From timc+perl at divide.net Sat Feb 1 14:31:12 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 31 Message-ID: <02ea01c2ca30$dd9d7500$2c910143@cephas> O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter January 31, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell -Mac OS X in a Nutshell -Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 -JDBC Pocket Reference ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Matt Welsh (Running Linux, 4th Ed.) at SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG, Palo Alto, CA--February 11 -chromatic (Running Weblogs with Slash) The Linux in Boise Club, Boise, ID--February 18 --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Last chance to Register for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book-O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Looking for User Group Members to submit book reviews to Slashdot -Want to know what the top 25 best-selling books on our site are? -Stein on Bioinformatics -Network Impact of the MS SQL Worm -Building Dependency Webs in J2EE -Using NAnt to Build .NET Projects -Distributed .config Files with Smart Clients -What Is a Flash MX Component? -Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2 -The DigiCam Chronicles: Sound Is Half the Picture -Sundance Gets in the Digital Groove ---------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -From LinuxChix--What are good books for Linux beginners? ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--email me for a copy. ***Please include the book order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell Order Number: 494X "Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell" pulls together all of the vital information about the most commonly used databases, analytical tools, and tables used in sequence analysis. The book contains details and examples on using GenBank, EMBL, and SWISS-PROT, as well as the GenBank/EMBL/DDBJ Feature Table Definitions. This book draws together essential information for bioinformaticians in industry, academia, and undergraduate programs. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seqanalyian/ Chapter 7, "BLAST," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/seqanalyian/chapter/index.html ***Mac OS X in a Nutshell Order Number: 3706 "Mac OS X in a Nutshell" offers a thorough treatment of Mac OS X version 10.2, from its BSD Unix foundation to new Aqua interface. The book's "Unix Command Reference" is the most complete coverage of Mac OS X Unix commands you can find anywhere. Serious users who want more from their system will find everything they need to know systematically documented in this book. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxian/ Chapter 14, "Web Publishing with a DAMP System," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxian/chapter/index.html ***Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 Order Number: 3927 "Unix CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0" packs a stack of essential Unix books into one comprehensive, immensely convenient, and portable package: "Unix Power Tools, 3rd Edition;" "Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition;" "Learning the vi Editor, 6th Edition;" "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks;" "Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition;" "sed & awk, 2nd Edition;" and "Unix in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition." The CD has a master index, a powerful search engine, and all the text is extensively hyperlinked, so you'll find what you're looking for quickly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixcdbs3/ ***JDBC Pocket Reference Order Number: 4575 This pocket reference offers quick look-ups for all methods of the standard JDBC classes. These include concise reviews of the procedures for common JDBC tasks such as connecting to a database, executing stored procedures, and executing DDL. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jdbcpr/ An excerpt, "User-Defined Data Types," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jdbcpr/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Matt Welsh (Running Linux, 4th Edition) at SDForum's Emerging Technology SIG, Palo Alto, CA--February 11 Matt will be presenting "Extreme Overload and Concurrency in Internet Services." For event information: http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=1003&mo=2&yr=2003 Emerging Technology SIG, SDForum 6:30pm, February 11, 2003 Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1 Palo Alto, CA For directions, go to: http://www.sdforum.org/p/l1.asp?SID=1&PID=324 ***chromatic (Running Weblogs with Slash) at the Linux in Boise Club, Boise, ID--February 18 chromatic's topic will be "Perl and the Pyramids of Giza." chromatic is also the technical editor for the O'Reilly Network (http://www.oreillynet.com/). The Linux in Boise Club 7PM, February 18, 2003 ExecuTrain Of Boise 8950 W. Emerald Street Suite 178 Boise, ID 83704 http://www.libc.org/ For more events, pleas see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Last chance to Register for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Can't make the whole conference? Consider a day pass for February 4, 5, or 6. This event takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Join the leaders from the many worlds of pervasive computing to explore and invent the new internet infrastructure and culture. Speakers include: Howard Rheingold, Alan Kay, Clay Shirky, Eric Bonabeau, Tim O'Reilly, David S. Isenberg, and many others. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before March 14th, 2003, get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/22/register.html ***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is: We are looking for user groups to display our conference banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/etech2003/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***O'Reilly is looking for User Group Members to submit book reviews to Slashdot.org Here is what they are looking for: "Choose a book that you enjoyed, hated, thought was worth the money, or definitely wasn't. Slashdot reviews cover a wide range of topics and styles, but this is "News for Nerds," so books by Danielle Steele or Oprah are unlikely to appear on the Slashdot home page. Also, use the Slashdot search engine to see whether the book has already been reviewed. Depending on circumstances, we may run more than one review of a single book. If more than one reviewer submits a review, we may only run the one we think is better, run both in full, or excerpt to present elements of both." For more information on their book review guidelines, go to: http://slashdot.org/book.review.guidelines.shtml ***Want to know what the top 25 best-selling books on our site are? http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/top25.html --------------------- Bioinformatics --------------------- ***Stein on Bioinformatics Lincoln Stein is an associate professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and a keynote speaker at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics Technology Conference. We talk with Lincoln about the bioinformatics technologies and tools he's most excited about. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/bio/news/lincolnstein.html The O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Network Impact of the MS SQL Worm Iljitsch van Beijnum, the author of "BGP" and a network manager, describes how he dealt with the MS SQL worm attack. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/01/28/msworm.html BGP Order Number: 2548 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bgp/ --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Building Dependency Webs in J2EE J2EE applications are complex. Good programming means managing complexity, especially if you're making changes to a stable system. In this article, Alex Iskold and Daniel Kogan introduce Dependency Webs, a technique for visualizing and analyzing source code dependencies. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/29/depweb.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Using NAnt to Build .NET Projects With Visual Studio .NET, you can easily build and compile .NET projects that contain any number of sub-projects--collections of interdependent web pages, executables, DLL assemblies, and so forth--with a single menu command. This article by Jeffrey P. McManus shows you how to use NAnt to build complicated projects. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/nant.html ***Distributed .config Files with Smart Clients The new model provided by .NET smart clients has really taken hold in the imaginations and the business plans of .NET developers. The idea of getting the best of both the richness of real Windows applications and the zero-touch installation of web-based applications is turning the heads of many an IT professional. Of course, as soon as a brand new model starts being put to real use, problems show themselves. In this article, Chris Sells shows you how to solve these problems. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/27/ztd.html --------------------- Web Development --------------------- ***What Is a Flash MX Component? With the release of Flash MX, Macromedia added an extensible library of user interface widgets called Flash UI Components. Colin Moock explains what they are, and he includes several resources for creating and using them. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/01/28/actionscript.html Colin is the author of "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition." Order Number: 396X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/ --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 2 In part 2 in his series on using Jaguar's Terminal application, Chris Stone shows you how to configure cron to email a report to you each time it runs a job. Chris is a coauthor of the recently released "Mac OS X in a Nutshell." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/24/terminal_osx.html ***The DigiCam Chronicles: Sound Is Half the Picture You can add pro-quality voiceovers to your digital imagery with just a few simple tools and Mac OS X. Derrick Story shows you how to easily record and edit QuickTime audio. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/28/digicam_chronicles.html ***Sundance Gets in the Digital Groove Digital Video is becoming more accepted among serious filmmakers, as witnessed at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival. Susan Boyer reports on new DV tools and discusses some of the more popular digital video entries at the festival. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/28/dv_video.html ================================================ Announcements From Your Peers ================================================ ***From LinuxChix--What are good books for Linux beginners? http://www.linuxchix.org/content/recommends/books/beginner_list Until next time-- Marsee From timc+perl at divide.net Tue Feb 4 01:02:53 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Perl lunch this Thursday Message-ID: <005b01c2cc1b$712e53c0$14970143@cephas> Mark your calendars now. WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch WHERE: TBD WHEN: Thursday, 2/6, at 11:30 WHY: food and geekly conversation Any suggestions for where to meet? I am in a class all day, but I might be able to slip away somewhere on Garden of The Gods Rd. <>< Tim From jtevans at kilnar.com Wed Feb 5 16:20:46 2003 From: jtevans at kilnar.com (John Evans) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Perl lunch this Thursday In-Reply-To: <005b01c2cc1b$712e53c0$14970143@cephas> Message-ID: On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Tim Chambers wrote: > Mark your calendars now. > > WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch > WHERE: TBD > WHEN: Thursday, 2/6, at 11:30 > WHY: food and geekly conversation > > Any suggestions for where to meet? I am in a class all day, but I might be > able to slip away somewhere on Garden of The Gods Rd. > Can't make it this month. I have a meeting during lunch this Thursday. -- John Evans http://jtevans.kilnar.com/ -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s++:- a- C+++>++++ ULSB++++$ P+++$ L++++$ E--- W++ N+ o? K? w O- M V PS+ !PE Y+ PGP t(--) 5-- X++(+++) R+++ tv+ b+++(++++) DI+++ D++>+++ G+ e h--- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ From timc+perl at divide.net Wed Feb 5 20:37:13 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Perl lunch TOMORROW (Thu. 2/6) References: <005b01c2cc1b$712e53c0$14970143@cephas> Message-ID: <005101c2cd88$a951c570$58910143@cephas> Underwhelming response. Actually, nobody at all replied. So here's the deal: WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch WHERE: La Casita, Garden of the Gods Rd and Nevada WHEN: Thursday, 2/6, at 11:30 WHY: food and geekly conversation I may be late, and I may not be able to attend at all. Depends on the schedule of the workshop I'm attending tomorrow. <>< Tim, 651-0116 From dave.waddell at wcom.com Thu Feb 6 11:11:22 2003 From: dave.waddell at wcom.com (David R. Waddell) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Perl lunch TOMORROW (Thu. 2/6) In-Reply-To: <005101c2cd88$a951c570$58910143@cephas> References: <005b01c2cc1b$712e53c0$14970143@cephas> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030206101049.00af6c48@pop.mcit.com> Hi Tim, If you are still interested in going, I'll probably show up at around 12:00. david At 07:37 PM 2/5/2003, Tim Chambers wrote: >Underwhelming response. Actually, nobody at all replied. > >So here's the deal: > >WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch >WHERE: La Casita, Garden of the Gods Rd and Nevada >WHEN: Thursday, 2/6, at 11:30 >WHY: food and geekly conversation > >I may be late, and I may not be able to attend at all. Depends on the >schedule of the workshop I'm attending tomorrow. > ><>< Tim, 651-0116 From dave.waddell at wcom.com Thu Feb 6 14:12:55 2003 From: dave.waddell at wcom.com (David R. Waddell) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Perl lunch TOMORROW (Thu. 2/6) In-Reply-To: <005101c2cd88$a951c570$58910143@cephas> References: <005b01c2cc1b$712e53c0$14970143@cephas> Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.0.20030206131206.00a80ea8@pop.mcit.com> Hi Tim, Missed you at La Casita. It is a good Mexican Restaurant. I may have recruited another perl group member. all the best, David At 07:37 PM 2/5/2003, Tim Chambers wrote: >Underwhelming response. Actually, nobody at all replied. > >So here's the deal: > >WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch >WHERE: La Casita, Garden of the Gods Rd and Nevada >WHEN: Thursday, 2/6, at 11:30 >WHY: food and geekly conversation > >I may be late, and I may not be able to attend at all. Depends on the >schedule of the workshop I'm attending tomorrow. > ><>< Tim, 651-0116 From timc+perl at divide.net Thu Feb 13 21:05:52 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: IT speaker Wed. 2/25 at UCCS Message-ID: <023601c2d3d5$fcfe1540$0c990143@cephas> Colorado Springs Software Engineering Distinguished Speaker Series Presents William Inmon The Corporate Information Factory: Calculating The Return On Investment For A Data Warehouse Wednesday, February 26, 2002 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. University of Colorado at Colorado Springs University Center, Room 116 Refreshments: 4 p.m. - 5 p.m. Free Parking Park in Visitors Parking. Coupons available at presentation. Abstract First there were applications then the data warehouse. Next came the corporate information factory. This presentation describes the evolution of the corporate information factory, as well as issues relating to data marts and data warehouses. How to cost justify a data warehouse using a simple spreadsheet exercise, producing results that are easy to explain and are comprehensible to top management will also be described. Biography Recognized as the "father of the data warehouse" and co-creator of the "Corporate Information Factory," Bill Inmon, has 35 years of experience in database technology management and data warehouse design. Known globally for his seminars on developing data warehouses and as an author, Bill has written more than 650 articles and published 45 books on such topics as the building, usage and maintenance of the data warehouse and the Corporate Information Factory. In 1991, Bill founded and took public Prism Solutions, a Silicon Valley company. Prism Solutions became Ardent Software and was acquired by Informix, which automates the data warehouse building process. In 1995 Bill created Pine Cone Systems, now Ambeo, a Colorado company that began the concept of managing data warehouses for better performance and now offers solutions to improve eBusiness management. In 1999, Bill published his vast data warehousing information resources on www.billinmon.com, supporting a million browsers a month. He also consults with Fortune 1000 clients, offering data warehouse design and database management services. He has worked for American Management Systems, Inc. and Coopers & Lybrand. Recently Bill collaborated with Claudia Imhoff and others to develop the "Corporate Information Factory. Sponsored by: Lockheed Martin, Federal Express, Inc., Sparks, Willson, P.C., ACM, IEEE, and UCCS College of Business Organized by Al Davis No RSVP needed. For more information, please call 719-262-3405 From timc+perl at divide.net Sat Feb 22 01:30:37 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:19 2004 Subject: Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Feb 21 Message-ID: <000f01c2da44$4cb64480$19980143@cephas> O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter February 21, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition -What books does O'Reilly have coming up? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Feb. 25, Adam Trachtenberg & David Sklar ("PHP Cookbook") at NYPHP -Visit O'Reilly's booths at the XML Web Services One Conference (Mar 3-6) and South by Southwest (Mar 7-11) --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book-O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Create a T-shirt Slogan That Any Geek Would Love -Don't Forget to Vote for Your Favorite O'Reilly Java Book -Oracle Cross Tab Views: A Case for Code -Christoph Reichenbach and Lars Skovlund on FreeSCI -ONJava.com Survey-Got a Minute? -Parsing and Writing QuickTime Files in Java -Plumbing the Depths of the ThreadAbortException Using Rotor -Five Quick Tips for Using XSLT -FreeBSD Basics -Securing Your TiBook (or Any Other Mac OS X Machine) -Introduction to FileMaker Pro -Six Great Tips for Homemade Dot Mac Servers ---------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Attention Java and Sun ONE users -Biotechnology discussion group looking for members -LinuxFest Northwest--Bellingham, WA--April 26 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--email me for a copy. ***Please include the book order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4729 This new edition boils down the most vital information from "Oracle PL/SQL Programming," the bestseller that many consider "the Bible" for PL/SQL development. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr2/ A Sample Excerpt, "Bulk Binds," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr2/chapter/index.html ***What books do we have coming up? Visit our New & Upcoming books: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html Let me know if you would like to see any of these. I can preorder them for you. For a complete list of all O'Reilly books, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar ("PHP Cookbook") will be at the New York PHP User Group meeting February 25. They will discuss two important PHP programming topics: "Implementing Web Services" and "Web Application Security Vulnerabilities." Please RSVP at http://nyphp.org/rsvp Tuesday, February 25th, 6:30pm Digital Pulp, Inc. 220 East 23rd Street, Suite 900 (9th floor) New York, NY http://nyphp.org/ ***Visit O'Reilly's booth at the following events: XML Web Services One Conference Mar 3-6, 2003, Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, CA http://www.xmlconference.com/ South by Southwest Mar 7-11, 2003 Austin Convention Center Austin, TX http://www.sxsw.com/ For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Join the leaders from the many worlds of pervasive computing to explore and invent the new internet infrastructure and culture. Speakers include: Howard Rheingold, Alan Kay, Clay Shirky, Eric Bonabeau, Tim O'Reilly, David S. Isenberg, and many others. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before March 14th, 2003, get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/22/register.html ***Put Up A Conference Banner, Get A Free Book*** Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is: We are looking for user groups to display our conference banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/etech2003/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Create a T-shirt Slogan That Any Geek Would Love Enter your slogan on our site. We'll sort through the entries and, using our in-house panel of geek writers, editors, programmers, and sys admins, we'll choose a winner, based on our own biased criteria for cleverness, creativity, and general geek appeal. The winner will receive a $50 shopping spree at ThinkGeek--and a T-shirt with the winning slogan. The deadline for submissions is March 10, 2003. http://www.oreilly.com/contest/tshirt_0203.html ***Don't Forget to Vote for Your Favorite O'Reilly Java Book The 2003 "Java Developer's Journal" Readers' Choice Awards http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2003/ --------------------- Oracle --------------------- ***Oracle Cross Tab Views: A Case for Code Tom Birch makes a case for coding when he explores both the power and the limits of Oracle's Cross Tab query for turning data in a report from vertical to horizontal. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/02/19/tombirch.html For coverage on the full range of Oracle SQL features, check out O'Reilly's "Mastering Oracle SQL." Order Number: 1290 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastorasql/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Christoph Reichenbach and Lars Skovlund on FreeSCI The FreeSCI project seeks to bring life back to Sierra On-Line's adventure games. What kind of pitfalls have the developers faced in reverse engineering the engine? http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/02/20/freesci.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***ONJava.com Survey-Got a Minute? We could use your help. We'd like to hear what topics you like, what you'd like more of, and what you're working on. Give us a hand on our survey and you'll be eligible to win in our survey drawing. The winners get to choose three O'Reilly books and get a T-shirt to boot. http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?ID=B2424QF5BX35&PIN=TAXE 2M15FP5P ***Parsing and Writing QuickTime Files in Java QuickTime files in Java is easy, if you understand the file format. Chris Adamson argues that it makes a lot of sense. This article explains how the file format works, demonstrating how to read and write to QT files. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/02/19/qt_file_format.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Plumbing the Depths of the ThreadAbortException Using Rotor Chris Sells was asked the other day how calling Thread.Abort could raise an exception in a completely different thread. Finding the answer led him on a merry chase. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/02/18/threadabort.html Chris is coauthor of the upcoming "Mastering Visual Studio .NET" Order Number: 3609 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/ ***Five Quick Tips for Using XSLT Like so many acronyms before it, XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) comes across as YAOT--Yet Another Obfuscated Technology. But it doesn't have to be that way. XSLT promises many advantages when applied to the right problems. All you need is a quick guide on using the XSLT basics. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/02/10/xslttips.html --------------------- BSD --------------------- ***FreeBSD Basics Dru Lavigne provides practical advice for completing common tasks under FreeBSD. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Securing Your TiBook (or Any Other Mac OS X Machine) Here's how to make your Mac OS X laptop just a bit more secure by enabling a BIOS password, and by plugging some of the local and network openings. Ian Darwin takes you deep into your Mac's firmware and shows you how. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/18/secure_tibook.html ***Introduction to FileMaker Pro In this first installment in our new FileMaker Pro series, we introduce you to this polished, powerful relational database. Alan Graham sets the table for things to come. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/14/filemaker.html ***Six Great Tips for Homemade Dot Mac Servers Now that you have your own Dot Mac server up and running, here are six new things you can do with it -- including "iTunes Central," "iPhoto online," and the "Safari Rendezvous mod." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/04/homemade_dot_mac.html Alan Graham is a contributor to the upcoming "Mac OS X Hacks" Order Number: 4605 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/ ================================================ Announcements From Your Peers ================================================ ***Attention Java and Sun ONE users Sun Microsystems, Inc. offers a free bulletin board for Java User Groups. Post information about your group and upcoming meetings, or search for a group to join. You can also look up information about upcoming Sun sponsored JUG events, the JUG Ambassador program, and other JUG resources. Just visit the JUGs web site at http://java.sun.com/jugs Did you know that Sun Microsystems, Inc. sponsors regional User Groups for several Sun ONE products? Visit the Sun Software User Groups web site for membership details: http://sunonedev.sun.com/community/usergroups ***Biotechnology discussion group looking for members-- St. Louis, MO The St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society (http://www.umsl.edu/~acs/) is forming a biotechnology discussion group, to meet occasionally and discuss computational biology, analysis of genomic and proteomic data, and biomedical information and related topics. Anyone interested in participating should contact Lisa Balbes at lisa@balbes.com for more details. ***LinuxFest Northwest--Bellingham, WA This regional exposition for computer users interested in the Linux operating system and other Open Source software, will be held on April 26 at Bellingham Technical College (BTC) in Bellingham, Washington. This event is being organized by Linux User Groups from Bellingham, Kitsap Peninsula, Seattle, and Tacoma, and hosted by BTC. Admission to the event is free. John "Maddog" Hall will be featured as the keynote speaker. Events will include introductory to advanced lectures and tutorials presented by Open Source experts. For more info go to: http://www.linuxnorthwest.com. Until next time-- Marsee