From timc+perl at divide.net Tue Apr 29 21:49:30 2008 From: timc+perl at divide.net (Tim Chambers) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:49:30 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 29] Message-ID: <4817FA5A.3020509@divide.net> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 29 Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:09 -0700 From: Marsee Henon To: timc+pppm+oreilly at divide.net If you cannot read the information below, click here . O'Reilly.com UG Program Newsletter Hi there? viguy Hope you are having a wonderful April. We are here at O'Reilly. We just released some big news at our recent Web 2.0 Expo, our new consulting and training division called O'Reilly InPractice. Here's an interview with the new Chief Strategy Officer George LeBrun that's worth a quick read. And as usual around here, we've got lots of new books, conferences, and other projects going on. One of the latest is a new book widget that lets you share O'Reilly and our partners' books on your web site. You can choose by author, topic, or just show all our new releases automatically and it's completely customizable for your web site so you can choose the size, design, and more. I'm willing to trade you a book of your choice for posting one of these cool new widgets. Send me a link and let us know how you like them. Many thanks to our beta testers including Stephen Henry from NCMUG , Michael Ross from SDOUG , Jen Blackledge from COWPU , and Satish Talim from the RubyLearning User Group . New books we're hoping to get Amazon and Slashdot reviewers for include "Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide ," "The Principles of Project Management ," "Subject To Change ," and "bash Cookbook ." Send me an email if your interested and I'll get the book right out. Travel Alert: Are you going to Tech?Ed or JavaOne ? Please let me know! I'll be attending both shows and want to say hi. We're also getting ready for OSCON in Portland, OR. If you have any UG activities or ideas we should know about or attend--pass them along. This will be our 10th Year of OSCON. And here's a funny video every cat person should watch--"An Engineer's Guide to Cats " Marsee ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: * O'Reilly UG Program News?Just for User Group Leaders <#ugprogram> * New Releases <#newreleases> * Upcoming Events <#upcoming> * Conference News <#conferencenews> * School of Technology <#school> * News from O'Reilly & Beyond <#news> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ O'Reilly UG Program News?Just for User Group Leaders April 29, 2008 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Put Up a Banner Get a Free Book We're looking for user groups to display our discount banners on their web sites. If you send me your group's site with one or more banners, I'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. Choose from the following list: * Customizable O'Reilly Book Widgets * OSCON 2008 Banners * Graphing Social East Banners * Ubuntu Live Banners * InsideRIA Banners * 35% off Digital Media User Group banners * 35% off User Group Discount Banner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ O'Reilly News for User Group Members April 29, 2008 New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin 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 of $29.95 or more. See details . Did you know you can request a free book or PDF 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 New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts: * Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide * Big Book of Apple Hacks * Fine Art Printing for Photographers, Second Edition (/Rocky Nook/) * Flex 3 Cookbook Rough Cut * FXRuby (/Pragmatic Bookshelf/) * Google Apps Hacks * Hackerteen * Harnessing Hibernate * Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments * Java Power Tools * Learning Flash Media Server 3 * My New Mac (/No Starch/) * MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition * Painting the Web * Photoshop CS3 Accelerated (/Young Jin/) * Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers * Programming Flex 3 Rough Cut * Programming Groovy (/Pragmatic Bookshelf/) * Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World (Hard Cover) * Take Control of iWeb: iLife '08 (/TidBITS/) * Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators * Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide (Hard Cover) MAKE Magazine Subscriptions makezine.com The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. 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Subscribe at: http://www.craftzine.com/go/craftug ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Upcoming Events For more events, please see: events.oreilly.com * Harold Davis Hosts a Weekend Workshop on Night Photography * * May 2-4, 2008 * Berkeley, CA Author Harold Davis (*Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers* ) will be hosting a weekend workshop on night photography in Berkeley, CA. * Maker Faire 2008 * * May 3-4, 2008 * San Mateo County Fairgrounds San Mateo, CA A two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates arts, crafts, engineering, and science projects and the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful people who like to tinker and love to make things. We call them Makers. For more information, contact Sherry Huss at sherry @ oreilly.com or see the Maker Faire web site . * Derrick Story at the Stanford/Palo Alto Macintosh User Group * * May 5, 2008 * Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Palo Alto, CA Author Derrick Story (*The Digital Photography Companion* , *iPhoto 8: The Missing Manual* , and *Digital Photography Hacks* ) presents iPhoto 8. Please see the *SLAC information* page for details on access and security at SLAC. * XTech 2008: The Web on the Move * * May 6-9, 2008 * Radisson SAS Royal Hotel Dublin, Ireland Doug Crockford (*JavaScript the Good Parts)* <%20http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517748/index.html> Doug Tidwell (*XSLT, 2nd Ed)* <%20http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527211/index.html>, Eric van der Vlist (*XML Schema)* <%20http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/index.html> and Edd Dumbill (*Mono)* at XTech. XTech is the premier European conference for developers, information designers and managers working with web and standards-based technologies bringing together the worlds of web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards. The theme for this year's conference is "The Web on the Move." * Pycon Italy * * May 9-11, 2008 * Viva Hotel Lauru Florence, Italy Alex Martelli (*Python in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition* ) will give a talk at Pycon Italy. This is the second Italian conference organized by a bunch of Python enthusiasts and held in the beautiful city of Florence. Come and see our latest publications at the O'Reilly booth. * Where 2.0 * * May 12-14, 2008 * Burlingame, CA The Where 2.0 Conference provides a unique environment for the business community to interact with developers who are influencing location-aware technology. In the O'Reilly tradition, leading trends will be presented from the most innovative and interesting players in the realm of geospace. * Ignite! Where 2.0 * * May 12, 2008 * SFO Marriott, 1800 Old Bayshore Highway Burlingame, CA Come join us for a night of fun as we take time out from Where 2.0 to present ideas, share crazy projects, and hang out with the geek community. You must have your Where Badge to enter. For more information, email ignite @ oreilly.com. * /Subject to Change/ Book Release Event * * May 13, 2008 * Adaptive Path Offices 363 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA Join O'Reilly Media & Adaptive Path as we celebrate the release of our new book *Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World* . The event starts at 6 PM for reception and mingling, then onto a quick presentation, more mingling, and ending with a book signing. * Python Author & Trainer Mark Lutz Leads 3-Day Seminar * * May 14-16, 2008 * Longmont, Colorado Python author and trainer Mark Lutz (*Learning Python* , *Programming Python* , and *Python Pocket Reference* ) will be teaching a 3-day Python class. * Dux Raymond Sy at the North Carolina PMI Chapter * * May 15, 2008 * Sheraton Imperial, Research Triangle Park Durham, NC Author Dux Raymond SY (*SharePoint for Project Managers* ) presents "Enhancing Project Communication and Collaboration with a PMIS." * Dru Lavigne at BSDCan 2008 in Ottawa * * May 16-17, 2008 * University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON Dru Lavigne (*BSD Hacks* ) will be giving a tutorial on system administration, as well as manning the registration booth and proctoring the BSDA exam. Keep an eye out for her! * O'Reilly Authors at WebVisions * * May 22-23, 2008 * Oregon Convention Center Portland, OR David Verba (*Subject To Change* ), Kevin Hoyt (*Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide* ), David McFarland (*Dreamweaver CS3: The Missing Manual* ), Christopher Schmitt (*CSS Cookbook, Second Edition* ) are speakers at this year's event. * RailsConf * * May 29-Jun 1, 2008 * Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and Ruby Central Portland, OR The largest official conference dedicated to everything Ruby on Rails, RailsConf incorporates keynotes, sessions, and tutorials to arm participants with the knowledge and skills they need to capitalize on the wealth of services and opportunities the Rails framework has to offer. * O'Reilly at BookExpo America * * May 30-Jun 1, 2008 * Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles, CA Stop by and say hi at our table in the International Rights Center at this year's event. * David Ascher and Brian King at eLiberatica--The benefits of Open and Free Technologies * * May 30-31, 2008 * The World Trade Centre Bucharest, Romania Authors David Ascher (*Python Cookbook)* and Brian King (*Creating Applications with Mozilla)* will be talking at eLiberatica. Following the huge public success of the first eLiberatica in 2007, this conference will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics; you will hear from today's experts in various fields of technical and business practice and become part of an event that is far more than a simple conference. Come and see our latest publications at the O'Reilly booth. * Harold Davis at Book Passage in Corte Madera * * May 31, 2008 * Book Passage Corte Madera, CA Author Harold Davis (*Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers* ) will be presenting "100 Views of the Golden Gate." 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Sign up for your free copy. *Adobe Lightroom Adventure continues in Tasmania* In April 2008, a group of internationally renowned photographers traveled to the end of the world, literally, to the remote island of Tasmania. Using Adobe Photoshop Lightroom, photographers will upload, sort, keyword, adjust, and output their Raw images while still working in the field. Read the stories, see the images, and watch the photographers discuss this challenging assignment. Mikkel Aaland, project director, will capture the lessons learned for his book on Adobe Lightroom, scheduled to be published later this year. Tourism Tasmania is offering a chance to win a trip for two to Tasmania, Australia. Read on for the details. *New Publishers on Safari Books Online* We are pleased to announce the introduction of John Wiley & Sons content to Safari Books Online. With the inclusion of Wiley content, Safari Books Online is now the only source for online access to the world's top four technology publishers. Pearson, John Wiley & Sons, O'Reilly Media, and Microsoft Press represent 85% of the computer books sold at retail in the U.S., according to Nielsen BookScan. *TECHbash 2008 in Northeastern Pennsylvania on May 10* Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO's and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. This one day event brings together a broad spectrum of Technology Professionals to network, knowledge share and discuss existing technology solutions to business challenges, as well as preview prerelease products on the bleeding edge. This year, they've expanded to three tracks offering more presentations and providing more content choices. 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Luckily, Ruby has a great reporting infrastructure available to build on, and in this article, you'll learn how to use it. *The iPhone SDK: APIs Apple Didn't Want You to Know About* The iPhone has been a hot item ever since it came out, but running non-Apple supplied software on it isn't easy. But the secrets to building a successful toolchain to create iPhone applications can be found right here. *Step by Step: Using Samba to join a Windows Domain* Samba has made getting Linux and Windows systems talking to each other much easier than it once was. But there are still some tasks that are more than a little finicky. One of them is definitely joining a Samba client to a domain-based Windows network. Luckily, now you'll have a step by step guide to doing just that. 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