From brandon at echobox.com Wed Nov 6 19:11:34 2002 From: brandon at echobox.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:24 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, November 6 Message-ID: O'Reilly Newsletter. I've already put in a request for the Unix Power Tools and the MySQL Cookbook. Brandon Gohsman EchoBox Interactive O-418 Johnson St. NW Grand Rapids, MI 49544 T 616.677.1334 C 616.443.8162 E brandon@echobox.com W http://www.echobox.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 2:24 PM To: Brandon@echobox.com Subject: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, November 6 O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter November 6, 2002 Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition -C# Language Pocket Reference -Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition -MySQL Cookbook -Learning Visual Basic .NET ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -LISA '02, November 3-8, Philadelphia, PA -OracleWorld, November 10-14, San Francisco -Derrick Story, Two Northern California appearances, Nov. 14 & 16 -Lincoln Stein, November 14, Vancouver, BC --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online Registration Is Open -Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book -Hotel Discount for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -New Safari Titles -Will Mobile Games Sweep the Nation? -The Making of "Effective awk Programming" -Perl?s True Success is in the Telling -SquirrelMail, a Web-based Mail Server -Looking for a .NET reference book? -Inherit the Database -XML and Web Sites -Jakarta Struts: Seven Lessons from the Trenches -Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl -Mac Marks the Enterprise -Building Your Personal Anti-Spam Strategy ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. ***JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4117 "JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition" provides a complete overview of the core Java language and client-side scripting environment, as well as quick-reference material on core and client-side objects, methods, and properties. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscriptpr2/ ***C# Language Pocket Reference Order Number: 429X Concise and easy to use, this handy pocket reference includes a guide to C# language elements, a brief overview of the Framework Class library, a cross-reference for namespaces and assemblies, a list of compiler syntax and switches, a regular expressions reference guide, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharplangpr/ ***Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition Order Number: 3307 The latest edition of this bestseller is loaded with vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD. The book offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/ Chapter 28, "Saving Time on the Command Line," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upt3/chapter/index.html ***MySQL Cookbook Order Number: 1452 "MySQL Cookbook" provides a unique problem-and-solution format that offers practical examples for everyday programming dilemmas. For every problem addressed in the book, there's a solution or "recipe," a short, focused piece of code that you can insert directly into your applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlckbk/ Chapter 3, "Record Selection Techniques," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlckbk/chapter/index.html ***Learning Visual Basic .NET Order Number: 3862 "Learning Visual Basic .NET" is a complete introduction to VB.NET and object-oriented programming as well as fundamentals such as Visual Studio .NET. Using hundreds of examples, the book demonstrates how to develop various kinds of applications, including those that work with databases and web services. This book assumes no prior programming experience and will set you firmly on your way to mastering the essentials of Microsoft's most popular .NET language. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnvbnet/ Chapter 2, "Getting Started with Visual Basic .NET," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnvbnet/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events ================================================ ***LISA '02, November 3-8, Philadelphia, PA If you're heading over to LISA '02, be sure to come to our "Meet the Authors" event on Wednesday, November 6 from 6:00-7:00pm Philadelphia Marriott, Booth #425 Philadelphia, PA http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa02/ ***OracleWorld, November 10-14, San Francisco Moscone Center, Booth 539 San Francisco, CA http://www.oracle.com/oracleworld/sanfrancisco/conference/index.html ***Derrick Story, Two Northern California appearances, Nov. 14 & 16 Author Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual" and "Digital Photography Pocket Guide") will be presenting at the following locations: November 14, 6:30pm Napa Valley Macintosh User's Group 6:30pm at the Senior center 1500 Jefferson St. Napa, CA http://homepage.mac.com/napamug/ November 16, 10:00am GravenStein Apple Users Group O'Reilly & Associates 1005 Gravenstein Hwy North Sebastopol, CA http://www.iscweb.com/gsaug/ ***Lincoln Stein, November 14, Vancouver, BC Author Lincoln Stein ("Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C") discusses the nature of model organism databases, and describes the design and implementation of an exemplar of this genre, WormBase. Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group 6 to 8pm Chan Auditorium BC Research Institute for Children's and Women's Health Vancouver, BC http://www.vanbug.org/meetings/#LS For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Online registration is now open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before December 16th, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** We are 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 O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/biocon2003/ ***Hotel Discount for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference To be eligible for the discounted hotel rate, you must identify yourself as attending the "O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference." The cutoff date for this discount is Friday, January 3, 2003 at 5:00pm PST. Reservations requests will be accepted only on a space- and rate-availability basis after the cutoff date. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/21/hotel.html ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***New Safari Titles Search, annotate, and read your favorite O'Reilly books on the Safari Bookshelf. New Safari titles include: "JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition," "Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition," "Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, 2nd Edition," " Learning C#, Mac OS X for Unix Geeks," DNS & BIND Cookbook," "Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET," "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition," and "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition." http://safari.oreilly.com/ Get Your First 14 Days on Safari Free https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/promo.asp?code=ORA14&portal=oreilly ***Will Mobile Games Sweep the Nation? The golden age of mobile entertainment hasn't reached the U.S. yet, but the first rays of potential are beginning to stretch over the horizon. David Fox provides an overview of current games for smart phones. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2002/10/31/mobile_games.html ***The Making of "Effective awk Programming" This is a detailed chronicle of the challenges faced in translating an O'Reilly book from Texinfo to DocBook, by Arnold Robbins, author of "Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/2002/11/01/awk3.html Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition Order Number: 0707 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Perl's True Success is in the Telling A look at how the "Perl Success Stories" phenomenon began, as well as where to send your tales. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/perl/2002/11/04/perlsuccess.html ***SquirrelMail, a Web-based Mail Server As remote computing increases in popularity, it's becoming harder for regular users to send email. While running mail servers from customer laptops is one solution, a good web mail package may be even easier. In this article, Glenn Graham thinks SquirrelMail may be your best choice. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/10/24/squirrelmail.html --------------------- ..NET --------------------- ***Looking for a .NET reference book? Check the Nutshell. Lamont Adams says that this book is incredibly complete, and more convenient than the mammoth MSDN documentation, in this Builder.com review of VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell. http://builder.com.com/article_guest.jhtml?id=u00220020910adm01.htm&page=1 VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell Order Number: 2572 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbdotnetcore/ --------------------- Oracle --------------------- ***Inherit the Database Steven Feuerstein reviews object types and shows you how to build object-type hierarchies with Oracle9i's support for inheritance. Steven is the author of "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/29/Feuerstein.html Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition Order Number: 3811 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/ --------------------- XML --------------------- ***XML and Web Sites John Simpson points to helpful resources for using XML to build web sites. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/30/qa.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Jakarta Struts: Seven Lessons from the Trenches Tips from the author of "Programming Jakarta Struts." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/30/jakarta.html Programming Jakarta Struts Order Number: 3285 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakarta/ --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Build Your Own Apache Server with mod_perl Apache Web Serving with Mac OS X http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/05/apache_osx.html ***Mac Marks the Enterprise In this InfoWorld article, Jon Udell speculates on the marriage of Mac and open source as a potential wellspring of innovation. http://www.infoworld.com/articles/pl/xml/02/10/21/021021plmacent.xml For a complete list of O'Reilly's Mac books, be sure to check out the Mac Resource center http://mac.oreilly.com/ ***Building Your Personal Anti-Spam Strategy Spamfire developer shows how to fight back. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/01/spam.html Until next time, Marsee From brandon at echobox.com Sat Nov 16 13:10:52 2002 From: brandon at echobox.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:24 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 15 Message-ID: Here is the latest news from our friends at O'Reilly... Brandon Gohsman EchoBox Interactive O-418 Johnson St. NW Grand Rapids, MI 49544 T 616.677.1334 C 616.443.8162 E brandon@echobox.com W http://www.echobox.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 7:23 PM To: Brandon@echobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 15 O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter November 15, 2002 Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition -Computer Science & Perl Programming -Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Derrick Story, "iPhoto: The Missing Manual," Northern California--November 19 -AEleen Frisch, "Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition," Burlington, MA--November 20 -Lorrie Cranor, "Web Privacy with P3P," Washington, DC--November 21 --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Call for Participation--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online Registration Is Open -Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Which XP Book to Buy? -Running Zebra on a Unix Machine -Trip Mapping with PHP -Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators -Implementing Drag and Drop in Windows Forms -Rotor 1.0 Released with Mac OS X Support -Substituting and Converting Object Types in a Hierarchy -O'Reilly HTML Guide Is Accessible and Comprehensive -Java Essentials: What Is Wireless Java? -Java Recipe of the Day -Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 1 -Incorporating Rendezvous into Your Cocoa Applications, Part 1 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Please allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. ***PHP Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4028 Simple, to the point, and compact, the second edition of "PHP Pocket Reference" has been thoroughly updated to include the specifics of PHP 4, the language's latest version. It is both a handy introduction to PHP syntax and structure, and a quick reference to the vast array of functions provided by PHP. The quick reference section organizes all the core functions of PHP alphabetically so you can find what you need easily. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phppr2/ The table of contents are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phppr2/toc.html ***Computer Science & Perl Programming Order Number: 3102 This is the first of three volumes from the archives of "The Perl Journal" that O'Reilly has exclusive rights to distribute. The book is a compilation of the best from TPJ: 71 articles providing a comprehensive tour of how experts implement computer science concepts in the real world, with code walk-throughs, case studies, and explanations of difficult techniques that can't be found in any other book. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tpj1/ Chapter 20, "Memoization," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tpj1/chapter/index.html ***Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual Order Number: 3498 "Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual" will help you harness the power of this popular web editing software. This extraordinary guidebook is full of unique, live examples that let you see and test real web pages. There's also a step-by-step tutorial for creating an interactive web database using Microsoft's ASP programming language, which is new to Dreamweaver MX. Armed with this book, first-time and experienced web designers will have little difficulty using Dreamweaver to create stunning, interactive web sites. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/drmweavmxtmm/ =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Derrick Story, Northern California--November 19 Author Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual" and "Digital Photography Pocket Guide") will be presenting at the following location: November 19, 7:00pm North Coast Mac Users Group Rohnert Park Senior Center 6800 Hunter Drive, Suite A Rohnert Park, CA 94928 http://www.ncmug.org ***AEleen Frisch, Burlington, MA--November 20 Author AEleen Frisch ("Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition," "Essential Windows NT System Administration," and "Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference") discusses ten of the most useful open source utilities and packages of interest to all Unix system administrators at Softpro Books in Massachusetts Wednesday, November 20--6:30 pm 112 Mall Road Burlington, MA 01803-5300 The Burlington store is wheelchair accessible. Phone: (781) 273-2919 http://www.softpro.com/events.html Open Invitation to SIGS and User Groups from Softpro: Softpro is happy to host your group. We have space to accomodate up to 30 people in Burlington, MA and up to 12 in Marlborough, MA. Reserve a time by writing to events@softpro.com. ***Lorrie Cranor, Washington, DC--November 21 Author Lorrie Cranor ("Web Privacy with P3P") is a featured speaker at the Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society, in association with 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Washington, DC, USA-November 21, 2002 For more information go to: http://seclab.dti.unimi.it/~wpes/program.html For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Call for Participation--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference O'Reilly & Associates invites technologists, CTOs, CIOs, programmers, business developers, strategists, and policy makers to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The submission deadline for all proposals is December 13, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/create/e_sess ***Online registration is now open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before December 16th, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** We are 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 O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/biocon2003/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Which XP Book to Buy? Author David Karp has written a brief, informative outline for his latest release as well as an explanation of the differences between "Windows XP in a Nutshell" and "Windows XP Annoyances." http://annoyances.org/exec/show/book_xp_about Windows XP Annoyances Order Number: 4168 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxpannoy/ Windows XP in a Nutshell Order Number: 2491 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxpnut/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Running Zebra on a Unix Machine Iljitsch van Beijnum looks at whether Zebra, the host-based routing software, can be used as an alternative to a real router. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/07/zebra.html Iljitsch is the author of "BGP" Order Number: 2548 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/ ***Trip Mapping with PHP Do PHP and cartography go together? David Sklar demonstrates how to plot your trips with PHP and census data. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/11/07/php_map.html David is a coauthor of the upcoming "PHP Cookbook." Order Number: 6811 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/ ***Top Five Open Source Packages for System Administrators The countdown continues this week with number three--GRUB. This is the third installment in a five-part series on the most useful and widely applicable open source administrative tools, by leen Frisch, author of "Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition." http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/07/essentialsysadmin.html Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition. Order Number: 3439 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/ --------------------- ..NET --------------------- ***Implementing Drag and Drop in Windows Forms One of the benefits of using a windowing system is the ability to drag and drop objects from one window to another. In this article I will discuss how you can use Windows Forms to develop applications that supports drag and drop operations. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/11/11/dragdrop.htm ***Rotor 1.0 Released with Mac OS X Support This new release contains bug fixes and new documentation, samples, and test suites. http://discuss.develop.com/archives/wa.exe?A2=ind0211a&L=dotnet-rotor&T=0&F= &S=&P=1112 For related reading, see "Shared Source CLI Essentials" Order Number: 351x (Available in March 2003) http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sscliess/ and "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks." Order Number: 3560 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/ --------------------- Oracle --------------------- ***Substituting and Converting Object Types in a Hierarchy Steven Feuerstein examines substitutability and type conversion as he explores the advantages and flexibility of object-type hierarchies in Oracle 9i. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/11/12/feuerstein.html Steven is a coauthor of "Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition." Order Number: 3811 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/ --------------------- Web --------------------- ***O'Reilly HTML Guide Is Accessible and Comprehensive In this Builder.com book review, Tony Patton says, "Buy this book if you want to know HTML." He's talking about O'Reilly's "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition." http://builder.com.com/article.jhtml;jsessionid=YFMBNFKXCOSEPTQQACQCFFI?id=u 00220021023ton01.htm&vf=crm&rcode=u001 HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition Order Number: 382X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html5/ --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Java Essentials: What Is Wireless Java? The Java Essentials series provides high-level overviews of core Java technologies. This article covers the APIs, tools, and vendors for wireless Java. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/06/wireless.html For more on information on wireless java check out: Learning Wireless Java Order Number: 2432 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelessjava/ ***Java Recipe of the Day http://www.onjava.com/onjava/javacook/solution1.csp Java Cookbook Order Number: 1703 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/ --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X, Part 1 The Oracle 9i Developer Release for Mac OS X opens up a new world of corporate database management for both Apple and Oracle. David Simpson begins this series with a look at the issues for DBAs who are considering making the move to Oracle on OS X. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/12/oracle_part1.html ***Incorporating Rendezvous into Your Cocoa Applications, Part 1 ZeroConf networking provides solutions to addressing, naming, and service discovery that conspire to make IP networking as easy to use as AppleTalk. In part 1 in this series, Mike Beam explains how Rendezvous works and shows you its hooks into Cocoa. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/08/cocoa.html Until next time, Marsee From brandon at echobox.com Tue Nov 26 20:17:25 2002 From: brandon at echobox.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:24 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 26 Message-ID: Blah, blah, books, blah... Brandon Gohsman EchoBox Interactive O-418 Johnson St. NW Grand Rapids, MI 49544 T 616.677.1334 C 616.443.8162 E brandon@echobox.com W http://www.echobox.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 8:35 PM To: Brandon@echobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 26 O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter November 26, 2002 Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -C Pocket Reference -Designing Embedded Hardware -Digital Photography Pocket Guide -Programming Jakarta Struts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Mick Bauer, "Building Secure Servers with Linux," Burlington, MA--December 4 -Matthew Gast, "802.11 Wireless Networks," Santa Clara, CA--December 4 -Visit O'Reilly Dec 8-13 at the XML Conference & Exposition 2002 in Baltimore, MD --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online Registration Is Open ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Gear Available at ThinkGeek--Finally! -Put up a ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book -Try This at Home -Are Rich Clients Taking Off or Tanking? -CVS Third-Party Tools -Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET -XML Versus the Infoset -A Webmaster's Guide to Troubleshooting P3P -Implementing Templates with Struts -Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2 -Controlling iTunes with Perl -Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs -Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Please allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***C Pocket Reference Ideal as an introduction for beginners and a quick reference for advanced programmers, this pocket reference consists of two parts: a compact description of the C language, and a thematically structured reference to the standard library. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cpr/ A sample excerpt, "Statements," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cpr/chapter/index.html ***Designing Embedded Hardware "Designing Embedded Hardware" is the most in-depth, practical, and up-to-date guide to building your own embedded computer systems. Whether you're working on cell phones, cars, handheld organizers, or refrigerators, this book provides software and hardware engineers with the necessary conceptual and design building blocks to understand the architectures of embedded systems. Steering between the practical and the philosophical, the book enables you to both create your own devices and gadgets and customize and extend off-the-shelf systems. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/ Chapter 6, "The AVR Microcontroller," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/chapter/index.html ***Digital Photography Pocket Guide This book gives you the tools and the knowledge to take the kind of pictures you've always wanted. Consider it your quick-reference photo mentor that explains each of the camera's components, shows you what they do, then helps you choose the right settings to accomplish your goal. When you want to ask an expert, "How can I get that picture?" simply pull this handy guide out of your camera bag or back pocket, and you'll find the answer quickly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotopg/ The table of contents are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotopg/toc.html ***Programming Jakarta Struts As popular as the Struts framework for building web applications with Servlets and JSPs is becoming, the online documentation is inadequate. This book takes a real-world, "this is how to do it" approach to developing complex enterprise applications using Struts. The focus on the 1.1 version of the framework makes this the most up-to-date book available on the subject, covering topics such as installation and configuration, JSP and Jakarta Tag Libraries, and internationalization and localization code. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakarta/ Chapter 14, "Using Tiles," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jakarta/chapter/ch14.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Mick Bauer, Burlington, MA--December 4 Mick Bauer, author of the just-released "Building Secure Servers with Linux," presents "Internet Server Security With Linux: Risks, Defenses, and Practices (or, How to Connect Your Linux Box to the 'Net Without Worrying Yourself to Death)" at Softpro Computer Books. Wednesday, December 4 -- 6:00 pm 112 Mall Road Burlington, MA 01803-5300 The Burlington store is wheelchair accessible. Phone: (781) 273-2919 http://www.softpro.com/events.html ***Matthew Gast, Santa Clara, CA--December 4 Author Matthew Gast ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide," "Network Printing," and "T1: A Survival Guide") is a "Homeland Security vs. Wi-Fi" panelist at the 802.11 Planet Conference. For more conference information: http://www.jupiterevents.com/80211/fall02/agenda2.html ***Be sure to visit O'Reilly Dec 8-13 at the XML Conference & Exposition 2002 in Baltimore, MD Booth #333 Baltimore Convention Center Baltimore, MD For more conference information: http://www.xmlconference.org/xmlusa/ For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Online registration is now open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before December 16th, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. 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O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ ***Try This at Home "InfoWorld" talks with O'Reilly's chief operating officer, CJ Rayhill, about the technologies that drive O'Reilly and the challenges of managing them. http://staging.infoworld.com/articles/ct/xml/02/11/18/021118ctinsider.xml?Te mplate=/storypages/ctozone_story.html ***Are Rich Clients Taking Off or Tanking? O'Reilly's editors discuss the apparent fragmentation of the web-client space, "rich Internet applications" like DHTML and Flash, and the consumer versus the developer market, in a new feature called "From the Editors List." http://www.oreilly.com/editors/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***CVS Third-Party Tools CVS is an essential part of many developer toolboxes, but it has its limitations. 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And that is the focus of this article. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/11/25/copying.html ***Announcing .NET Framework 1.1 The next release of Visual Studio .NET is finally available for final public beta testing. Code named Everett, Visual Studio .NET 2003 comes with a new version of the .NET Framework. 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Part 1 http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/12/oracle_part1.html Part 2 http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/oracle_part2.html Until next time, Marsee