[nr-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 22

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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
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Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 22
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:45:17 -0700

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> O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders
> October 22, 2003
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> -Encourage your members to write book reviews
> -Do You Have a Tip, Suggestion, or Question to Share?
> -Stay Tuned for a New Banner Offer Next Week
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> Book Info
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> ***Review books are available
> Copies of our books are available for your members to review--
> send me an email and please include the book order number on
> your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain
> date.
> Allow at least four weeks for shipping.
>
> ***Please send copies of your book reviews
> Email me a copy of your newsletters or book review.
> For tips and suggestions on writing book reviews, go to:
> http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html
>
> ***Discount information
> Don't forget to remind your members about our 20% discount on
> O'Reilly books and conferences. Just use code DSUG.
>
> ***Group purchases with better discounts are available
> Please let me know if you are interested and I can put you in
> touch with our sales department.
>
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> General News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> ***Encourage your members to write book reviews
> We love to have feedback on all of our titles. Book and product reviews
> make great web site and newsletter content. If you need some suggestions
> check out our handy dandy guide:
> http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html
>
>
> ***Do you have a tip, suggestion, or question to share with other user
> group leaders? Send me an email and we can post it.
>
>
> ***Stay Tuned for a New Banner Offer Next Week
>
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> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> October 22, 2003
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> Book News
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> -PC Annoyances
> -STL Pocket Reference
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> Upcoming Events
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -User Group Event at the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
> -Tim O'Reilly, OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, CA--Oct 26-30
> -Rael Dornfest ("Google Hacks," "Mac OS X Hacks"),
> Portland Linux/Unix Group, Portland, OR--November 6
> -ApacheCon, Las Vegas, NV--Nov 16-19
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> Conferences
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> -Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA
> -Last Week to Register for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
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> News
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> -All Software Should Be Network Aware
> -Two New Book Brochures Available Online
> -Open Source Goes to COMDEX
> -Most Indispensable Linux Books
> -OpenOffice Irritation
> -Upgrading a MySQL Application
> -The PHP Scalability Myth
> -Creating an Online Help System with JavaHelp and DocBook
> -Filtering HTTP Requests with .NET
> -Sizing Up Windows Server 2003
> -Start Me Up: Writing and Understanding OS X StartupItems
> -I Dig Mac OS X
>
> ================================================
> Book News
> ================================================
> Did you know you can request a free book to review for your
> group? Ask your group leader for more information.
>
> For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to:
> http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html
>
> Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you
> purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when
> ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938.
> http://www.oreilly.com/
>
>
> ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at
> least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer
> applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto
> Rico.
> For more details, go to:
> http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html
>
>
> ***PC Annoyances
> Order Number: 5938
> Don't give up on your PC yet; help is at hand. This easy-to-read,
> accessible book covers the waterfront of PC gripes and gremlins, with
> fixes for everything from Windows glitches to browsers that won't browse.
> These tips and tricks are served up in bite-size portions for quick
> reading and even quicker fixing. Plus, you get access to more than 100
> utilities that will help you squash bugs, enhance your email, untangle
> system snarls, and much more.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pcannoy/
>
> A sample excerpt on "Email" is online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pcannoy/chapter/index.html
>
> *Come meet "PC Annoyances" author Steve Bass at the upcoming APCUG Fall
> 2003 Conference in Las Vegas!
>
>
> ***STL Pocket Reference
> Order Number: 5563
> Programmers familiar with the Standard Template Library (STL) need a
> small, lightweight memory aid. The STL encompasses containers, iterators,
> algorithms, and function objects, collectively representing one of the
> most important and widely used subsets of standard library functionality.
> "STL Pocket Reference" describes the functions, classes, and templates in
> the STL, and it is chock-full of information that you can take in at a
> glance, so you can get on with your work.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/stlpr/
>
> A sample excerpt on "Containers" is online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/stlpr/chapter/index.html
>
> ================================================
> Upcoming Events
> ================================================
> ***For more events, please see:
> http://events.oreilly.com/
>
> ***User Group members attending the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference--
> Come meet up with Marsee Henon (O'Reilly User Group Coordinator) and
> Lorene Romero (Apple User Group Advisory Board Vendor Relation
> Coordinator and North Coast Mac Users Group Past President) on
> Tuesday, October 28 from 6:00pm to 7:30pm at the bar (no-host)
> in the lobby of the Westin Santa Clara. We can swap stories, ideas,
> or just hang out. And afterwards, we can attend the "Building
> Virginia Tech's G5 Supercluster" talk.
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/view/e_sess/4824
>
> The O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference is October 27-30, 2003 at the Westin
> Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
> For more info or to register for this conference, go to:
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
>
>
> ***Tim O'Reilly, OOPSLA 2003, Anaheim, CA--Oct 26-30
> Tim O'Reilly is a keynote speaker at the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN
> Conference on Object Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and
> Applications. Anaheim Convention Center,
> Anaheim, CA.
> http://oopsla.acm.org/oopsla2003/files/index.html
>
>
> ***Rael Dornfest ("Google Hacks," "Mac OS X Hacks"), Portland Linux/Unix
> Group, Portland, OR--November 6
> Author and editor Rael Dornfest will be speaking about O'Reilly's new
> "Hacks" book series.The meeting starts at 7:00pm at the Portland State
> University, Smith Memorial Center room 294/296, Portland, OR.
> http://www.pdxlinux.org/meeting/
>
>
> ***ApacheCon, Las Vegas, NV--Nov 16-19
> Authors Brian Aker ("Running Weblogs with Slash"), Stas Bekman 
> ("Practical
> mod_perl"), Rich Bowen and Ken Coar ("Apache Cookbook"), Will Iverson
> ("Mac OS X for Java Geeks"), Rasmus Lerdorf ("Programming PHP), Doug
> Tidwell ("XSLT" and "Programming Web Services with SOAP"), and Adam
> Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook") are all speaking at this gathering. Alexis
> Park Resort Las Vegas, NV.
> http://www.apachecon.com/2003/US/index.html
>
> ================================================
> Conference News
> ================================================
> ***Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA
> Gather with lead users, forward thinkers, and technology activists at
> O'Reilly's third annual Emerging Technology Conference to vet the 
> projects
> and ideas that will radically alter not just the future of computing, but
> the way we live and work. ETech is slated for February 9-12, 2004 in San
> Diego, California. Take advantage of our Early Bird discount when you
> register before January 9, 2004.
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/
>
> User Group members who register before January 9, 2004 get a double
> discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the
> "Early Bird" price.
>
> To register for the conference, go to:
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html
>
>
> ***Last Week to Register for the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
> October 27-30, 2003
> Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
>
> To register for the conference, go to:
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/ord_mac03
>
> ================================================
> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
> ================================================
> ---------------------
> General News
> ---------------------
> ***All Software Should Be Network Aware
> Apple's original Human Interface Guidelines laid out the company's vision
> for a set of consistent approaches for GUI applications. Now that we're
> moving into the era of "software above the level of a single device," we
> need something similar for network-aware applications. Here are some of
> the things Tim O'Reilly would like to see universally supported.
> http://tim.oreilly.com/p2p/netaware.csp
>
>
> ***Two New Book Brochures Available Online
> We have included these in the Graphics section of our user group page
> http://ug.oreilly.com/
>
> *Sample Hacks (PDF)
> Test out hacks from our newest titles "Wireless Hacks," "Ebay Hacks,"
> "Windows XP Hacks," and "TiVo Hacks."
> http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/ug_sample_hacks.pdf
>
> *Gifts for Geeks (PDF)
> Not sure what to give your geek for the holidays? We have a few
> suggestions.
> http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/Geek_Holiday.pdf
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***Open Source Goes to COMDEX
> O'Reilly is working with COMDEX to organize an Open Source Innovation 
> Area
> on the COMDEX exhibit floor. We've nominated 21 projects and we'd like 
> you
> to help us select the six projects we'll send to the show. Contest ends
> October 31. Vote today.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/contest/comdex/
>
> Here is a graphic promoting this contest if you would like to post it on
> your site:
> http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/comdex/
>
>
> ***Most Indispensable Linux Books
> Over 7,500 readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on 28
> categories in the 2003 Readers' Choice Awards. The number three pick for
> most indispensable Linux book is O'Reilly's "Running Linux." And the
> winner is "Linux in a Nutshell."
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7029
>
> Running Linux, 4th Edition
> Order Number: 2726
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/
>
> Linux in a Nutshell, 4th Edition
> Order Number: 4826
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxnut4/
>
>
> ***OpenOffice Irritation
> Noel Davis looks at problems in OpenOffice, slocate, fetchmail, GDM,
> Tomcat, ircd, HPUX's dtprintinfo, and Openserver's Xsco.
> http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/10/20/insecurities.html
>
>
> ***Upgrading a MySQL Application
> Application upgrades aren't always easy. Throw in a database backend and 
> a
> schema change, and you're in for a world of hurt--unless you've planned
> well. Russell Dyer explores techniques for taking the pain out of
> upgrading database-backed applications.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/10/16/mysql_app_upgrades.html
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***The PHP Scalability Myth
> Java scales...but so does PHP. That's the argument Jack Herrington puts
> forth in comparing how each can be used to create web applications with
> modern architectures.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/php_scalability.html
>
>
> ***Creating an Online Help System with JavaHelp and DocBook
> JavaHelp offers a full-featured help system for Java applications, but
> creating and maintaining help content can be tricky. Austin King offers 
> an
> alternative workflow, based on DocBook and XSL.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/15/javahelp_docbook.html
> ---------------------
> .NET
> ---------------------
> ***Filtering HTTP Requests with .NET
> ASP.NET has a number of extensibility points that developers can use. One
> such point is response filtering, accessible via the Filter property of
> the HttpResponse class. Ben Lowery shows you how to use HTTP filters in
> your own code.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/10/20/httpfilter.html
> ---------------------
> Windows
> ---------------------
> ***Sizing Up Windows Server 2003
> It's been almost six months since Windows Server 2003 was released.
> Microsoft touts it as being able to do things "faster, more securely, and
> at lower cost." Has it lived up to its promises? Mitch Tulloch, author of
> "Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell," looks at whether and how Microsoft
> has delivered on these promises.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/10/21/sizingserver2003.html
>
> Windows Server 2003 in a Nutshell
> Order Number: 4044
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winsvrian/index.html
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***Start Me Up: Writing and Understanding OS X StartupItems
> StartupItems are easy to set up and extremely flexible in managing the
> startup process. Andrew Anders shows how StartupItems fit into the OS X
> startup process, what you need to do to create a StartupItem, and an
> example of a StartupItem that will run the Tomcat Java servlet engine.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/21/startup.html
>
>
> ***I Dig Mac OS X
> With O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference just around the corner, we're
> introducing a brand-new T-shirt depicting our trademark Mac OS X German
> Shepherd--just the thing to wear at the show. Not attending but you still
> dig Mac OS X? This is the tee for you. Check out all of O'Reilly's cool
> swag at Think Geek.
> http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/tshirts/63fc/
>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee
>
>
>
>
>
>



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