[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, July 8]

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Mon Jul 11 15:10:36 PDT 2005 

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
> To: perlmongers at catalyst.net.nz
> Subject: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, July 8
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 14:25:29 -0700
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> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> July 8, 2005
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> Book News
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> -JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
> -SharePoint Office Pocket Guide
> -Project 2003 Personal Trainer
> -Astronomy Hacks
> -UML 2.0 in a Nutshell
> -Maven: A Developer's Notebook
> -Web Mapping Illustrated
> -Exchange Server Cookbook
> -ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
> -Knoppix Pocket Reference
> -Mapping Hacks
> -Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide
> -Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger
> -MAKE Magazine Subscriptions Available
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> Upcoming Events
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> -O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, CA--August 8-11
> -David Pogue at Macworld Boston, SOHO Apple Store, and 
>  Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
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> Conference News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Register for the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, 
>  Portland, OR--August 1-5
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> News
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> -Top Ten Questions People Ask About Switching to Internet Telephones
> -Anti-spam Techniques
> -Hacking Maps
> -Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser
> -Google Launches Payment System to Compete With PayPal
> -ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
> -Problems in OpenSSH, Sudo, and Java
> -Secure Your MySQL Databases
> -What Developers Want
> -Music Gadgets
> -Going to the Movies (and More) in iTunes
> -Tweaking Tiger Mail
> -Is This Security Alert Really from Microsoft?
> -Atlas: Microsoft's Answer to Ajax
> -Generics in .NET 2.0
> -Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP
> -Java City: The Java Enterprise Ecosystem
> -Getting Started with Maven
> -Seven Steps to Noise-Free Digital Audio
> -The Ultimate Portable Studio
> -MAKE: Audio--Interview with John Maushammer
> -MAKE: Blog--Podcasts on Audible
> 
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> ***JBoss: A Developer's Notebook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596100078
> This Developers Notebook takes you on a complete tour of JBoss in a very
> unique way: rather than long discussions, you will find code--lots of
> code. In fact, the book is a collection of hands-on labs that take you
> through the critical JBoss features step-by-step. Don't just read about
> JBoss, learn it through direct practical application.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jbossadn/
> 
> Chapter 9, "Rolling Out JBoss," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jbossadn/
> 
> 
> ***SharePoint Office Pocket Guide
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596101120
> With this handy reference as your guide, you can reap all the benefits
> of SharePoint. It shows you, in plain language, how to construct
> websites where individuals from all over can capture and share ideas.
> Learn how to upload documents, edit content, send alerts, track work
> items, add new team members, and much more.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sharepointpg/
> 
> 
> ***Project 2003 Personal Trainer
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596008546
> Entertaining, clear, and informative, this book begins with the
> fundamentals of planning and managing a project with Microsoft Project
> 2003, and then includes sections on working with task lists, updating a
> project, tracking progress, creating reports, and more. This fully
> illustrated Personal Trainer features dozens of time-saving,
> task-oriented lessons, includes detailed diagrams, and comes with an
> interactive CD tutorial to guide your learning.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/projectpt/
> 
> Chapter 5, "Working With Tasks," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/projectpt/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Astronomy Hacks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596100604
> Do you relish viewing and identifying celestial objects? Whether you're
> a first timer or an advanced hobbyist, this book makes a brilliant
> cosmic companion. This handy field guide covers the basics of observing,
> and what you need to know about tweaking, tuning, adjusting, and
> tricking out a telescope. It includes priceless tips and tools for using
> a Dobsonian Telescope that you can build in your garage inexpensively.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/astronomyhks/ 
> 
> Sample Hack 18, "Print Custom Charts," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/astronomyhks/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***UML 2.0 in a Nutshell
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007957
> This comprehensive guide has been crafted to help IT professionals read,
> create, and understand system artifacts expressed using UML, and its
> fully revised to cover UML 2.0. It not only provides a quick-reference
> to all UML 2.0 diagram types, it also explains key concepts in a way
> that appeals to readers already familiar with UML or object-oriented
> programming concepts. Also includes an example-rich tutorial for those
> new to the system.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/umlnut2/ 
> 
> Chapter 7, "Use Case Diagrams," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/umlnut2/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Maven: A Developer's Notebook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007507
> If you're a Java programmer, this book will arm you with all the
> critical information you need to get up to speed on Maven. It forces you
> to get hands-on experience by working through a series of poignant
> exercises that speak to you instead of at you. In the end, you'll find
> yourself spending less time working on your project's build system and
> more time working on your project's code.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mavenadn/
> 
> Chapter 1, "Maven Jump-Start," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mavenadn/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Web Mapping Illustrated
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596008651
> This clear and concise book shows you how to create maps (even
> interactive maps) with open source tools, including MapServer, OpenEV,
> GDAL/OGR, and PostGIS. It also explains how to find, collect,
> understand, use, and share mapping data, both over the traditional web
> and using OGC-standard services like WFS and WMS.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/
> 
> Chapter 3, "Converting and Viewing Maps," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webmapping/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Exchange Server Cookbook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007175
> This comprehensive how-to guide covers the most common tasks for both
> Exchange 2000 and Exchange Server 2003, everything from installation and
> maintenance to configuration and optimization. In addition, you'll find
> solutions to many uncommon tasks, advanced procedures, and ways to write
> scripts for Exchange management and deployment tasks. What's more,
> you'll
> get answers quickly because chapters are laid out by recipe with
> cross-references to related solutions.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exchangeckbk/
> 
> Chapter 9, "Public Folder Management," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exchangeckbk/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596008120
> To bring you up to speed with ASP.NET 2.0, this practical book offers
> nearly 50 hands-on projects. Each one explores a new feature of the
> language, with emphasis on changes that can increase productivity,
> simplify programming tasks, and help you add new functionality to your
> applications. You get the goods straight from the masters in an
> informal, code-intensive style.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnetadn/
> 
> Chapter 1, "What's New?" is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspnetadn/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Knoppix Pocket Reference
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596100752
> If you want more information than the average Knoppix user, this book is
> an absolutely essential addition to your personal library. This handy
> reference shows you how to use Knoppix to troubleshoot and repair your
> computer, how to customize the Knoppix CD, run RAM memory checks,
> recover data from a damaged hard drive, scan for viruses on a Windows
> system, and much more.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/knoppixpr/
> 
> 
> ***Mapping Hacks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007035
> This collection of one hundred simple techniques is ideal for developers
> and power users who want to draw digital maps. You'll learn where to
> find the best sources of geographic data, how to interpret the data, and
> how to integrate it into your own creations. It even provides practical,
> integrative uses for GPS devices.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/
> 
> Sample Hack 15, "Zoom Right in on Your Neighborhood," is available
> online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mappinghks/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596009143
> This concise guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts of using
> Mac OS X Tiger, including over 250 tips and tricks for using and
> configuring your system. It concentrates a wealth of tables, common
> keyboard shortcuts, tips for configuring your Mac, and an introduction
> to issuing basic Unix commands using the Terminal application into a
> package that is literally small enough to fit in your pocket.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactigerpg/
> 
> 
> ***Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596009151
> Thoroughly revised and updated for Mac OS X Tiger, this new edition
> introduces Mac users to the Terminal application and shows how to
> navigate the command interface, explore hundreds of Unix applications
> that come with the Mac, and, most importantly, take advantage of
> both the Mac and Unix interfaces. If you want to master the command
> line, look no further.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ltigerunix/
> 
> Chapter 8, "Taking Unix Online," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ltigerunix/chapter/index.html
> 
> 
> ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions Available
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> 
> 
> ***Don't Miss David Pogue, "NY Times" columnist, Emmy-winning
> correspondent for CBS News, and the always hilarious, always informative
> author of the Missing Manual series at the following locations:
> 
> *MacWorld Boston, MA--July 13-14
> David will speak at the conference July 13 at the following times:
> 
> 11:15am-12:15pm The Mac OS X Tiger Supersession 
> 
> 1:15pm - 2:15 pm David's Favorite OS X Secret
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> Or stop by the our booth (#423) to pick up the latest Missing Manual
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> 6:30 pm
> 103 Prince Street
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> 
> *Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Palo Alto, CA--July 20
> 7:00 pm
> Panofsky Auditorium at SLAC
> 2575 Sand Hill Road
> Palo Alto, California
> 
> Hosted by A32, DVMUG, MilMUG, NCMUG, PlanetMUG, SMUG, SVMUG
> 
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> customizability. Join us at this essential gathering of open source
> leaders and practitioners of every persuasion to exchange ideas and push
> the boundaries of vital open source technologies. This year, we
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> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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> ---------------------
> General News
> ---------------------
> ***Top Ten Questions People Ask About Switching to Internet Telephones 
> "Talk Is Cheap" author James Gaskin blames internet telephone vendors
> and the press for dropping the consumer information ball when it comes
> to the basic questions they have about switching to internet or
> broadband telephones. If you're contemplating a switch, James has
> answers to ten most frequently asked questions about dropping your
> traditional telephone provider for broadband.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/06/27/talkischeap.html
> 
> 
> ***Anti-spam Techniques 
> No Starch's Jonathan Zdziarski ("Ending Spam") speaks about his DSPAM
> application and Bayesian filtering techniques.
> http://www.networkworld.com/research/2005/0704radio.html
> 
> 
> ***Hacking Maps 
> You've got the address, but where is that in GPS terms? In these two
> excerpts from "Mapping Hacks," learn how to geocode (adding geographic
> coordinates, such as latitude and longitude, to other information) a
> US street address, as well as a whole database of addresses using the
> geocoder.us web services.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/MapHacks_chap7/index.
> html
> 
> 
> ***Making Your RSS Feed Look Pretty in a Browser 
> As more and more non-techie websites offer syndication feeds, a growing
> number of non-technical readers are clicking on the links and filling
> their screens with confusing XML. But syndication content doesn't have
> to look like geeky markup or malformed text in your readers' browsers.
> You can make it look quite pretty and give clues about what the feed is
> actually for. Ben Hammersley, author of "Developing Feeds with RSS and
> Atom," shows you how.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/07/01/rss.html
> 
> 
> ***Google Launches Payment System to Compete With PayPal
> Learn about Google's plan to launch a competitor to PayPal and what it
> will mean to you.
> http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=274986
> 
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore" 
> During a recent Brazilian conference on free and open source software,
> hacker, writer, and speaker Eric Raymond stated that open source would
> see more rapid success if the GPL didn't make people nervous. Federico
> Biancuzzi recently interviewed ESR to gain more context for the
> statement and to explore these views more fully.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/30/esr_interview.html
> 
> 
> ***Problems in OpenSSH, Sudo, and Java 
> Noel Davis looks at problems in OpenSSH, Sudo, Sun Java, Blackdown Java,
> tcpdump, cpio, JBOSS, Adobe Reader and Acrobat, gedit, Gaim, and Trac.
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/06/24/security_alerts.
> html
> 
> 
> ***Secure Your MySQL Databases
> With Security being on the forefront of many users' minds, it's very
> important to ensure that your own sites databases are properly tied down
> from intruders. Learn about the first steps to take here.
> http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=275986
> 
> 
> ***What Developers Want 
> Regardless of the language and platform you choose for development, you
> likely share some goals with your fellow developers: to be productive,
> to use good tools, and to keep your tools and processes out of your way
> while you create good software. Murugan Pal, CTO of SpikeSource,
> explains ten attributes he thinks developers want.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/23/whatdevswant.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***Music Gadgets 
> Derrick Story wants to listen to music in a different way everyday. Here
> are the gadgets he's been testing to "shuffle" his setup for music
> playback. A few of these are real keepers.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/24/gadgets.html
> 
> 
> ***Going to the Movies (and More) in iTunes
> Have you played with the video functionality in iTunes? If not, J.D
> Biersdorfer presents a few things that Steve Jobs has mentioned--and a
> few he hasn't. J.D. is the author of "iPod and iTunes: The Missing
> Manual, 3rd Edition."
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/24/itunes.html
> 
> 
> ***Tweaking Tiger Mail 
> The release of Mail 2.0 was largely overlooked amid all the fuss about
> Tiger's system-level features, but a number of people have made public
> complaints about changes made to the user interface. Mail's performance
> has improved, but the apparent willingness of Apple's designers to
> create an entirely new kind of toolbar icon just for use in Mail has
> irritated some. Giles Turnbull shows you how to bring happiness back to
> Mail.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/21/mail.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Windows/.NET
> ---------------------
> ***Is This Security Alert Really from Microsoft? 
> An excellent way to get information about Windows updates is via email
> with Microsoft Technical Security Notification Services. But how do you
> know what's real and what's a spoof? Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows
> Server Hacks," shows you.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/scripting.html
> 
> 
> ***Atlas: Microsoft's Answer to Ajax
> Microsoft is putting together a toolkit for Web Developers who want to
> use AJAX (Asychronous JavaScript and XML).
> http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=276224
> 
> 
> ***Generics in .NET 2.0 
> Generics in .NET 2.0 permeates with potential. But what are generics?
> Are they for you? Should you use them in your apps? Venkat Subramaniam,
> author of ".NET Gotchas," answers these questions and take a closer look
> at using generics, and their capabilities and limitations.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/06/20/generics.html
> 
> 
> ***Getting Your Bluetooth Headset to Work in XP 
> With Bluetooth support built into SP2, getting a Bluetooth headset to
> work should be a breeze. But it ain't necessarily so. Wei-Meng Lee shows
> you how to do it.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/07/05/bluetooth.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***Java City: The Java Enterprise Ecosystem 
> Should we worry about promoting a healthy Java community? Or
> iseverything just fine in Java City? Jim Farley asks you to weigh in on
> these questions, and others, in the Talkbacks. He plans a follow up
> article summarizing what you have to say. Your comments may help to
> shape content in Jim's upcoming book, "Java Enterprise in a Nutshell,
> 3rd Edition," due out in the fall.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/06/22/javacity.html
> 
> 
> ***Getting Started with Maven 
> In this excerpt from "Maven: A Developer's Notebook," authors Vincent
> Massol and Timothy M. O'Brien show you how to install and start working
> with Maven, the do-it-all Java project builder/manager.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/mavenadn_ch01/index.html
> 
> ---------------------
> Digital Media
> ---------------------
> ***Seven Steps to Noise-Free Digital Audio
> Virtually all audio recordings will contain some amount of noise. Learn
> what causes it, how to avoid it, and how to remove it from your files.
> Based on "Digital Audio Essentials" by Bruce and Marty Fries.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/22/noise.html
> 
> 
> ***The Ultimate Portable Studio
> If you're a musician, producer, engineer, or songwriter who wants to set
> up a professional, laptop-based recording studio, here's all the
> information you need.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/29/portable1.html
> 
> Part Two:
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/07/06/portable2.html
> 
> ---------------------
> MAKE
> ---------------------
> ***MAKE: Audio--Interview with John Maushammer
> John is a talented hardware tinkerer who's leading the way to reusing
> disposable digital cameras, and now the new CVS disposable digital video
> camcorder. Tune into hear how he does it.
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/make_podcast/
> 
> Don't forget to add the MAKE feed to iTunes 4.9. Click this link:
> http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=
> 73330671
> (and then click SUBSCRIBE).
> 
> 
> ***MAKE: Blog--Podcasts on Audible
> Audible announced that they're supporting the podcast way of delivering
> some of their content. You can add a URL (RSS feed) to a podcasting
> application and the stuff you buy on Audible will go to your
> computer/music player just like all the free podcasts you subscribe to.
> So here's how it all works, plus the good, the bad, and the how-to for
> some other things.
> http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/audible_does_po.html
> 
> 
> ***For more information on MAKE, go to:
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> 
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> Until next time--
> 
> Marsee Henon
> 
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