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Subject: 	Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, January 25
Date: 	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:31:49 -0800
From: 	Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>



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O'Reilly.com <http://www.oreilly.com>UG Program Newsletter

Hi there---

viguy Just out this week is our new web site InsideRIA.com 
<http://www.insideria.com/>, an online community developed by O'Reilly 
and sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Our goal is to create an 
invaluable resource for information on the ever-changing state of design 
and development of rich Internet applications (RIAs).

Live from Macworld, Lorene Romero of the North Coast Mac Users Group 
<http://www.ncmug.org/> wants cutting and pasting on an iPhone in this 
"Missing Features" video post. 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/missingfeature/blog/2008/01/cutting_and_pasting_on_an_ipho.html> 


Here are more "Missing Features" videos 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/missingfeature/blog/> including David Pogue 
and Derrick Story.

Headed to SDWest? Make sure you stop by the O'Reilly booth and say hi. 
Free Expo passes are available for the upcoming Southwest Developer 
Conference & Expo (West). Register at http://www.sdexpo.com 
<http://www.sdexpo.com> with the priority code 8WEXH81 by February 27 to 
get a free expo pass good for admission to the expo floor, all keynote 
presentations, the opening floor party, the Developer Bowl, and more.

Are you attending PyCon in Chicago in March? I'm going to be at the 
O'Reilly booth in the expo hall. Let me know if you're going to be 
around. Registration just opened http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/. 
<http://us.pycon.org/2008/about/>

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


P.S. If you haven't already, check out the O'Reilly bookstore on Amazon 
<http://tinyurl.com/366u24>.
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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
January 25, 2008


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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
January 25, 2008

New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts

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New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts:

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Augmented Reality @ Home (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 
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Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 
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Facebook: The Missing Manual <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517694>
iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual 
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Learning ActionScript 3.0 <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527877>
Programming C# 3.0, Fifth Edition 
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The Ruby Programming Language 
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Wikipedia: The Missing Manual 
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Upcoming Events

For more events, please see: events.oreilly.com 
<http://events.oreilly.com/>


* Money:Tech <http://conferences.oreilly.com/money> *
* Feb 6-7, 2008 *
Waldorf Astoria
New York City, New York
MoneyTech <http://conferences.oreilly.com/money/>
The inaugural O'Reilly Money:Tech conference will raise the level of 
conversation around technology advances in the investment industry, 
bringing together innovators with established players to increase 
adoption and awareness and push the technology forward.

* Dru Lavigne and Allison Randal Speak at Southern California Linux Expo 
(SCALE) <http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/schedules/> *
* Feb 8-10, 2008 *
Westin Los Angeles Airport
Los Angeles, CA
Scale <http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/schedules/>
Authors Dru Lavigne (BSD Hacks <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bsdhks/>) 
and Allison Randal (Perl 6 & Parrot Essentials 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/059600737X/>) will be speaking at the 
Southern California Linux Expo from February 8-10, 2008. Located in Los 
Angeles, the conference draws many qualified speakers and exhibitors, 
and Dru & Alison will be speaking as part of the Women in Open Source 
Track.

* Tools of Change for Publishing Conference (TOC) <http://www.toccon.com> *
* Feb 11-13, 2008 *
New York City, New York
TOC <http://conferences.oreilly.com/toc/>
The Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) Conference explores how 
technology is influencing the future of publishing, sparking creativity 
and inspiring conversation for leading change in the industry.

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Conference News

O'Reilly OSCON Conference 
<http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2008/public/cfp/13> OSCON 2008 Call for 
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July 21-25, 2008 in Portland, Oregon
O'Reilly Media is seeking proposals from people in tune with the 
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O'Reilly Ubuntu Live Conference 
<http://en.oreilly.com/ubuntu2008/public/cfp/12> Ubuntu Live 2008 Call 
for Participation <http://en.oreilly.com/ubuntu2008/public/cfp/12>
July 21-22, 2008 in Portland, Oregon
This is your opportunity to present your experiences of working with 
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O'Reilly GSP West Conference <http://conferences.oreilly.com/gspwest/> 
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March 3-4, 2008 in San Diego, CA
This two-day conference presents a behind-the-scenes look at the 
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February 6-7, 2008 in New York, NY
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April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA
A companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, Web 2.0 Expo is an expanded, 
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Registration for ETech is now open <http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/>
March 3-6, 2008 in San Diego, CA
Body hacking. DIY spectrum. Crowd visualization. Sensor games. ETech 
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O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 
<http://www.toccon.com> Registration for TOC is now open 
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February 11-13, 2008 in New York, NY
Technology is transforming publishing. Are you ready for the future? 
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April 14-17, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA
The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, 
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Use code "mys08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the early 
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OST *O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive a 30% 
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News from O'Reilly & Beyond

UG News

*Call For Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2008--Entry deadline is March 12, 
2008 * <http://makerfaire.com/bayarea/2008/callformakers/>
Maker Faire flags
Make Magazine is now accepting entries for the Maker Faire Bay Area, May 
3 and 4 at the San Mateo County Fairgrounds. Entries are due March 12, 
2008. Space is limited, please submit your entry early! Maker Faire 
tryouts are February 17 at the Exploratorium in San Francisco noonâ?? 
4pm. Accepted entries will be notified by March 19. Entry form, tryout 
details, and more can be found online.

*PyCon registration opening soon--Looking for Python-related projects 
for Expo Hall <http://us.pycon.org/2008/>*
For those projects working with or using Python, registration for PyCon 
is open. There was a record turnout for tutorial and talk 
proposals--this looks to be the best PyCon yet.

If your project uses Python, now would be a great time to get involved. 
This year's PyCon will feature a two-day Expo Hall with free booths for 
non-profits and open source projects. Get in on the fun. If your group 
would like to participate in the Expo Hall, email 
pycon-sponsors at python.org for more information.

*Greg Wilson at Amazon* 
<http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Code-Leading-Programmers-Practice/dp/0596510047>
Amazon features a Video of "Beautiful Code" Editor Greg Wilson giving a 
presentation at Amazon.

Jolt*O'Reilly and Safari Books Online are JOLT Award Finalists* 
<http://www.joltawards.com/finalists.html>
Safari Books Online and O'Reilly Radar are two of the six finalists in 
Web Sites/Developer Networks category. Finalists in General Books 
category include, "The Myths of Innovation" and "Beautiful Code" (both 
in Safari Books Online) category and "Head First SQL" is finalist in 
technical books category.

*New Rough Cuts Community Features in Safari Books Online* 
<http://www.oreilly.com/roughcuts/>
Safari recently upgraded our interactive publishing service, Rough Cuts 
manuscripts-in-progress, to include online community features such as 
comment viewing and posting. Available to Safari Library subscribers, 
Rough Cuts enables you to stay at the forefront of technology innovation 
and the ability to engage with peers and world-renown authors. Check out 
Rough Cuts today and start getting ahead.

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Articles

camel*How to Tell Your Perl Story (at OSCON)* 
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2008/01/18/how-to-tell-your-perl-story.html>
Have you done something stunningly cool or staggeringly useful with Perl 
in the past year? Conference season will be here soon; it's time to 
consider giving a talk to your local monger group, a regional 
conference, or even OSCON. Perl track committee member brian d foy gives 
several guidelines to help you decide what to talk about and how to 
present it.

*Creating Games in Ruby* 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/creating-games-in-ruby.html> 

Nearly every developer fosters a secret desire to create cool video 
games, but for most of us, the barriers to entry (knowing how to create 
performant graphics code) has kept us out of the game. But there are 
several toolkits for Ruby that can get you on your way without a Ph.D.

Part 1: 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/creating-games-in-ruby.html

Part 2: 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html 


*Administering MySQL Using Flex* 
<%20http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/01/15/administering-mysql-using-flex.html>
Adobe's Flex offers a rich client-side user experience, but how do you 
use it to create practical applications. In this article, you'll see how 
to hook Flex up to a PHP backend to do some simple MySQL administration.

*Joe Schorr on Leopard & Apeture* 
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/08/joe-schorr-on-leopard-and-aperture.html>
Derrick Story interviews Senior Product Manager Joe Schorr, on some of 
the most enticing and useful features for Aperture photographers.

*Less is More: Steve Jobs' Macworld 2008 Keynote Address* 
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/17/macworld-2008.html>
Steve Jobs opened the Macworld surprise envelope at the 2008 keynote 
address and out slid a sleek notebook computer: the Macbook Air. Daniel 
Steinberg was on hand for the unveiling and files this report about all 
the new hardware, iPhone updates, and more.

*LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple* 
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/01/22/lilo-and-grub-boot-loaders-made-simple.html>
LILO and Grub are the most popular Linux bootloaders. Usually, your 
Linux distribution chooses and configures one or the other for you, but 
this article provides a handy comparison of the two, and offers some 
troubleshooting and configuration tips if you ever want to do it by hand.

*The Art & Science of JavaScript* 
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/art-science-javascript>
In this tutorial, we'll look at a technique for using CSS and JavaScript 
to build a first-person-perspective maze, in homage to old-school 
adventure games like Dungeon Master and Doom.

For more articles, go to: *http://www.oreillynet.com/*

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Blogs

A Year in O'Reilly Books (2007) from Tim O'Reilly 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/a_year_in_oreilly_books.html>
HF JavaScript: Learn Outside the Book 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2008/01/hf_javascript_learn_outside_th.html#more> 

Scott Kelby--Katrin's New Book is a Winner, and I Know Eight People I'm 
Sending a Copy to This Week 
<http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/939>
Freaking Multitudes of .htaccess great balls of fire 
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2007/12/freaking-multitudes-of-htacces.html> 

Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_71.html> 

TMTOWTDI -> The Right Way to Do It 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/tmtowtdi_the_right_way_to_do_i.html> 

PhoneValet & iPhone: Instant Landline Voice Mail 
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/01/phonevalet-iphone-instant-land.html> 

Thoughts on Firefox 3.0 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/01/thoughts_on_firefox_30.html>
What Do You Want to Read from Head First Authors? 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2008/01/what_do_you_want_to_hear_from.html#more> 

Presents for Under Your Tree (for next year) 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2007/12/presents_for_under_your_tree_f.html> 


For more blogs, go to: *http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/*

Until next time---
Marsee Henon <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/marsee_henon/>
Spreading the knowledge of innovators. 
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