From timc+perl at divide.net Sat Jan 27 22:50:04 2007 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 23:50:04 -0700 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 26] Message-ID: <45BC479C.5010600@divide.net> ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual -ActionScript 3.0 Programming (PDF) -The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition -Botnets: The Killer Web App -Comp TIA RFID+ Study Guide and Practice Exam (RFO-001) -CRAFT: Volume 02 -Cyber Crime Investigations -Developers Guide to Web Application Security -Eight Great Ways to Get the Most from Your Zune -Essential Electronics for Software Folk -Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual -Google Web Toolkit for Ajax (PDF) -Introduction to Neogeography -The OpenBSD 4.0 Crash Course -Physical and Logical Security Convergence: Powered By Enterprise Security Management -PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual -Programming Firefox: Rough Cuts Version -Rails Cookbook (Book or PDF) -Rails for Java Developers -Release It! -Secure Your Network for Free -Software Testing Foundations, Second Edition -The OpenBSD 4.0 Crash Course (PDF) -Using Samba, Third Edition -Using XForms with Mozilla (PDF) -What's New in Windows Vista? -Windows Developer Power Tools -Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual -Windows Vista in a Nutshell -Word 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual -MAKE & CRAFT Magazine Subscriptions ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly at ASTD TechKnowledge 2007, Las Vegas, NV-- January 31-February 2 -Geek Cruise Features David Pogue, Deke McClelland, and Eddie Tapp, Eastern Caribbean--February 3-10 -O'Reilly at Conferencia Internacional de Software Libre 3.0--Feb 7-11 -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers") ASMP Evening and Next Day Presentations, Philadelphia, PA--February 8-9 -O'Reilly at RoR eXchange 2007, London, UK--Feb 9 -Rob Orsini ("Rails Cookbook") at the North Bay Rails User's Group, Sebastopol, CA--February 15 -Rasmus Lerdorf at the 2007 PHP Conference, London, UK--February 23 -Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition) at NCMUG, Rohnert Park, CA--February 20 -Emerging Telephony Conference 2007,Burlingame, CA-- February 27-March 1 -Rob Orsini ("Rails Cookbook") at SOCOSA, Sebastopol, CA--March 6 -Peter Morville, "Information Architecture & Search" International Master Class, Sydney, Australia--March 8-9 -O'Reilly Authors at South by Southwest, Austin, TX--March 9-13 -O'Reilly at ASTD TechKnowledge 2007, Las Vegas, NV-- January 31-February 2 -O'Reilly at the Photo Marketing Association, Las Vegas, NV--March 8-11 -O'Reilly at SD West, Santa Clara, CA--March 20-22, 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -New 40% Discount for the 2007 Emerging Telephony Conference -Call for Participation for O'Reilly Open Source Convention -Call for Participation for O'Reilly Energy Innovation Conference -Register for ETech 2007 -Register for Web 2.0 Expo ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Craftzine Interviews Amy Sedaris, Author of "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence" -David Pogue (Missing Manual Creator) talks with the Public Libraries Association in the ?Podcast from Hell? -Publishing for (Sales) Success -New Course Featuring AJAX--O'Reilly/University of Illinois Certificate Series -Why I Stopped Coding and Why I'd Start Again -Greylisting with PF -Compare, Select, and Rate -Free Pass for Photoshop World Tech Expo -Digital Media Insider Podcast 6: Desktop Music in Japan -Macworld 2007: 1984 All Over Again -My Favorite Macworld Product: Indigo -The Case for Freeware and Open Source Windows Tools -The Five Best and Worst Things About Vista -Word 2007 Missing Manual Screencast: Word's Ribbon -Build a .NET App for Google Checkout -Discovering a Java Application's Security Requirements -Review/Preview: 2006 and 2007 in Java -Accessible JavaScript -SD West--Free Expo Pass -Let's Speculate for 2007 --------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases--Books, PDFs, and Rough Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, Syngress, or YoungJin books you purchase directly from O'Reilly. 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"The OpenBSD Crash Course" Short Cut will help you get an x86 or AMD64/EM64T server, desktop, or network appliance up and running quickly with OpenBSD. ***Physical and Logical Security Convergence: Powered By Enterprise Security Management Publisher: Syngress ISBN 10: 1597491225 While physical and logical security disciplines are disparate, today's threats are such that they need to be addressed in tandem. Gone are the days when there was little to no communication between the IT and physical security staff. 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Learn how to take advantage of advanced functions (such as adding custom background images) that existed in previous PowerPoint versions, but were so cleverly hidden that few people ever found them. ***Programming Firefox: Rough Cuts Version Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596529732 This is the essential guide to building user interfaces and rich internet applications for the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird email client and independent projects using free development tools from the Mozilla Foundation. ***Rails Cookbook (Book or PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596527314 This book is packed with the solutions you need to be proficient developer with Rails, the leading framework for building the new generation of Web 2.0 applications. Recipes range from the basics, like installing Rails and setting up your development environment, to the latest techniques, such as developing RESTful web services. 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This tutorial shows you how to use Mozilla to start working with XForms. ***What's New in Windows Vista? Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596510314 Get ready for a quick blast through this significant change to Windows! This guide will give you a quick look at many of the most significant new features in Vista, Microsoft's first revision of Windows in nearly six years. ***Windows Developer Power Tools Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596527543 This book offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 free and open source programming tools for those of you who want to extend your development environment, write higher quality software, and increase productivity. 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To help you locate a specific setting, tool, or feature quickly, the book is organized into separate references for the user interface, file system, networking, hardware, security, mobility, multimedia, and command prompt. Also includes a system overview and a tour of the basics. ***Word 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN 10: 0596528302 Fast-paced and easy to read, this concise guide teaches you the basics of Word 2007 so you can start using the program right away. You'll learn how to create documents, format and edit text, share the results, and go beyond basic documents to handle graphics, create page layouts, and use forms and tables. ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions 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--one plus four more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this great offer for UG Members: five volumes for the cost of four. 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Derrick will show the latest happenings in photo software for the Mac. ***Emerging Telephony Conference 2007,Burlingame, CA-- February 27-March 1 ETel brings you the best of what's happening at the cutting edge of the entire IP telephony spectrum now, and how new technology is being deployed by forward-thinking pioneers. ***Rob Orsini ("Rails Cookbook") at SOCOSA, Sebastopol, CA--March 6 Author Rob Orsini will give an overview of Ruby on Rails at the Sonoma County System Administrators March meeting. ***Peter Morville, "Information Architecture & Search" International Master Class, Sydney, Australia--March 8-9 This two-day class from Peter Morville (Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition and Ambient Findability) covers information architecture from top to bottom, explaining how search and navigation systems can be designed to support and shape user behaviour. ***O'Reilly Authors at South by Southwest, Austin, TX--March 9-13 Kathy Sierra ("Head First Series"), Christopher Schmitt ("CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition"), Eric Meyer ("CSS: The Definitive Guide, Third Edition"), and Phil Torrone (Makezine.com) will be speaking at SXSW Interactive this year. ***O'Reilly at ah the Photo Marketing Association, Las Vegas, NV--March 8-11 Stop by the O'Reilly booth (#J244) to say hi, peruse our new titles, and meet our expert authors. 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To register for the conference, go to: ***Call for Participation for O'Reilly Open Source Convention The next O'Reilly Open Source Convention, taking place July 23-27, 2007 in Portland, Oregon, will bring over 2500 open source professionals together to network, learn, and share the latest knowledge around open source software. Share your favorite techniques, proven successes, and newly-developed technology by leading sessions and tutorials at OSCON 2007. Visit the Proposals page for more details and to submit your ideas. Proposals are due no later than February 5, 2007. Registration opens in April. ***Call for Participation for O'Reilly Energy Innovation Conference Concern for the future of energy has reached critical mass. To explore solutions to the world's significant energy challenges, O'Reilly has launched its inaugural Energy Innovation Conference. 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For anyone who's a fan of her work, from the Comedy Central TV show and movie, "Strangers with Candy," to her many comedic scene-stealing guest appearances, you know and love Amy's world. ***David Pogue (Missing Manual Series Creator) talks with the Public Libraries Association in the ?Podcast from Hell? Interviewer Andrea Mercado says "This was, hands down, the most interesting, humorous, and problem-laden interview I?ve done thus far, part funny ha-ha, part funny uh-oh. You too can see why David calls this the ?podcast from hell.? ***Publishing For (Sales) Success Can eBooks be used for marketing consulting services? Dave Hecker gives us his preliminary findings. ***New Course Featuring AJAX--O'Reilly/University of Illinois Certificate Series O'Reilly Learning is proud to announce their new Client-Side Web Programming Certificate Series. These courses provide a complete understanding of front-end web development, from HTML and CSS, to JavaScript DOM and AJAX. And don't forget, user group members receive a special 30% discount! 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: Other O'Reilly Learning Courses include: -Linux/Unix System Administration -Web Programming -Open Source Programming -.NET Programming --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Why I Stopped Coding and Why I'd Start Again What happens when programming stops being fun? What do you do when juggling dependencies and worrying about installation issues takes all of the joy out of writing code for other people? You can stop coding... or you can try to address the underlying problems. Brian McConnell postulates an enhancement of the Python language to make programming as fun as it was in the BASIC-in-ROM minicomputer days. ***Greylisting With PF Greylisting--delaying mail delivery briefly per the SMTP RFCs--is an effective way to reduce the amount of incoming spam. While many greylisting solutions require customization of your SMTP server, OpenBSD's PF can do it too. Dan Langille shows how to use the powerful packet filter to identify and pass legitimate mail, delay and divert potential spammers, and throw in some OS fingerprinting to ward off certain zombie clients. --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Compare, Select, and Rate Aperture's powerful sorting tools enable photographers to cull hundreds of images quickly. This podcast features Derrick Story and Scott Bourne explaining the compare, select, and rating tools, including stacks, during a recent workshop at Macworld San Francisco. ***Free Pass for Photoshop World Tech Expo The Photoshop World Tech Expo is open to the public one day only on Thursday, April 5 from 10am to 5PM at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. If you are interested in mingling with the biggest names in the industry and seeing the latest in Photoshop-related technology, you can sign up for a free Tech Expo pass (valued at $20 per person) beginning in late March. ***Digital Media Insider Podcast 6: Desktop Music in Japan >From Tokyo, David Battino interviews DTM Magazine's Daigo Yokota on the state of Japanese music technology, tests Mixmeister's slick podcasting software, and explores two cool songs on the DTM DVD. --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Macworld 2007: 1984 All Over Again Daniel Steinberg reports on the Macworld keynote. From the big iPhone announcement and demo to the startling lack of Mac and Leopard news, Daniel shares his impressions and provides detailed analysis of the year's largest Apple event. ***My Favorite Macworld Product: Indigo Each year Adam Goldstein likes to search out the cool new products at Macworld. This year Adam takes a look at the powerful Indigo home automation system. --------------------- Microsoft/.NET --------------------- ***The Case for Freeware and Open Source Windows Tools In "Windows Developer Power Tools," James Avery and Jim Holmes tell you about scores of incredibly useful, freely available tools for Windows developers. In this article, they tell you about some of their favorite ones. ***The Five Best and Worst Things About Vista After five years, Windows Vista is finally here. What's good and what's bad about it? Preston Gralla, author of "Windows Vista in a Nutshell," tells you five things you'll love and five things you'll hate about Vista. For more info on Vista, go to: ***Word 2007 Missing Manual Screencast: Word's Ribbon Get a closer look at how the Ribbon is Word 2007 works with author Chris Grover ("Word 2007: The Missing Manual"). For more examples from this title, go to: ****Build a .NET App for Google Checkout Google Checkout, Google's online payment system, integrates with websites such as Buy.com. In this article, Google's Martin Omander details Google Checkout's plumbing and shows you how to build a .NET application to integrate with it. --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Discovering a Java Application's Security Requirements Java security manager policy files are powerful and flexible, but rather grueling and error-prone to write by hand. In this article Mark Petrovic employs a novel approach: a development-time SecurityManager that logs your applications' calls and builds a suitable policy file. ***Review/Preview: 2006 and 2007 in Java 2006 will be remembered as the year that Sun open-sourced Java under the GPL, that EJB 3.0 finally shipped, and that Google surprised everyone with its Google Web Toolkit. But how will history record the results of these events? For the 2006 year-ender, ONJava editor Chris Adamson looks at the year's events through the lens of how they may play out in 2007. ***Accessible JavaScript Can developers make their JavaScript-based websites accessible to visitors using screenreaders and other assistive technology? 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