[Pdx-pm] Fwd: [Edited] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 17

[Joshua Keroes]

Selected pdx.pm-ish forwards from the Sep 17 O'Reilly usergroup
newsletter (if you want the full email, just ask for it from
marsee at oreilly.com)

-Joshua

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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
September 17, 2003
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Book News
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-Wireless Hacks
-Enterprise Services Architecture
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Upcoming Events
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-Louis Rosenfeld, ("Information Architecture for the World Wide 
Web"), 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, WA--Sep 28-Oct 2 
-Jason Hunter, ("Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Ed" & "Java 
Enterprise Best Practices"), SDForum Emerging Technology SIG, 
Palo Alto, CA--Oct 14
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Conferences
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-Ends September 24--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Call
for Participation
-The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Santa Clara, CA
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Articles
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-Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications [with Kerberos]
-Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application
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Book News
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***Wireless Hacks
Order Number: 5598
"Wireless Hacks" offers 100 industrial-strength tips about 
wireless networking, contributed by experts who use the tips 
every day. Written for intermediate to advanced wireless users, 
this book is full of direct, practical, ingenious solutions to 
real-world networking problems. Whether your wireless network 
needs to extend to the edge of your office or to the other end 
of town, this collection of non-obvious, "from the field" 
techniques will show you how to get the job done. 
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/

Sample Hacks are available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesshks/chapter/index.html


***Enterprise Services Architecture
Order Number: 5512
"Enterprise Services Architecture" outlines a disciplined and 
structured approach to understanding how today's enterprise 
applications will make use of web services. Aimed at senior 
management and IT professionals, the book presents a 
forward-looking architecture that can meet future development 
challenges with ease and agility. This book was commissioned by 
SAP, but we're making it available to the general public because
we believe the information can help the marketplace come to 
grips with the architectural revolution that is underway. 
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entservapps/

Chapter 1, "Concepts and Philosophy," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entservapps/chapter/index.html


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Upcoming Events
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***For more events, please see:
http://events.oreilly.com/

***Louis Rosenfeld, ("Information Architecture for the World 
Wide Web"), 2003 Dublin Core Conference, Seattle, WA--
Sep 28-Oct 2 
Louis is a featured speaker at the 2003 Dublin Core Conference: 
Supporting Communities of Discourse and Practice-Metadata Research
and Applications. 
http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/index.html

Bell Harbor International Conference Center
2211 Alaskan Way, Pier 66
Seattle, WA 98121
http://dc2003.ischool.washington.edu/venue.html


***Jason Hunter, ("Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Ed" & "Java 
Enterprise Best Practices"), SDForum Emerging Technology SIG, 
Palo Alto,CA--Oct 14
Jason will be presenting XQuery, a W3C specification for 
querying XML or anything that can have an XML facade such as a 
relational database. It has the backing of all the big players 
including Oracle, IBM, BEA, and Microsoft, and has several open 
source implementations as well. In this talk you'll learn how to
use XQuery, when to use XQuery, and which implementations to trust. 

For more information, including cost, go to:
http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1188&mo=10&yr=2003

7pm, Tuesday, October 14 
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1
Palo Alto, CA

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Conference News
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***Ends September 24--O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 
Call for Participation
Programmers, technologists, researchers, CTOs, CIOs, hackers, 
and entrepreneurs are invited to submit proposals to lead 
tutorial and conference sessions at the 3rd Annual O'Reilly 
Emerging Technology Conference slated for February 9-12, 2004 
in San Diego, CA. Suggested topics include: Interfaces and 
Services, Social Software, Untethered, Location, Hardware, and 
Business Models, as a start. The submission deadline for 
proposals is September 24, 2003.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon/?CMP=NLC-W80C43814372


***The Second Annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, 
Santa Clara, CA--October 27-30
Tracks this year include Fearless Programming, Scripting Genius,
Sys Admin and Networking Mac Style, Media and Publishing, and 
Emerging Topics. User Group members can use code DSUG to 
register and receive 20% off conference pricing.

To register, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/ord_mac03

O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
October 27-30, 2003
Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/

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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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Open Source
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***Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications [with Kerberos]
Jason Garman walks you through the implementation of SPNEGO, 
which allows for single sign-on of your web applications with
Apache and Kerberos.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/11/kerberos.html

Jason is the author of "Kerberos: The Definitive Guide."
Order Number: 4036
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/kerberos/

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Web
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***Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application
Flash Remoting has not changed much for the release of Flash MX 
2004, which is good news for programmers building complex Rich 
Internet Applications (RIA). Flash Remoting still offers the 
most flexible, intuitive way to add an application server to an 
RIA. Tom Muck, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Flash Remoting: 
The Definitive Guide," offers ten tips for building a Flash 
Remoting application that will help programmers deliver the most
efficient RIA possible.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/09/16/flashremoting.html

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