From niederrhein-pm at web.de Thu Jan 16 02:27:28 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] naechstes Treffen Message-ID: <000501c2bd39$1c174db0$c800a8c0@burbach> FROHES NEUES JAHR euch allen. Ich bin auch gerade erst aus dem Winterschlaf erwacht, und stelle fest, wir haben unseren Januar-Termin verpennt. Wollen wir das nächste Woche nachholen? Donnerstag, 23.01, 19:00 Uhr im Webster? Wer kommt alles? Liebe Gruesse, Regina ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From maxmon at gmx.de Thu Jan 16 16:30:59 2003 From: maxmon at gmx.de (maxmon@gmx.de) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] naechstes Treffen In-Reply-To: <000501c2bd39$1c174db0$c800a8c0@burbach> Message-ID: <3E2740B3.27248.84F284@localhost> Hallo pm- und Neujahrsveteranen, ich habs letzten Donnerstag verpennt und bin froh, daß wir uns dann doch am 23. Jänner treffen. So denn USA-Chef Bush und unser ÖPNV keinen Kurzschluss haben, bin ich dabei und freue mich auf ein Wiedersehen mit Euch. Bis bald Markus Monderkamp On 16 Jan 2003, at 9:27, R. Burbach wrote: > FROHES NEUES JAHR > euch allen. > > Ich bin auch gerade erst aus dem Winterschlaf erwacht, und stelle > fest, wir haben unseren Januar-Termin verpennt. Wollen wir das nächste > Woche nachholen? Donnerstag, 23.01, 19:00 Uhr im Webster? > > Wer kommt alles? > > Liebe Gruesse, > > Regina > > ___________________________ > Abmelden: > Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: > unsubscribe niederrhein-pm > ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From niederrhein-pm at web.de Fri Jan 17 03:17:52 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Jan 16 Message-ID: <000301c2be09$55ec0730$c800a8c0@burbach> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsee Henon" To: Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 9:06 PM Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Jan 16 > O'Reilly User Group Program > Newsletter > January 16, 2003 > > > Please share this information with your members... > > > Highlights This Week: > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Book News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual > -sendmail, 3rd Edition > -Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition > -ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition > -Oracle in a Nutshell > -Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition > -Programming Web Services with Perl > -Objective-C Pocket Reference > -Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition > -Windows XP Pocket Reference > -Perl Graphics Programming > -Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Upcoming Events > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Visit O'Reilly at LinuxWorld-NY > -Steven Feuerstein (Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Ed.) at the > Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference Bellevue, WA > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Conference News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference > -Online registration is still open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics > Technology Conference > -Open Source Convention--Time to Submit Your Proposal > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > News > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > -The O'Reilly Learning Lab > -Boucher: DMCA-Fixing Bill "Will Win" > -Jump the Shark > -Consuming Amazon with Flash Remoting > -Understanding Overloading in WSDL > -The JAXB API > -Your First Micro Java Game > -Introduction to Managed C++ > -Using Remote Data Access with SQL Server CE 2.0 > -What is RSS? > -Apple on Top of Its Game: the Macworld SF 2003 Report > -The DigiCam Chronicles: Assignment Macworld > -New O'Reilly Beta Chapter--Mac OS X in a Nutshell > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Announcements From Your Peers > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -Davis, CA--Linux Users' Group of Davis celebrates Their > Four-Year Anniversary--January 20 > -Ottawa, Canada--Open Source Weekend--January 25 & 26 > > ================================================ > Book News > ================================================ > Review books are available--please email me for a copy. > > ***Please include the order number on your requests. > > 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. 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The events will be spread across the city and throughout the > weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. > > The major activities will be the: > -Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa > -Linuxfest at Carleton University > -Business of Open Source Software conference > > For more information on these events please see: > http://www.osw.ca/ > > > > Until next time-- > > Marsee > > > > ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From cfoerst at web.de Tue Jan 21 03:42:44 2003 From: cfoerst at web.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Christian=20F=F6rster?=) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] naechstes Treffen Message-ID: <200301210942.h0L9giO15363@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Huhu Mongers, ich komme mit Bernd am Donnerstag auch zum Webster :-) Bis denne ... Gruß Christian ______________________________________________________________________________ Viren? Wir wissen nicht was Ihr Arzt empfiehlt. Wir empfehlen den Virencheck fur Ihre E-Mail-Anhange! http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021159 ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From a.kloecker at gmx.de Wed Jan 22 03:10:17 2003 From: a.kloecker at gmx.de (Arne Kloecker) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] naechstes Treffen In-Reply-To: <000501c2bd39$1c174db0$c800a8c0@burbach> References: <000501c2bd39$1c174db0$c800a8c0@burbach> Message-ID: Am Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2003 09:27 schrieb R. Burbach: > Donnerstag, 23.01, 19:00 Uhr im Webster? > > Wer kommt alles? Ich habe im Moment mal wieder viel um die Ohren und kann mich nicht frei schaufeln. Sorry. Viel Spass Arne ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From niederrhein-pm at web.de Thu Jan 23 04:22:16 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] Treffen heute Message-ID: <000501c2c2c9$4de60350$c800a8c0@burbach> Hi Leute, ich habe im Webster auf den Namen Burbach einen Tisch für uns reserviert. Wir sehen uns dann heute ab 19:00 Uhr. Bis dann, Regina ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From niederrhein-pm at web.de Mon Jan 27 05:36:40 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] YAPC::Europe 2003 Message-ID: <000701c2c5f8$5ca58d70$c800a8c0@burbach> Hi Leute, gerade habe ich die Ankündigung auf www.yapc.org/Europe gesehen: Die YAPC::Europe 2003 findet statt vom 23. - 25. Juli im Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris. Ab dem 1. März kann man sich auf o.g. Webseite für die Konferenz registrieren. Ich überlege derzeit ob ich einen Lightening Talk "How to stay a healthy coder" (Arbeitstitel) halten soll. Das Thema ist bei den letzten Konferenzen am Rande erwähnt worden - aber meines Wissens noch nicht in einem Talk gewürdigt worden. Liebe Gruesse, Regina Burbach ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From niederrhein-pm at web.de Tue Jan 28 05:35:39 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] naechstes Treffen Message-ID: Hi Leute, das naechste Treffen ist am 13. Februar diesen Jahres. Da wir beim letzten Treffen nur zu zweit waren, haben wir noch keinen Kürbis ausgeguckt. Wer meldet sich freiwillig? Gruss, Regina -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm From niederrhein-pm at web.de Thu Jan 30 05:07:47 2003 From: niederrhein-pm at web.de (R. Burbach) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:04:00 2004 Subject: [nr-pm] Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24 Message-ID: <000401c2c84f$d2ceb950$c800a8c0@burbach> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marsee Henon" To: Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 2:27 AM Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24 > 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! 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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 > > > > ___________________________ Abmelden: Mail an majordomo@hfb.pm.org mit dem Text: unsubscribe niederrhein-pm