From brandon at squareonedesign.com Wed Mar 13 13:12:25 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:46 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 1 Message-ID: It's O'Reilly 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/ "What is difficult takes time, what is impossible takes a little longer." -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 2:22 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 1 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER March 12, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK NEWS: -How Will History View Richard Stallman? -Local Rules: Of Ants and IP Routing -Stop the Copying, Start a Media Revolution -A Pressplay Test Drive -What Is LAMP? -Apache Web-Serving With Mac OS X, Part 5 -Directory of Linux Commands -Stopping Spam with SpamAssassin -Top Ten Cool New Features of Java 2SE 1.4 -The Changing Mac Community -Using AppleScript to Compile and Run Java Code BOOK NEWS: -Free as in Freedom -.NET Framework Essentials, 2nd Edition -Programming ASP.NET -Programming C#, 2nd Edition -Access Cookbook CONFERENCE NEWS: -Emerging Technology Brochures -Emerging Technology Discounts -Put up a Conference Banner get a free book ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------------------------------------------ GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW WILL HISTORY VIEW RICHARD STALLMAN? An interview with Sam Williams, author of O'Reilly's new book "Free as in Freedom" by Bruce Stewart "Free as in Freedom" traces Richard Stallman's evolution from gifted, solitary child to teen outcast to revered and reviled crusader. As the leader of the free software movement, Stallman is one of the most influential and controversial personalities in hacker culture today. Through extensive interviews with Stallman, his family, and fellow hackers, author Sam Williams has created an intimate portrait of this freedom fighter. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/02/28/williams.html For more information on "Free as in Freedom" see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom/ LOCAL RULES: OF ANTS AND IP ROUTING by Ravi Malhotra, author of "IP Routing" Watching a line of ants work its way along his roof deck, Ravi Malhotra noticed the ants were quick to find the shortest route between two points or around a sudden obstacle. How do they do it? By using local rules, the same way IP routers bump traffic around the Internet. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/03/08/iprouting.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ P2P ------------------------------------------------------------------------ STOP THE COPYING, START A MEDIA REVOLUTION Andy Oram has a plan to wrest control of the media. "The movie and music studios are tightening their grip on the Internet. Their tools are lawsuits, laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and the even more constricting Security Systems Standards and Certification Act (SSSCA) that is now in the House, and a general atmosphere of intimidation." http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/03/08/media.html A PRESSPLAY TEST DRIVE by Steve McCannell With the ability to burn CDs and download tracks, can the record label's new services win over the Napster crowd? We took a look at Pressplay to see if they've made it easier to pay for tracks instead of pirate them. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/03/07/pressplay.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAMP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- WHAT IS LAMP? Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Python http://www.onlamp.com/ ONlamp is currently featuring the following articles: DIRECTORY OF LINUX COMMANDS This directory of Linux commands is from "Linux in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition." Click on any of the 379 commands shown to get a description and list of available options. http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ APACHE WEB-SERVING WITH MAC OS X, PART 5 Kevin Hemenway returns with his fifth article concerning Apache, OS X, and the immense power available to the common man. Having established a good, firm pool of Apache knowledge in the first four articles, Kevin takes the time to focus on a popular supplementary technology, namely the database server MySQL. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/08/apache_mac_5.html STOPPING SPAM WITH SPAMASSASSIN by Simon Cozens SpamAssassin and Vipul's Razor are two Perl-based tools that can be used to dramatically reduce the number of junk emails you need to see. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/06/spam.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JAVA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TOP TEN COOL NEW FEATURES OF JAVA 2SE 1.4 David Flanagan describes his favorite new features in Java 2SE 1.4, with plenty of sample code. For more details on Java 2SE 1.4, get a copy of David's recently updated "Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/06/topten.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- MAC ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- The Changing Mac Community After more than 500 emails and lots of conversations, Derrick Story has completed his report on the effect that Mac OS X is having on the Apple community. http://oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/05/mac_community.html USING APPLESCRIPT TO COMPILE AND RUN JAVA CODE Until recently, Daniel Steinberg did all of his coding in a text processor and used the Terminal to compile and run the code. In this month's column, he shows you how to use AppleScript to automate many of these tasks. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/01/osx_java.html ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. Please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. FREE AS IN FREEDOM Order Number: 2874 "Free as in Freedom" interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. "Free as in Freedom" looks at how the latest twists and turns in the software marketplace have done little to throw Stallman off his pedestal. If anything, they have made his logic-based rhetoric and immovable personality more persuasive. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom/ Read Chapter 3, "A Portrait of the Hacker as a Young Man": http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/freedom/chapter/ch03.html ..NET FRAMEWORK ESSENTIALS, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3021 Fully updated for Microsoft's official release, ".NET Framework Essentials, 2nd Ed" is an objective, concise, and technical overview of the new Microsoft .NET Framework for developing web applications and services. Specifically written for intermediate to advanced VB, C/C++, Java, and Delphi developers, it is also useful to system architects and leaders who are assessing tools for future projects. The authors devote special attention to the writing of .NET components plus web applications and services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess2/ Read Chapter 6, "Web Services": http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess2/chapter/ch06.html PROGRAMMING ASP.NET Order Number: 1711 Jesse Liberty and Dan Hurwitz teach you everything you need to know to write web applications and web service applications. The book focuses on ASP.NET development using both C# and Visual Basic .NET, and coding examples are presented in both languages. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet/ Read Chapter 14, "Custom and User Controls" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet/chapter/ch14.html PROGRAMMING C#, 2ND ED. Order Number: 3099 C# (pronounced C sharp) was designed from the ground up for development on Microsoft's .NET framework. As such, it's a high-performance language that's simple, safe, object-oriented, and Internet-centric. "Programming C#, 2nd Ed." teaches this new language in a way that experienced programmers will appreciate-by grounding its applications firmly in the context of Microsoft's .NET platform and the development of desktop and Internet applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp2/ Read Chapter 18, "Attributes and Reflection": http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp2/chapter/ch18.html Check out Jesse Liberty's web site at: http://www.libertyassociates.com/pages/Books.htm ACCESS COOKBOOK Order Number: 0847 contains a comprehensive collection of problems, solutions, and practical examples for the Access power user or programmer who is running up against some of the apparent limits of the Access user interface or of Access application development. The diverse problems and solutions presented here are of interest to Access power users and programmers at all levels, from the relatively inexperienced to the most sophisticated. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/accesscook/ Read some sample excerpts here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/accesscook/chapter/excerpts.html ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BROCHURES By now many of you have received a copy of "The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference" brochure in the mail, if you are interested in more of these please let me know and I can send you some. A copy of this brochure is available online here: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon2002/etech_mailer.pdf EMERGING TECHNOLOGY DISCOUNTS The O'Reilly user group discount is 20% for conferences. Use the discount code:DSUG. Register before March 22nd, and receive a double discount! Your 20% will apply towards already reduced "Early Bird" pricing if you register early. We are also offering 30% off for two or more from one company. Use the discount code:ET02TEAM Register here: http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ PUT UP A CONFERENCE BANNER, GET A FREE BOOK We are still looking for user groups to display our conference banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our Emerging Technology conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. If you have done this already, put it on your own personal web site and let me know. I will send you another book. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference banners: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/18/banner_ads.html O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference P2P, Web Services, Wireless, and Beyond . . . Westin Santa Clara May 13-16, 2002, Santa Clara, CA For more information about this conference: http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Please let me know if you have anything you would like me to announce. Until next week, --Marsee From bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com Tue Mar 26 12:40:40 2002 From: bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com (bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:46 2004 Subject: Reminder: PerlMongers meeting this Friday. Message-ID: <85256B88.0066FDCB.00@corpny55wls01.mcgraw-hill.com> Paul Tjapkes will be presenting: "Hashes, Lists, & CGI.pm". We will meet at: Priority Health, 1239 E. Beltline, Classroom 1 (other bldg in basement) scheduled from 11:30 to 1:00pm. Keith Sederholm will be picking up lunch from Mom's to go menu available at www.momstogo.com. If you would like Keith to pick up lunch for you please email Keith.Sederholm@priority-health.com before 9 a.m. Friday. From brandon at squareonedesign.com Wed Mar 27 07:52:50 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:46 2004 Subject: Reminder: PerlMongers meeting this Friday. In-Reply-To: <85256B88.0066FDCB.00@corpny55wls01.mcgraw-hill.com> Message-ID: <001101c1d596$af600200$6401a8c0@echotop> Howdy, Due to the holiday weekend thingy, I won't be able to make it to this Friday's meeting. I don't have any new books for the lending library so the current lot will have to tide everyone over. It would be great if some facsimile of Paul's presentation made it onto the website later so I could take a look at it. I'm bummed about missing his preso. 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 -----Original Message----- From: owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org [mailto:owner-grand-rapids-pm-announce@pm.org] On Behalf Of bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:41 PM To: grand-rapids-pm-announce@happyfunball.pm.org Subject: Reminder: PerlMongers meeting this Friday. Paul Tjapkes will be presenting: "Hashes, Lists, & CGI.pm". We will meet at: Priority Health, 1239 E. Beltline, Classroom 1 (other bldg in basement) scheduled from 11:30 to 1:00pm. Keith Sederholm will be picking up lunch from Mom's to go menu available at www.momstogo.com. If you would like Keith to pick up lunch for you please email Keith.Sederholm@priority-health.com before 9 a.m. Friday.