From HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu Fri Aug 1 07:04:26 2003 From: HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu (Matthew R. Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: Published Message-ID: <1059739466.5ea0b700HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> http://www.angrycoder.com/article.aspx?cid=6&y=2003&m=7&d=31 It's been a good day. Anybody have a -good- digital camera? regards, Matt H. From brandon at echobox.com Sun Aug 3 09:57:03 2003 From: brandon at echobox.com (Brandon) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 1 Message-ID: <001f01c359cf$8367b4e0$6501a8c0@echobox00cl76t> News from 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, August 01, 2003 10:03 PM To: Brandon@echobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 1 O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter August 1, 2003 Please share the information your members would be interested in.... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual -BLAST -PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition -Cisco Cookbook -Extreme Programming Pocket Guide ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Randal L. Schwartz ("Learning Perl, 3rd Edition"), NoCOUG Summer Conference, San Ramon, CA--August 21 -Derrick Story ("Digital Video Pocket Guide," "Digital Photography Pocket Guide," & "iPhoto 2:The Missing Manual," NCMUG Computer Expo, Santa Rosa, CA--September 20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Sponsorship Discount -Call For Participation: The 2004 O'Reilly Life Science Informatics Conference -Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get a Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Safari ---------------------------------------------------------------- -"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--Robert Kuropkat, Oakland Perl Mongers Group ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -New O'Reilly Beta Chapters Available Online Including TiVo Hacks" "Regular Expression Pocket Reference," "Kerberos: The Definitive Guide," and many more. -GNU.org Versus OpenSource.org -Exegesis 6 -Introducing JavaServer Faces -Introduction to System.DirectoryServices, Part 1 -XML Source Highlighting -Paul Kafasis Tells the Story of Audio Hijack Pro -The Care and Feeding of Your iPod ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Picn*x12:The Linux 12th Anniversary Picnic/BBQ, Sunnyvale, CA --August 9 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--email me for a copy. ***Please include the book order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. Email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. For book review tips and suggestions on writing, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***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/ ***iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual Order Number: 5075 iMovie 3 offers powerful audio enhancements, slick new photo effects, and integration with iTunes and iPhoto--but it still comes without a single page of printed instructions. Award-winning author David Pogue provides a complete course in Macintosh filmmaking in this funny, authoritative, and updated guide. From the basics of moviemaking to mastering DVDs, "iMovie 3 & iDVD: The Missing Manual" lets you marry the stunning quality of digital video with the power of your imagination. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm3/?CMP=NLC-HI9379235447 ***BLAST Order Number: 2998 BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool) is a set of similarity search programs that explore all of the available sequence databases for protein or DNA. "BLAST" is the only book completely devoted to this popular and important technology, and it offers biologists, computational biology students, and bioinformatics professionals a clear understanding of this program. It shows you how to get specific answers with BLAST and how to use the software to interpret results. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blast/ Chapter 4, "Sequence Similarity," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/blast/chapter/index.html ***PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition Order Number: 513X A longtime favorite among PC users, the new edition of this book now contains information for people running both Windows and Linux operating systems. Written for novices and seasoned professionals alike, the book is packed with useful and unbiased information. In addition to covering the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, the book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut3/?CMP=NLC-1QO643062721 Chapter 4, "Processors," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut3/chapter/index.html ***Cisco Cookbook Order Number: 3676 There are often many different ways to solve any given networking problem using Cisco devices, and some solutions are more effective than others. The pressing question for network engineers is which solution is the most appropriate for their situation. A good working configuration example can often save huge amounts of time. "Cisco Cookbook" gathers hundreds of examples of router configurations all in one place. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ciscockbk/?CMP=NLC-C2R127272823 A sample excerpt on "Simple Network Management Protocol" is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ciscockbk/chapter/index.html ***Extreme Programming Pocket Guide Order Number: 4850 "Extreme Programming Pocket Guide" covers XP assumptions, principles, events, artifacts, roles, resources, and more. The book also concisely explains the relationships between the XP practices. If you want to adopt XP in stages, "Extreme Programming Pocket Guide" will help you choose what to apply and when. This easy-to-carry-anywhere guide to XP is a must-have quick reference for anyone implementing a test-driven development environment. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/extprogpg/?CMP=EMC-HQ6240228602 A sample excerpt on "Roles in Extreme Programming" is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/extprogpg/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Randal L. Schwartz ("Learning Perl, 3rd Edition"), NoCOUG Summer Conference, San Ramon, CA--August 21 Author Randal L. Schwartz is presenting "Introduction to Using Oracle with Perl and Perl's Database" as one of 12 technical sessions specifically designed for Oracle database administrators and application developers at the NoCOUG Summer Conference For more information and to RSVP, please go to: http://www.nocoug.org/next.html Thursday, August 21, 2003 ChevronTexaco campus in San Ramon. 6101 Bollinger Canyon Road San Ramon, CA 94583 Please note that the conference building is just after the ChevronTexaco Campus. http://www.nocoug.org/next.html#directions ****Derrick Story ("Digital Video Pocket Guide," "Digital Photography Pocket Guide," & "iPhoto 2:The Missing Manual," NCMUG Computer Expo, Santa Rosa, CA--September 20 Come visit O'Reilly and watch Derrick Story, author and MacDevCenter.com editor, at the North Coast Mac Users Group's annual fundraising event. 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Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: August Meeting? Message-ID: <1060027248.7dd27ea0HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> Recommendations on where we should go out? Matt H. 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From HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu Tue Aug 19 07:35:08 2003 From: HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu (Matthew R. Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: Presentations? Message-ID: <1061296508.5bb11760HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> Would anyone be interested on a presentation on: "Blogging with use.perl.org"? Or is that too easy? http://use.perl.org/~heusserm/journal regards, Matt H. From HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu Wed Aug 27 06:39:58 2003 From: HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu (Matthew R. Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: Friday GR.PM Message-ID: <1061984398.879620c0HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> We have a social meeting scheduled. Mongolian Bar-B-Que? 28th Street? 11:30AM? Matt H.(eusser) From HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu Thu Aug 28 07:10:20 2003 From: HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu (Matthew R. Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: Friday's GR.PM Meeting Message-ID: <1062072620.6d945ca0HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> Friday's GR.PM Meeting will be at Mongolian Bar-B-Q. Uh, BD's Mongial BBQ. There's More Than One Way To Describe It. (TMTOWTDI)? There's More Than One Way To Do It at Mongolian BBQ, thus making it the preferred choice of GR.PM. 11:30. 28th Street, Grand Rapids. See you there! Matt H.(eusser) From HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu Thu Aug 28 14:22:28 2003 From: HEUSSERM at student.gvsu.edu (Matthew R. Heusser) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:01:31 2004 Subject: September GR.PM Message-ID: <1062098548.68218660HEUSSERM@student.gvsu.edu> Folks: For September, we had planned that Steve Poling add and personalize two presentations on testing / maintaining perl into one presentation. It turns out that Andy Lester, who presented "Automating of Large Projects in Perl" at the 2003 OS conference is available to do it himself! Except, of course, he lives in Chicago. So it would be nice if we could raise at least enough $$$ to cover his costs - food, gas, and a hotel. $150 or so, I figure. So: 1) Is anyone willing to chip in a couplea bucks for a world-class presentation? 2) Is any -organization- in grand rapids (or group of people) interested in a few hours of training or consulting from a world class QA-er/Coder/Software Manager? (Resume: http://www.petdance.com/resume/) If you want to help, feel free to email me privately, or, if you wish, reply to the list. Regards, Matt Heusser