From timc+perl at divide.net Tue Oct 10 07:30:50 2006 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:30:50 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 9] Message-ID: <452BAE9A.9010305@divide.net> --------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook -The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition -Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET, Second Edition -Color Management in Digital Photography -Cryptography for Developers -CSS Cookbook, Second Edition -Developers Guide to Web Application Security -Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition -Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON (PDF) -Essential Electronics for Software Folk -Fedora Linux -Fine Art Printing for Photographers -From Darkroom to Lightroom, Second Edition (PDF) -GIMP 2 for Photographers -Hack the Stack -HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition -Java Generics and Collections -Learning JavaScript -Mapping and Modding Half-Life 2 Complete -MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell -Practical Color Management: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography -Process Improvement Essentials -Programming Atlas -Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition -Scripting for Testers -Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit -Syngress Force Emerging Threat Analysis -Using Microformats (PDF) -Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook -WarDriving and Wireless Penetration Testing -Web Scripting Little Black Book -Windows PowerShell Quick Reference (PDF) -Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit -MAKE & CRAFT Magazine Subscriptions ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at the Silicon Valley Mac User Group, Cupertino, CA--October 16 -David McFarland ("CSS: The Missing Manual") at DevGroup NW, Portland, OR--October 19 -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") at PhotoPlus Expo, New York, NY--Nov 2-4, 2006 -Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom School Tour -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series -Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Submit Your Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -2.6 Million Lines of Code -Smalltalk for Everyone Else -User Group Members Receive a Special 30% Discount on O'Reilly Learning Courses -Sharing Internet Connections -Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules -Two Slick QuickTime Tricks -Web Domination Using Photoshop -Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes Purchases) -Better Registry Searching -Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup -What is Java Content Repository -Managing a Honeypot -Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes--Which are You? -Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests -The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer (Podcast) -Listen to DerEngel(No Starch's "Hacking The Cable Modem") on NYC's WBAI-FM -TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue -Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way (Podcast) -Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules --------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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Subscribe at: ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: ***Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at the Silicon Valley Mac User Group, Cupertino, CA--October 16 Author Derrick Story will talk about digital photography at the Apple Campus in Cupertino. ***David McFarland ("CSS: The Missing Manual") at DevGroup NW, Portland, OR--October 19 Author David McFarland's talk, "Troubleshooting CSS Layouts," explores the most common pitfalls web designers face when using Cascading Style Sheets. Learn how to avoid common CSS gotchas as well as tricks for making your web pages behave in Internet Explorer. ***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") at PhotoPlus Expo, New York, NY--November 2-4 Author Peter Krogh will be attending PhotoPlus Expo and speaking in the iView Multimedia booth and ASMP sessions. ***Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom School Tour Author Julieanne Kost will provide students with an in-depth seminar on using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta, highlighting their combined support for a digital workflow. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: ***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series Author Peter Krogh will be teaching the "Get Your DAM Stuff Together" track for ASMP's "It's Your Business" Series. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: ***Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour Author Eddie Tapp will teach you the complete digital workflow from capture to final output. During this seminar, Monte Zucker and Eddie Tapp cover concept to completion--posing, pixels, Photoshop, and printing--everything needed to create beautiful digital photographic portraits. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Submit Your Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo The Call for Participation for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo has just opened: an invitation for database experts and enthusiasts to share their knowledge of MySQL with the global open source community. The theme for the 2007 conference is "Scale to New Heights with MySQL." This annual event brings nearly 2,000 MySQL developers, DBAs, users, and partners together in Santa Clara, California. The Call for Participation ends November 7, 2006; the conference takes place April 23-26, 2007. ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***2.6 Million Lines of Code Announcing O'Reilly Code Search, where you can enter search terms to find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O'Reilly books. The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, comprises 2.6 million lines of code, all edited and ready to use. ***Smalltalk for Everyone Else The Pragmatic Programmers advise learning a new language every year. Instead of yet another Algol derivative, why not master object orientation with perhaps the purest OO language ever devised? Smalltalk and the Squeak environment offer a powerful and usable learning experience; Keith Fieldhouse provides an introduction. ***User Group Members Receive a Special 30% Discount on O'Reilly Learning Courses As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series: -Linux/Unix System Administration -Web Programming -Open Source Programming -.NET Programming To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1," good for a 30% discount, in Step #3 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online: --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Sharing Internet Connections Protecting your computer when you're online is good. If you have multiple computers in your home or small business, protecting all of them is also good--especially if you can share your internet connection. Dru Lavigne demonstrates how to allow other computers to use the network safely with a FreeBSD or similar Unix system and fwbuilder. ***Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application, hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and response times and load averages under control. This case study explores their technique. --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Two Slick QuickTime Tricks Turn your video on its ear! Our hands-on tutorial shows you how to work with vertical movies and then embed them in a web page with a friendly new kind of trigger. ***Web Domination Using Photoshop The time has come for designers to execute their plans to dominate the World Wide Web with stunning graphics! Here, Corrie provides a full arsenal of fundamental techniques, before launching you on a stellar trajectory that takes in buttons in all their forms. With her step-by-step instructions, handy hints, and secret tricks, you'll have everything you need to bring the Web to its knees...in awe! --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes Purchases) How much money have you spent at the iTunes store? And what do you have to show for it? An iPod full of music? TV shows? Those new games and movies? Too many people forget how much cash they've put into their digital media. And when bad things happen--house fires, computer theft, iPod loss--they're not always prepared to be able to recover those digital assets. Erica Sadun shows you archiving techniques to preserve your (hefty) iTunes investment. --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Better Registry Searching Finding what you need in the registry is harder than trying to find a needle in a haystack. Mitch Tulloch shows you how to find what you need--fast! ***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup Here's the weekly summary of a mix of Windows Mobile and general mobile tech related items from Todd Ogasawara's blog. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***What is Java Content Repository You might have heard of JSR-170, but what is a content repository, and what can you do with it? Well, do you want to manage documents with versioning, search, access control, and more? Content repositories offer these features, and JSR-170 codifies them into a single API. Sunil Patil shows how to use the reference implementation--Apache Jackrabbit--to create a blogging application. --------------------- Sys Admin/Web --------------------- ***Managing a Honeypot If intruders are always scanning the Internet for potential victims--and they are--can you find the intruders and their exploits by putting up fake networks that only a deliberate scan could find? That's the theory behind honeypots. Peter Mikhalenko discusses the implementation, theory, and legality of using a honeypot to protect your network. ***Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes--Which are You? In what may be the largest survey of web developers ever, The State of Web Development 2006/2007 exposes four key web professional stereotypes. In this review, Nick explains how the stats were collated, and what they revealed about the industry and those who work in it. --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter. Depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, enter one or all of the following contests: Hack-o-Lantern, Costume, Decorations, Gadgets and More, and Treat-or-Treat. Have your entries in before Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, at 1:59 pm EST. We're giving you a little time to take photos and get them up post-Halloween, but you can enter any time starting now. Contest is open to anyone on planet Earth or the surrounding orbit. Remember you can enter any time just by tagging your photos on Flickr (flickr.com) with "MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" and adding them to the MAKE and/or CRAFT photo pools. To enter Trick-or-Treat just post about MAKE/CRAFT or the contest on your blog. For complete contest information, rules, and prizes, go to: For More MAKE Projects and info, go to: --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer In "Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography," the renowned photographer writes about his journey on the "bleeding edge of digital photography's evolution." In this podcast, Johnson talks to Sara Peyton about his career, photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the wild places he wandered in. (20 minutes 27 seconds), Stephen Johnson, a digital photography pioneer and author of Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography, discusses photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the wild places he wandered in. ***Listen to DerEngel(No Starch's "Hacking The Cable Modem") on NYC's WBAI-FM DerEngel talks about how he collected the information for the book, his background as a hardware hacker, the EFF's participation in reviewing the book from a legal standpoint, and the importance of supporting free speech in a corporate world. The cable companies may not be happy with this book, but DerEngel and the WBAI host agree that "Hacking The Cable Modem" contains useful info for understanding how Internet broadbandworks and that there are curious tinkerers who just like to learn new stuff, not commit malicious acts. ***TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue Find out what to expect with the subject of one of David's upcoming titles on the anticipated Microsoft Windows Vista and some other ways to get info on tech from David Pogue. We'll also find out why David loves the latest Tivo! **Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer, and much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly, "Photoshop Workflow Setups." In this interview by new O'Reilly staffer Sara Peyton, Eddie talks about his photography roots, the art of taking pictures, his new book...and why he lives by the rule of 300. (15 minutes 33 seconds) --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application, hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and response times and load averages under control. This case study explores their technique. Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================