From c.duehl at gmx.de Sat Jan 1 13:09:05 2005 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Christian_D=FChl=22?=) Date: Sat Jan 1 13:09:08 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Neujahrsgruesse Message-ID: <15014.1104606545@www26.gmx.net> Hiho, ich wünsch Euch allen ein frohes neues Jahr! > Was ich gerade bei use.perl.org gelesen habe, koennte fuer > Christian wichtig sein: > > http://use.perl.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/29/1522251&from=rss > > Der pm.org-Server zieht um, aber nur angeforderte Seiten, da > muesstest du dich evtl. melden. Eine entsprechende Mail hab ich neulich schon versand, ich hoffe, wir werden nicht vergessen. Aber die eigentlichen Daten liegen ja eh woanders... Gruß Christian. P.S. Eine neue GED-Version ist gerade fertig geworden: http://www.duehl.de/christian/perl/ged.html (zu finden unter Download). 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Erica Sadun has discovered a simple but powerful (and free) application that makes exporting QuickTime as fun as watching it. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/12/22/video_out.html ================================================ >From Your Peers =============================================== Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups across the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee From c.duehl at gmx.de Tue Jan 4 03:14:28 2005 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Christian_D=FChl=22?=) Date: Tue Jan 4 03:14:31 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] pm.org Server-Umzug Message-ID: <24207.1104830068@www47.gmx.net> Hi, Dave Cross hat eine Liste mit allen Verlegungsanträgen veröffentlicht, die ihn erreicht haben, unsere Gruppe ist auch mit dabei. Also können wir davon ausgehen, dass wir mit umgezogen werden. 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Hakun Wium Lie and Michael Day revive that debate with a shot across XSL's bow. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/print.html ***A Review of PalmOne’s Zire 72 and 31 Wei-Meng Lee takes a look at a couple of PalmOne devices, and is pleased by what he finds. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2005/01/17/zire.html --------------------- Audio Webcasts --------------------- ***BoundCast interview with Andy Hertzfeld, author of "Revolution in the Valley" This is the first of a two part series interview with Andy Hertzfield that covers his book "Revolution in the Valley," Apple, and the future. http://www.boundcast.com/ ***A Podcast With Wallace Wang, author of "Steal This File Sharing Book" Wallace and Denise Howell discuss the future of P2P networks, nefarious knitters, macchiato moms, the Ninth Circuit's Grokster decision, the economics of digital media, and other topics. http://www.thestandard.com/movabletype/denisehowell/archives/000825.php --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Network Installation of Windows Printers from Samba The combination of Samba and CUPS makes network printing on a mixed Linux/Windows LAN easier than ever. You can share Linux printers with Windows clients, and Windows printers with Linux clients. A Linux/Samba/CUPS printer server is reliable and reasonably simple to set up and maintain. Carla Schroder, author of "Linux Cookbook," shows you how. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/01/13/lnxckbk_samba.html ***An Introduction to Quality Assurance The libraries and syntax for automated testing are easy to find. The mindset of quality and testability is harder to adopt. 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One particular caching feature missing in ASP.NET 1.x was SQL cache dependency: the ability to invalidate a database cache if data in a table is changed. In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has added the new SQL cache dependency feature. Wei-Meng Lee discusses the SQL cache dependency in ASP.NET 2.0, and how you can manually implement it in ASP.NET 1.x. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/01/17/sqlcachedependency.html ***Run Mac OS X on a PC You can get the best of both worlds--you can run the real Mac OS X on your own PC. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to run the Mac operating system on an emulator called PearPC. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/01/18/PearPC.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Parsing an XML Document with XPath Pulling just a single node value or attribute from an XML document can be inefficient if you have to parse over a whole list of nodes you don't want, just to get to one you do. XPath can be much more efficient, by letting you specify the path to the desired node up front. J2SE adds XPath support, and the JDOM API also offers support through an XPath class. Deepak Vohra looks at both approaches. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/xpath.html ***Mock Objects in Unit Tests Unit testing your code against a service or process that's either too expensive (commercial databases) or just not done yet is something you can deal with by simulating the other piece with a mock object. EasyMock can suffice in some cases, but it can only create mock objects for interfaces. Mocquer, based on the Dunamis project, can create mocks for classes, too. Lu Jian shows how it works. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/01/12/mocquer.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Time-Saving Digital GEM Plug-Ins for Photoshop Removing noise from images or trying to retouch facial blemishes is time-consuming work. Fortunately these Photoshop plug-ins from Kodak's Austin Development Center can help photographers work more efficiently. Derrick Story takes them for a spin. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/05/kodak_plugins.html ***Frank Serafine: Turning Elephants into Explosions Academy Award-winning sound designer Frank Serafine discusses the art and science of sound effects, tape-baking, and why selling all his analog gear on eBay made him happier musically. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/01/12/serafine_0105.html ================================================ >From Your Peers =============================================== Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups across the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee From judith_dohmann at mac.com Tue Jan 25 03:49:44 2005 From: judith_dohmann at mac.com (Judith Maria N Dohmann) Date: Tue Jan 25 03:49:56 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Wer kommt alles? Message-ID: <6845518.1106653784699.JavaMail.judith_dohmann@mac.com> Hallo liebe mit-Perlmongers. Ich wollte mal nachfragen wer alles kommt? Der Pudding ist von der Form her uebrigens fast fertig, nur leider muss ich noch herausfinden, wie ich den unteren Teil tangential an den wobbel-Torus anfuege. Falls ich heute nachmittag noch die richtige Idee habe, bringe ich mal nen Ausdruck mit. Die Farben und Oberflaechenstruktur sind dann zwar noch ein Extraschritt, aber der duerfte deutlich schneller gehen, so dass ich das Ding zum Jubilaeum im Februar fertig habe. An Perligem kann ich noch berichten, dass es mir gelungen ist CPANPLUS auf meinem Mac zu installieren, wie erzaehle ich gerne heute abend. Viele Gruesse, Judith From marcuskruse at t-online.de Tue Jan 25 07:55:19 2005 From: marcuskruse at t-online.de (marcuskruse@t-online.de) Date: Tue Jan 25 07:55:43 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Ich komme! Message-ID: <1CtT2F-1JQwzI0@cmpmail07.bbul.t-online.de> und ich hoffe ich werde euch erkennen =8-) Viel Perl gabs bei mir in letzter Zeit zwar nicht, aber vielleicht gibt es heute neue Anregungen. Bis gleich Marcus From judith_dohmann at mac.com Tue Jan 25 08:09:10 2005 From: judith_dohmann at mac.com (Judith Maria Nefertari Dohmann) Date: Tue Jan 25 08:09:25 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Ich komme! In-Reply-To: <1CtT2F-1JQwzI0@cmpmail07.bbul.t-online.de> References: <1CtT2F-1JQwzI0@cmpmail07.bbul.t-online.de> Message-ID: <7294C814-6EEB-11D9-A2B4-000393B85610@mac.com> Am 25.01.2005 um 16:55 schrieb marcuskruse@t-online.de: > und ich hoffe ich werde euch erkennen =8-) > > Viel Perl gabs bei mir in letzter Zeit zwar nicht, aber vielleicht gibt > es heute neue Anregungen. > > Bis gleich > Marcus Das sollte klappen. Ich bringe mal ein Perlbuch mit. Ausserdem sind wir im Alt-Bielefeld meistens die juengste Gruppe im Publikum. 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Mind Hacks 1. Umsteigen auf PHP 5 ======================= Adam Trachtenberg Deutsche Übersetzung von Sigrid Speidel & Ulrich Speidel 1. Auflage Dezember 2004 ISBN 3-89721-391-5 350 Seiten, EUR 34.00 "Umsteigen auf PHP 5" wendet sich an erfahrene PHP-Entwickler, die bereits mit PHP 4 vertraut sind und jetzt nach einem schlanken Leitfaden zu PHP 5 suchen, der ihnen die drängendsten Fragen beantwortet: Was bietet die neue Version? Was hat sich geändert? Und vor allem: Wie nutze ich PHP 5 in der Praxis? Dieses Buch lässt Sie nicht mühsam durch Informationen zu PHP waten, die Sie schon kennen. Der Autor Adam Trachtenberg führt Sie direkt und ohne Umwege zu den Neuheiten von PHP 5. Sie finden eine präzise Beschreibung der Unterschiede zwischen PHP 4 und PHP 5, eine detaillierte Darstellung aller Neuerungen der aktuellen Version und Erläuterungen, wie diese sich auf Ihre Arbeit auswirken. 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JUnit - kurz & gut ===================== Kent Beck Deutsche Übersetzung von Jörg Staudemeyer 1. Auflage Januar 2005 ISBN 3-89721-507-1 94 Seiten, EUR 8.00 Diese Taschenreferenz zu JUnit, dem Open Source-Tool der Wahl für die testgetriebene Entwicklung in Java, versammelt all die Informationen in einem kompakten Bändchen, die man bei der praktischen Arbeit mit JUnit noch einmal nachschlagen möchte. Das Buch enthält neben Referenzmaterial zu JUnit die wichtigsten Informationen zum Testen von Programmcode allgemein, zum Prinzip des Test First und zum Schreiben und Ausführen von Unit-Tests mit JUnit. Geschrieben von Kent Beck, einem der beiden Entwickler von JUnit, vermittelt es Einblicke und gute Ratschläge, die nur der Erfinder einer Technologie selbst bieten kann. Neuerscheinungen Englisch 1. Linux Cookbook (deutsche Übersetzung geplant für Mai 2005) ================= Carla Schroder 1st Edition Dezember 2004 ISBN 0-596-00640-3 580 Seiten, EUR 43.00 Linux information can be found scattered in man pages, texinfo files, and source code comments, but the best source is the experts who have built up a working knowledge of managing Linux systems. The Linux Cookbook's tested techniques distill years of hard-won experience into practical cut-and-paste solutions to everyday Linux dilemmas. Use just one recipe from this collection of real-world solutions, and the hours of tedious trial-and-error saved will more than pay for the cost of the book. It's more than a time-saver; it's a sanity saver. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung finden Sie hier: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/linuxckbk/desc.html Ein Probekapitel finden Sie hier: Chapter 14: Printing with CUPS (PDF Format) http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/homehpfg/chapter/ 2. Learning GNU Emacs ======================= Debra Cameron, James Elliott and Marc Loy 3rd Edition January 2005 ISBN 0-596-00648-9 534 Seiten, EUR 38.00 The third edition of "Learning GNU Emacs" describes Emacs 21.3 >from the ground up, including new user interface features such as an icon-based toolbar and an interactive interface to Emacs customization. A new chapter details how to install and run Emacs on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux, including tips for using Emacs effectively on those platforms. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung finden Sie hier: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/gnu3/desc.html Ein Probekapitel finden Sie hier: Chapter 6: Writing Macros (PDF Format) http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/homehpfg/chapter/ 3. Home Hacking Projects for Geeks =================================== Eric Faulkner & Tony Northrup 1st Edition January 2005 ISBN 0-596-00405-2 336 Seiten, EUR 29.00 "Home Hacking Projects for Geeks" presents a wide range of projects >from automating of light switches, to building home theaters using Windows or Linux-based PCs, to building home security systems that rival those offered by professional security consultants. The thirteen projects in the book are divided into three categories: Home Automation, Home Entertainment Systems, and Security, designed to appeal to hackers of all ability levels. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung finden Sie hier: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/homehpfg/desc.html Probekapitel finden Sie hier: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/homehpfg/chapter/ 4. Für alle Mac-Fans: Revolution in The Valley ================================================ The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made Andy Hertzfeld 1st Edition Dezember 2004 ISBN 0-596-00719-1 320 Seiten, EUR 24.00 "Revolution in the Valley" traces the development of the Macintosh computer from its inception as an underground skunkworks project in 1979 to its triumphant introduction in 1984 and beyond. In this vivid first-hand account, author and key Macintosh developer Andy Hertzfeld reveals exactly what it was like to be a key player in one of the most important technical achievements in modern history. Eine ausführliche Beschreibung finden Sie hier: http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/revolution/desc.html 5. Mind Hacks =============== Tips & Tools for Using your Brain in the World Tom Stafford & Matt Webb 1st Edition Dezember 2004 ISBN 0-596-00779-5 394 Seiten, EUR 24.00 This exploration into the moment-by-moment works of the brain uses cognitive neuroscience to present experiments, tricks, and tips related to vision, motor skills, attention, cognition, subliminal perception. Each "hack" examines specific operations of the brain. By seeing how the brain responds, you'll learn more about how the brain is put together. If you want to find out what's going on in your head, then Mind Hacks is the key. 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Wenn Sie Schwierigkeiten haben, wenden Sie sich bitte an listmaster@oreilly.de. ========================================================= O'Reilly Verlag GmbH & Co.KG, Balthasarstr. 81 50670 Koeln Tel.: +(49)-221-9731600 Fax.: +(49)-221-9731608 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Timothy O'Reilly, Elke Hansel Amtsgericht Koeln, HRA 13894, UST-IdNr.: DE 163372785 From c.duehl at gmx.de Tue Jan 25 08:31:46 2005 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Christian_D=FChl=22?=) Date: Tue Jan 25 08:31:54 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Wer kommt alles? Message-ID: <4005.1106670706@www30.gmx.net> > Hallo liebe mit-Perlmongers. Hallo :) > Ich wollte mal nachfragen wer alles kommt? Ich *meld*. Kommt Jürgen auch? Sonst kann ich mir die Bücher zu schleppen sparen... Allerdings war Jürgen bisher immer da ... ich glaub als einziger *lob*. > Der Pudding ist von der Form her uebrigens fast fertig, > nur leider muss ich noch herausfinden, wie ich den unteren > Teil tangential an den wobbel-Torus anfuege. Falls ich > heute nachmittag noch die richtige Idee habe, bringe ich > mal nen Ausdruck mit. Die Farben und Oberflaechenstruktur > sind dann zwar noch ein Extraschritt, aber der duerfte > deutlich schneller gehen, so dass ich das Ding zum Jubilaeum > im Februar fertig habe. Das wäre schön. Bis nachher, Christian From c.duehl at gmx.de Fri Jan 28 02:04:23 2005 From: c.duehl at gmx.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Christian_D=FChl=22?=) Date: Sun Jan 30 18:43:56 2005 Subject: [Bielefeld-pm] Fwd: InDesign Annoyances Needed for New Book Message-ID: <11046.1106906663@www40.gmx.net> --- Weitergeleitete Nachricht / Forwarded Message --- Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:13:00 -0800 From: Marsee Henon To: c.duehl@gmx.de Subject: InDesign Annoyances Needed for New Book Dear User Group Leader: O'Reilly is pulling together a new book called "InDesign CS Annoyances" and we'd like your help! As you might guess from the title, this book aims to identify (and solve) the problems, quirks, bugs, odd design decisions, conversion hassles (especially for PageMaker and Quark users), and more involved in using Adobe's popular desktop publishing program. If any members of your group use InDesign--be they Publishing Mavens or DTP newbies--and they have annoyances they'd like to see solved, have them email marsee@oreilly.com with "InDesign Annoyances" in the subject line. Just have them note which version of InDesign they're using and the operating system version (say, OS X or Windows XP). As thanks for sharing, we'll make sure to get copies of "InDesign Annoyances" sent to your group shortly after publication. --Marsee *** An example of an Annoyance: THE ANNOYANCE: I am a typography nerd. I'm a stickler for having everything line up perfectly. But coming to InDesign, I find that when I make a drop cap, the large cap often doesn't left align to the left margin--it's a few points to the right. And actually, in traditional typography, a little bit of the drop cap should hang out into the left margin, even beyond the frame edge. I am mortified. How can I get it right? THE FIX: Relax, it's just a few steps. First set the drop cap from the paragraph view of the Control palette. There are two controls for the drop cap, just below the paragraph spacing before and after. The field on the left is the number of lines down the cap is dropped. Your choice--typically two or three lines, depending on the column width. In the field to the right, however, where you would normally enter "1" for just the first letter to drop, enter "2" instead and now there are two large drop cap letters. Hold your breath! Insert a hair space in front of the first letter of the paragraph. First click the Type tool at the start of the paragraph to set an insertion point. Then bring up the Context menu, clicking with Control if you have a one button mouse or right click if two buttons. From the Insert White Space command, select Hair Space from the submenu. Now the second large cap letter is small again. You can see the hair space if you Show Hidden Characters (Cmd-Option-I or Ctrl-Alt-I). That's the smallest fixed space available. By the way, a common word space doesn't cut it. Last, your insertion point is between the hair space and the drop cap. Now kern back until the drop cap hangs out to the left a little bit. Use Option-left arrow or Alt-left arrow repeatedly until done. ***