From wcjones at fccj.edu Fri Nov 15 20:36:08 2002 From: wcjones at fccj.edu (William C. (Bill) Jones) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:30:50 2004 Subject: [Jax.PM] [ADMIN:NON-PERL] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 15 Message-ID: <298B2FF6-F90C-11D6-A580-0003930FDFC6@fccj.edu> 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= u00220021023ton01.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 wcjones at fccj.edu Tue Nov 26 20:47:48 2002 From: wcjones at fccj.edu (William C. (Bill) Jones) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:30:50 2004 Subject: [Jax.PM] [NON-PERL] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 26 Message-ID: <9D6F6544-01B2-11D7-9ACD-0003930FDFC6@fccj.edu> [ADMIN Posting:NON-PERL] FYI: You may be interested in Oracle 9i for MacOS X (see the end of this posting.) -Sx- :] 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. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Official O'Reilly Gear at ThinkGeek For years, our customers have asked us to make and sell various items with our animals on them. We are pleased and proud to present our first collection of official O'Reilly animal swag. http://www.thinkgeek.com/oreilly (Sorry, no User Group discounts available at ThinkGeek) ***Put Up An O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book We are looking for user groups to display our ThinkGeek banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our O'Reilly ThinkGeek banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. 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? Template=/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. Jennifer Vesperman has put together a list of add-ons and interfaces to the popular source control system. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/11/21/cvs_third_party.html ***Managing Bulk DNS Zones with Perl Automate the creation of DNS zone files. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/11/20/dns.html ***Cooking with MySQL Find out how to interpret results from summaries and NULL values, and how to identify duplicates in a table or record, in this excerpt. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/mysqlckbk/index1.html MySQL Cookbook Order Number: 1452 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlckbk/ --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Copying, Cloning, and Marshalling in .NET Even after spending the last few years with the C# language, Shawn Van Ness recently found it worthwhile to step back and analyze what happens in some very simple scenarios, such as copying a value from one variable to another, or passing those variables as arguments to a method call. 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. This article will explain what's in this new release. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/11/25/copying.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***XML Versus the Infoset In his latest Endpoints column Rich Salz opines about the differences between XML specifications based on XML and those based on the XML infoset. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/20/ends.html --------------------- Web --------------------- ***A Webmaster's Guide to Troubleshooting P3P Read about troubleshooting strategies and common mistakes people make when enabling their web sites with P3P in this article by Lorrie Cranor, author of "Web Privacy with P3P." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/11/19/p3p.html Web Privacy with P3P Order Number: 3714 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webprivp3p/ --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Implementing Templates with Struts Creating a portal site gets much easier with templates. This article shows you how to implement a portal site with Struts Templates. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/20/templatestruts.html ***Configuring Tomcat and Apache With JK 1.2 The JK modules are a conduit between Apache and Tomcat. This series of articles covers using mod_jk with Apache and Tomcat. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/20/tomcat.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Controlling iTunes with Perl Use Mac::iTunes to create multiple interfaces. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/22/itunes_perl.html ***Connecting Mac OS X to Windows PCs A hands-on look at how you can share files between your Mac and your Windows machines, then explore how Windows applications can be run on your Mac. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/19/mac_pc.html ***Installing Oracle 9i on Mac OS X The inside scoop for DBAs looking to go big time. 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