basic ideas behind command objects and remote method invocations (RMI) in this ONJava.com article. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/10/17/rmi.html MAC: ------------------- WITH REALBASIC, OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING IS EASY Object-oriented programming is useful, powerful, and fun; and REALbasic is a great way to learn it, says Matt Neuburg, author of "REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition." http://mac.oreilly.com/news/realbasic2_1001.html ..NET: ------------------- HAILSTORM IN HAND Mark Lucovsky, chief architect of Microsoft's .NET My Services initiative (formerly Hailstorm), explains what's available in the software developer kit just released at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/10/23/myservices.html OPEN SOURCE: ------------------- PERL DEBUGGING FOR BEGINNERS Debugging is like car repair: a novice might pull out the transmission to fix a broken light. Here are ten Perl debugging tips that will save you hours of frustration, by John Callender, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Perl for Web Site Management." http://web.oreilly.com/news/perlmanagement2_1001.html AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILIP HAZEL, THE CREATOR OF EXIM Exim is an open source mail transport agent that has been steadily growing in popularity, and Philip talks about why he developed it and what to expect in the next version. Philip is also the author of O'Reilly's "Exim: The Mail Transfer Agent." http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/eximinterview_1001.html APACHEMONTH.COM A new service called ApacheMonth http://www.apachemonth.com/, is being started by the team that runs LinuxMonth, http://www.linuxmonth.com/, This is a heads-up if you enjoy the style of LinuxMonth--Q&A tips, articles, etc. WIRELESS: --------------- ODDBALL WIRELESS DEVICES How can you resist at least trying a text pager that wants to be a cell phone, or a PDA that doubles as a 900-MHz cordless phone? We couldn't! Here's what we discovered. http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/10/19/oddball.htmL ================================================ BOOKS...BOOKS...BOOKS.... ================================================ REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. Press release can be found at http://press.oreilly.com/ JUST RELEASED: ------------------- Palm OS Programming: The Developer's Guide, 2nd Edition Order Number: 8563 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog2/ Sample Chapter 5: Structure of an Application http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/palmprog2/chapter/ch05.html USER GROUP REVIEWS: --------------------- Northants Linux Users Group has reviewed several O'Reilly titles at: http://www.northants.lug.org.uk/reviews/ TechWeek Live! reviews many of our books. Here are a few: Malicous Mobile Code http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/maliciousmobilecode.htm Programming Perl http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/programmingperl.htm PGP http://www.techweektv.scriptmania.com/Reviews/pgp.htm DISCOUNT INFORMATION: ---------------------- BUY 2 BOOKS, GET ONE FREE... O'Reilly's Fall book promotion http://www.oreilly.com/news/buy2get1free_1001.html Also, don't forget about your UG discount: 20% off O'Reilly books purchased direct, using the DSUG discount code. Order online at www.oreilly.com or by phone, 800-998-9938. =================================================== LOOKING FOR SPEAKERS? =================================================== We are always trying to arrange speaking engagements with our authors, whenever possible. If you have someone in mind, let me know. In the meantime, here are a few authors looking to network with you: Rob Brooks-Bilson, author of O'Reilly's "Programming ColdFusion" is interested in speaking to groups, particularly in Delaware. If your group lives outside of Delaware, and has funds to cover travel expenses, we could arrange a visit from Rob. Let me know. Also, Sinan Si Alhir, author of O'Reilly's "UML in a Nutshell" would enjoy speaking to groups. He's in upstate Illinois, however if you have a travel budget, we can work something out. And... James Tisdall, author of "Perl for Bioinformatics" wouldn't mind bestowing his perls of wisdom onto UGs. James is located in Kimberton, PA, however, again, if you have the means to support his travel expenses, we can arrange something out-of-town. James frequently visits NY, he's only 2 hrs away. ================================================================== ARE YOU GOING TO THE 5th ANNUAL LINUX SHOWCASE AND CONFERENCE? ================================================================== O'Reilly will be there, and so will I. Stop by and see us. I'll be there on Thursday, November 5th, booth #709/711/713 November 5-10, Oakland, CA Oakland Marriott City Center http://www.linuxshowcase.org/ Have a nice week. I don't plan to send a newsletter next week, so you'll hear from me on the 1st of November! --Denise