[Dresden-pm] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, December 19

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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
December 19, 2003--Happy Holidays!
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Book News
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-RELAX NG
-DNS on Windows Server 2003
-JavaServer Pages, Third Edition
-Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition
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Upcoming Events
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-Preston Gralla ("Windows XP Hacks"), Windows Technical Forum,
Waltham, MA--January 5
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Conferences
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-OSCON 2004: Call for Participation
-O'Reilly Emergent Democracy Forum
-Early Bird Discount ends January 9 for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference
February 9-12, 2004

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News
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-Beyond Hacking the Xbox
-Gastronomy for Geeks
-San Antonio Linux User Group mentioned in "Wall Street Journal"
-Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves
-A Day in the Life of #Apache
-Understanding JAXB: Java Binding Customization
-Sony Ericsson T610 Camera Phone Review
-Master and Content Pages in Whidbey
-Elementary Computer Graphics: Drawing with Pixels
-Panther Delights

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Book News
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Did you know you can request a free book to review for your
group? Ask your group leader for more information.

For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to:
http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html

Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you
purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when
ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938.
http://www.oreilly.com/

***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at
least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer
applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico.
For more details, go to:
http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html

***RELAX NG
Order Number: 4214
"RELAX NG" is a grammar-based schema language that's both easy for
 schema creators to learn and easy for software developers to implement.
 In "RELAX NG," developers are introduced to this unique language and
 learn a no-nonsense method for creating XML schemas. This book offers a
 clear-cut explanation of RELAX NG that enables intermediate and
 advanced XML developers to focus on XML document structures and content
 rather than battle the intricacies of yet another convoluted standard.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/relax/

Chapter 6, "More Complex Patterns," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/relax/chapter/index.html

***DNS on Windows Server 2003
Order Number: 5628
"DNS on Windows Server 2003" is a special Windows-oriented edition of
 the classic "DNS and BIND," updated to document the many changes to DNS
 found in Windows Server 2003. You'll learn everything from starting and
 stopping a DNS service and establishing a namespace in the global
 hierarchy, to using the the dnscmd command line and the WMI DNS
 provider to perform maintenance. The book also documents new features,
 including conditional forwarding and zone storage in Active Directory
 application partitions. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnswinsvr/

Chapter 8, "Integrating with Active Directory," is available free
 online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnswinsvr/chapter/index.html

***JavaServer Pages, Third Edition
Order Number: 5636
"JavaServer Pages, Third Edition" is completely revised and updated to
cover the substantial changes in the 2.0 version of the JSP
 specification. It also includes detailed coverage of the major
 revisions to the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) specification.
 Combining plenty of practical advice with detailed coverage of JSP
 syntax and features as well as clear, useful examples, "JavaServer
 Pages, Third Edition" demonstrates how to embed server-side Java into
 web pages, while also covering important topics such as JavaBeans,
 Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), and JDBC database access.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jserverpages3/

***Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, Panther Edition
Order Number: 6152
With new material on practically every page, the latest update of David
Pogue's best-selling title offers a wealth of detail on the all of the
changes in Apple's Mac OS X 10.3, aka "Panther." Written with humor and
technical insight characteristic of the Missing Manual series, the new
edition covers everything from the all-new Finder to iChat AV--Apple's
exciting tool for video conferencing. The book also deals with features
under the hood, such as the Terminal and networking tools. Pogue, the
renowned "New York Times" computer columnist, tackles his subject with
scrupulous objectivity--revealing which new features work well and which
do not. This is an authoritative book that will appeal to novices and
experienced users alike.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macxmmpanther/

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Upcoming Events
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***For more events, please see:
http://events.oreilly.com/

***Preston Gralla ("Windows XP Hacks"), Windows Technical Forum,
 Waltham, MA--January 5
Preston's will be covering Windows XP Hacks from his book and what we
might expect with Windows XP SP2.

January 5, 2004
6:30pm--8:30pm
Microsoft, Waltham, MA
For more information, go to:
http://www.mvps.org/wintech/

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Conference News
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***OSCON 2004: Call for Participation
Individuals and companies interested in making presentations or giving
tutorials at next summer's O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland,
Oregon are invited to submit proposals. This year's theme is "Opening
 the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver.".Tracks of interest run the
 open source gamut from Apache to XML, and we're also looking for
 proposals for sessions that help attendees add open source to their
 companies. The deadline for submitting proposals is February 9.

To submit a proposal, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess

For more information on the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, go to:
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

***O'Reilly Emergent Democracy Forum
Internet technologies such as blogs, MeetUp, and email are putting power
back into the hands of the people. Citizen activists have already
 altered the face of the next U.S. presidential election. Are we on the
 verge of a fundamental shift towards truer democracy, or will these new
Internet-fueled tools be co-opted to maintain the status quo? We'll be
exploring these issues during the Emergent Democracy Forum at February's
Emerging Technology Conference.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2004/edemo.csp

***Early Bird Discount ends January 9 for the O'Reilly Emerging
 Technology Conference
February 9-12, 2004
Westin Horton Plaza San Diego
San Diego, CA 92101
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/

User Group members who register before January 9, 2004 get a double
discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the
"Early Bird" price.

To register for the conference, go to:
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html

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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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General News
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***Beyond Hacking the Xbox
Bruce Stewart interviews Andrew "bunnie" Huang, a featured speaker at
O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. In this interview,
bunnie discusses flaws with the DMCA, the current states of reverse
engineering and Moore's Law, what he's hacking now, and what he'll be
speaking about at ETech.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/12/10/bunnie.html

The 2004 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
February 9-12, 2004
Westin Horton Plaza San Diego
San Diego, CA 92101
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/

***Gastronomy for Geeks
Pizza, Twinkies, and Jolt are geek haute cuisine for a stereotypical
 few. Many of you know the difference between au jus and baba ghanoush,
 and that Thai shish kabob isn't called saute. So, you geek gourmets,
 come share your favorite recipes, and see what your peers are cooking.
http://cookbooks.oreilly.com/food/

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Open Source
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***San Antonio Linux User Group mentioned December 17 in the "Wall
 Street Journal."
"Linux is slowly spreading beyond its core constituencies of
governments, companies and computer geeks. Today, for example, the San
Antonio Linux User Group--started by a half-dozen "extreme experts"
eight or nine years ago--counts some 600 members, including scores of
home users, says Albert Lochli, the group's president. That includes
lawyers, artists and dentists, and Mr. Lochli says he's even converted
two people from his regular bridge group."

***Myths Open Source Developers Tell Ourselves
Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but is it effective or
useful? Open source developers have the opportunity to learn from the
successes and failures of other projects. Are we learning the right
lessons, though?
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/12/11/myths.html

***A Day in the Life of #Apache
Rich Bowen, coauthor of "Apache Cookbook," spends a lot of time on IRC
fielding Apache questions. In this inaugural article to launch a new
series based on his conversations on #apache, the IRC channel that runs
 on the irc.freenode.net network, Rich chronicles a user's troubles
 getting his .htaccess file working, and he shows what you can do to
 solve the problem.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2003/12/04/apacheckbk.html

Apache Cookbook
Order Number: 1916
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apacheckbk/index.html

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Java
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***Understanding JAXB: Java Binding Customization
JAXB, Java Architecture for XML Binding, is a specification (or
 standard) that automates the mapping between XML documents and Java
 objects and vice versa. One of the primary components of JAXB is the
 schema compiler. The schema compiler is the tool used to generate Java
 bindings from an XML schema document. If used in its default mode (for
 non-trivial
applications), the compiler usually generates bindings that are awkward
 to work with. This article looks at various methods you can use to
 customize the generated bindings.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/12/10/jaxb.html
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Wireless
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***Sony Ericsson T610 Camera Phone Review
Sony Ericsson calls the T610 camera phone an "image and entertainment"
phone instead of a smartphone. It is based on the proprietary Sony
Ericsson OS, and it can run applications written in Java. Todd Ogasawara
shows you the ins and outs of this compact phone that includes camera
 and Bluetooth capabilities.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2003/12/11/sony_t610.html
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.NET
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***Master and Content Pages in Whidbey
Most web sites have a consistent look and feel, containing a company
 logo and perhaps a navigational menu. In ASP.NET 1.0, there was no a
 good way to handle this; luckily, Microsoft now has a solution.
 Wei-Meng Lee shows you the Master and Content Pages feature in
ASP.NET 2.0.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/12/15/masterpages.html
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Mac
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***Elementary Computer Graphics: Drawing with Pixels
If you have a promising young developer in the family, you might want to
take advantage of the extra time together during the holidays to teach a
little programming. Michael Norton wrote this tutorial for his fourth
grade son, and offers it to Mac DevCenter readers and their children.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/16/begin_programming.html

***Panther Delights
Here's a look at Panther from another point of view: not so much its
high-flying features, but rather the subtle refinements that we've come
 to expect from Apple products. Here are ten things that won't make you
 buy Panther, but you'll appreciate them once you have it.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/12/09/panther_surprises.html

Until next time--

Marsee

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