From pwdrhound at pcisys.net Wed Jan 1 11:28:34 2003 From: pwdrhound at pcisys.net (Greg Walters) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:18 2004 Subject: Perl lunch this Thursday In-Reply-To: <200212301450.57330.pppm@bluepolka.net> Message-ID: <748C54BB-1DAE-11D7-B912-0030657C457E@pcisys.net> On Monday, December 30, 2002, at 02:50 PM, Ed Loehr wrote: > Chipotles @ 7818 N. Academy, on west side of Academy near Briargate > Blvd and the Chapel Hills mall. Tasty Mexican burritos. > I'll be there! From timc+perl at divide.net Wed Jan 1 18:41:44 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:18 2004 Subject: Perl lunch TOMORROW (Thursday) Message-ID: Looks like we'll have good turnout. See you all there. WHAT: monthly Pikes Peak Perl Mongers lunch WHERE: Chipotle's across from Chapel Hills Mall WHEN: tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:30 WHY: food & geekly conversation <>< Tim 719.651.0116 (cell) From timc+perl at divide.net Thu Jan 16 18:11:38 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:18 2004 Subject: Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Jan 16 Message-ID: <024701c2bdbd$04593920$65960143@cephas> O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter January 16, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual -sendmail, 3rd Edition -Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition -ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition -Oracle in a Nutshell -Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition -Programming Web Services with Perl -Objective-C Pocket Reference -Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition -Windows XP Pocket Reference -Perl Graphics Programming -Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Visit O'Reilly at LinuxWorld-NY -Steven Feuerstein (Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Ed.) at the Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference Bellevue, WA --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -Online registration is still open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference -Open Source Convention--Time to Submit Your Proposal ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -The O'Reilly Learning Lab -Boucher: DMCA-Fixing Bill "Will Win" -Jump the Shark -Consuming Amazon with Flash Remoting -Understanding Overloading in WSDL -The JAXB API -Your First Micro Java Game -Introduction to Managed C++ -Using Remote Data Access with SQL Server CE 2.0 -What is RSS? -Apple on Top of Its Game: the Macworld SF 2003 Report -The DigiCam Chronicles: Assignment Macworld -New O'Reilly Beta Chapter--Mac OS X in a Nutshell -------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements From Your Peers -------------------------------------------------------------- -Davis, CA--Linux Users' Group of Davis celebrates Their Four-Year Anniversary--January 20 -Ottawa, Canada--Open Source Weekend--January 25 & 26 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. ***Please include the order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Please 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/ ***Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual Order Number: 348X "Windows XP Pro: The Missing Manual" is written for the novice power user who wants to master XP Pro and get down to work. Coauthored by "New York Times" technology columnist and the Missing Manual creator David Pogue, this crystal clear, jargon-free book uses wit, technical insight, and scrupulous objectivity to demystify Microsoft's newest and most reliable operating system. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxppro/ The Table of Contents are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxppro/toc.html ***sendmail, 3rd Edition Order Number: 8393 sendmail, 3rd Edition has been completely revised to cover sendmail 8.12, a version with more features and fundamental changes than any previous version of the Unix-based email-routing program. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail3/ Chapter 2, "Build and Install sendmail," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sendmail3/chapter/index.html ***Learning Unix for Mac OS X, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4702 This compact book provides a user-friendly tour of your Mac's Unix base. Updated to cover Jaguar (Mac OS X, 10.2), this book will keep you current with the latest features of your Mac. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx2/ Chapter 5, "Printing," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx2/ ***ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Order Number: 396X This book is the most complete, up-to-date reference available for the latest version of ActionScript. You'll find exhaustive coverage of dozens of undocumented, underdocumented, and misdocumented features. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/ The book's Foreword, Preface, and Chapter 13, "Movie Clips," are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/chapter/index.html ***Oracle in a Nutshell Order Number: 3366 This comprehensive book includes an overview of the Oracle architecture, a summary of Oracle's concurrency scheme, security mechanisms, and networking files and options, commands for tools such as SQL*Plus, SQL*Loader, and RMAN, and a summary of datatypes, operators, expressions, and conditions. This book has everything you need to manage and write code for Oracle databases. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleian/ Chapter 17, "Performance," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleian/chapter/index.html ***Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition Order Number: 3579 "Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition" is a concise and portable quick reference that distills an immense amount of information on several languages and technologies. This book is packed full of the genuinely useful information a webmaster needs daily. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmaster3/ Chapter 18, "Apache Configuration," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmaster3/chapter/index.html ***Programming Web Services with Perl Order Number: 2068 This book is written for Perl programmers who have no prior knowledge of web services and are ready to apply XML-RPC and SOAP to their distributed programming applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pwebserperl/ Chapter 6, "Programming SOAP," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pwebserperl/chapter/index.html ***Objective-C Pocket Reference Order Number: 4230 "Objective-C Pocket Reference" provides a quick and concise introduction to Objective-C for programmers already familiar with either C or C++, and will continue to serve as a handy reference even after the language is mastered. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/objectcpr/ A Sample Excerpt, "Object Life Cycle," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/objectcpr/chapter/index.html ***Understanding the Linux Kernel, 2nd Edition Order Number: 2130 This new edition, updated to cover version 2.4, takes you on a guided tour through the most significant data structures, algorithms, and programming tricks used in the Linux kernel. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel2/ Chapter 17, "The Ext2 and Ext3 Filesystems," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel2/chapter/index.html ***Windows XP Pocket Reference Order Number: 4257 This handy book is for power users and system administrators who need a solid reference with quick answers, but not a lot of explanation. Get the most out of Windows XP with this information-packed and easy-to-read pocket reference. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxpg/ The Table of Contents is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/winxpg/toc.html ***Perl Graphics Programming Order Number: 219X Perl programmers naturally turn to Perl to tackle whatever challenges they have at hand, and graphics programming is no exception. Geared toward Perl users and webmasters, the book demystifies the manipulation of graphics formats for use on the Web, and provides all the tools necessary to begin programming and designing graphics for the Web immediately. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlgp/ Chapter 9, "Using Ming," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlgp/chapter/index.html ***Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition Order Number: 2033 Updated to cover the changes in Apache's latest release, 2.0, as well as Apache 1.3, this guide discusses how to obtain, set up, secure, modify, and troubleshoot Apache software on both Unix and Windows systems. Additional security coverage makes this book essential documentation for the world's most popular web server. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache3/ Chapter 11, "Security," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache3/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Visit O'Reilly at LinuxWorld January 21-24 Javits Center, NY, NY Booth #457 http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/linuxworld2003/ Meet O'Reilly Authors Wednesday 1/22 at 1 pm in O'Reilly Booth #457 for Q&A and book signing. * AEleen Frisch, "Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition" and "Essential System Administration Pocket Reference" * David Axmark and Michael Widenius, "MySQL Reference Manual" * Ethan Cerami, "Web Services Essentials" * Derek Vadala, "Managing RAID on Linux" * Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar, "PHP Cookbook" ***Northwest Oracle Users Group--Winter Conference February 3rd and 4th, 2003 Meydenbauer Center 11100 NE 6th Street Bellevue, Washington Speakers include Steven Feuerstein whose topics will be "Best Practices" and "The Brave New World of Oracle Pl/SQL." For more information, see: http://www.nwoug.com/conferences/feb2003.htm 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 ***Online registration is still open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This event takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Open Source Convention--There is Still Time to Submit Your Proposal Programmers, developers, strategists, and technical staff are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the sixth annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year's theme is "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software." The submission deadline for all proposals is February 15, 2003. For more information: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/e_sess ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***The O'Reilly Learning Lab An O'Reilly reader talks about why he enrolled in the online Learning Lab and how the experience has been. Find out how to get the most out of online learning through O'Reilly's Learning Lab. http://learninglab.oreilly.com/ ***Boucher: DMCA-Fixing Bill "Will Win" Tech finally shows up for digital copying debate. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/policy/2003/01/13/boucher.html ***Jump the Shark An article by Tim O'Reilly. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/wlg/2513 --------------------- Web Services --------------------- ***Consuming Amazon with Flash Remoting Using Flash Remoting and Web Services, you can enable a responsive UI that searches and displays Amazon results. Jason Michael Perry shows you how to build the interface and manipulate the XML web service. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/01/09/flash.html --------------------- Web Services --------------------- ***Understanding Overloading in WSDL The initial reference to overloading in the WSDL 1.1 specification is limited, a situation that left many new users of WSDL unsure where to turn to for clarification. Randy Ray, coauthor of "Programming Web Services with Perl," sheds light on the issue by explaining how to express overloaded interfaces in WSDL. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2003/01/08/randyray.html Randy J. Ray, coauthor of "Programming Web Services with Perl" Order Number: 2068 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pwebserperl/ --------------------- Java --------------------- ***The JAXB API Koshuke Kawaguchi examines the latest release of Sun's Java Architecture for XML Binding, focusing particularly on the API through which applications use the JAXB-generated code to process XML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/08/jaxb-api.html ***Your First Micro Java Game Learn Sun's Wireless Toolkit to make a MIDlet-based game for cell phones. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/12/23/javagame.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Introduction to Managed C++ by Sam Gentile Managed C++ often gets a bum rap in the world of .NET. Some of it is deserved, some is not, and some comes from just plain misunderstanding. In this article, Sam Gentile demystifies Managed C++. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/13/intromcpp.html ***Using Remote Data Access with SQL Server CE 2.0 Microsoft SQL Server CE edition is the database server built by Microsoft to run on mobile devices. Besides being a standalone database for mobile applications, SQL Server CE also allows you to connect to your desktop SQL Server 2000 and perform remote data access and merge replication. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee will show you how to build a .NET Compact Framework mobile application using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and how it can perform remote data access using SQL Server CE 2.0. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/06/sqlce20.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***What is RSS? In Mark Pilgrim's inaugural Dive Into XML column, he reviews the history and technical details of the varieties of RSS on the Web. He also describes a method for parsing most active RSS feeds. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Apple on Top of Its Game: the Macworld SF 2003 Report The moment the keynote began to when the final door was closed to the Expo show floor, Apple and its 350 vendors had the pedal to the metal. Daniel Steinberg provides a comprehensive overview of new announcements from the mother ship. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/10/macworld_rpt.html ***The DigiCam Chronicles: Assignment Macworld A photo essay from SF, complete with "how to" notes. Author's note: This is the first in an ongoing series of photo essays demonstrating how to get the most out of your digital camera. Each installment of the DigiCam Chronicles will feature a new location or assignment. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/14/digicam_chronicles.html And make sure you check out Derrick's weblog: iPhoto 2.0 Steps, Not Dashes, Forward http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/2567 Derrick is coauthor of "iPhoto: The Missing Manual" (Order Number: 365x) and author of the "Digital Photography Pocket Guide" (Order Number: 4540) **New O'Reilly Beta Chapter--Mac OS X in a Nutshell Preview Beta Chapter 14, "Web Publishing with a DAMP System," from O'Reilly's upcoming "Mac OS X in a Nutshell." Order Number: 3706 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxian/chapter/index.html ================================================ Announcements From Your Peers ================================================ ***Davis, CA--Linux Users' Group of Davis The Linux Users' Group of Davis will be celebrating their four-year anniversary on Monday, January 20, 2003. Along with free food and cake, LUGOD will be screening the independent film "REVOLUTION OS," which tells the tale of computer programmers who rebelled against Microsoft's dominance and created the Linux computer operating system and the "Open Source" movement. Monday, January 20, 2003 6:30-9:00pm Davis Branch of the Yolo County Library 315 East 14th Street in Davis, California. For more information, go to: http://www.lugod.org/revos/ A flyer is available online: http://www.lugod.org/documents/flyers/ ***Ottawa, Canada--Open Source Weekend On January 25 and 26, 2003, a coalition of computer professionals, students, and volunteers will host an Open Source Weekend in Ottawa, Canada. The events will be spread across the city and throughout the weekend to showcase the dynamic world of open source software. The major activities will be the: -Linuxfest at the University of Ottawa -Linuxfest at Carleton University -Business of Open Source Software conference For more information on these events please see: http://www.osw.ca/ Until next time-- Marsee From timc+perl at divide.net Sun Jan 26 18:27:17 2003 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:18:18 2004 Subject: Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 24 Message-ID: <00b601c2c59a$f03a1910$00990143@cephas> O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter January 24, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Linux Server Hacks -Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, San Francisco --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Day Passes are Available 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek to $9.99! -Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" -Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics -Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize -Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java -Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET -802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence -PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X ---------------------------------------------------------------- Announcements From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming Meetings ================================================ 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/ ***Linux Server Hacks Order Number: 4613 This first book in O'Reilly's new Hacks Series shows you how to tune the Linux kernel to make your system run more efficiently, and use CVS and RCS to track revisions to system files. You'll also learn alternative ways to do backups, how to use system monitoring tools to track performance, and a variety of secure networking solutions. "Linux Server Hacks" also helps you manage large-scale web installations running Apache, MySQL, and other open source tools. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ Chapter 3, "Backups," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/index.html ***Java Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Order number: 3773 Java application performance is heavily tied to the underlying Java Virtual Machine, and the new 1.4 version of Java has significant changes. Revised and expanded, this second edition covers Java 1.4 and adds new coverage of JDBC, NIO, Servlets, EJB, and JavaServer Pages. Learn how to create a tuning strategy, use profiling tools to understand a program's behavior, and avoid performance penalties from inefficient code. You'll end up with code that's robust, maintainable, and fast. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/ Chapter 12, "Distributed Computing," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javapt2/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Come meet our authors at VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference, San Francisco Join O'Reilly authors G. Andrew Duthie (ASP.NET in a Nutshell), Ken Getz (Access Cookbook), Juval Lowy (COM and .NET Component Services), and Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET) at the tenth annual VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference. http://www.vslive.com/2003/sf/ For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Day Passes are Available 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 Calendar price reduced at ThinkGeek There's still time to get your official, limited edition, full-color 25th Anniversary Wall Calendar, jam-packed with pictures, tales, O'Reilly lore, pithy quotes, and more. Since we are almost through one month of the year, ThinkGeek has lowered the price from $14.99 to $9.99 http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/other/5c55/ Download a sample PDF of January's page: ftp://ftp.oreilly.com/pub/calendar/oreilly_calendar_jan03.pdf Bored with the ThinkGeek banner on your site? Check out the new ones we have: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ ***Reclaiming the Term "Hacker" Hacks: Industrial-Strength Tips and Tricks--O'Reilly's new Hacks Series proudly reclaims the term "hacking" for the good guys. Hackers use their ingenuity to solve interesting problems, and now you can have their real-world, tested solutions at your fingertips. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/hacks/news/0103_tim-hacker.html Linux Server Hacks (Available now) By Rob Flickenger Order Number: 4613 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/ Google Hacks (Available in February) By Tara Calishain, Rael Dornfest Order Number: 4478 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/ Mac OS X Hacks (Available in March) By Rael Dornfest, Kevin Hemenway Order Number: 4605 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/ --------------------- Bioinformatics --------------------- ***Stephen Wolfram on Bioinformatics Tim O'Reilly interviewed Stephen Wolfram, creator of the Mathematica program and author of "A New Kind of Science," about his research, his new book, and its connection to bioinformatics. Wolfram will give a keynote at O'Reilly's 2003 Bioinformatics Technology Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/bio/news/wolfram_0120.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 --------------------- ***Screen-scraping with WWW::Mechanize Screen-scraping is the job of programmatically navigating through a usually visual task--like a web site--and then dealing with the result; and WWW::Mechanize is the best screen scraper out there for Perl! Chris Ball puts the two things together, to ensure that he never misses his favourite TV shows again. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2003/01/22/mechanize.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Opening Microsoft File Formats to Java Microsoft's file formats were once black arts to developers on non-sanctioned platforms. Thanks to Jakarta POI, however, it's possible to read and write them from Java. Apache's Andrew C. Oliver and Avik Sengupta explain the basics of the project in the first of a series of three articles. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/01/22/poi.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Hosting Windows Forms Controls in COM Control Containers As wonderful as the new WinForms control model is, if you still need to host controls in COM control containers, you are limited to exactly one control host that also supports the hosting of WinForms controls: Internet Explorer. If you want to host your controls in COM containers, Chris Sells shows you how in this article. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/20/winformshosting.html ***Dealing with Group By and Order By in .NET In many situations, an ADO.NET developer will want to use the Order By and Group By semantic of SQL. This article by Satya Komatineni will show you how to do it. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/01/14/groupbyds.html --------------------- Wireless --------------------- ***802.11g's "Extreme" Emergence The 802.11g spec uses a relatively new method of encoding bits onto radio waves in such a way as to squeeze up to 54 Mbps of raw data across a single channel. Apple has embraced this new technology in its AirPort Extreme radio cards. Here's how it works. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/01/23/80211g.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an online repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a rigorous coding standard. In this article, Jason Perkins shows you how to install, configure, and use the PEAR Package Manager on Mac OS X 10.2 http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/01/21/pear_macosx.html ================================================ Announcements From Your Peers ================================================ ***Virginia Beach, VA--Hampton Road Oracle Users Group Upcoming Meetings February 4, March 5, and April 2 Time: 8:30-10:00am for all meetings Location: Virginia Beach Central Library for all meetings For more information, contact Hazel Zamperini: hzamperini@cox.net Until next time-- Marsee