From timc+perl at divide.net Sat Feb 25 05:23:29 2006 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:23:29 -0700 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 24 Message-ID: <44005A51.3050602@divide.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-On -Analyzing Business Data with Excel -Building Extreme PCs -Degunking Your Home -DJ Handbook, Second Edition -DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish -Fixing Access Annoyances -Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances -Flickr Hacks -How to Cheat at Configuring ISA Server 2004 -Learning C# 2005, Second Edition -Logic Pro Tips and Tricks -Looking Good in Print, Sixth Edition -The Mac Tiger Server Black Book -MAKE: Technology on Your Time Volume 05 -Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook -Programming SQL Server 2005 -Repairing and Upgrading Your PC -Security Log Management -VB 2005 Black Book -Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, Third Edition -Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition -Web Site Cookbook -Wicked Cool Perl Scripts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat"), Professional Aerial Photographers Association International, Orlando, FL--February 24 -O'Reilly at the PMA International Convention and Tradeshow, Orlando, FL--February 26-March 1 -O'Reilly at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium--February 26-27 -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP Pixel Cash Seminar, Orlando, FL--March 1 -Fine-Art Digital Printing Workshop: Hands-On with Stephen Johnson, Pacifica, CA--March 9-12 -O'Reilly at SXSW Interactive, Austin,TX--March 10-14 -Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat"), Pro Photo Expo 2006, San Diego, CA--March 15 -RAW Image Processing in Adobe Photoshop with Stephen Johnson, Pacifica, CA--March 18 -Mikkel Aaland ("Photoshop CS2 RAW") at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA--March 18 -Tim O'Reilly at MIX06, Las Vegas, NV--March 20-22 -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP PixelCash Seminar, San Francisco, CA--March 21 -Dru Lavigne at UKUUG Spring Conference, Durham, UK--March 21-23 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Where 2.0 Registration is Open -MySQL Registration is Open -ETech Registration is Open ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -A Secret Tip for Taking Great Digital Shots -Quicken 2006 Missing Manual: Setting Up Your Quicken Environment -Early Access to Cutting-Edge Technology -Latest Titles available on O'Reilly Rough Cuts -Introducing Lua -Building a High-Availability MySQL Cluster -Free Mesh Networking with Metrix Pebble -What's New in iWork '06? -Digitizing VHS Tapes with EyeTV -Inside Look: Internet Explorer 7, Beta 2 -Creating an Application from Scratch, Part 3 -A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned -O'Reilly Learning Lab Offers Updated HTML/CSS Course -Information Architecture: Why the Last Page Comes First -Asynchronous Messaging Made Easy With Spring JMS -Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys -Attention Streams, Taking Pictures, Java in Brazil, and Presenting Differently -Pioneer Podcasters Share Insider Tips, Part 4: Top-of-the-Line Gear and How to Avoid and Fix Errors -Walking the Talk with Julieanne Kost -O'Reilly Photography Learning Center -Speak Your Mind on Digital Media -Calling All Makers! -Meet Your Fellow Makers ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? 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For more details, go to: ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Adobe InDesign CS2 One-on-One Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100973 This unique, hands-on book comes with two hours of video instruction (hosted by Deke McClelland himself) on DVD to get you working with InDesign right away, building relevant, real-world projects while mastering fundamental and advanced concepts, theory, best practices, and techniques for making the most of InDesign--to make the most of your page designs. ***Analyzing Business Data with Excel Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100736 Learn how to apply Excel's advanced data analysis features to solve real-world business problems. This hands-on reference targets specific business situations, then demonstrates how to create spreadsheets for these problem areas. Topics include statistics, pivot tables, workload forecasting, modeling, queuing, data importing, and more. Perfect for professional Excel users working in an office environment. ***Building Extreme PCs The Complete Guide to Modding and Custom PCs Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101368 "Building Extreme PCs" is the ultimate guide to the world of PC modification and customization. Both a showcase and a DIY handbook, it goes in-depth into system building, overclocking, cooling, and modification, reveals the secrets of optimization and benchmarking, then moves on to cover some of the most exciting and inspirational custom built systems around. From silent systems to multi-processor monsters, from gaming powerhouses to neon-lit speed machines, this book has it all, complete with guidance from the people who made them. ***Degunking Your Home Publisher: Paraglyph Press January 2006 ISBN: 1933097116 Do you find yourself in one or more of these situations--you're constantly losing your car keys, the "junk" room has threatened to take over your house, or you can't remember the last time you could quickly find something in the garage? Then you need to get organized quickly and degunk! Author Joli Ballew will show you how simple it is to declutter, organize, make your home really work for you, and keep it looking great with her easy and time-saving 12-step program. Even if you have a busy and hectic life, you can keep your home organized and clean. ***DJ Handbook, Second Edition Publisher: PC Publishing ISBN: 1870775996 Written by a working DJ who's been there and done that, "The DJ Handbook" is an essential read for every DJ. You'll find advice on choosing equipment (microphones, decks, cartridges, headphones, speakers, and the rest), as well as setting it all up and getting the best sound out of it--whatever the venue. Plus hands-on advice on transport, setting up your sound system at the gig, dealing with punters, looking after safety, and troubleshooting your equipment. ***DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596008481 Written in an engaging, accessible style, "DV Filmmaking" provides a solid foundation of tremendous value to a beginner, while addressing the fine points of filmmaking with a level of sophistication, detail, and insight that even the most worldly director or educator can appreciate. The author draws upon his years of experience teaching at the college and graduate level, his extensive professional background as a media producer, and his unmistakable love of cinema to create a text that's not only easy to learn from, but also fun to read. ***Fixing Access Annoyances Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059600852X Access is one of the easier and more flexible database management solutions for organizing data. You could grab other books for help, but do they solve problems from page one? Meet a book of a different stripe where newcomers start off right and learn valuable methods for building databases while seasoned pros gain efficiency. "Fixing Access Annoyances" saves time and bouts of hair pulling. ***Fixing PowerPoint Annoyances Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100043 Microsoft PowerPoint is the most popular presentation software on the planet. Since an estimated 30 million PowerPoint presentations are made every day, no matter how frustrating it gets, you're not about to chuck the program in the recycle bin. If you're vexed and perplexed by PowerPoint, this new guide presents a variety of all-too-familiar, real-world annoyances and smart solutions for every one of them. ***Flickr Hacks ISBN: 0596102453 "Flickr Hacks" expands the fun and the utility of Flickr, Yahoo!'s popular digital photo-sharing service, by customizing this cutting-edge technology to store, sort, and share photos. The book adopts the game-like appeal of the Flickr site, in individual projects ranging from easy to advanced. Quick hacks show you how to post photos directly to blogs and upload photos from a cellphone. Advanced hacks teach you to use the Flickr API, make photo puzzles and collages, and geocode photos to plot on a map. ***How to Cheat at Configuring ISA Server 2004 ISBN: 1597490571 If deploying and managing ISA Server 2004 is just one of a hundred responsibilities you have as a System Administrator, "How to Cheat at Configuring ISA Server 2004" is the perfect book for you. Written by Microsoft MVP Dr. Tom Shinder, this is a concise, accurate, enterprise tested method for the successful deployment of an ISA Server. ***Learning C# 2005, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596102097 Completely revised to cover C# 2.0 and Visual Basic 2005, this introductory guide offers a thorough introduction to Microsoft's premier .NET language. Discover how to develop various kinds of web services and applications--including those that work with databases. More than 200 questions and programming exercises make mastering the essentials of the C# language easy and fun. ***Logic Pro Tips and Tricks Publisher: PC Publishing ISBN: 1870775333 The tips and tricks in this book are laid out in an easy to use format, and will allow you to get the best from the program when recording, editing, mixing, and mastering. There are sections on setting up, optimizing, and organizing your workflow. You'll discover easy ways to perform many complex tasks, and there's a plethora of other tips and pointers that reveal many of Logic's 'hidden' functions. ***Looking Good in Print, Sixth Edition Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 193309706X "Looking Good in Print" is celebrating fifteen years in print with the newest edition "Looking Good in Print, Sixth Edition." This book has grown over the years to become the "Bible" for desktop publishers and it is widely used as the leading text for courses on desktop publishing. This new edition is updated and expanded to reflect the growing needs of desktop publishers who need to be proficient at creating documents for both print and electronic publication and distribution. ***The Mac Tiger Server Little Black Book Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1933097140 This unique black book guides you through all the aspects of the new Mac Tiger Server including understanding the Apple network, managing network access, and network protocols such as TCP/IP AppleTalk, and the OSI model. It's jam-packed with hundreds of "how-to" tips to ensure that servers are set up correctly and they operate as efficiently as possible. ***MAKE: Technology on Your Time Volume 05 ISBN: 0596523688 Every issue of MAKE is packed with projects to help you make the most of all the technology in your life. Everything from home entertainment systems, to laptops, to a host of PDAs is fair game. If there's a way to hack it, tweak it, bend it, or remix it, you will find out about it here. ***Mind Performance Hacks Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0-596-10153-8 "Mind Performance Hacks" provides real-life tips and tools for overclocking your brain and becoming a better thinker. In the increasingly frenetic pace of today's information economy, managing your life requires hacking your brain. With this book, you'll cut through the clutter and tune up your brain intentionally, safely, and productively. ***Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100620 "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook" tells you all you need to know to turn your digital photographs into images that mimic the styles of great visual artists. From advice on how to choose appropriate subject matter to 62 step-by-step recipes that show you how to create an "original" van Gogh, Vermeer, Edward Weston, or Andy Warhol (among others), this book is an authentic guide to simulating the work of great artists-and a whole lot of fun. ***Programming SQL Server 2005 Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596004796 Ideal for IT professionals of all stripes, this authoritative guide introduces all facets of SQL Server 2005, Microsoft's next-generation data management and analysis solution. The book explains all of its new features, and shows you how they can help conquer a variety of data challenges. Learn how to reduce the complexity of building, deploying and managing database applications, and much more. ***Repairing and Upgrading Your PC Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059600866X Repairing and Upgrading Your PC delivers start-to-finish instructions, simple enough for even the most inexperienced PC owner, for troubleshooting, repairing, and upgrading your computer. Written by hardware experts Robert Bruce Thompson and Barbara Fritchman Thompson, this book covers it all: how to troubleshoot a troublesome PC, how to identify which components make sense for an upgrade, and how to tear it all down and put it back together. ***Security Log Management Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490423 As a system administrator or security professional, you probably find yourself inundated each day with a deluge of log files from seemingly countless devices, servers, and applications on your network ranging from Windows Server to Snort to your PIX firewall and everything in between. This unique book will show you how to use a combination of open source software such as Tcpdstats, and Snort perfmonitor to create succinct, meaningful reports that give you the big picture of your network's overall health and well being. So, if you need to analyze and prioritize everything from how much of your bandwidth is devoted to browsing ESPN.com, to the most targeted machines in your IDS logs, this is the book for you. ***VB 2005 Little Black Book Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1933097086 "Visual Basic 2005 Programming Little Black Book" is one of the first comprehensive books that cover the new version of Visual Basic and the development features of Microsoft's .NET platform in depth. The book explains the major changes to VB and provides numerous tips and practical solutions for developing applications. ***Visual Basic 2005 in a Nutshell, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059610152X Newly updated, this classic detailed reference to the Visual Basic programming language had been reorganized to cover all the ins and outs of Visual Basic 2005, including new features like Generics, My Namespace, and operators. An alphabetical reference to Visual Basic 2005 statements, procedures, functions, and objects makes sure you follow along. Ideal for developers, programmers, and anyone learning VB as a first language. ***Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009879 Our popular reference, "Web Design in a Nutshell," has been completely rewritten and expanded to reflect the state of the art in web standards. In addition to being an authoritative reference for (X)HTML and Cascading Style Sheets, this book also provides an overview of the unique requirements of designing for the Web and gets to the nitty-gritty of JavaScript and DOM Scripting, web graphics optimization, and multimedia production. It is an indispensable tool for web designers and developers of all levels. ***Web Site Cookbook Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101090 This handy guide provides a wide range of solutions to real-life problems that come up regularly when creating and growing a web site. With recipes that teach both routine and advanced setup tasks, the book includes clear and professional instruction on a host of topics. Learn page design, visitor tracking, site promotion, and much more. ***Wicked Cool Perl Scripts Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270623 Most Perl programmers have been frustrated at one time or another because the system just wouldn't do what they wanted it to do. There was that one simple and obvious utility that was missing that would make life so much easier. "Wicked Cool Perl Scripts" is about writing those utilities quickly and easily. A collection of handy utilities that solves difficult problems, "Wicked Cool Perl Scripts" is a great resource for the savvy Perl programmer. ***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. Subscribe at: ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat"), Professional Aerial Photographers Association International, Orlando, FL--February 24 Author Julieanne Kost presents "Photoshop CS2--Tips and Tricks." ***O'Reilly at the PMA International Convention and Tradeshow, Orlando, FL--February 26-March 1 Stop by our booth (#2117) to check out our digital media titles. ***O'Reilly at FOSDEM, Brussels, Belgium--February 26-27 The sixth Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting is organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. ***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP Pixel Cash Seminar, Orlando, FL--March 1 Author Peter Krogh gives a three-hour comprehensive overview of Digital Asset Management techniques for the professional photographer. ***Fine-Art Digital Printing Workshop: Hands-On with Stephen Johnson, Pacifica, CA--March 9-12 Photographer and author Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography") presents a four day workshop focusing exclusively on fine-art digital printing, primarily using Epson inkjet printers. Concentration will be on inkjet printing with color pigments and black/gray ink combinations on coated and rag papers. Learn from the digital pioneer how he obtains his impressive results during four days of lectures, printing, and feedback in the studio. ***O'Reilly at SXSW Interactive, Austin,TX--March 10-14 Authors Kathy Sierra ("Head First Java, Second Edition"), Peter Morville ("Ambient Findability"), and Jennifer Niederst Robbins ("Web Design in a Nutshell, Third Edition") will be there. Make sure you stop by our booth to check out our latest books. ***Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat"), Pro Photo Expo 2006, San Diego, CA--March 15 Author Julieanne Kost presents "Adobe Photoshop CS2--Welcome Aboard." ***RAW Image Processing in Adobe Photoshop with Stephen Johnson, Pacifica, CA--March 18 Photographer and author Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography") presents this one-day seminar explores this process with Adobe's new Photoshop CS2 Camera Raw processor. ***Mikkel Aaland ("Photoshop CS2 RAW") at Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA--March 18 Photographer and author Mikkel Aaland disscusses and signs his newest book. ***Tim O'Reilly at MIX06, Las Vegas, NV--March 20-22 Microsoft's new MIX conference is for developers, designers, and business professionals who create consumer-oriented web sites. Hear Bill Gates, Tim O'Reilly, and other industry leaders talk about the new and unique experiences that can be delivered over the Web. ***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP PixelCash Seminar, San Francisco, CA--March 21 Author Peter Krogh gives a three-hour comprehensive overview of Digital Asset Management techniques for the professional photographer. ***Dru Lavigne at UKUUG Spring Conference, Durham, UK--March 21-23 Author Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks) delivers the keynote as well as a talk on BSD Certification at this year's conference. ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Where 2.0 Early Registration is Open The Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues leading the charge into the location-based technology frontier. Join the developers, innovators, and business people behind the new era of geospatial technology as they come together--because everything happens somewhere, and it's all happening here. Where 2.0 Conference, June 13-14, 2006 Fairmont Hotel, San Jose, CA User Group members who register before April 24, 2006 get a double discount. Use code "whr06dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ***MySQL Users Conference Join us at the 2006 edition of the MySQL Users Conference, the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs. It is the only event where you will be able to join the core MySQL development team and over 1000 users, open source innovators, and technology partners under one roof. MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27, 2006 Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA User Group members who register before March 6, 2006 get a double discount. Use code "mys06dusg" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ***Register for O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference We're five years into the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference and the stuff of which it is made shows no sign of abating: bandwidth continues to broaden, storage grows ever larger and cheaper, and content keeps spraying from the fire hose. How do we visualize all of this digital data, filter it, remix it, and access it in meaningful ways? The coming technical challenge is not about generating digital content-we have more than enough already. It's time to do something with that data. It's time to build The Attention Economy. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, March 6-9, 2006 Manchester Grand Hyatt, San Diego, CA Use code "et06dsug" when you register, and receive 20% off the registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***A Secret Tip for Taking Great Digital Shots Want to impress friends and family with professional-looking photos? Professional photographer and best-selling author Derrick Story provides his favorite tip--using a flash setting--for taking great shots for better skin tone, reduced texture in the face, and adding a twinkle to the eyes. ***Quicken 2006 Missing Manual: Setting Up Your Quicken Environment After you install Quicken, you're only a few steps away from experiencing the joys of electronic personal finance. Chapter 1 of "Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual" gets you out of the gate running, guiding you through launch, set up and the intricate preferences. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription. ***Early Access to Cutting-Edge Technology O'Reilly's Safari Books Online has just announced a new service called Rough Cuts that gives you early access to content on cutting-edge technologies months before it's published. Rough Cuts allows you to purchase work-in-progress manuscripts of selected titles. For more information, go to: Latest Titles Available: Perl Hacks Ubuntu Hacks Ajax Design Patterns Java and XML, 3rd Edition --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Introducing Lua Scripting is highly important to extensible applications. Not only is it easier to write logic in higher-level languages, but it's often safer. It can be effective, too--consider that World of Warcraft and other games embed the Lua language and use it for scripts, AI, configuration, and even user interface management. Why Lua? Keith Fieldhouse introduces the language and explains why it's so appropriate. ***Building a High-Availability MySQL Cluster Serious business services really can't go down, whether due to hardware or software failures. If your necessary services rely on MySQL, clustering and high availability can prevent failures. Kris Buytaert shows how his group recently used MySQL Cluster and Heartbeat to provide redundant, failure-proof replication and availability of their data. ***Free Mesh Networking with Metrix Pebble Metrix Pebble is a variant of the popular Pebble Linux distribution that adds a web-based configuration GUI, support for OLSRD and EVDO, automatic generation of network flows, wireless users, and radio link status graphs using rrdtool, and fits in just under 64MB of flash memory. Rob Flickenger describes how to use Metrix Pebble to set up a wireless mesh network. --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***What's New in iWork '06? iWork's tandem offering of Pages and Keynote provides a useful collection of tools for presentations, word processing, and layout. But how much has changed since last year's debut? Giles Turnbull walks you through Pages 2 and Keynote 3 to help decide if this upgrade is for you. ***Digitizing VHS Tapes with EyeTV By digitizing your old VHS tapes, you can move them from taking up precious shelf space to more readily available disk space. In this article, Joe McMahon shows you a hack that lets you archive full-quality digital recordings from EyeTV to offline media, but still play them back easily in EyeTV. --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Inside Look: Internet Explorer 7, Beta 2 The long-awaited Beta 2 of IE 7 is finally here. What's new, good, and better? Wei-Meng Lee gives you a guided tour and an inside look. ***Creating an Application from Scratch, Part 3 Jesse Liberty is creating an application from scratch in ASP.NET 2.0 while you watch over his shoulder. In part 3, he builds the engine and implements it. --------------------- Web --------------------- ***A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned Think ecommerce web sites on the cheap are impossible? Find out how to get a site off the ground for less than $2000. ***O'Reilly Learning Lab Offers Updated HTML/CSS Course Keep on the cutting edge of web programming with our newly updated HTML/CSS course, part of our hugely popular Web Programming Certificate series through the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. Keep your free O'Reilly books for reference, and your Learning Lab account as an online portfolio. Pre-enroll in all six Web Programming courses and get HTML/CSS free. Offer good through February 28th. ***Information Architecture: Why the Last Page Comes First When designing a site, are you still creating the frontpage first? Find out why this is a mistake, and a better way to approach it. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Asynchronous Messaging Made Easy With Spring JMS Java Messaging Service (JMS) requires a lot of work to set up sessions and manage messages, work that can distract you from your application-specific logic. The Spring framework's SpringJMS offers a simpler solution that keeps the JMS administration out of your face. Srini Penchikala takes a look. ***Playing Together Nicely: Getting REST and SOAP to Share Each Other's Toys Convincing your colleagues and clients to consider a RESTful approach to SOAP is difficult when the accepted standard is SOAP-style services. In this article, Jason R. Briggs introduces a SOAP interface that can be used to deliver SOAP messages from REST resources. --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***Attention Streams, Taking Pictures, Java in Brazil, and Presenting Differently Rael Dornfest and Tim O'Reilly continue their preview of next month's Emerging Technology conference, Bruno Souza talks to us about Java in Brazil, conference photographer James Duncan Davidson discusses his art, and "Why the Lucky Stiff" shows us that conference presentations can be much more creative than they tend to be. (DTF 02-17-2006: 28 minutes 37 seconds) ***Pioneer Podcasters Share Insider Tips, Part 4: Top-of-the-Line Gear and How to Avoid and Fix Errors Listen in as Jack Herrington, the author of "Podcasting Hacks," chats with pioneer podcasters Doug Kaye and James Polanco. Doug is the founder of IT Conversations, the influential site that features podcasts covering important events, programs, and interviews with industry luminaries. James is the founder of "Fake Science," the popular podcast radio show covering all things digital music--news, reviews, and profiles of digital artists. --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Walking the Talk with Julieanne Kost In addition to over 150 full-color images, Julieanne Kost's new book, "Window Seat: The Art of Digital Photography and Creative Thinking" includes details on such topics as how to make great-looking images of clouds, mountains, farmland, and water, while photographing through airplane windows. This excerpt from Kost's book explains how to do just that. Kost details some of the techniques she used to transform images captured from the skies above into the final images that appear in the book. ***O'Reilly Photography Learning Center The O'Reilly Photography Learning Center is an evolving resource of tips, tricks, and techniques for photographers, both professional and amateur alike. Each month, we highlight a featured author, provide tips and techniques, and offer special discounts. Right now, check out Deke McClelland's tried and true teaching method for learning Photoshop CS2. ***Speak Your Mind on Digital Media Fill out a short survey (less than 10 minutes) and help us bring you the most accessible, best-written, cost-effective, and useful digital media resources on Earth. And don't forget to give us your email address at the end of the survey for a chance to win several great prizes! --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***Calling All Makers! On April 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds, MAKE magazine, the first magazine devoted entirely to DIY technology projects, is hosting Maker Faire. This event is the first ever public gathering of tech DIY enthusiasts, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science clubs, students, authors, and exhibitors. Maker Faire will include 6 exposition & workshop pavilions, a 5-acre outdoor midway, over 100 exhibiting Makers, hands-on workshops, demonstrations, DIY competitions, and the latest in tools, kits and DIY resources. The Maker Faire will also be featuring The Ultimate Garage (automative meets tech DIY), Robotics, Digital Entertainment/Gaming, Green Tech & Electronics Recycling, Ultimate Workshop, Weird Science, and the MAKE: Remix video film festival. More info: The Call for Proposals is now open. If you have an interesting project that you are bursting to share with your fellow Makers, here's your chance! You will have the opportunity to explain how the project works and to demonstrate it to an inquisitive and appreciative audience. Plus, you will have the opportunity to roam the Faire and spend some downtime with fellow Makers. Each Maker will be assigned to a half-day time slot on Saturday or Sunday. Your proposal should include a short description of your project and a brief profile describing yourself. This information will appear in the Maker Faire program and on makezine.com. Also, please state any special requirements (power, connectivity, ventilation, etc.) you may have. Submit a proposal today: Important Dates: Maker Proposal Due: Midnight (PST) Feb. 27, 2006 Speaker Notification: March 15, 2006 Workshop and Presentations Files Due: April 10, 2006 Faire: April 22-23, 2006 ***Meet Your Fellow Makers Find and post events, exhibits, and more with Maker events listings: ***Try a Sample Project from MAKE: Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://www.oreilly.com ================================================================