[From nobody Mon Aug 2 21:31:05 2004 Received: from smtp.oreilly.com (rock.oreilly.com [209.204.146.34]) by tipjar.com id h0P37De7070501; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 20:07:13 -0700 (MST) X-Received-From: marsee@oreilly.com X-Received-For: <kcpm-moderate@davidnicol.com> Received: (from marsee@localhost) by smtp.oreilly.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id h0P36nG19735 for kcpm-moderate@davidnicol.com; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:06:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:06:49 -0800 (PST) From: Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> Message-Id: <200301250306.h0P36nG19735@smtp.oreilly.com> To: kcpm-moderate@davidnicol.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24 X-UIDL: *>p"!Z0j"!,#j!!6OM!! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter January 24, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Linux Server Hacks -Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, San Francisco --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book-O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek to $9.99! -Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" -Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics -Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize -Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java -Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET -802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence -PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X ---------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming Meetings ================================================ 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. 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. 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/ ***Linux Server Hacks Order Number: 4613 This first book in O'Reilly's new Hacks Series shows you how to tune the Linux kernel to make your system run more efficiently, and use CVS and RCS to track revisions to system files. You'll also learn alternative ways to do backups, how to use system monitoring tools to track performance, and a variety of secure networking solutions. "Linux Server Hacks" also helps you manage large-scale web installations running Apache, MySQL, and other open source tools. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ Chapter 3, "Backups," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/index.html ***Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Order number: 3773 Java application performance is heavily tied to the underlying Java Virtual Machine, and the new 1.4 version of Java has significant changes. Revised and expanded, this second edition covers Java 1.4 and adds new coverage of JDBC, NIO, Servlets, EJB, and JavaServer Pages. Learn how to create a tuning strategy, use profiling tools to understand a program's behavior, and avoid performance penalties from inefficient code. You'll end up with code that's robust, maintainable, and fast. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/ Chapter 12, "Distributed Computing," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Come meet our authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, San Francisco Join O'Reilly authors G. Andrew Duthie (ASP.NET in a Nutshell), Ken Getz (Access Cookbook), Juval Lowy (COM and .NET Component Services), and Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET) at the tenth annual VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference. http://www.vslive.com/2003/sf/ For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Day Passes are Available for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Can't make the whole conference? Consider a day pass for February 4, 5, or 6. This event takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Join the leaders from the many worlds of pervasive computing to explore and invent the new internet infrastructure and culture. Speakers include: Howard Rheingold, Alan Kay, Clay Shirky, Eric Bonabeau, Tim O'Reilly, David S. Isenberg, and many others. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before March 14th, 2003, 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/pub/w/22/register.html ***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is: 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 Emerging Technology Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/etech2003/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek There's still time to get your official, limited edition, full-color 25th Anniversary Wall Calendar, jam-packed with pictures, tales, O'Reilly lore, pithy quotes, and more. Since we are almost through one month of the year, ThinkGeek has lowered the price from $14.99 to $9.99 http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/ Download a sample PDF of January's page: ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/calendar/oreilly_calendar_jan03.pdf Bored with the ThinkGeek banner on your site? Check out the new ones we have: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ ***Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" Hacks: Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks--O'Reilly's new Hacks Series proudly reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys. Hackers use their ingenuity to solve interesting problems, and now you can have their real-world, tested solutions at your fingertips. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/hacks/news/0103_tim-hacker.html Linux Server Hacks (Available now) By Rob Flickenger Order Number: 4613 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ Google Hacks (Available in February) By Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest Order Number: 4478 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/ Mac OS X Hacks (Available in March) By Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway Order Number: 4605 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/ --------------------- Bioinformatics --------------------- ***Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics Tim O'Reilly interviewed Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Mathematica program and author of "A New Kind of Science," about his research, his new book, and its connection to bioinformatics. Wolfram will give a keynote at O'Reilly's 2003 Bioinformatics Technology Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/bio/news/wolfram_0120.html The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize Screen-scraping is the job of programmatically navigating through a usually visual task--like a web site--and then dealing with the result; and WWW::Mechanize is the best screen scraper out there for Perl! Chris Ball puts the two things together, to ensure that he never misses his favourite TV shows again. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java Microsoft's file formats were once black arts to developers on non-sanctioned platforms. Thanks to Jakarta POI, however, it's possible to read and write them from Java. Apache's Andrew C. Oliver and Avik Sengupta explain the basics of the project in the first of a series of three articles. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/22/poi.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Hosting Windows Forms Controls in COM Control Containers As wonderful as the new WinForms control model is, if you still need to host controls in COM control containers, you are limited to exactly one control host that also supports the hosting of WinForms controls: Internet Explorer. If you want to host your controls in COM containers, Chris Sells shows you how in this article. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/20/winformshosting.html ***Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET In many situations, an ADO.NET developer will want to use the Order By and Group By semantic of SQL. This article by Satya Komatineni will show you how to do it. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/14/groupbyds.html --------------------- Wireless --------------------- ***802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence The 802.11g spec uses a relatively new method of encoding bits onto radio waves in such a way as to squeeze up to 54 Mbps of raw data across a single channel. Apple has embraced this new technology in its AirPort Extreme radio cards. Here's how it works. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/01/23/80211g.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an online repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a rigorous coding standard. In this article, Jason Perkins shows you how to install, configure, and use the PEAR Package Manager on Mac OS X 10.2 http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/21/pear_macosx.html ================================================ Announcements From Your Peers ================================================ ***Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming Meetings February 4, March 5, and April 2 Time: 8:30-10:00am for all meetings Location: Virginia Beach Central Library for all meetings For more information, contact Hazel Zamperini: hzamperini@cox.net Until next time-- Marsee ]