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Tim Chambers timc+perl at divide.net
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Subject: 	Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 29
Date: 	Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:12:09 -0700
From: 	Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
To: 	timc+pppm+oreilly at divide.net



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O'Reilly.com <http://www.oreilly.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 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/chatting_with_george_lebrun_ab.html> 
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 
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me a link and let us know how you like them.

Many thanks to our beta testers including Stephen Henry from NCMUG 
<http://www.ncmug.org/>, Michael Ross from SDOUG 
<http://www.sdoug.org/>, Jen Blackledge from COWPU 
<http://www.cowpu.com/>, and Satish Talim from the RubyLearning User 
Group <http://www.rubylearning.org/class/>.

New books we're hoping to get Amazon and Slashdot reviewers for include 
"Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529963/index.html>," "The 
Principles of Project Management 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780980285864/index.html>," "Subject To 
Change <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516833/index.html>," and 
"bash Cookbook 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526788/index.html>." Send me an 
email if your interested and I'll get the book right out.

Travel Alert: Are you going to Tech•Ed 
<http://www.Microsoft.com/TechEd2008> or JavaOne 
<http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/>? Please let me know! I'll be attending 
both shows and want to say hi.

We're also getting ready for OSCON 
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/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 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4>"

Marsee <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/marsee_henon/>


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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>

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O'Reilly UG Program News—Just for User Group Leaders
April 29, 2008


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*Ruport: Business Reporting for Ruby * 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2008/04/08/ruport-business-reporting-for-ruby.html>
No one likes developing reporting tools for an application. But without 
them, many applications are only half-done. 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* 
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/03/25/the-apple-sdk-apis-apple-didnt-want-you-to-know-about.html>
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* 
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/01/step-by-step-using-samba-to-join-a-windows-domain.html>
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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Blogs

SpongeBob SquarePants Supports O'Reilly Research Finding 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/spongebob-squarepants-supports.html> 

Good Devices Gone Bad 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/good-device-gone-bad.html>
Removing the Remains of the 15-day Trial 
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2008/04/removing-the-remains-of-the-15.html> 

Is the Closed Source Inevitable? 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/is_the_closed_source_inevitabl_1.html> 

My Transition to Using O'Reilly Safari Online Books Service 
<http://www.marckboucher.com/random-thoughts/my-transition-to-using-oreilly-safari-online-books-service/> 

Making Connections With Hackerteen
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/making_connections_with_hacker_1.html>Five 
Steps to Web 2.0 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/five_steps_to_web_20.html>
The Best ActionScript Book Ever Written <http://theflashblog.com/?p=366>
Unforgettable Tasmania--Leo Laporte reports on the latest Lightroom 
Adventure <http://leoville.com/2008/04/14/1466/>
Looking for a Few Good SysAdmin Problems to Solve in Python 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/looking_for_a_few_good_sysadmi.html> 

How to Make Applets (and JavaFx) Viable 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/how_to_make_applets_and_javafx.html> 

Web 2.0 Expo SF Launchpad: Six New Startup Stars 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/web2expo-sf-launchpad.html>
Get Info on a Mac Without Logging in 
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/get-info-on-a-mac-without-logg.html> 


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