[Omaha.pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 20

Jay Hannah jay at jays.net
Thu Jan 20 22:31:08 PST 2005


Here's the Perl highlights:

Anyone want to fly to Europe for these?

> ***Allison Randal ("Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials") at UKUUG's 2005
>  LISA/Winter Conference, Birmingham, UK--Feb 24-25
> Author and editor Allison Randal presents a Perl 6 Workshop at this
> event.
> http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/
>
> ***FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium--Feb 26-27
> O'Reilly is a Cornerstone sponsor of the fifth Free and Open Source
> Software Developers' European Meeting, a 2 day event organized by
> volunteers. Stop by our stand to check out our latest books and chat  
> with
> editor and author Allison Randal (Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials), who  
> will
> also be there.
> http://www.fosdem.org/2005

If so, take me with you! -grin-

> ***An Introduction to Quality Assurance
> The libraries and syntax for automated testing are easy to find. The
> mindset of quality and testability is harder to adopt. Tom McTighe  
> reviews
> the basic principles of quality assurance that can make the difference
> between a "working" application and a high-quality application.
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2005/01/13/quality_assurance.html

Cheers,

j



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> Windows/.NET
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> ---------------------
> ***Parsing an XML Document with XPath
> Pulling just a single node value or attribute from an XML document can  
> be
> inefficient if you have to parse over a whole list of nodes you don't
> want, just to get to one you do. XPath can be much more efficient, by
> letting you specify the path to the desired node up front. J2SE adds  
> XPath
> support, and the JDOM API also offers support through an XPath class.
> Deepak Vohra looks at both approaches.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/xpath.html
>
>
> ***Mock Objects in Unit Tests
> Unit testing your code against a service or process that's either too
> expensive (commercial databases) or just not done yet is something you  
> can
> deal with by simulating the other piece with a mock object. EasyMock  
> can
> suffice in some cases, but it can only create mock objects for  
> interfaces.
> Mocquer, based on the Dunamis project, can create mocks for classes,  
> too.
> Lu Jian shows how it works.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/mocquer.html
>
> ---------------------
> Digital Media
> ---------------------
> ***Time-Saving Digital GEM Plug-Ins for Photoshop
> Removing noise from images or trying to retouch facial blemishes is
> time-consuming work. Fortunately these Photoshop plug-ins from Kodak's
> Austin Development Center can help photographers work more efficiently.
> Derrick Story takes them for a spin.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/05/kodak_plugins.html
>
>
> ***Frank Serafine: Turning Elephants into Explosions
> Academy Award-winning sound designer Frank Serafine discusses the art  
> and
> science of sound effects, tape-baking, and why selling all his analog  
> gear
> on eBay made him happier musically.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/12/serafine_0105.html
>
> ================================================
>> From Your Peers
> ===============================================
> Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups
> across the globe are up to:
> http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi
>
>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee



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