From bmathis at directedge.com Sun Jun 2 12:07:39 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:39 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 31] Message-ID: <3CFA50DB.3030701@directedge.com> O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER May 31, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending? -The Next Hot Jobs -O'Reilly's spring catalog available on Google -Standard Data Vocabularies Unquestionably Harmful -Perl Success Stories Sought -Achieving Closure -Writing for Perl.com? -Flying High with AirPort -All About the Little Green Glob -Building Palm Conduits, Part 1 -System.Drawing with C# CONFERENCE NEWS -OSCON Conference Updates Early Bird Discount Date Coming Up Soon--June 10, 2002 Room Share Mailing List Lightning Talk Proposals BOOK NEWS: -Java and SOAP -Ant: The Definitive Guide -Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities -Learning Unix for Mac OS X ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS -Join TMOUG for the 2nd Annual Golf Outing and Meeting ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- A BAD, SAD HOLLYWOOD ENDING? Tim O'Reilly comments on a recent "Business Week" article that points out the dangers to open source from the Hollings bill and the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1428 For more on these topics, don't miss Lawrence Lessig's keynote on "Freeing Culture" at the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Convention. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/keynotes.html THE NEXT HOT JOBS This list from Smart Money.com includes "Bioinformatician" and "Wireless Engineer. " http://smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=working-june02#ai O'Reilly can get you started... Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics Order Number: 0804 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/ Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills Order Number: 6641 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/ 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide Order Number: 1835 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/802dot11/ O'REILLY'S SPRING CATALOG AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE Go to: http://catalogs.google.com/ and then click on the "Computers" section, or by typing "O'Reilly" in the search box. (If you would like to receive paper catalogs for your members, please let me know.) --------------------- XML --------------------- STANDARD DATA VOCABULARIES UNQUESTIONABLY HARMFUL Walter Perry argues that standard XML vocabularies are an invitation to fraud. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/perry.html --------------------- PERL --------------------- PERL SUCCESS STORIES SOUGHT Do you have a Perl success story that you'd like to share? Let Betsy Waliszewski know. For more information see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1438 ACHIEVING CLOSURE What's a closure, and why are they so important? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html WRITING FOR PERL.COM? Here are our submission guidelines: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/general/writing.html --------------------- MAC --------------------- FLYING HIGH WITH AIRPORT by Derrick Story This first-person account by airline pilot Jim Dearien details setting up an AirPort network and getting his legacy PCs to work on it. This adventure was motivated by one goal: he wanted to buy his first Mac. See how Jim pulled it off. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/28/mac_dev.html For more articles from Derrick see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/54 ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE GREEN GLOB Polish your Cocoa applications by implementing intelligent "zoom" buttons at the top of the windows. Mike Beam shows you how. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/16/cocoa.html For more articles by Mike Beam see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/159 --------------------- .NET --------------------- BUILDING PALM CONDUITS, PART 1 This excerpt from "Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS," offers an introduction to building conduits, synchronization software that connects Palm apps and data stores. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/vbpalm_4/index1.html Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS Order Number: 2009 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbpropalm/ SYSTEM.DRAWING WITH C# Learn the System.Drawing namespace, which contains types that help you with drawing. This crash course willl enable you to write better--and probably faster--code. Here is a 10-minute crash course. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/05/20/drawing.html ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ ******************************* OSCON CONFERENCE UPDATES ******************************* EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DATE COMING UP SOON--JUNE 10, 2002 Please let your members know that if you register by June 10, 2002, you are eligible for the "Early Bird" discount of $200. You and your members are ALSO eligible for the "User Group" discount of 20%. (So if you register by June 10th, and use the user group discount code, you'll get 20% off the reduced "Early Bird" rate.) The User Group discount code is DSUG. ROOM SHARE MAILING LIST If you wish to save on your OSCON housing costs, you may wish to room-share. We have set up a room-share email list to facilitate finding a suitable roommate. Please visit the Room Sharing page to submit your information and be added to the mail list. The list will be updated and broadcast weekly. Room Share Mailing List Form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/rs LIGHTNING TALK PROPOSALS We are planning to have lightning talks for every track and conference at OSCON. A lightning talk is a 5-minute tightly-focused presentation. Discuss your favorite extension, rant, sing the praises of an under-appreciated developer, plug your product or company, beg for a job, or even present a Shakespearean-style play! (don't laugh--we had one of these in 2001). Lightning Talk Proposals form: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina July 22-26, 2002--San Diego, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Please send me copies of your newsletters. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ JAVA AND SOAP Order Number: 1754 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/ In addition to covering the basics such as the structure of a SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) message, SOAP encoding, and building simple services using RPC and messaging, "Java and SOAP" covers many topics that are essential to real-world development. Chapter 5, "Working with Complex Data Types," is available in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/chapter/index.html The source code for this book is available on Robert Englander's website: http://mindstrm.com:8199/soap.htm ANT: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE Order Number: 1843 Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant is part of Jakarta, the Apache Software Foundation's open source Java project repository. Ant is written entirely in Java and is platform independent. Using XML, a Java developer describes the modules involved in a build, and the dependencies between those modules. Ant then does the rest, compiling components as necessary in order to build the application. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/ Chapter 1, "Ant Jumpstart," is available in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/chapter/index.html PLANNING FOR WEB SERVICES: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES An O'Reilly Research Report (Sorry, no review copies available) Following the groundbreaking "P2P Networking Overview" from O'Reilly Research, "Planning for Web Services" guides tech executives and managers through the inflated claims, competing standards, and acronym soup to arrive at a realistic appraisal of web services' potential for your business. With profiles of more than thirty of the key players in this emerging sector, the report concludes with a straightforward checklist of the strategic issues and questions every IT decision-maker should answer before committing to web services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wsrep/ An Executive Summary of the report is available online at: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/04/12/execreport.html LEARNING UNIX FOR MAC OS X Order Number: 3420 This book is a concise introduction to just what a reader needs to know to get started with Unix on Mac OS X. With Mac OS X, they now have the ability to not only continue to use their preferred platform, but to explore the powerful capabilities of Unix. This title gives the reader information on how to use the Terminal application, become functional with the command interface and explore many Unix applications. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/ Chapter 4, "Customizing Your Session," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/chapter/ch04.html ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Ohio-- Join the Toledo Metro Oracle User's Group for the 2nd Annual Golf Outing and Meeting! On June 18th, @ The Tamaron Country Club, 8:30am to 12 Noon Please RSVP to Kellie Jakubowski at 419-475-6999 or via email at kelliej@wtainc.com, or register online at http://www.tmoug.org. -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Thu Jun 6 09:34:03 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:39 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: Larry's Apocalypse 5 (fwd) Message-ID: Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers =============================================================== Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust FREE E-COMMERCE SECURITY GUIDE Is your e-business built on a strong, secure foundation? Find out with VeriSign's FREE White Paper, "Building an E-Commerce Trust Infrastructure.” Learn how to authenticate your site to customers, secure your web servers with 128-Bit SSL encryption, and accept secure payments online. Click here: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n20390091180057000 =============================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Who's your unsung Perl hero? Is there someone who's been doing fantastic work that's gone more or less unnoticed? ActiveState wants to recognise the grunt workers of Perl, PHP, Python, Tcl and XSLT, with their annual Programmer's Choice award. Vote for your unknown Perl legend now! http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html Parrot 0.0.6 is released, without much ceremony. Still, this is an important release, bringing a (doubly) rewritten assembler, a fantastic intermediate compiler courtesy of Melvin Smith, and much more... http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg10384.html Speaking of releases, new versions of mod_perl and a release candidate for perl 5.8.0 are available: http://www.mail-archive.com/modperl@apache.org/msg27821.html http://www.mail-archive.com/modperl@apache.org/msg27820.html http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/01/1944202 http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7940&release_id=92625 * What's new on www.perl.com? Larry's Apocalypse 5 is out, in case you haven't noticed already. In this episode of the design of Perl 6, Larry turns to regular expressions. Kleene algebra, the basis of regular expressions, has been with us for just over 50 years, and Unix-like regular expressions have been around for the best part of 30 years. Time, argues Larry, for an overhaul. We promised last week it would be mindblowing. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html Enjoy, SC ========================================================== Sponsored by Perl Licensor Perl Licensor. A perl security product that provides time limited licenses and prevents tampering and piracy of perl programs. Seeking customers, resellers, executive and engineering staff. Free Demonstration. http://www.perllicensor.com ========================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Apocalypse 5 In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html *** Achieving Closure What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them? http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 1 What do we need to think about when optimizing mod_perl applications? Stas Bekman explains how hardware, software and good programming come into play. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/mod_perl-opt.html *** Finding a mod_perl ISP... or Becoming One You're ready to use mod_perl -- but do you have a server to run it on? Stas Bekman explains what an ISP needs to do to run mod_perl programs, and how to find an ISP that lets you do so. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/22/mod_perl-isp.html *** The Perl You Need To Know - Part 3 Stas Bekman finishes his introduction to the basic Perl skills you need to use mod_perl; this week, globals versus lexicals, modules and packages. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/14/mod_perl.html *** Where Wizards Fear To Tread So you're a Perl master. You've got XS sorted. You know how the internals work. Hey, there's nothing we can teach you on perl.com that you don't already know. You think? Our new series teaches the topics others only dream about, starting with the Perl op tree. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/07/optree.html ===================================================================== The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Perl Conference 6 -- You cannot afford to miss this conference if you want to sharpen your Perl skills, mingle with the elite of the Perl community, and learn all about Parrot and the state of Perl 6! Featuring Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Slomo Mellmann, and many more! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ===================================================================== ================================================================== Build a Better Bookshelf with Safari Tech Books Online Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books Online, with 600 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly and other top publishers. Select ten books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. Find your answers fast. Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html =================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Sun Jun 16 09:41:16 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:39 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl Newsletter: Where Wizards Fear to Tread] Message-ID: <3D0CA38C.2050103@directedge.com> Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for Perl.com Subscribers ============================================================ Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust Is your e-business secure enough? Learn why it's vital to encrypt your business transactions, secure your intranets, and authenticate your Web site with the strongest encryption available-128-bit SSL. To learn more, get VeriSign's FREE Guide, "Securing Your Web Site for Business" now: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n20370091180057000 ============================================================ ============================================================ Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Conference season is nearly upon us, and although you've just missed the early bird registration deadline for this year's The Perl Conference, it's gearing up to be another great event; meanwhile, over at Yet Another Perl Conference, (where you'll be able to, indeed, meet me in St. Louis - how original...) the schedule has been announced and dorm rooms are available: http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ http://www.yapc.org/America/day1.shtml https://donate.perl-foundation.org/index.pl?node=Dorm+Info AxKit 1.6 is out! AxKit, in case you've been living in a cave, is an XML application server for mod_perl. What's that mean? It lets you not only dynamically publish XML as Web pages, PDFs, embossed articles for the blind, or whatever you want, but also have XML tags fire off Perl subroutines. This release brings separation of content and style providers and the addition of a new SAXMachine language module. And vaguely related but not quite, a new version of the Bricolage content management system is out. http://axkit.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:4164:gckddipdnjdnhmddncgd http://bricolage.thepirtgroup.com/ Last but not least, Dan Sugalski, Parrot designer and Perl Foundation fundraiser, will be in Phoenix next Thursday (June 20th) to talk about Parrot and Perl 6, and to pass the hat around for donations to continue the funding of Larry, Damian and himself. http://www.jundy.com/parrot/ * What's new on www.perl.com? One of the interesting new features of Perl 5.8.0 will be stable interpreter-based threading, thanks mainly to the work of Artur Bergman. In this installment of our Where Wizards Fear To Tread series, he explains how to create thread-safe Perl modules. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html Enjoy, SC ===================================================================== Sponsored by Oracle9i Oracle Technology Network will bring you to the top of your game in applications development technology. Download the latest development programs and sample code. Membership - and the latest development software - is free. Jumpstart your development on Oracle9i. Register for a FREE CD sampler. Oracle Technology Network. All you need to know. http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/06/12/mid ===================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Where Wizards Fear To Tread One of the new features coming in Perl 5.8 will be reliable interpreter threading, thanks primarily to the work of Artur Bergman. In this article, he explains what you need to do to make your Perl modules thread-safe. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html *** Apocalypse 5 In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html *** Achieving Closure What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them? http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 1 What do we need to think about when optimizing mod_perl applications? Stas Bekman explains how hardware, software and good programming come into play. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/mod_perl-opt.html *** Finding a mod_perl ISP... or Becoming One You're ready to use mod_perl -- but do you have a server to run it on? Stas Bekman explains what an ISP needs to do to run mod_perl programs, and how to find an ISP that lets you do so. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/22/mod_perl-isp.html *** The Perl You Need To Know - Part 3 Stas Bekman finishes his introduction to the basic Perl skills you need to use mod_perl; this week, globals versus lexicals, modules and packages. http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/14/mod_perl.html ================================================================== The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina Learn the Latest and Greatest in Open Source Software Apache 2.0, Perl 6, PHP, XML, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Python and Zope, Mac OS X, Linux, Java, and more ... 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Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Thu Jun 20 15:18:09 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:39 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Perl.com Newsletter: Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance (fwd) Message-ID: Perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for Perl.com Subscribers ============================================================ Sponsored by VeriSign - The Value of Trust FREE E-COMMERCE SECURITY GUIDE Is your e-business built on a strong, secure foundation? Find out with VeriSign's FREE White Paper, "Building an E-Commerce Trust Infrastructure." Learn how to authenticate your site to customers, secure your web servers with 128-Bit SSL encryption, and accept secure payments online. Click here: http://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/go.cgi?a=n20390091180057000 ============================================================ Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Yet Another Perl Conference is nearly upon us, and as I polish up my presentations and pack my bags, there's time to note that the schedule for lightning talks has been posted. Looks like there'll be some fun stuff! http://perl.plover.com/lt/yapc2002.html Do you remember the perl5-porters and perl6 summaries we used to run? I'd very much like to run those again, but this needs *YOU* to help write them. If you're interested in helping out, please let me know, and we'll discuss what's involved. simon@oreillynet.com And finally, want to win free training in Seattle? Every dollar you donate to the Perl Foundation enters you into a raffle for a training session with Damian Conway. Kudos to Consultix for coming up with this neat way to raise funds! http://teachmeperl.com/apworkshop.html http://donate.perl-foundation.org/ * What's new on www.perl.com? Stas Bekman is back with his mini-series on optimizing mod_perl applications. Before you can start optimizing, it's a good idea to know exactly what you need to optimize, and that means benchmarking. Stas introduces the key Apache and mod_perl benchmarking tools. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html Next week, we'll all be at Yet Another Perl Conference, whence we'll be bringing you plenty of updates about the goings-on; be sure to keep checking our weblogs column for the latest! Enjoy, SC ===================================================================== The 4th O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 22-26, 2002 Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina The Perl Conference 6 -- You cannot afford to miss this conference if you want to sharpen your Perl skills, mingle with the elite of the Perl community, and learn all about Parrot and the state of Perl 6! Featuring Larry Wall, Damian Conway, Slomo Mellmann, and many more! http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ===================================================================== *** Featured Articles *** Improving mod_perl Sites' Performance: Part 2 Before making any optimizations to mod_perl applications, it's important to know what you need to be optimizing. Benchmarks are key to this, and Stas Beckman introduces the important tools for mod_perl benchmarking. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/mod_perl.html *** PDF Presentations Using AxPoint In this month's Perl and XML column on XML.com, Kip Hampton describes AxPoint, a way to create presentations in PDF using Perl and XML. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/06/19/perl-xml.html *** Where Wizards Fear To Tread One of the new features coming in Perl 5.8 will be reliable interpreter threading, thanks primarily to the work of Artur Bergman. In this article, he explains what you need to do to make your Perl modules thread-safe. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/11/threads.html *** Apocalypse 5 In part 5 of his design for Perl 6, Larry takes a long hard look at regular expressions, and comes up with some interesting ideas... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/06/04/apo5.html *** Achieving Closure What's a closure, and why does everyone go on about them? http://perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html =================================================================== New Report from O'Reilly Research: Planning for Web Services Planning for Web Services is a new report from O'Reilly Research by industry visionary Clay Shirky. This report guides CTOs and CIOs through the inflated claims, competing standards, and amalgam of acronyms to arrive at a realistic appraisal of the business impact of Web Services. $495 Save $100! 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Sign up today! https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html ================================================================== -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Fri Jun 28 21:42:45 2002 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:39 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 28] Message-ID: <3D1D1EA5.5060902@directedge.com> O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER June 28, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors -Wearable Computers -O'Reilly's Improved Shopping Cart -Colin Moock on Flash MX -ActiveState Active Awards 2002-Today is the Last Day to Submit Nominations -Seven Common SSL Pitfalls -I've Switched From Windows, Now What? -Pizza, HoHos, and MacHack 2002 -User Controls and Custom Server Controls, Part 1 CONFERENCE NEWS -New Presentations Added to OSCON -Julian Cash's Amazing Photos From Last Year's Open Source Convention BOOK NEWS: -VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell -Perl & LWP -Java Management Extensions -XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition -Network Security with OpenSSL -sed & awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING OPEN SOURCE VENDORS Tim O'Reilly explains why open source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software vendors. "Customer lock-in is the real enemy of business, not the GPL," Tim says. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/06/28/vendor.html For the latest on open source, don't miss O'Reilly's upcoming Open Source Convention in July. http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ User Group members are eligible for the "User Group" discount of 20%. The User Group discount code is DSUG. To register go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/ord_os02 WEARABLE COMPUTERS Remember when the Dick Tracy communicator watch seemed like something out of science fiction? Well here we are. Now what? Tim O'Reilly and Jon Orwant write about the fashion potential of wearable computers in the latest Ask Tim. http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/ O'REILLY'S IMPROVED SHOPPING CART We've streamlined our online ordering process and added features that make it quicker and easier to shop on oreilly.com (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html), check the status of your order, and manage your O'Reilly account. To create or modify your account, go to: https://epoch.oreilly.com/account/accountmanagement.asp?retUrl=http://www.oreilly.com Remember, User Group members get a 20% discount on orders direct from O'Reilly. When ordering, be sure to use the User Group discount code: DSUG --------------------- FLASH --------------------- COLIN MOOCK ON FLASH MX Colin Moock talks about Macromedia's re-christened suite of MX applications, and how they can be used to develop web services and richer interfaces. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/18/flashmx.html Colin is the author of "ActionScript: The Definitive Guide." Order Number: 8520 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript/index.html --------------------- OPEN SOURCE --------------------- ACTIVESTATE ACTIVE AWARDS 2002 -TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO SUBMIT NOMINATIONS Programmers' Choice: Nominations Do you know someone who's really made a difference to open language programming? Maybe it's the author of your favorite module, or the guy who maintains your favorite advocacy site. Maybe it's the person that has made the most bug fixes, or simply someone that writes really cool code. Now's your chance to give them the recognition they deserve. Nominate your favorites for the Programmers' Choice Active Awards. Until June 28, 2002, you can select the one programmer that you think has done the most for each language. Perl, PHP, Python and XSLT winners will be announced at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference July 23, 2002. Tcl winners will be announced at the Tcl conference in September. http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html SEVEN COMMON SSL PITFALLS If you are deploying SSL-enabled applications with OpenSSL here are seven pitfalls you'll want to avoid, by the authors of "Network Security with OpenSSL." http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/06/27/openssl.html Network Security with OpenSSL Order Number: 270x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openssl/ --------------------- MAC --------------------- I'VE SWITCHED FROM WINDOWS, NOW WHAT? Terrie Miller is a full-time web producer who is documenting her switch to Mac OS X. 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