Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 18th

Thu Oct 18 16:35:00 CDT 2001

Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:25:51 -0700 (PDT) 
From: "Denise Olliffe" <deniseo at oreilly.com>

O'Reilly User Group Program
NEWSLETTER
October 18, 2001

Highlights this week...
News:
 - W3C Patent Policy Opposed by O'Reilly
 - Why Biologists Want to Program Computers
 - Will you see Open Source J2EE Implementations?
 - Monitoring Applications with Palm OS & Tomcat
 - Ten Common Palm OS Programming Pitfalls
 - O'Reilly Linux Books Win Award

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NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond
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Please forward these articles to your members:

GENERAL INTEREST:
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W3C PATENT POLICY OPPOSED BY O'REILLY
The Web's success depends on fully open standards, implemented without
restrictions, according to O'Reilly & Associates' official comment on
the W3C's proposed Patent Policy Framework:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/761

WRITING FOR O'REILLY
We're always on the look-out for new authors. To find out what our
ideal requirements are, topic areas of interest to us, and style info
go to: http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.html

BIOINFORMATICS:
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WHY BIOLOGISTS WANT TO PROGRAM COMPUTERS
Bioinformatics is fast-rising, and scientists are finding new ways to
explore their data through programming.  James Tisdall, author of
O'Reilly's upcoming release "Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics"
explains the benefits of biologists learning to program, in this
article: http://www.oreilly.com/news/perlbio_1001.html

Bioinformatics is an avenue seasoned programmers can take to expand on
their skills. O'Reilly is offering a Bioinformatics Conference this
January--more to come on this.  We've also released "Developing
Bioinformatics Computer Skills," a book that Perl and C# programmers in
particular may want to take a look at.

JAVA:
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WILL YOU SEE OPEN SOURCE J2EE IMPLEMENTATIONS?
O'Reilly & Associates' Executive Java Editor Mike Loukides gives us his
take on the current state of open source enterprise Java and the
hurdles open source projects like JBoss experience.  He also wonders
about Sun's current open source licensing policies regarding J2EE.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/10/10/osjava.html

AN INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD MONSON-HAEFEL, AUTHOR OF JUST RELEASED
"ENTERPRISE JAVABEANS, 3rd EDITION"
http://java.oreilly.com/news/ejb_interview_1001.html

OPEN SOURCE:
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O'REILLY WINS AWARD FOR LINUX BOOKS
"Most Indispensable Linux Book" awarded to O'Reilly's "Linux in a
Nutshell, 3rd Edition" and "Running Linux, 3rd Edition," by
LinuxJournal Reader's Choice Awards:
http://www2.linuxjournal.com/cgi-bin/frames.pl/ljissues/issue91/5441.html
If you voted...thanks!

PALM:
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TEN COMMON PALM OS PROGRAMMING PITFALLS
the title of this article speaks for itself...
http://palmos.oreilly.com/news/palmosprog_1001.html

MONITORING APPLICATIONS WITH PALM OS & TOMCAT
Learn how to build a Palm Query Application that communicates through a
Tomcat server to monitor and manage mission-critical systems.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/10/05/monitor.html

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BOOKS...BOOKS...BOOKS....
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Review copies available
Email me for a copy
If you'd like a copy of the press release, just ask.

.NET FRAMEWORK ESSENTIALS
This recently released O'Reilly title generates lots of buzz. Here is
what VBZone said: "One of the best .NET books I've read so far is '.NET
Framework Essentials' by Thuan Thai & Hoang Q. Lam. .NET will be a
fundamental shift in how you develop software for Windows, and now is
the time to start getting your head around it. Even if you haven't
loaded Beta 2 yet, '.NET Framework Essentials' is a fine way to start
getting familiar with this brave new world of computing." --Don Kiely,
VBZone Book of the Week, August 21, 2001
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess/

EXIM
"Basically, if you're already using Exim, or considering it, you want
this book. It covers everything you've ever wanted to know about Exim,
and probably quite a few things that you didn't know you wanted to know
(but will be glad to find out). It's an extremely thorough,
well-organized book. Even if this weren't the only book on Exim, it
would still be the best." --Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier, UnixReview.com,
Sept. 2001 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/

JJJJava....
Java Cookbook, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/
Java & XML, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml2/
Java & XSLT, http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxslt/

*DISCOUNT*
20% discount is offered to your members when purchasing direct from
O'Reilly. Please inform your members to use the DSUG discount code when
placing an order online at www.oreilly.com or by calling 800-998-9938.

USER GROUP ONLINE BOOK REVIEWS:
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"Java Security," reviewed by Java Metroplex Users Group:
http://www.javamug.org/reviews/ora/javasec.html

"Beyond Contact," reviewed by Licking County Computer Society
http://www.lccsohio.org/Reviews/Beyond%20Contact/BeyondContact.htm

"AppleScript in a Nutshell," reviewed by CherryMUG
http://www.cherrymug.com/articles/applescript/default.html

Make sure to send me reviews of our books. They are extremely
valuable. Thanks to all the groups that send in reviews online and in
newsletters.

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EVENTS
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NEXT WEEK:
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Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
October 22-26, 2001 Los Angeles Convention Center
Los Angeles, California
VISIT O'REILLY BOOTH #724
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/

NOVEMBER:
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O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer & Web Services Conference
November 5-8, 2001, Washington, D.C.
The Westin Grand
http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/
REGISTER FOR A FREE EXHIBIT HALL PASS
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/create/ord16

5th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference
November 6-10, Oakland, CA
Oakland Convention Center
VISIT O'REILLY BOOTHS #709, 711, 713
http://www.linuxshowcase.org/exhibition.html

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REMINDER
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O'Reilly has moved its offices in CA. Please update your contact info
and newsletter mailing list:

Denise Olliffe
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deniseo at oreilly.com

Until next time,
Denise