From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Jun 3 09:28:48 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:48 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 31 Message-ID: Next O'Reilly newsletter 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: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:53 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 31 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER May 31, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending? -The Next Hot Jobs -O'Reilly's spring catalog available on Google -Standard Data Vocabularies Unquestionably Harmful -Perl Success Stories Sought -Achieving Closure -Writing for Perl.com? -Flying High with AirPort -All About the Little Green Glob -Building Palm Conduits, Part 1 -System.Drawing with C# CONFERENCE NEWS -OSCON Conference Updates Early Bird Discount Date Coming Up Soon--June 10, 2002 Room Share Mailing List Lightning Talk Proposals BOOK NEWS: -Java and SOAP -Ant: The Definitive Guide -Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities -Learning Unix for Mac OS X ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS -Join TMOUG for the 2nd Annual Golf Outing and Meeting ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- A BAD, SAD HOLLYWOOD ENDING? Tim O'Reilly comments on a recent "Business Week" article that points out the dangers to open source from the Hollings bill and the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1428 For more on these topics, don't miss Lawrence Lessig's keynote on "Freeing Culture" at the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Convention. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/keynotes.html THE NEXT HOT JOBS This list from Smart Money.com includes "Bioinformatician" and "Wireless Engineer. " http://smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=working-june02#ai O'Reilly can get you started... Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics Order Number: 0804 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/ Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills Order Number: 6641 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/ 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide Order Number: 1835 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/802dot11/ O'REILLY'S SPRING CATALOG AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE Go to: http://catalogs.google.com/ and then click on the "Computers" section, or by typing "O'Reilly" in the search box. (If you would like to receive paper catalogs for your members, please let me know.) --------------------- XML --------------------- STANDARD DATA VOCABULARIES UNQUESTIONABLY HARMFUL Walter Perry argues that standard XML vocabularies are an invitation to fraud. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/perry.html --------------------- PERL --------------------- PERL SUCCESS STORIES SOUGHT Do you have a Perl success story that you'd like to share? Let Betsy Waliszewski know. For more information see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1438 ACHIEVING CLOSURE What's a closure, and why are they so important? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html WRITING FOR PERL.COM? Here are our submission guidelines: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/general/writing.html --------------------- MAC --------------------- FLYING HIGH WITH AIRPORT by Derrick Story This first-person account by airline pilot Jim Dearien details setting up an AirPort network and getting his legacy PCs to work on it. This adventure was motivated by one goal: he wanted to buy his first Mac. See how Jim pulled it off. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/28/mac_dev.html For more articles from Derrick see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/54 ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE GREEN GLOB Polish your Cocoa applications by implementing intelligent "zoom" buttons at the top of the windows. Mike Beam shows you how. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/16/cocoa.html For more articles by Mike Beam see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/159 --------------------- ..NET --------------------- BUILDING PALM CONDUITS, PART 1 This excerpt from "Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS," offers an introduction to building conduits, synchronization software that connects Palm apps and data stores. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/vbpalm_4/index1.html Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS Order Number: 2009 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbpropalm/ SYSTEM.DRAWING WITH C# Learn the System.Drawing namespace, which contains types that help you with drawing. This crash course willl enable you to write better--and probably faster--code. Here is a 10-minute crash course. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/05/20/drawing.html ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ ******************************* OSCON CONFERENCE UPDATES ******************************* EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DATE COMING UP SOON--JUNE 10, 2002 Please let your members know that if you register by June 10, 2002, you are eligible for the "Early Bird" discount of $200. You and your members are ALSO eligible for the "User Group" discount of 20%. (So if you register by June 10th, and use the user group discount code, you'll get 20% off the reduced "Early Bird" rate.) The User Group discount code is DSUG. ROOM SHARE MAILING LIST If you wish to save on your OSCON housing costs, you may wish to room-share. We have set up a room-share email list to facilitate finding a suitable roommate. Please visit the Room Sharing page to submit your information and be added to the mail list. The list will be updated and broadcast weekly. Room Share Mailing List Form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/rs LIGHTNING TALK PROPOSALS We are planning to have lightning talks for every track and conference at OSCON. A lightning talk is a 5-minute tightly-focused presentation. Discuss your favorite extension, rant, sing the praises of an under-appreciated developer, plug your product or company, beg for a job, or even present a Shakespearean-style play! (don't laugh--we had one of these in 2001). Lightning Talk Proposals form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina July 22-26, 2002--San Diego, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Please send me copies of your newsletters. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ JAVA AND SOAP Order Number: 1754 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/ In addition to covering the basics such as the structure of a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message, SOAP encoding, and building simple services using RPC and messaging, "Java and SOAP" covers many topics that are essential to real-world development. Chapter 5, "Working with Complex Data Types," is available in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/chapter/index.html The source code for this book is available on Robert Englander's website: http://mindstrm.com:8199/soap.htm ANT: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE Order Number: 1843 Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant is part of Jakarta, the Apache Software Foundation's open source Java project repository. Ant is written entirely in Java and is platform independent. Using XML, a Java developer describes the modules involved in a build, and the dependencies between those modules. Ant then does the rest, compiling components as necessary in order to build the application. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/ Chapter 1, "Ant Jumpstart," is available in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/chapter/index.html PLANNING FOR WEB SERVICES: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES An O'Reilly Research Report (Sorry, no review copies available) Following the groundbreaking "P2P Networking Overview" from O'Reilly Research, "Planning for Web Services" guides tech executives and managers through the inflated claims, competing standards, and acronym soup to arrive at a realistic appraisal of web services' potential for your business. With profiles of more than thirty of the key players in this emerging sector, the report concludes with a straightforward checklist of the strategic issues and questions every IT decision-maker should answer before committing to web services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wsrep/ An Executive Summary of the report is available online at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/04/12/execreport.html LEARNING UNIX FOR MAC OS X Order Number: 3420 This book is a concise introduction to just what a reader needs to know to get started with Unix on Mac OS X. With Mac OS X, they now have the ability to not only continue to use their preferred platform, but to explore the powerful capabilities of Unix. This title gives the reader information on how to use the Terminal application, become functional with the command interface and explore many Unix applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/ Chapter 4, "Customizing Your Session," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/chapter/ch04.html ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Ohio-- Join the Toledo Metro Oracle User's Group for the 2nd Annual Golf Outing and Meeting! On June 18th, @ The Tamaron Country Club, 8:30am to 12 Noon Please RSVP to Kellie Jakubowski at 419-475-6999 or via email at kelliej@wtainc.com, or register online at http://www.tmoug.org. Until next week, Marsee From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Jun 3 18:10:53 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:48 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation Message-ID: Anyone using OS X? 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: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 6:42 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation Hello User Group leaders, Can you pass this information along to your members? O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation-- Proposals Due June 14, 2002 O'Reilly & Associates invites the submission of tutorial and session proposals for the first-ever O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, taking place at the Westin Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA from September 30 to October 3, 2002. We're looking for proposals that bring state-of-the-art Mac OS X content to programmers, developers, technical staff, and power users from Mac, Java, Web, and open source communities. Topics include migration issues, must-have tools, servers and networking, wireless, Project Builder, Apache, PHP, Perl, Terminal application, databases, languages, Development Frameworks, and iApps. Submitting Proposals Proposals need not be works of art--a thoughtful summary or abstract of the talk you plan to give is sufficient for consideration. We prefer outlines for tutorials. The proposal is what the conference committee uses to select speakers, so give the committee enough information to understand the topic you're covering. Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving a tutorial, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit proposals using this form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/e_sess Proposals will be considered in two categories: tutorials and conference presentations (sessions). Important Dates: Proposals Due: June 14, 2002 Speaker Notification: June 20, 2002 For Mac OS X Conference information see: http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ Thanks for your help, Marsee From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Jun 10 09:17:06 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:48 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 7 Message-ID: Newsletter time 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: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 8:00 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 7 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER May 7, 2002 Hello User Group Leaders, I will be out of the office next week, from June 10-14. Review requests will be processed after I get back. Talk to you in a couple of weeks! HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -The User Group Raffle Winner for The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is... -2002 Google Programming Contest Winner -New Safari Titles -Is Your User Group Plugged in to INETA? -An Interview With Guido van Rossum -The Sharp Zaurus--A Lovely Little Computer -Ship in a Bottle -Taming the Entourage Database CONFERENCE NEWS -OSCON Early Bird Discount Date Coming up Soon--June 10, 2002 -The Fellowship Comes to OSCON -Perl 6 Uncovered at OSCON -PHP 4.1 and Beyond UPCOMING EVENTS -MacHack 17--June 20-22, 2002, Dearborne, MI -CFUN-02--June 15-16, Rockville, MD -YAPC::NA 2002--June 26-28, Saint Louis, MO BOOK NEWS: -Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition -MySQL Reference Manual -The Networking CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0 -Java & XML Data Binding ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS -The Charlotte Linux Users Group Announce their first Installfest -The Hampton Roads Oracle User Group's Monthly Meeting ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- THE USER GROUP RAFFLE WINNER FOR THE 2002O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION IS... The Denver Java Users' Group--http://www.denverjug.org Congratulations! 2002 GOOGLE PROGRAMMING CONTEST WINNER Google has announced the winner of their programming contest competition. The recipient of the $10,000 cash prize is Daniel Egnor for his project titled "Geographic Search." Daniel's project adds the ability to search for web pages within a particular geographic locale to traditional keyword searching. http://www.google.com/programming-contest/winner.html NEW SAFARI TITLES Search, annotate, and read your favorite O'Reilly books on Safari Tech Books Online. New titles include "Learning Unix for Mac OS X," "Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS," "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition," "Java and SOAP," "Mastering Oracle SQL," and "VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition." http://safari.oreilly.com/ --------------------- ..NET --------------------- IS YOUR USER GROUP PLUGGED IN TO INETA? INETA (The International .NET Association) provides no-cost structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft .NET user groups. To find out more about INETA and how they can help your user group, please visit http://www.ineta.org/admin/plugin.aspx. --------------------- PYTHON --------------------- AN INTERVIEW WITH GUIDO VAN ROSSUM The creator of Python discusses Python's latest releases and future plans in the "State of the Python Union" at OSCON. In a recent O'Reilly interview, Guido talks about the benefits of open source development. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/06/04/guido.html For information on Guido's "State of the Python Union" session, see: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2672 --------------------- LINUX --------------------- THE SHARP ZAURUS--A LOVELY LITTLE COMPUTER Simson Garfinkel reviews Sharp's new Zaurus SL-5500, a Linux-based palmtop computer. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/23/zaurus.html Simson is coauthor of the recently released "Building Cocoa Applications." Order Number: 2351 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/buildcocoa/ SHIP IN A BOTTLE David H.M. Spector shows us how to get the most out of one computer by running multiple operating systems on it. He covers programs such as WINE, DOSEMU, Bochs, and User-Mode Linux. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/30/enterprise.html --------------------- MAC --------------------- TAMING THE ENTOURAGE DATABASE Lurking beneath Entourage X's Aqua interface is a complex database handling all of your mail and contact info. And like any other DB, you should back up and optimize on a regular schedule. Here's how to prevent email disaster on your Mac: http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/04/entourage.html ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DATE COMING UP SOON--JUNE 10, 2002 Please let your members know that if you register by June 10, 2002, you are eligible for the "Early Bird" discount of $200. You and your members are ALSO eligible for the "User Group" discount of 20%. (So if you register by June 10th, and use the user group discount code, you'll get 20% off the reduced "Early Bird" rate.) The User Group discount code is DSUG. THE FELLOWSHIP COMES TO OSCON Come hear Milton Ngan, the IT Manager for Peter Jackson's Weta Graphics, talk about the role of Linux, Perl, and other open source software in the making of the "Lord of the Rings." http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/3118 PERL 6 UNCOVERED AT OSCON What better place to hear from Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Dan Sugalski, and others about the current state and future plans of Perl 6? http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2642 PHP 4.1 and Beyond Don't miss hearing about the current state and future plans of the PHP scripting language, from its inventor, Rasmus Lerdorf. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/view/e_sess/2653 ================================================ UPCOMING EVENTS ================================================ O'Reilly is proud to be sponsoring the following: MACHACK 17--JUNE 20-22, 2002, DEARBORNE, MI Be sure to catch Tim O'Reilly's keynote address, and drop by our booth to thumb through our array of new Mac titles. http://www.machack.com/ CFUN-02, THE COLDFUSION MX CONFERENCE The Fourth Annual TeraTech ColdFusion Conference June 15-16, 2002, Rockville, Maryland Get two days chocked full of hidden CF tips and methods and learn about the new version of ColdFusion--CF MX--that will change your programming life. Speakers include Ben Forta, Charlie Arehart, Michael Dinowitz, Steve Drucker, Raymond Camden, Sandra Clark, Adam Churvis, Benjamin Elmore, Shlomy Gantz, Hal Helms, Kevin Towes, and Robi Sen. http://www.cfconf.com/cfun-02/ YAPC::NA 2002 JUNE 26-28, 2002 IN SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI YAPC is a place for people to meet and talk about Perl--where people who've done interesting things, people who are working on the language itself, people who are using it daily, and people who are looking to learn about it are all within arm's reach. All three Perl Development Grant recipients will be present: Larry Wall, Damian Conway, and Dan Sugalski as well as Nathan Torkington, Mark-Jason Dominus, and Abigail. Come and meet the people who developed and also develop with Perl. http://www.yapc.org/America/ ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Please send me copies of your newsletters. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ PERL IN A NUTSHELL, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 2416 This complete guide to the Perl programming language ranges widely through the Perl programmer's universe, gathering together in a convenient form a wealth of information about Perl itself and its application to CGI scripts, XML processing, network programming, database interaction, and graphical user interfaces. The book is an ideal reference for experienced Perl programmers and beginners alike. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut2/ Chapter 4, "The Perl Language," is available in PDF Format here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlnut2/chapter/index.html MYSQL REFERENCE MANUAL Order Number: 2653 This highly regarded and comprehensive reference manual comes directly from the members of the MySQL team. The book covers issues at all stages in MySQL use, from installation problems through performance tuning. Included are suggested uses of privileges to enhance security, many performance tips, and a sophisticated guide to error recovery. It also offers a thorough comparison of MySQL with SQL standards and other databases. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlref/ The free online version of this book is available here: http://www.mysql.com/documentation/index.html THE NETWORKING CD BOOKSHELF, VERSION 2.0 Order Number: 334x Seven best selling OReilly Animal Guides are now available on CD-ROM, easily accessible and searchable with your favorite web browser: "TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition;" "DNS & Bind, 4th Edition;" "Building Internet Firewalls, 2nd Edition;" "SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide;" "Network Troubleshooting Tools;" "Managing NFS & NIS, 2nd Edition;" and "Essential SNMP." As a bonus, you also get the new paperback version of "TCP/IP Network Administration, 3rd Edition." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netcd2/ JAVA & XML DATA BINDING Order Number: 2785 This title provides an in-depth technical look at XML Data Binding. This book offers complete documentation of all features in both the Sun Microsystems JAXB API and popular open source alternative implementations (Enhydra Zeus, Exolabs Castor and Quick). It also gets into significant detail about when data binding is appropriate to use, and provides numerous practical examples of using data binding in applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxmldatabind/ ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Charlotte, NC-- THE CHARLOTTE LINUX USERS GROUP ANNOUNCE THEIR FIRST INSTALLFEST Start your summer right with a fresh copy of Linux on your computer! June 22, 9am to 5pm Contagious Graphics 8107 Arrowridge Blvd. Suite S Charlotte, NC 28273 To pre-register for this event, go to http://www.charlug.org/installfest.html Hampton Roads, Virginia-- The Hampton Roads Oracle User Group is having their next monthly meeting July 10th at the Virginia Beach Central Library. Entry is free. Email hzamperini@cox.net for more information. Until next time, Marsee From sdpoling at attbi.com Sat Jun 15 10:48:44 2002 From: sdpoling at attbi.com (Steve Poling) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:48 2004 Subject: Cheap Learning Perl In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <020701c21484$21777270$0c00a8c0@CSISDP01> I was in Barnes and Noble last Thursday and found a copy of Learning Perl, 2nd Edition discounted all the way down to $3.99. I snapped it up and it now resides next to the copy I paid full price for. Anybody know someone who is both poor and is learning Perl? From williamday at email.com Wed Jun 26 10:51:28 2002 From: williamday at email.com (Bill Day) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: Reminder: Perl Mongers meeting this friday Message-ID: <20020626155128.15501.qmail@email.com> The meeting will be held in the Priority Health Boardroom. This month's meeting will feature...a film. Unfortunatly, I will be unable to attend. Even worse, Keith Sederholm is unable to attend, so you are on your own for food. But seriously this is a very good film that hopefully will spark a good discussion. I wish I could be there. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8