From stefano.rodighiero at staff.dada.net  Thu Jan  4 04:04:32 2007
From: stefano.rodighiero at staff.dada.net (Stefano Rodighiero)
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:04:32 +0100
Subject: [Firenze-pm] Reminder social meeting
Message-ID: <459CED50.5050605@staff.dada.net>

Giusto per ricordare che Mercoled? prossimo c'? il Social meeting :)

S.

From stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com  Mon Jan  8 02:31:58 2007
From: stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com (Stefano Rodighiero)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 11:31:58 +0100
Subject: [Firenze-pm] Reminder social meeting
In-Reply-To: <459CED50.5050605@staff.dada.net>
References: <459CED50.5050605@staff.dada.net>
Message-ID: <699026fb0701080231n2e4c2210ld4cf7d406669ff96@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/4/07, Stefano Rodighiero <stefano.rodighiero at staff.dada.net> wrote:

> Giusto per ricordare che Mercoled? prossimo c'? il Social meeting :)

Mi riferisco a Mercoled? 10 Gennaio, ovviamente (secondo Mercoled?
del mese) [per un problema di cui non mi ero accorto questa mail
? arrivata in ritardo, sorry]

S.

From stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com  Mon Jan  8 05:17:27 2007
From: stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com (Stefano Rodighiero)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:17:27 +0100
Subject: [Firenze-pm] Fwd: [Flug] PgDay
In-Reply-To: <a86f58d90701080509k2d30e3b1jab35310207754bb2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <a86f58d90701080509k2d30e3b1jab35310207754bb2@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <699026fb0701080517i2915bae9x8e8208a9bea23bea@mail.gmail.com>

FYI, appena arrivata sulla ML del LUG Firenze.

S.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Maurizio Totti
Date: Jan 8, 2007 2:09 PM
Subject: [Flug] PgDay
To: Flug <flug at firenze.linux.it>

Ciao a tutti,
vi volevo segnalare che il 7/7/2007 a Prato si terr? il primo PgDay
Italia. Si tratta di un evento che riguarda tutta la comunit? Italiana
di utilizzatori e supporter di PostgreSQL che ruota intorno alla ML
postgresql-it at lists.psql.it (vedi http://www.psql.it ).

E' stato creato uno wiki dell'evento che potete consultare sul
http://www.pgday.it e che sapr? sicuramente soddisfare le vostre
curiosit? pi? di questa mia mail.
Quello che volevo chiedere alla lista ? se pensate sia il caso di
unirsi agli sforzi del PLUG, che sta dando un contributo ammirevole,
nei preparativi soprattutto logistici).

Fatemi sapere.
Ciao e a presto.

--
Maurizio Totti

From stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com  Mon Jan  8 09:09:15 2007
From: stefano.rodighiero at gmail.com (Stefano Rodighiero)
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 18:09:15 +0100
Subject: [Firenze-pm] Fwd: User Group Newsletter - 01-07
In-Reply-To: <4E008DE3B431EF4F81DACDB40F2F51E31CEF72@ora-srv01.oreilly.local>
References: <4E008DE3B431EF4F81DACDB40F2F51E31CEF72@ora-srv01.oreilly.local>
Message-ID: <699026fb0701080909q210695c6q64f298601c78193d@mail.gmail.com>

Ecco la newsletter di Gennaio

S.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Josette Garcia <Josette at oreilly.co.uk>
Date: Jan 8, 2007 5:33 PM
Subject: User Group Newsletter - 01-07
To: Josette Garcia <Josette at oreilly.co.uk>





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***6 Essential iPod Tips & Tricks
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***Tethered Shooting in Aperture
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***Everything You Need to Know About Windows Vista
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***I18N Messages and Logging
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***Java Generics and Collections: Evolution, Not Revolution, Part 1
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performs using his voice but no words. In many of his missions,
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Access 2007: The Missing Manual

This fast-paced book teaches you the basics of Access 2007 so you can
start using the program right away. You'll learn how to design
databases, maintain them, search for valuable nuggets of information,
and build attractive forms for quick-and-easy data entry. The new
Access is radically different from previous versions, but with this
book, you'll breeze through the new interface and its timesaving
features in no time.

Agile Web Development with Rails, Second Edition (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

Rails is a full-stack, open-source web framework that enables you to
create full-featured, sophisticated web-based applications with a
twist...you can create a full Rails application using less code than
the setup XML you'd need just to configure some other frameworks. With
this book, you'll learn how to use Rails Active Record to connect
business objects and database tables. No more painful
object-relational mapping. Just create your business objects and let
Rails do the rest. You'll learn how to use the Action Pack framework
to route incoming requests and render pages using easy-to-write
templates and components. See how to exploit the Rails service
frameworks to send emails, talk to web services, and interact
dynamically with Javascript applications running in the browser (the
"Ajax" architecture). You'll see how easy it is to deploy Rails.
You'll be writing applications that work with your favorite database
(MySQL, Oracle, Postgres, and more) in no time at all.

Backup & Recovery

Packed with practical, freely-available backup and recovery solutions
for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various
databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of Unix Backup &
Recovery by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75%
new material.

Building the Perfect PC, Second Edition

Regardless of your technical experience, Building the Perfect PC will
guide you through the entire process of building or upgrading your own
computer. You'll use the latest top-quality components, including
Intel's Core 2 Duo and AMD's Athlon X2 CPUs. And you'll know exactly
what's under the hood and how to fix or upgrade your PC, should that
become necessary. Not only is the process fun, but the result is often
less expensive and always better quality and far more satisfying than
anything you could buy off the shelf.

Cisco IOS Cookbook, Second Edition

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition adds
sections on MPLS, Security, IPv6, and IP Mobility and presents
solutions to the most common configuration problems. If you work with
Cisco routers, you need a book like this to help you solve problems
quickly and effectively. Even if you're experienced, the solutions and
extensive explanations will give you new ideas and insights into
router configuration. And if you're not experienced--if you've just
been given responsibility for managing a network with Cisco
routers--this book could be a job-saver.

Capistrano and the Rails Application Lifecycle ? PDF

Learn how to make your Rails deployments pain-free with Capistrano!
This Short Cut shows you how to use Capistrano to automate the
deployment of your Rails applications. It teaches you the basics, but
also goes far beyond. It shows you realistic deployment scenarios,
including some with complex server farms. It includes a quick
reference to Capistrano. As your Rails applications grow, it becomes
increasingly important to automate deployment and to keep your
development environment well organized. Capistrano is the right tool
for the job, and this PDF shows you how to use it effectively.

Color Management in Digital Photography (Rocky Nook)

Color Management for Photographers simplifies the complex language of
color management in digital photography. Author, Brad Hinkel's process
for moving images from capture to print while maintaining color
management, provides enough information to create a simple yet
effective system, while allowing the photographer to get on with
photography. Based on classes and workshops given by Hinkel to
hundreds of students of digital photography, this simple approach to
color management does not mean it sacrifices quality and
effectiveness.

Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference, Third Edition

Packed with information on the latest web specifications and browser
features, this new edition is your ultimate one-stop resource for
HTML, XHTML, CSS, Document Object Model (DOM), and JavaScript
development. Here is the comprehensive reference for designers of Rich
Internet Applications who need to operate in all modern browsers,
including Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, Safari, and Opera. You can
instantly see browser support for the latest standards-based
technologies.

Eight Great Ways to Get the Most from Your Zune ? PDF

The Zune is Microsoft's new media player. It does music. It does
video. It does pictures. Are you ready to get the most out of your
Zune? Do you know the best methods and secrets for managing your
media, loading up your player, and sharing your data with others? Do
you know which accessories are vital and which are not? Do you know
how to hack your Zune to work around Microsoft's built-in limitations
and take your Zune to the next level? In this quick guide, you'll
learn the down and dirty truth about getting the most from your Zune.
No holds barred. No stones unturned.


Excel 2007: The Missing Manual

Excel 2007: The Missing Manual covers the entire gamut of how to build
spreadsheets, add and format information, print reports, create charts
and graphics, and use basic formulas and functions. Like its siblings
in the Missing Manual series, this book crackles with a fine sense of
humor and refreshing objectivity about its subject, guiding readers
through the new Excel with clear explanations, step-by-step
instructions, lots of illustrations, and friendly, time-saving advice.
It's a perfect primer for small businesses with no techie to turn to,
as well as those who want to organize household and office
information.

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Tired of reading object oriented analysis and design books that only
make sense after you're an expert? Try our Head First book. This witty
and entertaining tutorial shows you how to analyze, design, and write
great software that makes your boss happy, and your customers
satisfied. You'll learn to solve real problems, regardless of their
size and complexity, by applying good design principles and practices.

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third Edition

In this post-Ajaxian Web 2.0 world of wikis, folksonomies, and
mashups, well-planned information architecture has never been more
essential. This classic primer shows information architects,
designers, and web site developers how to build large-scale and
maintainable web sites that are easy to navigate and appealing to
users. The third edition is updated to address emerging technologies
while maintaining its focus on fundamentals.

Java and XML, Third Edition

This new edition shows you how to cut through all the hype about XML
and put it to work. You'll learn how to use the APIs, tools, and
tricks of XML to build real-world applications. After two chapters on
XML basics, the rest of the book focuses on using XML from your Java
applications. The result is a new approach to managing information
that touches everything from configuration files to web sites.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell covers the entire range of kernel tasks,
starting with downloading the source and making sure that the kernel
is in sync with the versions of the tools you need. In addition to
configuration and installation steps, the book offers reference
material and discussions of related topics such as control of kernel
options at runtime.

Mastering Landscape Photography (Rocky Nook)

Thirteen essays on landscape photography by master photographer Alain
Briot. Topics include practical, technical, and aesthetic aspects of
photography to help photographers build and refine their skills. Also
covered is how to be an artist in business.

MySQL Cookbook, Second Edition

A handy resource when you need quick solutions or techniques, this
Cookbook addresses specific questions in using MySQL. You'll find
dozens of short, focused pieces of code and hundreds of worked-out
examples that are perfect for programmers of all levels who don't have
the time (or expertise) to solve MySQL problems from scratch. The new
edition covers MySQL 5.0 and the older but still widespread MySQL 4.1.

PowerPoint 2007: The Missing Manual

This new book, written specifically for this version of the software,
not only offers the basics of how to create, save, set up, run, and
print a basic bullets-and-background slideshow, but takes you into the
world of multimedia, animation, and interactivity. You'll learn how to
add pictures, sound, video, animated effects, and controls (buttons
and links) to their slides, along with ways to pull text,
spreadsheets, and animations created in other programs. You can also
create your own reusable design templates and learn to automate
repetitive tasks with macros. Learn how to take advantage of advanced
functions (such as adding custom background images) that existed in
previous PowerPoint versions, but were so cleverly hidden that few
people ever found them.

Programming Firefox: Rough Cuts Version

This is the essential guide to building user interfaces and rich
internet applications for the Firefox web browser, the Thunderbird
email client and independent projects using free development tools
from the Mozilla Foundation. Programming Firefox is both an in-depth
tutorial and programmer's reference that offers a systematic approach
for using Mozilla's Cross Platform Component (XPCOM) library for
building applications with XUL, the XML User Interface Language.
Author Kenneth Feldt uses his years of experience in XUL development
to give programmers a comprehensive look at XUL's capabilities, from
simple interface design to complex multi-tier applications with
real-time operations. Developers from Java and .NET environments will
be amazed at how quickly large-scale applications can be constructed
with XPCOM and XUL.

SQL Hacks

Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or
PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL
to squeeze data effectively from your database. SQL Hacks offers 100
hacks -- unique tips and tools -- that bring you the knowledge of
experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take
full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical
techniques to address complex data manipulation problems.

What's New in Windows Vista?  - PDF

Get ready for a quick blast through this significant change to
Windows! This guide will give you a quick look at many of the most
significant new features in Vista, Microsoft's first revision of
Windows in nearly six years. Starting with the changes to the
interface, introducing Aero, and showing you some visuals, we then
move on to the completely revamped search options. The new task
scheduler and printing gadgets, are next with some cool new changes.
Probably the most significant changes, however, come in the area of
security and this guide takes a look at them from user priveleges, to
User Account Control, to BitLocker.

Windows Developer Power Tools

This book offers an encyclopedic guide to more than 170 free and open
source programming tools for those of you who want to extend your
development environment, write higher quality software, and increase
productivity. Each article includes a concise guide to implementing
the tool -- you'll be able to get up to speed quickly and use the
tools to solve problems you face every day in your software
development.

Windows Vista in a Nutshell

This unique reference thoroughly documents every important setting and
feature in Windows Vista, with alphabetical listings for hundreds of
commands, windows, menus, listboxes, buttons, scrollbars and other
elements. To help you locate a specific setting, tool, or feature
quickly, the book is organized into separate references for the user
interface, file system, networking, hardware, security, mobility,
multimedia, and command prompt. Also includes a system overview and a
tour of the basics.

Windows Vista: The Missing Manual

Windows Vista: The Missing Manual offers complete and comprehensive
coverage of all five versions of Vista. In his inimitable witty style,
New York Times columnist and bestselling author David Pogue
illuminates this subject with clear technical insight and hardnosed
objectivity. He explains Vista's features clearly and thoroughly,
revealing which work well and which don't. Written for beginners,
veteran standalone PC users, and those who know their way around a
network, this jargon-free guide is the book that should have been in
the box!

Word 2007: The Missing Manual

Word 2007: The Missing Manual not only explains basics like how to
create documents, enter and edit text, format, print, and fax, but
also learn how to create sophisticated page layouts, insert forms and
tables, use graphics, and create book-length documents with outlines
and Master Documents. Coverage also includes how to share documents
with other people and programs, create web pages, automate documents
with fields, and automate tasks with macros and the Visual Basic
scripting language. This book shows you how to do it all.

****Coming Soon


40 Digital Photography Techniques, 3rd Edition (Young Jin)
Access 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Ajax on Rails
Essential Electronics for Software Folk (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Everyday Scripting with Ruby (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Excel 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Fonts & Encodings
Google Web Toolkit for Ajax - PDF
Introduction to Neogeography - PDF
PowerPoint 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual
Rails for Java Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Scanning Negatives and Slides (Rocky Nook)
Software Testing Foundations, Second Edition (Rocky Nook)
Using Samba, Third Edition
Using XForms with Mozilla - PDF
Windows Vista for Starters: The Missing Manual
Word 2007 for Starters: The Missing Manual


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up old ones. If you think you know the next killer app to roll off the
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2007.
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<http://conferences.oreilly.com/etel/>


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ORM***Linux Roadshow and Exhibition, 11th January, Bristol
Meet the experts from Intel, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, SAP, HP, and
others who will discuss the risks, offerings, and best practices in
the open source world. Seize the opportunity to address topics to
which you need expert answers, network with the key players, and
discover how and where Linux and open source are being used today.

HP - Bristol Labs
http://www.hpug.org.uk/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=5&year=2007&month=01&day=11&Itemid=45

***Peter Morville at Bibliotek 2.0, Olso, Norway--January 25
Peter Morville ("Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Third
Ed." and "Ambient Findability") presents "Ambient Findability: Libraries
and the Internet of Things" as the keynote speaker.
<http://www.hio.no/content/view/full/52381

ORM ***Conferencia Internacionale de Software Libre, 7th-9th February, Badajoz
This Conference, in its third edition, has become the most important
forum for presentation and for the debate of ideas, projects and
experiences in Spain and one of the most important events all over the
world. In it's previous editions, held in M?laga and M?rida, more than
10,000 participants have been registered and more than 400 outstanding
speakers have participated: politicians, people from
telecommunications, businesses, Administration and Universities.

http://www.freesoftwareworldconference.com/

ORM *** RoR eXchange - February 9th - London
Skills Matter, the co-organisers of last year's RailsConf are pleased
to announce the First RoR eXchange 2007! This 1-day event will be held
on Friday February 9th and will be a great opportunity to get a
heads-up on the latest developments in the world of RoR, meet
interesting speakers and fellow RoR developers. Whether you are new to
RoR or a seasoned developer, The RoR eXchange 2007 is promising to be
an event that needs to be in your 2007 calendar!

ORM ***PHP Conference UK 2007, 23rd February, London
PHP London user group are staging the UK's second dedicated PHP
conference. Speakers include Kevlin Henney and
Rasmus Lerdorf.
http://phpconference.co.uk/

ORM ***FOSDEM, 24/25 February, Brussels
The seventh Free and Open source Software Developers' European Meeting
is a 2 days event, organized by volunteers, to promote the widespread
use of Free and Open Source software. Taking place in the beautiful
city of Brussels (Belgium), FOSDEM meetings are recognised as "The
best Free and Open Source events in Europe."

http://www.fosdem.org/2007/

***DevWeek, Feb 26-March 2, London
DevWeek is the UK's leading technical conference for software
developers, database professionals and IT architects, and features
expert speakers on a wide range of topics, including .NET 3.0, Windows
Vista, Visual Studio 2005, ASP.NET AJAX, SQL Server 2005, C# 3.0,
Agile Development, ASP.NET 2.0, .NET debugging, Visual Studio Team
System, and Service-Oriented Architecture.

http://www.devweek.com/

ORM ***Solutions Linux, 30th Jan-1st Feb, Paris
The European reference for professionals dedicated to Solutions
GNU/LINUX, OPEN SOURCE & FREE SOFTWARE.
http://www.solutionslinux.fr/en/index.php

ORM ***UKUUG Spring 2007 Conference, 19-21 March 2007 in Manchester
UKUUG's annual Large Installation Systems Administration (LISA)
conference will be held in Manchester from Monday 19th to Wednesday
21st March 2007.

This conference is a must-attend event for system and network
administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference
provides a friendly environment for members to meet, learn, and enjoy
lively debate on a host of subjects.

http://www.ukuug.org/events/spring2007/

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