From timc+perl at divide.net Sat Jun 4 18:41:07 2005 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 19:41:07 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 2] Message-ID: <42A25833.2010700@divide.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Essential Sharepoint -Killer Game Programming in Java -Classic Shell Scripting -Infosec Career Hacking -Learning Java, 3rd Edition -DHTML Utopia SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition -Degunking Linux -Designing Embedded Hardware, 2nd Edition -Database in Depth -MySQL in a Nutshell -MAKE Subscriptions Available ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Adam Goldstein ("AppleScript: The Missing Manual"), SoHo Apple Store, New York, NY--June 3 -O'Reilly at Tech Ed 2005, Orlando, FL--Jun 5-10 -O'Reilly at Apple WWDC, San Francisco, CA--June 6-10 -Sinan Si Alhir ("UML in a Nutshell"), UML & Design World 2005, Austin, TX--June 13-16 -James Avery ("Visual Studio Hacks") Dayton .NET Developers, Fairborn, OH--July 25 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration is Open for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR--August 1-5 -Where 2.0 Conference Registration Open, San Francisco, CA--June 29-30 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -"Cult of Mac" and "Degunking Windows" Win IPPY Awards -E3 2005: War of the Consoles...Almost -Mapping the 802.11 Protocol -Embedded-system Programmers Must Learn the Fundamentals -Rendering Everything as Text -A Simpler Ajax Path -Rexx: Power Through Simplicity -Learning Lab: Linux/Unix SysAdmin Certificate Special -An Introduction to Tiger Terminal -Japan Primer for the Mac Techno-Tourist -20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About -Refactoring Support for Visual Basic 2005 -Ferreting Out Near-Identical Records in Access -Building Web Parts, Part 1 -Constructing Services with J2EE -Wire Hibernate Transactions in Spring -Look Ma--Hands! 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It offers the most thorough coverage of Java 3D available, and clearly details the older, better-known 2D APIs, 3D sprites, animated 3D sprites, first-person shooter programming, sound, fractals, and networked games. This practical book is a must-have for anyone who wants to create adrenaline-fueled games in Java. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/killergame/ Chapter 22, "Flocking Boids," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/killergame/chapter/index.html ***Classic Shell Scripting Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596005954 The ability to program and customize the shell quickly, reliably, and portably is important for anyone operating and maintaining Unix or Linux systems. This book gives you everything you need to master these essential skills. The authors provide the tips, tricks, and organized knowledge necessary to create excellent scripts, as well as warnings of the traps that can turn your best efforts into bad shell scripts. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/ Chapter 5, "Pipelines Can Do Amazing Things," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/shellsrptg/chapter/index.html ***Infosec Career Hacking Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490113 Do you code for the sheer joy and challenge? If you want to refine your skills and learn new ones to build an InfoSec career, this book is for you. The authors have all applied their inherent hacker skills to build successful InfoSec careers. From them, you will learn about the variety of available jobs and the skills required to excel in each one. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490113/ ***Learning Java, 3rd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596008732 This bestselling hands-on tutorial delivers a no-nonsense approach to Java 5.0 features, such as "generics," loops, and threads. It addresses all of the important uses of Java, such as web applications, servlets, and XML, that are increasingly driving enterprise applications. The accompanying CD includes the Java 5.0 SDK for Windows, Linux, and Solaris, plus the Eclipse IDE, the NetBeans IDE, and the many example programs from the book. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava3/ Chapter 8, "Generics," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnjava3/chapter/index.html ***DHTML Utopia Publisher: SitePoint ISBN: 0957921896 "DHTML Utopia" is a unique book about using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS together to create extremely usable, standards compliant and modern websites as well as updating your current designs to enhance the user experience. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0957921896/index.html ***SSH, The Secure Shell: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596008953 Written for a wide, technical audience, this book covers several implementations of SSH for different operating systems and computing environments. Whether you're an individual running your home system or a corporate network administrator with thousands of users, our indispensable guide has you covered. It starts with simple installation and use of SSH, and works its way to in-depth case studies on large, sensitive computer networks. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg2/ Chapter 8, "Per-Account Server Configuration," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sshtdg2/chapter/index.html ***Degunking Linux Publisher: Paraglyph ISBN: 1933097043 This book will help users get their Linux configurations working efficiently by providing them with a proven and time-saving 12-step program to get rid of clutter and organize everything from user files to system upgrades. This is the only book that is completely focused on helping Linux users learn the causes of sluggish performance and how to apply smart solutions to improve overall system performance. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097043/ ***Designing Embedded Hardware, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596007558 This book steers a course between books dedicated to writing code for particular microprocessors and those that stress the philosophy of embedded system design without providing any practical information. Loaded with real examples, it also provides a roadmap of the pitfalls and traps to avoid. If you want to build your own embedded system, or tweak an existing one, this invaluable book gives you the understanding and practical skills you need. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware2/ Chapter 6, "Building Hardware," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware2/chapter/index.html ***Database in Depth Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100124 This concise guide sheds light on the principles behind the relational model, giving you an unbiased view that's not influenced by any vendor or product. Featuring an extensive set of exercises, this book is ideal not only for database developers and designers, but also for a diverse field of professionals and academics, including database administrators, information modelers, database consultants, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/ Chapter 1, "Introduction," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/databaseid/chapter/index.html ***MySQL in a Nutshell Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596007892 This book clearly documents every detail you need to master MySQL. In addition to providing a thorough reference to MySQL statements and functions, the administrative utilities, and the most popular APIs, this book even includes several tutorial chapters to help newcomers get started. This wealth of information is conveniently packed into a concise, comprehensive, and easy-to-use format. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlian/ Chapter 6, "Date and Time Functions," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mysqlian/chapter/index.html ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions Available The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--the first one plus four more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this great offer for charter subscribers: five volumes for the cost of four. 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Tim will talk about the innovations that are on his radar, and how Mac developers can begin distributing the future today. http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ ***Sinan Si Alhir ("UML in a Nutshell"), UML & Design World 2005, Austin, TX--June 13-16 Author Sinan Si Alhir leads two sessions at this event: "Enterprise Business Modeling" and "The Agile Unified Process (AUP)." http://www.cmpevents.com/SDUM5/a.asp?option=G&V=3&id=84520 ***James Avery ("Visual Studio Hacks") Dayton .NET Developers, Fairborn, OH--July 25 Author James discusses getting the most out of Visual Studio's Integrated Development Environment with his talk titled "Pimp your IDE." James is the founder of the Cincinnati .NET Users Group and is the founder and president of InfoZerk, a software consulting company. http://www.daytondevgroup.net/schedule.htm ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Registration is Open for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR--August 1-5 OSCON 2005 explores three deep trends affecting open source: the commoditization of software, network-enabled collaboration, and software customizability. Join us at this essential gathering of open source leaders and practitioners of every persuasion to exchange ideas and push the boundaries of vital open source technologies. This year, we introduce the Open Source Business Review, along with a host of other exciting presentations and events. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ User Group members who register before June 20, 2005 get a double discount. 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To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2005/create/ord_where ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***"Cult of Mac" and "Degunking Windows" Win IPPY Awards Congratulation to No Starch Press and Paraglyph Press for winning the 2005 Independent Publisher Book Awards. No Starch's "The Cult of Mac" by Leander Kahney won for Most Unique Design and Paraglyph Press's "Degunking Windows" won in the Computer/Internet category. http://www.independentpublisher.com/ ***E3 2005: War of the Consoles...Almost E3 is the world's largest video game trade show, which means a lot of networking and deal brokering. However, E3 is also the first chance for the average gamer to get a sneak peek at the video games in development. In a hardcore gamer's world, the flashy and elaborate E3 exhibits are like Christmas morning--only in May. Stephen Cawood offers this report on E3 2005. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/05/23/E3expo.html ***Mapping the 802.11 Protocol A trip to London and a bit of unique inspiration gave Matthew Gast the ideas that would lead to the first draft of a visual map describing the relationship between the various components of the 802.11 standard and related security standards. Matthew details the road he took to the final version of his 802.11 protocol map. Matthew is the author of "802.11: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2005/05/20/80211map.html ***Embedded-system Programmers Must Learn the Fundamentals No Starch's Randy Hyde's article in the new issue of "EDN Magazine." Randy is the author of "Write Great Code" and "The Art of Assembly Language." http://www.edn.com/article/CA601846.html --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Rendering Everything as Text Ah, the days of plain-text everything are long gone, what with media files (hooray!) and encumbered binary blobs (boo!). Is the solution to give up your comfortable, efficient, and effective text-based tools? No way. Philip Hollenback proposes that you can render any data format to meaningful text for mail reading, indexing, and more. Here's how. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/05/26/textonly.html ***A Simpler Ajax Path After years of hacks, tricks, and workarounds, there's finally a cross-browser, cross-platform way to communicate between client and server in web applications. Matthew Eernisse demonstrates how to send and receive structured data with XMLHttpRequest and shows off some tricks to make debugging and error handling easier. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/05/18/swingxactions.html ***Rexx: Power Through Simplicity The P-languages get most of the press these days, but they're not the only dynamic languages in the world. Arguably, Rexx is the grandfather of them all. It's received little attention in the open source world, despite several good open source implementations. Howard Fosdick shows off some of the features of the language with practical examples. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/05/26/rexx.html ***Learning Lab: Linux/Unix SysAdmin Certificate Special Learn system administration skills online and receive certification from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. Courses include: The Unix File System, Networking and DNS, Unix Services (including email and web servers), and Scripting for Administrators with Sed, Awk, and Perl. It's all at the O'Reilly Learning Lab. Enroll and save 40%. http://www.oreilly.com/redirector.csp?link=UASys&type=news --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***An Introduction to Tiger Terminal Now that you've had a chance to enjoy all of the GUI goodies in Mac OS X 10.4, you might be ready to check out what's happening with the Terminal app. This article will introduce you to Tiger's Terminal app and CLI (command-line interface). http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/20/terminal1.html ***Japan Primer for the Mac Techno-Tourist Many of us believe that Japan is the land of geek nirvana. If you're contemplating a visit to the gadget promise land, you'll enjoy Todd Ogasawara's report on everything from cell phone coverage to buying Mac accessories. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/27/japan.html ***20 Cool Tiger Features You Might Not Have Heard About Even though Tiger has been out for a while now, many of its major features have nuances that haven't received much press--and there are a zillion minor tweaks to discuss. Scott Knaster takes you on a tour of clever, and sometimes even obscure Tiger goodies. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/05/13/tiger_tips.html --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Refactoring Support for Visual Basic 2005 Microsoft recently announced that they have teamed up with Developer Express Inc. to release Refactor! for Visual Basic 2005 Beta 2, a free plugin for Visual Studio that enables Visual Basic developers to simplify and restructure source code inside of Visual Studio 2005. Wei-Meng Lee walks you through the new refactoring. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/05/31/vbrefactoring.html ***Ferreting Out Near-Identical Records in Access Working with lists of contacts is a common database activity, but as a list grows, so do the chances for duplicate records. Ken Bluttman shows one technique for ferreting out these near-identical records in Access using the InStr function to find when one value in one field is inside the value of the same field in another record. Ken is the author of "Access Hacks." http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/05/24/accesshacks.html ***Building Web Parts, Part 1 Web sites today contain a wealth of information; so much that a poorly designed site can easily overwhelm users. To better help users cope, portal web sites today (such as MSN) often organize their data into discrete units that support a degree of personalization. In this first of three articles, Wei-Meng Lee discusses how to use Web Parts for user customization in your ASP.NET 2.0 web sites. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/05/23/webparts_1.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Constructing Services with J2EE Web services are a popular means of deploying service-oriented applications, and the standards in J2EE 1.4 make it easier to develop services that are portable and interoperable. Debu Panda shows you how, and takes a look at how things will get easier in J2EE 5.0. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/05/25/j2ee-services.html ***Wire Hibernate Transactions in Spring The proper handling of transactions across multiple data stores, supporting multiple application flows, is the kind of heavy lifting J2EE servers were built for. But what if you're using the lighter-weight Spring framework? Binildas C.A. shows how you can wire Spring and Hibernate together to achieve the transaction support you desire. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/05/18/swingxactions.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Look Ma--Hands! Choosing and Using MIDI Controllers If you really want to play today's wonderful software instruments, drop that mouse and grab a dedicated MIDI controller. In this MP3-enhanced tutorial, you'll hear the dramatic difference controllers make in musical expressivity, then get buying and usage tips. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/01/controller1.html ***Steve Turnidge: Turning Weed into Green Go behind the scenes with the co-founder of Weedshare.com, the service that pays you--and the original artist--to share music. Driven by ex-Microsoft and Real Networks employees, Weed is totally legal, and even supports surround sound. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/05/25/weed.html ***Consumer Camera Time-Lapse Movies Pocket digicams are great for still photos, and some of them even record quality video. But you can push the envelope even further with these devices. Here's how two photo novices created their first time-lapse production. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/05/18/timelapse.html --------------------- Web --------------------- ***DHTML Utopia: Modern Web Design What do Flickr, Google Suggest, Google Maps, and GMail have in common? They all employ some of the latest methods in modern, unobtrusive DHTML. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/dhtml-utopia-modern-web-design ***Search Engines Know More Than You Think Learn how Google's personalized web search and Yahoo's Mindset work and how they take searching to a whole new level. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=268282 --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***MAKE: Audio The MAKE Team thought it would be fun to talk with pal Richard Giles in Australia. They chatted about MAKE Volume 02, E3, Astromechs, VoIP for the Nintendo DS, NASA's O2 challenge, the XBOX 360, Broadcast Flag part 2, and more. Next up, they interview Jordan Kanarek and Jim Garretson from roadcasting.org. What's roadcasting? Interactive, collaborative, mobile radio stations for cars. It could be a glimpse of what's to come for our daily commutes! http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/ ***MAKE Flickr Join the MAKE Flickr photo pool today. You never know what you'll see or what we'll be giving away next! Where else can you see a potato cannon in action? http://www.flickr.com/groups/make/pool/ ***MAKE del.icio.us On the MAKE bookmark page, there are over 1,500 links to hacks, mods, DIY projects, and all-around tinkering goodness. Be a MAKE voyeur and read what we're reading. http://del.icio.us/makemagazine This week's faves include: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/ Abusing Amazon Images http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html WSJ on Gaming http://www.oreilly.com/go/wsj_on_gaming How to Stock Your Bar for a Party http://www.degraeve.com/howto/stock-your-bar.php ***The MAKE blog is available at: http://www.makezine.com/blog/ ================================================ >From Your Peers =============================================== ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups around the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com ================================================================ From glim at mycybernet.net Thu Jun 16 21:46:00 2005 From: glim at mycybernet.net (Gerard Lim) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:46 -0400 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Last-minute reminder -- YAPC::NA 2005 Message-ID: Here's a last reminder about Yet Another Perl Conference, North America (YAPC::NA 2005) http://yapc.org/America In case anyone out there has been sitting on the fence or has been meaning to register but has put it on the backburner until now, here is a final information package. Dates: Mon - Wed June 27 - 29, 2005 (11 days from now!) Location: 89 Chestnut Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Accommodations ============== Due to recent renegotiations with the conference facility and hotel, 89 Chestnut, there are still a few rooms left. For details on accommodations go to: http://www.yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml For quick and easy booking: 89 Chestnut Phone: +1-416-977-0707 Conference booking code: perl0626 The base rate is approx. CAD$80/night, which is *great* for downtown Toronto. Add in taxes and in-room high speed internet and it's up to about CAD$95/night. Book yourself to check-in on Sunday the 26th and check-out on the morning of Wednesday the 29th. Conference Registration ======================= Registration is easy and cheap - only USD$85 - see http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml for details or register directly online at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 The schedule is awesome - http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html >From here, click on the "Day 2" and "Day 3" spots near the top to go from page to page. Click on a talk name to get details regarding the talk. Speakers include Larry Wall, Allison Randal, Autrijus Tang, Brian Ingerson, Andy Lester, chromatic, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg & Dan Sugalski... and many more! [ This message was sent by Gerard Lim on behalf of the YAPC::NA 2005 Conference organizing committee of the Toronto Perl Mongers. Thanks for your patience and support. ] From timc+perl at divide.net Fri Jun 17 20:19:04 2005 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:19:04 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Last-minute reminder -- YAPC::NA 2005] Message-ID: <42B392A8.7040200@divide.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Last-minute reminder -- YAPC::NA 2005 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:46 -0400 From: Gerard Lim Reply-To: na-help at yapc.org To: pikes-peak-pm at pm.org Here's a last reminder about Yet Another Perl Conference, North America (YAPC::NA 2005) http://yapc.org/America In case anyone out there has been sitting on the fence or has been meaning to register but has put it on the backburner until now, here is a final information package. Dates: Mon - Wed June 27 - 29, 2005 (11 days from now!) Location: 89 Chestnut Street, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Accommodations ============== Due to recent renegotiations with the conference facility and hotel, 89 Chestnut, there are still a few rooms left. For details on accommodations go to: http://www.yapc.org/America/accommodations-2005.shtml For quick and easy booking: 89 Chestnut Phone: +1-416-977-0707 Conference booking code: perl0626 The base rate is approx. CAD$80/night, which is *great* for downtown Toronto. Add in taxes and in-room high speed internet and it's up to about CAD$95/night. Book yourself to check-in on Sunday the 26th and check-out on the morning of Wednesday the 29th. Conference Registration ======================= Registration is easy and cheap - only USD$85 - see http://yapc.org/America/register-2005.shtml for details or register directly online at http://donate.perlfoundation.org/index.pl?node=registrant%20info&conference_id=423 The schedule is awesome - http://yapc.org/America/schedule-2005/day1.html >From here, click on the "Day 2" and "Day 3" spots near the top to go from page to page. Click on a talk name to get details regarding the talk. Speakers include Larry Wall, Allison Randal, Autrijus Tang, Brian Ingerson, Andy Lester, chromatic, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg & Dan Sugalski... and many more! [ This message was sent by Gerard Lim on behalf of the YAPC::NA 2005 Conference organizing committee of the Toronto Perl Mongers. Thanks for your patience and support. ] From timc+perl at divide.net Fri Jun 17 20:22:44 2005 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:22:44 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 17] Message-ID: <42B39384.7060800@divide.net> Just a brief personal note. I'll be at the Open Source Convention again this year. Anyone else going? <>< Tim -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 17 Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:31:47 -0700 From: Marsee Henon To: timc+pppm+oreilly at divide.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Assembling Panoramic Photos: A Designer's Notebook -Ending Spam -Toad Pocket Reference for Oracle, 2nd Edition -Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks -Firefox Secrets -Ship It! -eBay Hacks, 2nd Edition -Digital Video Hacks -Essential Mac OS X Panther Server Administration -.NET Gotchas -MAKE Subscriptions Available ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly at JavaOne, San Francisco, CA--June 27-30 -James Avery at the Dayton .NET Developers Group, Fairborn, OH--July 25, 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Early Registration Ending Soon for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR--August 1-5 -Last Chance for Where 2.0 Conference, San Francisco, CA--June 29-30 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Historical Maps Online -Creating a Textbook My Way: An Interview with Charles Anderson -Wire Frame Your Site -Live Backups of MySQL Using Replication -Ajax on Rails -Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks -What's New In PHP 5.1 -An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Part 2 -Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight Deadlines -It's True! Jobs Switches to Intel: A Review of the WWDC 05 Keynote -Using Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 6 -Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool -Porting a Project from Visual Studio .NET to Mono -How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a Cocktail Party -Exploring Laszlo Classes, Attributes, and Events -Adam Williams: Massive Guitars, Micro Computers -Bring Your MIDI Music to Life -MAKE's Rebellious Credo: Void the Warranty! -MAKE: Blog ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, or Syngress book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. 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Check out the SafariU homepage for details and a demo. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/safariuanderson.html ***Wire Frame Your Site Many elements of a site affect how successfuly it communicates with users. Wire frames can untangle your site's layout from its graphical communication, to help boost usability, logical content flow, and support the creation of a compelling graphic design. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/wire-frame-your-site --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Live Backups of MySQL Using Replication One of the difficulties with a large and active MySQL database is making clean backups without having to bring the server down. A simple method to ensure reliable backups is to set up replication for MySQL. Russell Dyer, author of "MySQL in a Nutshell," walks through the process of using replication for data backups. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/16/MySQLian.html ***Ajax on Rails XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html ***Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks Every day, programmers perform unglamorous but necessary data crunching: recycling legacy data, checking configuration files, yanking data out of web server logs, and more. Knowing how to crunch data with the least amount of effort can make the difference between meeting a deadline and making another pot of coffee. Greg Wilson, author of Pragmatic's "Data Crunching," offers ten tips for crunch time. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/datacrunching.html ***What's New In PHP 5.1 Explore the new features and changes to the popular open-source web development technology. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=272086 --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Part 2 In this second tutorial on Tiger Terminal by MacinTech UG member Mary Norbury-Glaser, you'll learn how to use the terminal app to look at external volumes, then enable ssh to access files, scp to securely copy them remotely, sftp for secure ftp, and finally how to use rsync to synchronize files between two computers. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/14/terminal2.html ***Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight Deadlines PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text, graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your message across in high style. But what if you're on a short deadline? Franklin Tessler, author of "Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual," shows you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together slideshows in no time. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/10/office04forMac.html ***It's True! Jobs Switches to Intel: A Review of the WWDC 05 Keynote Don't get too comfortable after making the transition to Mac OS X. Steve Jobs decides to keep things interesting by announcing during his WWDC 05 keynote that Apple will switch to Intel processors. Here's what he said and how he plans to make it happen. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/07/wwdc.html --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Using Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 6 You don't need to wait for Internet Explorer 7 for tabbed browsing--with the latest MSN Toolbar, you can use it in IE 6. 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Follow along to see how the port went. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/06/13/vs2mono.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a Cocktail Party Heard about distributed technologies for Java, but not sure what they are or why they're important? Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, authors of "Head First Java, 2nd Edition," present this cocktail-party overview. Hold your own in conversation with Java geeks. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/08/27/cocktails.html ***Exploring Laszlo Classes, Attributes, and Events Laszlo offers an interesting option for rich client-side GUIs--XML markup of widgets and their event handling, which is then converted into a Flash executable that is run with the Flash plugin in the user's browser. Satya Komatineni introduces Laszlo and shows how to get started writing web applications with it. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/06/15/laszlo.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Adam Williams: Massive Guitars, Micro Computers The former Powerman 5000 guitarist reveals how to make huge guitar sounds on a home computer--without waking the neighbors--then shares loads of MP3 examples. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/15/williams.html ***Bring Your MIDI Music to Life Jim Aikin shares numerous tips on getting the best musical expression out of them--both through playing technique and crafty computer editing. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/08/controller2.html --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***MAKE's Rebellious Credo: Void the Warranty! "New York Times" columnist Lawrence Downes recently touted the virtues of O'Reilly's new MAKE magazine. Downes salutes MAKE's renegade DIY spirit, noting, "In this world, to tinker--to open the case, to fiddle with wires, and see what happens--is to rebel." Are you ready to rebel? (Free registration required) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12sun3.html? ***MAKE: Blog Phillip Torrone kicks the tires on the iPod photo connector. The iPod photo connector is a neat little accessory ($29) that you plug in to your iPod photo and to your supported camera; it can transfer all the photos off your camera and to the iPod, giving you 40/60 gigs of storage. The connector charges the shuffle and you can make a super-cheap DIY version of the Belkin media reader, too. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/ipod_photo_conn.html ***For more information on MAKE, go to: http://www.makezine.com/ ================================================ >From Your Peers =============================================== ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups around the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com ================================================================