From timc+perl at divide.net Thu May 4 20:14:46 2006 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 21:14:46 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: O'Reilly UG Program News: DSUG Discount Changes] Message-ID: <445AC326.40007@divide.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: O'Reilly UG Program News: DSUG Discount Changes Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 12:16:34 -0700 From: Marsee Henon Hello, Can you please let your members know about the increase in our user group discount? You can post this to your mailing list, web site, or in your newsletter and please make sure you mention this at your next meeting. Get 30% off a single book or 35% off two or more books from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, or Syngress books you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. Free ground shipping on orders $29.95 or more in the US. 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Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ From timc+perl at divide.net Mon May 15 22:12:44 2006 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 23:12:44 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 15 Message-ID: <44695F4C.1040503@divide.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -The Art of Software Process Improvement -Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS -Building Scalable Web Sites -DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition -Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition -Enterprise SOA -iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual -IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition -It's Never Done That Before -Java I/O, Second Edition -Learning PHP and MySQL -MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell, Third Edition -Perl Hacks -Rails Recipes -Scripting for Testers -Statistics Hacks -Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook -VB 2005 Black Book -Video Conferencing over IP ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly at SANE 2006, Delft, The Netherlands--May 15-19 -O'Reilly at XTech 2006: "Building Web 2.0," Amsterdam--May 16-19 -O'Reilly at JavaOne, San Francisco, CA--May 16-19 -Peter Krogh at the American Society of Picture Professionals, Fairfax, VA--May 17 -Peter Morville at Enterprise Search Summit 2006, New York--May 23-24 -Stephen Few at Technology Transfer, Italy--May 24-26 -Eddie Tapp Photo Workshop, Palo Alto, CA--May 24 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Register for OSCON, July 24-28--Portland,OR -Register for the Where 2.0 Conference, June 13-14--San Jose, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Scan, Open, & Print Money with dekePod -Announcing the 2006 O?Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off -For SARS Press 1, for Bird Flu Press 2... -BSD Certification Group Inc. Announces UG Fundraising Competition -The Chicago Perl Mongers are hosting Yet Another Perl Conference North America--June 26-28 -Creating a Dual-Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop -Grabbing iTMS Preview Tracks the Geek Way -Mac FTP: A Guided Tour -Build a Web-Based Bug Tracking App -Ensuring Application Compatibility in Vista -AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? -Rounded Corners with Clean HTML and No JavaScript -Search Indexing Limits: Where Do Robots Stop? -Real-Time Java: An Introduction -Configuration Management in Java EE Applications Using Subversion -Summer Projects -The Maker Faire -Make Video Podcast: Andrew Filo's Rocket Belt ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases--Books, PDFs, and Rough Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get 30% off a single book or 35% off two or more books from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, or Syngress books you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. Free ground shipping on orders $29.95 or more. For more details, go to: 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: ***The Art of Software Process Improvement Publisher: O'Reilly Rough Cuts Version (limited Review copies available) "The Art of Software Process Improvement" combines the foundation needed to understand process improvement theory with the best practices to help individuals implement process improvement initiatives in their organization. The three leading programs: ISO 9001:2000, CMMI, and Six Sigma-amidst the buzz and hype-tend to get lumped together under a common label. This book delivers a combined guide to all three programs, compares their applicability, and then sets the foundation for further exploration. It's a one-stop-shop designed to give you a working orientation to what the field is all about. ***Build Your Own Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS Publisher: Sitepoint ISBN: 0975240293 This book introduces you to HTML and CSS as you follow along with the author, step-by-step, to create a fully functional web site. Along the way, you'll learn how to apply web standards to make your site fast loading, easy to maintain, viewable in almost every web browser, and accessible to disabled users. ***Building Scalable Web Sites Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596102356 This comprehensive guide covers the design of software and hardware systems for web applications. Using scores of examples and leading-edge tips, it details proven methods for scaling web applications to millions of users. Topics include application architecture, development practices, technologies, Unicode, and general infrastructure work. Ideal for anyone ready to realize the cost and performance benefits available to web applications today. ***DNS and BIND, Fifth Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100574 The fifth edition covers BIND 9.3.2, the most recent release of the BIND 9 series, as well as BIND 8.4.7. BIND 9.3.2 contains further improvements in security and IPv6 support, and important new features such as internationalized domain names, ENUM (electronic numbering), and SPF (the Sender Policy Framework). Whether you're an administrator involved with DNS on a daily basis or a user who wants to be more informed about the Internet and how it works, you'll find that this book is essential reading. ***Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0, Fifth Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059600978X This new edition of "Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0", written by Bill Burke and Richard Monson-Haefel. has been updated to capture the very latest need-to-know Java technologies in the same award-winning fashion that drove the success of the previous four editions. Its easy-to-follow style and hundreds of practical examples help you simplify the complex world of EJB--without the costly trial and error. ***Enterprise SOA Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596102380 Based on extensive research with experts from the German software company SAP, this definitive book is ideal for architects, developers, and other IT professionals who want to understand the technology and business relevance of enterprise SOA in a detailed way--especially those who want to move on the technology now, rather than in the next year or two. ***iMovie 6 & iDVD: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527268 Movie 6 is all about the ease of moviemaking, but if you really want to learn its capabilities, Apple documentation won't make the cut. The new edition of this Missing Manual is the ideal third-party authority that covers all of these changes through an objective lens, from choosing and using a digital camcorder to burning the finished work onto DVDs or posting it online. ***IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100582 "IPv6 Essentials, Second Edition" provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new features and functions in IPv6. It guides you through everything you need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers and which applications currently support IPv6. Aimed at system and network administrators, engineers, network designers, and IT managers, this book will help you understand, plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure. ***It's Never Done That Before Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270763 "It's Never Done That Before" is a guide to Windows XP troubleshooting techniques, solving the most common problems in Windows XP, and finding and fixing more obscure ones. The book provides pointers to explanations of BIOS beep codes and blue screen errors, instructions for using the troubleshooting tools supplied with Windows XP such as Safe Mode and the Recovery Console, and advice for dealing with device drivers, the ROM BIOS, and the Windows Registry. ***Java I/O, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527500 All of Java's Input/Output (I/O) facilities are based on streams, which provide simple ways to read and write data of different types. "Java I/O, 2nd Edition" tells you all you need to know about the four main categories of streams and uncovers less-known features to help make your I/O operations more efficient. You'll also learn how to control number formatting, use characters aside from the standard ASCII character set, and get a head start on writing truly multilingual software. ***Learning PHP and MySQL Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101104 Featuring basic concepts explained in plain English, "Learning PHP and MySQL" is the ideal guide for newcomers attracted to the popular PHP and MySQL combination. Learn how to generate dynamic web content in a slow, easy-to-follow fashion. Also covers error handling, security, HTTP authentication, and more. ***MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596102283 Written by the premier author in Windows administration, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of Windows 2003 administrators preparing for the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) exams, "MCSE Core Required Exams in a Nutshell" is invaluable. Not only does this book provide the resources administrators need to succeed on the exams, but to succeed in the real world as well. They can think of this book as the notes they would have highlighted and then recorded for every essential nugget of information related to the skills measured in Exams 70-290, 70-291, 70-293, and 70-294 (and by association Exams 70-292 and 70-296). ***Perl Hacks Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596526741 "Perl Hacks" taps into the collective wisdom of the world's most creative Perl gurus, so you can learn from their experiences. It's the perfect book for experienced developers looking for time-saving practical tips or dabblers who are simply curious about Perl's many cool capabilities. Topics include user interaction, data munging, working with modules, object hacks, and debugging. ***Rails Recipes Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0977616606 You've read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful Rails application. But ingredients don't just turn themselves into a meal. Chad Fowler's "Rails Recipes" is a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the most cutting edge, modern Rails techniques, mixing the ingredients to create world-class web applications. Learn how to do it, and how to do it right. ***Scripting for Testers Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0977616614 "Scripting for Testers" is divided into two parts: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk. In the first, you'll learn the Ruby scripting language and the overall craft of scripting. In the second, you'll see how that knowledge can be applied to solve common testing problems. ***Statistics Hacks Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101643 Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into "Statistics Hacks." These cool tips, tricks, and mind-boggling solutions from the world of statistics, measurement, and research methods will not only amaze and entertain you, but will give you an advantage in several real-world situations-including business. ***Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490768 The definitive work for IT professionals responsible for the management of the design, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise wide security projects. Provides specialized coverage of key project areas including Penetration Testing, Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, and Access Control Systems. ***VB 2005 Black Book Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1933097086 "VB 2005 Programming 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. "VB 2005 Programming Black Book" approaches every topic methodically: the In Depth section covers all the concepts being introduced, followed by the Immediate Solutions section that provide hands-on real-world techniques. This book will guide programmers through all new features of VB 2005 and provide detailed coverage of all the new controls, language enhancements, and new architecture features. ***Video Conferencing over IP Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490636 Until recently, the reality of video conferencing didn't live up to the marketing hype. That's all changed. The network infrastructure and broadband capacity is now in place to deliver clear, real time video and voice feeds between multiple points of contacts, with market leaders such as Cisco and Microsoft continuing to invest heavily in development. In addition, newcomers Skype and Google are poised to launch services and products targeting this market. "Video Conferencing over IP" is the perfect guide to getting up and running with video teleconferencing for small to medium size enterprises. ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions 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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OSCON happens July 24-28, 2006 in open source hotspot Portland, Oregon, and registration has just opened. Hundreds of sessions and tutorials. Thousands of open source mavericks, brainiacs, hackers, activists, scientists, and their admirers, some in business-casual disguise. Read all about it. User Group members who register before June 5, 2006 get a double discount. Use code "os06dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ***Register for the Where 2.0 Conference, June 13-14--San Jose, CA 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 at Where 2.0. Use code "whr06dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. To register for the conference, go to: ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Scan, Open, & Print Money with dekePod Deke McClelland Digital imaging guru Deke McClelland just introduced the pilot for his new show "dekePod," a video podcast with a hip, visually compelling style. The pilot episode, "It's Your Money, Scan It!", shows viewers a workaround in Photoshop to scan and open money (under legal guidelines). ***Announcing the 2006 O?Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off Win some great prizes from Adobe, Pantone, Lowepro, GretagMacbeth, iStock Photo, Lynda.com, and more in the 2006 O?Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off. Just take up to three of your own photos and manipulate them with Adobe Photoshop, using recipes from any of the five O?Reilly Photoshop Cookbooks: "Photoshop Retouching Cookbook for Digital Photographers," "Photoshop Blending Modes Cookbook for Digital Photographers," "Photoshop Photo Effects Cookbook," "Photoshop Filter Effects Encyclopedia," and "Photoshop Fine Art Effects Cookbook." The contest will be judged by a panel of experts from the industry?s A-list: Bert Monroy, Katrin Eismann, Deke McClelland, Tim Grey, and Mikkel Aaland, among others. Entries may be submitted from May 15--August 15, 2006. For details and contest rules, go to: ***For SARS Press 1, for Bird Flu Press 2... One of the key things we can do during a pandemic is to move in-person congregations and meetings online, creating electronic surrogates for daily social activities such as classes, business meetings, and social outings. Brian McConnell examines how organizations can use the latest telecom technology to help keep society functioning and diminish the spread of disease if this kind of a disaster takes place. --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***BSD Certification Group Inc. Announces UG Fundraising Competition Calling all User Groups! The BSD Certification Group Inc. just announced a fundraising competition at BSDCan 2006 (http://www.bsdcan.org). If you're a member of a BUG, LUG, UUG, or sysadmin user group, here's your chance to help the BSD Certification Group (http://www.bsdcertification.org) realize their goal of creating the standard certification for system administrators of the BSD family of operating systems. This is a great opportunity to assist in a worthy cause while showcasing the generosity and creative spirit found within your user group. For contest details and deadlines, go to: ***The Chicago Perl Mongers are hosting Yet Another Perl Conference North America--June 26-28 YAPC::NA conference takes place June 26th-28th and will be followed by open Perl programming classes on the 29th and 30th. Come hear Perl luminaries such as Larry Wall ("Programming Perl"), Damian Conway ("Perl Best Practices" & "Perl Hacks"), Randal Schwartz ("Learning Perl" & "Intermediate Perl"), brian d foy ("Learning Perl" and "Intermediate Perl"), chromatic ("Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook" & "Perl Hacks"), Allison Randal ("Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials"), and Andy Lester ("Mac OS X Tiger in a Nutshell"), and more. Find out what is new in Perl 5 and what is happening with Perl 6 and Parrot. ***Creating a Dual-Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop Running a Windows-only laptop is hardly ideal for people who do considerable work in the Linux environment. When Cygwin and ssh aren't enough, consider at least dual-booting into the free software world. Kevin Farnham recently converted his new laptop into a half-Windows, half-Ubuntu GNU/Linux machine. Here's how. --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Grabbing iTMS Preview Tracks the Geek Way Ever tried to copy a preview track from the iTMS onto your iPod? Hint: you can't. iTunes won't add those 30-second free previews. Why would you want to? Some great audio and video are waiting for you to enjoy. Plus, there's the sheer thrill of geek accomplishment--the "oh, so that's how to do it" satisfaction. ***Mac FTP: A Guided Tour (S)FTP has a valuable place in the hearts of web builders and developers, and is still one of the most practical methods of getting files from one place to another in a secure manner. In this article, Giles Turnbull surveys six FTP clients for the Mac platform and shows you the major characteristics of each. --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Build a Web-Based Bug Tracking App Having problems tracking bugs every time you create a new project? Jesse Liberty has the solution. Here, he shows you how to build a Web-based bug-tracking application using ASP.NET. ***Ensuring Application Compatibility in Vista What should you do if your enterprise has mission-critical line-of-business apps that simply must continue running properly once you've upgraded your desktops to Vista? Mitch Tulloch, author of Windows Server Hacks, offers insight and advice. --------------------- Web --------------------- ***AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? In this insightful report, James reveals the results of independent tests he has conducted using AJAX scripts in a variety of screen reader software. The results are sure to surprise you! ***Rounded Corners with Clean HTML and No JavaScript 'Spanky Corner' is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produced 'round-cornered content boxes' with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work. ***Search Indexing Limits: Where Do Robots Stop? Ever wondered how much of each of your pages is being crawled by the search engines? Serge has, which is why he conducted an experiment to test the exact page size that could be crawled by the search bots. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Real-Time Java: An Introduction "Real-Time" Java doesn't mean "really fast," but it does mean "really predictable," and that's especially important in many fields where an unpredictable response time, usually caused by the Java Virtual Machine's garbage collector, can cost money or lives. Peter Mikhalenko looks at the Real-Time Specification for Java and Sun's first implementation of the spec. ***Configuration Management in Java EE Applications Using Subversion Does your enterprise Java application need to store not only complex objects or documents but a history of changes to them? Many developers try to solve this problem with database wizardry, but it's probably a better option to hand the job over to a configuration management system that is built for the task. In this article, Swaminathan Radhakrishnan shows how you can implement requirements for change tracking by using a Subversion repository from your Java application, by way of the JavaSVN library. --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***Summer Projects Are you looking for something fun or interesting to do this summer? This week, we begin with an interview with Julieanne Kost, whose pictures from airplanes are published in the book Window Seat. Then Google's Chris Dibona talks to us about the upcoming second Summer of Code. Finally, Dale Dougherty reads from his article in Make magazine on Natalie Jeremijenko and her robot dogs. (DTF 05-08-2006: 24 minutes 35 seconds) ***The Maker Faire Thousands of makers met up at the San Mateo Fairgrounds on April 22 and 23 for the first-ever Maker Faire. We talk to Make magazine publisher Dale Dougherty about the Faire and hear from some of the attendees and exhibitors that made this event so successful. (DTF 05-01-2006: 19 minutes 55 seconds) ***Make Video Podcast: Andrew Filo's Rocket Belt For more Maker Faire coverage, go to: Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================