From cba at groundworkopensource.com  Tue Oct  2 11:45:09 2007
From: cba at groundworkopensource.com (Chris B. Anderson)
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:45:09 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] BayLISA Monitoring SIG: Weds Oct 10, 7PM
Message-ID: <FEC131AB5AB5954F9EAC19E9C08DEB8CD16FFC@sfexchange.groundwork.groundworkopensource.com>

(Hi: You're invited to the BayLISA Monitoring SIG, Weds Oct 10, 7PM. See
the meeting announcement pasted below: feel free to post it and/or
forward it along to anyone else who might be interested. Many thanks,
and hope to see you there!)

 

=================================================

 

Oct. 2007 BayLISA Monitoring SIG: What Doesn't Work

 

We'll discuss monitoring tools and strategies you've tried, and maybe
still use, and what their limitations are.  Come ready to share your
grandest monitoring experiments and failures, or be prepared to ask
probing questions about why someone else's well-laid plans went awry. Or
bring the requirements for your proposed monitoring deployment/expansion
and we'll peruse it for obvious and not-so-obvious gotchas.

 

What: BayLISA Monitoring SIG XI: What Doesn't Work

Who: Anyone interested in IT monitoring issues and tools (newbies
particularly welcome!)

When: Wednesday, Oct 10 2007, 7PM

Where: GroundWork Open Source, 139 Townsend St., San Francisco

How: 139 Townsend St. is very near AT&T Ballpark. It is one and a half
blocks from the CalTrain Depot. Take the MUNI N, T or J trolley to 2nd
and King (ballpark stop) or take the 30 or 45 bus (among others)
crosstown. Free evening street parking can probably be found, but there
are also several fee-based garages around in case of parking difficulty.

Cost: Free!!

 

Fine dining provided by GroundWork: pizza, pop, and snacks. We'll open
up the doors at 6:30 or so and start the formal part of the meeting
promptly at 7PM.

 

RSVP (not necessary, but helpful): Peter Mui,
pmui at groundworkopensource.com <mailto:pmui at groundworkopensource.com> ,
415 992 4573

 

=================================================

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/oakland/attachments/20071002/d06cff04/attachment.html 

From george at metaart.org  Fri Oct  5 18:00:10 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:00:10 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: UG News--Facebook app contest this weekend
Message-ID: <200710051800.10904.george@metaart.org>

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: UG News--Facebook app contest this weekend
Date: Friday 05 October 2007 17:26
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
To: george at metaart.org

Hi,

Please share this with your members if you think they
might be interested. Sorry for the short notice...


Got a cool Facebook application, or an idea for one
that you need a good reason to develop? Come to
the?Hackathon at Graphing Social Patterns conference
in San Jose this weekend, and submit your app for?
the AppNite contest.

20 developers will have up to 5 minutes to demo
their app on stage in front of all attendees. Three
prize winners will win $1000 each.?

Submit your App for the AppNite contest here:
http://graphingsocial.com/appnite

Register for the conference or the Hackathon here:
http://graphingsocial.eventbrite.com/?discount=radar


The Graphing Social Patterns conference, held in San Jose October
7th-9th, is for developers and marketers on how to build and distribute
apps for the Facebook Platform, and how to reach online communities
using social networking platforms and applications.? Notable speakers
include Reid Hoffman, Founder & Chairman of LinkedIn; Tim O'Reilly,
Founder & CEO of O'Reilly Media, Dave Morin, Sr Manager of Platform at
Facebook, Charlene Li of Forrester Research, and Danny Sullivan of
Search Engine Land, as well as many other solid geeks and execs.
http://graphingsocial.com/


Marsee Henon


================================================================
O'Reilly
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastopol, CA   95472
http://ug.oreilly.com/  http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/
================================================================

-------------------------------------------------------


From Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu  Wed Oct 10 06:27:01 2007
From: Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu (Michael Paoli)
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 06:27:01 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] BALUG 2007-10-16: Paddy Sreenivasan, Zmanda: "Amanda -
	open source backup"; etc.
Message-ID: <1192022821.470cd32511587@webmail.rawbw.com>

BALUG 2007-10-16: Paddy Sreenivasan, Zmanda: "Amanda - open source backup"; etc.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Contents:
RSVP
BALUG 2007-10-16: Paddy Sreenivasan, Zmanda: "Amanda - open source backup"
Other upcoming BALUG meetings
door prizes
references
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Planning to come to BALUG meeting?  Please drop us a note at:
rsvp at balug.org
indicating meeting date and if more than just yourself the number of
folks you're RSVPing for, etc.
See also: http://www.balug.org/#RSVP[1]
Thank you for RSVPing if you're planning to attend.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

For our 2007-10-16 BALUG meeting we are pleased to present:

Paddy Sreenivasan, Zmanda[2]: "Amanda - open source backup"
flyer[3] (PDF) to help promote the event

Amanda is a popular open source network backup and recovery system.
The talk will be about Amanda, how it is different, current status and
why you should use it.  The talk will also provide information about
Amanda enterprise edition.

Paddy is the Vice President of Engineering and a founder of
Zmanda, Inc.[2]  He is responsible for technical strategy and
development of leading software products for data protection.  Paddy
has over 13 years of experience in development and management of
software for enterprise storage.  In addition, he has worked with
various open source communities, including leading the development of
an open source high-availability clustering solution.  Prior to
founding Zmanda[2], he had key engineering roles at Cisco, Silicon
Graphics, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard.  He holds a Bachelor's degree
from BITS, Pilani and a Master's degree from the University of Pune,
India.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Other upcoming BALUG meetings

We also have quite a lineup of speakers/presentations for BALUG
meetings.  Not only do we have
Paddy Sreenivasan, Zmanda[2]: "Amanda - open source backup"
as noted above, but we also have the following
speakers/presentations/talks lined up for the months ahead - be sure to
also check out our website http://www.balug.org/[4] for the latest
updates, and if you're not already subscribed to the BALUG "announce"
list[5], be sure to subscribe to be notified of these and future
announcements.

2007-11-20 James Burgett,
Alameda County Computer Resource Center (ACCRC)[6]:
"Saving Computers from the Landfill"

2007-12 (BALUG will not meet in December 2007)

2008-01-15 Eric S. Raymond:
Freedom, Power, and Software:
What the Internet teaches us about ethics and politics

2008-02-19 Bruce Perens
(co-founder of the Open Source initiative in software):
Innovation Goes Public

2008-03-18 (TBA)

2008-04-15 Eric Allman[7]

See the BALUG website http://www.balug.org/[4] for additional details.

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Door prizes!

Yes, we have some giveaway items (e.g. books)[8]  At least
presently, this is mostly stuff we got from/via LinuxWorld - mostly
generously donated books for User Groups from various publishers.

We'll probably give away approximately half of our remaining "stockpile"
of books at the 2007-10-16 meeting, and the remainder at our 2007-11-20
meeting.  There may be additional giveaway items too.  The "stockpile"
presently includes at least:
_Practices of an Agile Developer_ ISBN: 0-9745140-8-X
_Pro Oracle Database 10g RAC on LINUX_ ISBN: 1-59059-524-6
_Professional LINUX Programming_ ISBN: 978-0-471-77613-0
_LINUX System Administration_ ISBN-10: 0-596-00952-6
                              ISBN-13: 978-0-596-00952-6
_Hacking Ubuntu_ ISBN: 978-0-470-10827-7
------------------------------------------------------------------------

references:
1. http://www.balug.org/#RSVP
2. http://www.zmanda.com/
3. http://www.balug.org/flyers/2007-10-16.pdf
4. http://www.balug.org/
5. http://www.new.balug.org/#Lists
6. http://www.accrc.org/
7. http://www2.sendmail.org/~eric/
likely door prizes at BALUG and/or other UGs:
8. http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2007-August/000401.html
meeting time, location, and lots of other great BALUG information:
Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) http://www.balug.org/

From quinn at fairpath.com  Thu Oct 11 16:32:10 2007
From: quinn at fairpath.com (Quinn Weaver)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:32:10 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] CodeCon returns in 2008
Message-ID: <20071011233210.GA19587@fu.funkspiel.org>

Excellent news:  CodeCon returns in April of 2008.  They haven't
released all the details, but if it's anything like past years it
should be cool.

http://www.codecon.org/2008/

-- 
Quinn Weaver, independent contractor  |  President, San Francisco Perl Mongers
http://fairpath.com/quinn/resume/     |  http://sf.pm.org/
510-520-5217

From george at metaart.org  Thu Oct 11 17:41:11 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:41:11 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] CodeCon returns in 2008
In-Reply-To: <20071011233210.GA19587@fu.funkspiel.org>
References: <20071011233210.GA19587@fu.funkspiel.org>
Message-ID: <200710111741.11760.george@metaart.org>

hi quinn,
thanks for posting this.

silly me, i was unaware of it.

- george

-------------------------------------------

On Thursday 11 October 2007 16:32, Quinn Weaver wrote:
> Excellent news:  CodeCon returns in April of 2008.  They haven't
> released all the details, but if it's anything like past years it
> should be cool.
>
> http://www.codecon.org/2008/


From george at metaart.org  Thu Oct 18 16:50:12 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:50:12 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 18
Message-ID: <200710181650.12733.george@metaart.org>

----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 18
Date: Thursday 18 October 2007 07:42
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
...
================================================================
O'Reilly News for User Group Members
October 18, 2007
================================================================
---------------------------------------------------------------
New Releases--Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts
----------------------------------------------------------------
Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing,
Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books
you purchase directly from O'Reilly.

Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938.
<http://www.oreilly.com/store/>

Free ground shipping on orders of $29.95 or more.
For more details, go to:
<http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html>

Did you know you can request a free book or PDF 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>


***3ds Max 9.0 (Young Jin)
ISBN 10: 8931433719
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/8931433719/

***Ableton Live 6 Tips and Tricks (PC Publishing)
ISBN 10: 1906005028
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1906005028/

***The Art of Agile Development
ISBN 10: 0596527675
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527679/

***The Best of MAKE
ISBN 10: 059651428X
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514280/

***Big Book of Windows Hacks
ISBN 10: 0596528353
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528355/

***CSS Pocket Reference, Third Edition
ISBN 10: 0596515057
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515058/

***Deploying Rails Applications (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 10: 0978739205
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0978739205/>

***Dynamic Learning: Dreamweaver CS3
ISBN 10: 0596510578
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510572/>

***Eccentric Cubicle
ISBN 10: 0-596-51054-3
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510541/>

***Flex 3 Early Evaluation: Assessing Flex and Your Project Needs
ISBN 10: 059651591X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515911/>

***Getting Started with Pyparsing
ISBN 10: 0596514239
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514235/>

***GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 10: 0974514098
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/974514098/>

***The Glossary of Digital Photography (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 1933952040
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952048/>

***GREP in InDesign CS3
ISBN 10: 0596517068
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517069/>

***The HDRI Handbook (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 1933952059
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952055/>

***Illustrated Guide to Astronomical Wonders
ISBN 10: 0596526857
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526856/>

***iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual
ISBN 10: 0596516193
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516192/>

***Introducing Silverlight 1.1
ISBN 10: 0596515839
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515836/>

***iPod: The Missing Manual, Sixth Edition
ISBN 10: 0596514913
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514914/>

***Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX
ISBN 10: 0596513976
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513979/>

***Learning Python, Third Edition
ISBN 10: 0596513984
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513986/>

***Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide
ISBN 10: 0596529813
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529819/>

***Network Security Assessment, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596510306
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510305/>

***The Nikon D200 Dbook (Hard Cover) (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 1933952148
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952147/>

***Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596514107
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514105/>

***Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, Fourth Edition
ISBN 10: 0596514042
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514044/>

***Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual
ISBN 10: 0596514441
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514440/>

***The PHP Anthology, Second Edition (SitePoint)
ISBN 10: 0975841998
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975841998/>

***sendmail, Fourth Edition
ISBN 10: 0596510292
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510299/>

***Tomcat: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596101066
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101060/>

***The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide (No Starch)
ISBN 10: 1593271549
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271541/>

***Windows Vista Accelerated (Young Jin)
ISBN 10: 8931434383
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/8931434383/>


***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions
The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you
subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--one plus?four?
more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this
great offer for UG Members: five volumes for the cost of four.
Subscribe at:
<http://www.makezine.com/go/ugsub>


***Craft Magazine Subscriptions
The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you
subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--the first one plus
four more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this
great offer for UG Members: five volumes for the cost of four.
Subscribe at:
<http://www.craftzine.com/go/craftug>

================================================
Upcoming Events
================================================
For more events, please see:
<http://events.oreilly.com/>

***New Dynamic Learning Seminars from O'Reilly Authors AGI
Throughout the late summer and early fall, Aquent Graphics Institute
(AGI) will be presenting its Adobe Creative Suite 3 seminar series in
more than 20 cities in North America, Europe, and Australia. Creative
professionals will have a unique 3-day opportunity to learn from expert
trainers with world-class skills in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and
InDesign. Register for a single day or all 3 days. Along with the
hands-on classroom session, attendees will also receive a free Dynamic
Learning book appropriate to their session and a DVD with videos and
lesson files.

Locations include: Boston; Houston; Austin; New York; Philadelphia;
Seattle; Washington; Portland; Atlanta; London

For registration information, go to:
<http://www.agitraining.com/cs3/cs3seminar>


***James Shore Speaks to the Seattle Java User Group--Oct?16
Seattle, WA
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will give a
presentation entitled "Introducing Agile Development to Your
Organization" to the Seattle Java User Group. In this presentation,
James will discuss the patterns and trends he's seen in over seven years
of helping teams adopt agile methods. Learn about the three basic
approaches to agile adoption (whole-hog, structure-first, and
technology-first) and their benefits and disadvantages. James will
describe what you can do to make agile adoption easier, then open the
floor for discussion of the challenges you face in your organizations.
<http://www.nimret.org/seajug/space/start/2007-10-02/1>


***The Grails eXchange 2007--Oct?17-19
Barbican Centre, London, UK
The First International Grails eXchange 2007 is promising to be a great
event any self-respecting Java web developer cannot afford to miss.
Packed with presentations on Grails, Groovy, Ajax & Web 2.0 and JEE and
the core technologies that support the Grails technology stack such as
JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Dojo and Quartz. Drop at our booth and
browse our latest publications.
<http://www.grails-exchange.com/>


***Web 2.0 Summit--Oct?17-19
San Francisco, CA
An invite only event, the Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence,
innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss
and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet
economy now and in the near future.
<http://www.web2summit.com/>


***Eddie Tapp at Maryland PPA--Oct?17
Columbia, MD
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups & Practical Color
Management) is presenting a Photoshop seminar.
<http://www.marylandppa.com/home.htm>


***O'Reilly at PhotoPlus Expo--Oct?18-20
Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
This year's conference will offer over 100 in-depth photography and
design seminars, including several hands-on workshops, taught by
world-renowned experts. You'll find information-packed, idea-generating
sessions at the only conference in the country that's 100% focused on
photography, design & imaging. While you're there, stop by the O'Reilly
booth (# 1448) to say hi, and pick up some great new books.
<http://www.photoplusexpo.com/ppe/index.jsp>


***Eddie Tapp at Photo East--Oct?18-20
New York, NY
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color
Management) is presenting a Workflow Seminar.
<http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/index.jsp>


***Maker Faire 2007 Austin--Oct?20-21
Travis County Fairgrounds, Austin, TX
Join us for MAKE magazine's Austin Maker Faire--a hands-on event
featuring Makers whose science and technology projects will amaze you
and ignite your imagination. Meet Expert Makers and MAKE contributors,
hear from O'Reilly's Hacks author, attend DIY Tutorials, explore DIY
projects and demonstrations, and see the Ultimate Workshop.
<http://makerfaire.com/>


***James Shore Speaks to the Houston Agile Developer Group--Oct?22
Houston, TX
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will give a
presentation entitled "Agile Engineering: No Debt, No Defects" to the
Houston Agile Developer Group. Agile methods place high demands on
developers: every iteration--as often as every week--the team must
deliver working, tested software to their customers. Every iteration,
the team may be asked to change direction and work on an entirely new
set of requirements. To meet this challenge, agile engineering practices
are a must. Join James for a discussion of how Extreme Programming's
engineering practices mesh together to allow teams to approach the ideal
of software with no defects and no technical debt. Practices discussed
include pair programming, ten-minute builds, continuous integration,
incremental and evolutionary design, test-driven development, and more.
<http://agilehouston.org/Main/AgileEngineering>


***Elliotte Rusty Harold at NYPHP Conference 2007--Oct?23
New York City, NY
Author Elliotte Rusty Harold (XML in a Nutshell) will be speaking about
a plethora of XML related topics at New York PHP Conference 2007. If
you're working in publishing, including web publishing, you owe it to
yourself to take a serious look at the available XML databases. This
high-level talk explains what XML databases are good for and when you
might choose one over a more traditional solution. You'll learn about
the different options in both open and closed source XML databases
including pure XML, hybrid relational-XML, and other models.
<http://www.nyphp.org/content/calendar/view_entry.php?id=113&date=20071023>


***Tenni Theurer at The Ajax Experience, Boston--Oct?24-26
Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, will
be speaking together at The Ajax Experience in Boston October 24-26.
Through a series of research studies, Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance
Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. Tenni
will go in-depth on these best practices detailed in Steve Souders new
book High Performance Web Sites, and also demonstrate a recently
released tool called YSlow, which was developed as an extension to
Firebug and analyzes web pages according to the performance best
practices.
<http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/>


***James Shore Speaks to the Portland XP User Group--Oct?24
Portland, OR
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will give a
presentation entitled "Testers and Agile Engineering: Bridging the Gap"
to the Portland XP User Group. In this presentation, James will share
lessons learned from several years of helping testers integrate into
agile teams. Learn how to use testers' specialized skills to prevent
defects, not just find them. Topics include requirements collaboration
with Fit, customer reviews, exploratory testing, and working with
developers who are using test-driven development.
<http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PortlandXpUsersGroup>


***Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground
   Up Tour, Oct?27
San Francisco, CA
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of
free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will
leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and
information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential
ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so
register early!
<http://www.adobeas3tour.com/>


***Tenni Theurer at CSDN-Dr.Dobbs Software Development 2.0
   Conference--Oct?29-30, 2007
Jiuhua Resort, Changping District, Beijing
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, will
be speaking at CSDN-Dr.Dobbs Software Development 2.0 Conference in
Beijing November 29-30. Her talk will highlight the latest research
results and performance breakthroughs detailed in Steve Souders new book
High Performance Web Sites, and explore case studies to demonstrate how
these solutions have accelerated the user experience on Yahoo!'s most
prominent Web pages.
<http://sd2china.cn/english/>


***James Shore Participates in the JavaRanch Book Forums--Oct?30-Nov?2
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be be
participating in the online JavaRanch "Agile and Other Processes" forum
Tuesday through Thursday, answering questions and raisin' a ruckus. On
Friday, four copies of the book will be given to forum participants.
<http://faq.javaranch.com/java/BookPromotionsSchedule>


***Web 2.0 Expo Berlin--Nov?5-8
Berlin, Germany
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin is the conference and tradeshow for the rapidly
growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers,
entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are
embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.
<http://berlin.web2expo.com>


***Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground
   Up Tour--Nov?5, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of
free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will
leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and
information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential
ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so
register early!
<http://www.adobeas3tour.com/>


***Jesse Liberty at TechEd Barcelona--Nov?5-9
Barcelona, Spain
Author Jesse Liberty (Programming C# 3.0 and Programming ASP.NET) will
be delivering a talk on Microsoft Silverlight.
<http://www.mseventseurope.com/teched/07/developers/Content/Pages/Default.asp
x>


***Robert Hoekman, Jr. Speaks at Future of Web Design 2007--Nov?7-8
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, New York, New York
Author Robert Hoekman, Jr. (Flash 8: Project for Learning Animation and
Interactivity and Flash Out of the Box) will be presenting a workshop on
"Improving Interface Design" at the Future of Web Design 2007 conference
in New York City, November 7-8.
<http://www.futureofwebdesign.com/index.html>


***O'Reilly authors speaking at the 2007 DC PHP Conference--Nov?7-9
Washington, DC
O'Reilly is a proud sponsor of the 2007 DC PHP Conference. This years
conference is focussed on Creating Enterprise Level Web Applications
with PHP. Tracks include PHP Security, Scalability, and the Art of PHP.
O'Reilly authors Rasmus Lerdorf, Chris Shiflett, David Sklar, and Adam
Trachtenberg are speaking. For O'Reilly readers only this conference is
being offered for the discounted rate of $225 for both session days and
the Friday Tutorials! Click here to take advantage of this offer.
<http://dcphpconference.com/?q=node/171 >


***James Shore Will Be Participating in the Portland QA Special Interest
   Group's Roundtable Discussion--Nov?8
Portland, OR
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be be
participating in the Portland QA Special Interest Group's Roundtable
Discussion on Nov. 8th.
<https://db.sao.org/calendar2/event_description.htm?eventID=11/8/07>


***James Shore Will Be Speaking at the Seattle XP User Group--Nov?8
Seattle, WA
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be speaking at
the Seattle XP User Group. His presentation, entitled "Agile
Engineering: No Debt, No Defects," will address how Extreme
Programming's engineering practices mesh together to allow teams to
approach the ideal of software with no defects and no technical debt.
Practices discussed include pair programming, ten-minute builds,
continuous integration, incremental and evolutionary design, test-driven
development, and more.
<http://www.seattlexp.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?SeattleXpMeetings>


***Mikkel Aaland speaking at 6Sight Conference--Nov?8-9
Monterey, CA
The top imaging minds in the world return to Monterey, Calif. for the
seventh successive year to participate in the 6Sight? Future of Imaging
conference, eager to explore the opportunities and challenges the future
of imaging holds in store for their businesses. Mikkel Aaland, author of
Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, is a featured speaker.
<http://www.pmai.org/index.cfm/ci_id=33544>


***Author Steve Feuerstein Gives Seminar on Oracle and PL/SQL Best
   Practices--Nov?11-15
San Francisco, CA
Author Steve Feuerstein (Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 4th
Ed. and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Ed.) will give three separate
presentations regarding Oracle and PL/SQL Practices during this major
annual conference sponsored by the Oracle Corporation.
<http://www.oracle.com/openworld/2007/index.html>


***Tom Limoncelli at LISA'07--Nov?11
Dallas, TX
Author Tom Limoncelli (Time Management for System Administrators)
discusses techniques he's developed over the last 15 years including how
to find time to get projects done, the best way to manage interruptions
from users, open source tools for tracking requests, and how to turn
chaos into free time.
<http://www.usenix.org/events/lisa07/training/tutonefile.html#s7>


***Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up
   Tour--Nov?12
New York, New York
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of
free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will
leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and
information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential
ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so
register early!
<http://www.adobeas3tour.com/>


***Eddie Tapp at Samy's Camera--Nov?14
Los Angeles, CA
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color
Management) is presenting a seminar called "Print Master."
<http://www.samys.com/>


***Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo--Nov?15-16
Tokyo, Japan
Web 2.0 EXPO Tokyo is designed to be the major annual Japanese gathering
of the technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are
building the next generation web.
<http://www.cmptech.jp/web2expo/eng/>


***Eddie Tapp at Chicago Area Camera Club--Nov?18
Chicago, IL
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color
Management) is presenting a Photoshop Seminar.
<http://www.chicameraclubs.org/>


***Eddie Tapp at the Software-Cinema Training Camps--Nov?18
San Francisco, CA
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color
Management) is a presenter.
<http://www.software-cinema.com/>

================================================
Conference News
================================================

***Call for Participation is Open for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo--
  April 15-18, Santa Clara, CA
Take an active role in shaping the future of MySQL and related open
source technologies by leading sessions and tutorials at the 2008 MySQL
Conference & Expo. Visit the Proposals page for more details and to
submit your ideas. Proposals are due no later than October 30, 2007.
<http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/cfp/2>


***Where 2.0 2008 Call for Participation
O?Reilly Media invites technologists and strategists, CTOs and CIOs,
technology evangelists and scouts, researchers, programmers,
geographers, researchers and academics, artists and activists, business
developers, and entrepreneurs to lead conference sessions and tutorials
at Where 2.0 2008. Where 2.0 will be held May 12-14, 2008 at the San
Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California, US. Proposals are
due no later than November 26, 2007.
<http://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/cfp/5>


***Announcing Graphing Social Patterns Conference (GSP)
The O'Reilly Graphing Social Patterns Conference is happening March 3-4,
2008 in San Diego, California. GSP explores the components of building
and distributing apps for Facebook and other social networking
platforms. The event is for both business executives and technical
developers who want to learn more about the Facebook environment, and
how to reach online communities using social networking platforms and
applications.
<http://graphingsocial.com/>


***O?Reilly?s inaugural Money:Tech Conference has been announced
The dates are February 6-7, 2008 in New York City. That?s right, in the
heart of the financial universe, New York, NY, Money:Tech will raise the
level of conversation around technology advances in the investment
industry, and bring together innovators with established players to
increase adoption and awareness and push the technology forward.
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/money/>

================================================
O'Reilly School of Technology
================================================

***O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive
   a 30% Discount
O'Reilly School of Technology has opened its virtual doors with
educational offerings and certification for IT students looking to
further their careers or to launch one. As an O'Reilly User Group
member, you save on all the courses in the following University of
Illinois Certificate Series:

-Linux/Unix System Administration
-Web Programming
-Open Source Programming
-.NET Programming
-Client-Side Web Programming featuring AJAX

To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1," good for a 30% discount,
in Step #2 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free
O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee.
Register online:
<http://www.oreillyschool.com/?CMP=BAC-ostug>

================================================
News From O'Reilly & Beyond
================================================
---------------------
UG News
---------------------
***Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, New people, New
Positions
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce new appointments to several
board positions: Bill Odom, previously President, becomes Chairman;
Richard Dice becomes President; and Jim Brandt becomes Vice President.
The board elected these new members in an August 2007 vote by the board
members as mandated by the charter. Kurt DeMaagd will continue to serve
as Treasurer, and Nat Torkington and Allison Randal will continue to
serve as directors.
<http://news.perlfoundation.org/2007/09/perl_foundation_board_of_direc.html>


***Day of .NET in Ann Arbor
This is a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by Great Lakes
Area .NET User Group , Ann Arbor .NET Developer Group, Northwest Ohio
.NET User Group, Greater Lansing User Group .NET, and West Michigan .NET
Users Group. This event is being offered at no cost to anyone interested
in .NET development, and will take place on October 20, 2007 at
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI.
<http://www.dayofdotnet.org/>


***Win a free book at JavaRanch
JavaRanch invites authors of books to visit their forums, answer questions,
and share their knowledge. The promotions always start on Tuesday and
end on Friday. Some time during the day on Friday, the promotion will
end and the forum will be combed for qualifying messages since the
promotion began. From these, four winners will be randomly selected. Be
sure to check the list of winners which will be posted in the forum on
Friday. Upcoming books include "Head First SQL" and "The Art of Agile
Development."
<http://faq.javaranch.com/java/BookPromotions>


***The 2008 Annual Convention of the APCUG
The 2008 Annual Convention of the Association of Personal Computer User
Groups (APCUG) will be late Thursday afternoon, January 3rd to late
Sunday morning, January 6th. Come to the annual convention to learn the
latest in UG management. Activities include Roundtable/Educational
Sessions, opportunities to meet vendors, Newsletter, Website, and photo
contest awards, and more.
<http://www.apcug.net/events/2008/index.htm>


***Macworld 2008: Apple User Group Wine and Cheese Reception
Apple user group leaders and friends from around the world are invited
to the Apple User Group Wine and Cheese Reception on January 14, from
4-7 p.m. at The Westin San Francisco Market Street (formerly The
Argent). The Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB) is proud to bring
you a user group event at Macworld for the 10th consecutive year. This
exciting new event will offer vendor interaction, raffles, entertainment
and some surprise guests. User group members qualify for a 50 percent
discount by using a special user group member URL available from your
group's ambassador. Hosted by the Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB)
and UGAB Support Services, this worldwide offer is limited to the first
300 registrants.
<http://acteva.com/go/macworld>

---------------------
Articles
---------------------
***Maker Faire Austin--Adventures in Time Video
Baron Von PT and the Brebot travel forward in time to gander the FUTURE
and the future is Maker Faire Austin-October 20-21, 2007 where brains
collide!
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/the_future_is_maker_faire.html>

***Maker Faire's Sherry Huss and Dale Dougherty on Austin's NPR KUT-FM
Hear the latest on what will be happening this weekend in Austin.
<http://kut.org/items/show/10258>


***Jim Shore (Art of Agile Development) Coming Soon to a Town Near You
Jim's got many UG events lined up in Seattle, Portland, Houston, and
the SF Bay Area. Check out his web site for more info.
<http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Art-of-Agile-Events.html>


***Barbara Brundage?s Top 10 Elements Tips
Here's a sneek preview from author Barbara Brundage of her upcoming
book "Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual."
<http://missingmanuals.com/brundage_pe6_tips.csp>


***FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual ScreenCasts
When reading isn't enough, try a screencast narrated by the authors
themselves.The latest batch is from Geoff Coffey, author of "Filemaker
Pro 9: The Missing Manual."
<http://missingmanuals.com/screencasts.csp>


***The Worldwide Lexicon: Adding Collaborative Translation to Your Site
The Worldwide Lexicon is an open source project that has recently
published a suite of collaborative translation tools that enable readers
to create, edit and share translations to and from almost any human
language. This article explains how you can use WWL to make your site or
content accessible in many languages.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2007/09/27/the-worldwide-lexicon-adding
-collaborative-translation-to-your-site.html>


***Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun
Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the
contests. Entering is easy: just upload your photos to the DIY HALLOWEEN
Flickr photo pool and tag them "DIYHALLOWEEN." Or email them to
make.magazine at gmail.com, or put them on Instructables in the MAKE group
with a tag "DIYHALLOWEEN"--and we'll upload them to the Flickr pool. The
lists of contests includes Hack-o'-Lantern, Costume, Decorations,
Haunted house and gadgets, Food, and Trick-or-Treat. Have your entries
in before Sunday, November 4, 2007, at 1:59 pm EST.
<http://www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/09/diy_halloween_make_crafts_mass
.html>


***Sitepoint's Ruby on Rails book is now free to Download
For the next 60 days, Patrick Lenz's Ruby on Rails beginners' book is
available to download.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/books/rails1/freebook.php>


***Learn to Love Complaining Clients
Who loves client complaints? You should! In this groundbreaking article,
Brendon explains the true value of client complaints and, with his
step-by-step guide to complaint resolution, shows you how to make
complaining clients a part of your competitive edge.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/handling-client-complaints>


For more articles, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/>

---------------------
Blogs
-------------------
***Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/facebook_techmeme_money_tech.html>

***Head First Labs: More voices==better books
<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2007/10/more_voices_better_books.ht
ml>

***7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1
.html>

***YAPC::Europe 2007 Organization Post-Mortem
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/10/yapceurope_2007_organization_p
.html>

***On the Road to Leopard
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/10/on_the_road_to_leopard.html>

***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/10/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup
_57.html>

***Color Me Accurate
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/color_me_accurate_1.html
>

***A Logical Editing Process
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/a_logical_editing_proces
s_1.html>

***Does your bad Java code need help? (from Rules and Flow)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/10/does_your_bad_java_code_need_h
.html>

***After Struts what?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/10/after_struts_what.html>


Until next time--

Marsee Henon


================================================================
O'Reilly
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastopol, CA   95472
http://ug.oreilly.com/  http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/
================================================================

-------------------------------------------------------


From george at metaart.org  Wed Oct 24 21:37:54 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:37:54 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] Apress User Group Newsletter, October 2007 Issue
Message-ID: <200710242137.54946.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
if you wish, you can view the full october apress user group newsletter at
      http://www.apress.com/newsletter/76/
- george




From george at metaart.org  Fri Oct 26 19:43:27 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:43:27 -0700
Subject: [oak perl] Interested in a free Apress eBook code?
Message-ID: <200710261943.27567.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
does anyone wish to have a code for a free apress ebook?
their site is at   http://apress.com

i've aready put the banner up.

==
skoal,
george

= extracted from Apress User Group Newsletter, October 2007 Issue
Put Up the New UG Banner, Get a Free eBook

Check out the newly designed ?Apress User Group Program Member? banner. Please 
support Apress by choosing this graphic for your UG web site or newsletter 
and having it link back to the Apress User Group Program page. Once you have 
the banner on your site, or if you already have it up and linked, please send 
me the URL, and I will send you the code for a free eBook.


From george at metaart.org  Mon Oct 29 14:31:28 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:31:28 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] How to Post to Our List
Message-ID: <200710291331.28587.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
i have reason to believe some of you
don't know how to post to the list.

so, i've included [below my 'signature'] a sentence that says how
taken from the list information page for this list.
- george

== from the list information page [for our group]
      at   http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/oakland
To post a message to all the list members, 
send email to oakland at pm.org.

[if you forget that, you can get to the list information page
from the mailing list page on our site.]


From george at metaart.org  Mon Oct 29 16:49:13 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:49:13 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Ignorable Test
Message-ID: <200710291549.13789.george@metaart.org>

i have reason to think 
the list may be malfunctioning,
hence this test.


From george at metaart.org  Tue Oct 30 12:54:45 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:54:45 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Ruby on Rails presentation...
Message-ID: <200710301154.45898.george@metaart.org>

hi all,
jon seidel asked me to send 
the presentation announcement 
below the ps to the list.
- george

p.s. for some reason, i don't [yet] grasp
jon's post of this announcement didn't make it through.
because of my set up,
i had to do quite a bit of massaging of the text
[especially dropping large numbers of blank lines].
still, i'm hopeful that the transmogrification is not too great.

---------------------------------------------------

From: Jon Seidel CMC [mailto:jseidel at edpci.net] 
 Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 2:57 PM
 To: 'oakland at pm.org'
 Subject: Ruby on Rails presentation...

Folks? 

I'm giving a presentation about learning Ruby on Rails at the next ICCA 
(Independent Computer Consultants Association) meeting this month? if you?re 
interested, drop on by: it would be nice to see some of you there.

Meetings are the 2nd Thursday of the month (11/8 this month), and we're 
meeting in Berkeley. Here's the site for signup: 

http://www.icca-sfba.org/

I?ll show how to develop a simple site using RoR, discuss the tools needed to 
get started, and then share my observations about learning the ropes.

If you?re interested, you can take a look at the first website I developed 
using Rails (started learning Ruby/Rails in middle February, site up by end 
of March): www.4mypasswords.com.

Cheers?jon 

EDP Consulting, Inc.
www.edpci.com

Jon Seidel, CMC
Technology that means Business
3373 Guido Street
Oakland, CA 94602 
jseidel at edpci.com 

tel:   510-530-6314
fax:    510-531-1522
mobile:   510-599-6130 

The Certified Management Consultant (CMC) mark is awarded to consultants who 
meet the strict standards defined by the Institute of Management Consultants 
USA, including examination by their peers, client evaluations, and a written 
examination evidencing their understanding of the IMC USA's Code of Ethics. 

Check out IMC USA... 






?


From george at metaart.org  Tue Oct 30 13:01:26 2007
From: george at metaart.org (George Woolley)
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:01:26 -0800
Subject: [oak perl] Fwd: Another Ignorable Test
Message-ID: <200710301201.26003.george@metaart.org>



----------  Forwarded Message  ----------

Subject: Another Ignorable Test
Date: Tuesday 30 October 2007 11:55
From: George Woolley <george at metaart.org>
To: 'oakland at pm.org'


-------------------------------------------------------