From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Jun 11 07:58:58 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:40 2004 Subject: FW: O'Reilly Releases "Learning Cocoa" & "Learning Carbon" Message-ID: Hey, anyone here develop for the Mac? If so, ever heard of Carbon or Cocoa? Well, O'Reilly has a couple of books for you if you do. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll ask them to send us a copy. Danke, Brandon -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 1:36 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: O'Reilly Releases "Learning Cocoa" & "Learning Carbon" For Immediate Release Review copies available contact: Denise Olliffe deniseo@oreilly.com or 707-829-0515 ext 339 REMINDER of SPECIAL DISCOUNT FOR UGs ONLY: O'Reilly offering 25% discount until June 30th on all books ordered DIRECT from O'Reilly. Please use discount code: UG05 To order, call 800-998-9938, ask for customer service (provide customer service rep with discount code). Orders cannot be placed online to recieve the discount--at this time. Please pass this info to your members! O'REILLY RELEASES "LEARNING CARBON" AND "LEARNING COCOA" FOR MAC OS X DEVELOPER COMMUNITY O'Reilly & Associates announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference 2001 that the first two in a series of highly anticipated books on Mac OS X application development-"Learning Carbon" and "Learning Cocoa" (O'Reilly, each US $34.95)--have been released. Designed to teach Apple developers the key concepts about programming for Mac OS X, "Learning Carbon" and "Learning Cocoa" provide the essential tools for porting existing code to the new operating system, and using the examples provided, act as springboards to help developers create their own industrial-strength applications. "The interest in developing for Mac OS X is incredible here at our Worldwide Developer conference," said Ron Okamoto, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "Written by Mac OS X experts, technically reviewed by Apple engineers, and produced and edited to O'Reilly's trademark high standard of quality, 'Learning Carbon' and 'Learning Cocoa' will be invaluable resources to our developers." Carbon is one of the principal application environments Mac OS X programmers can use to write applications. Utilizing Carbon, programmers can tune-up their existing Mac source code to take advantage of the new features in Mac OS X. "Learning Carbon" introduces the developer to key concepts like event management, resource handling, and bundle anatomy. In addition, hands-on instructions guide the reader on topics of how to implement essential application tasks, such as managing windows, creating and responding to menu commands, providing user help, and organizing the application for easy localization in multiple countries and languages. Cocoa is the second principal application environment for Mac OS X. Among Cocoa's many attributes, its advanced object-oriented APIs allow developers to work in both Java and Objective-C. With "Learning Cocoa" by their side, readers quickly become familiar with Cocoa application development not merely by reading, but by doing. For those with no previous experience, the book breaks the ice with a discussion of essential object-oriented programming concepts, before a thorough introduction to the Cocoa environment helps them become familiar with the basic elements of Cocoa programming. Tutorials guide the reader through a series of gradually more complex example applications, laying the foundation for more advanced techniques and concepts every time. The writing team has incorporated a playful spirit into this book, as the reader is encouraged to play, explore, and 'kick the tires' of Cocoa, demystifying Apple's development environment and getting developers eager to program in it. Recommended by the Apple Developer Connection, "Learning Carbon" and "Learning Cocoa" provide information not available anywhere else, and perfectly equip the developer to hit the ground running in the Mac OS X application development market. For "Learning Carbon:" The sample chapter, "Carbon Event," is available free online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncarbon/chapter/ch06.html For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author bio, and samples, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncarbon/ For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596001614.jpg For "Learning Cocoa:" Chapter 6, "Essential Cocoa Paradigms," is available free online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa/chapter/ch06.html For more information about the book, including Table of Contents, index, author bio, and samples, see: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa/ An in depth series of articles on "Programming with Cocoa" is available on the O'Reilly Network Mac DevCenter: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/37 For a cover graphic in jpeg format, go to: ftp://ftp.ora.com/pub/graphics/book_covers/hi-res/0596001606.jpg Learning Carbon By Apple Computer, Inc. May 2001 ISBN 0-596-00161-4, 352 pages, $34.95 (US) Learning Cocoa By Apple Computer, Inc. May 2001 ISBN 0-596-00160-6, 370 pages, $34.95 (US) www.oreilly.com 1-800-998-9938 http://www.oreilly.com # # # O'Reilly is a registered trademark of O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. From steve at bbdltd.com Fri Jun 15 10:34:59 2001 From: steve at bbdltd.com (Steve Johnson) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:40 2004 Subject: Job Search Message-ID: I've begun a semi-confidential job search. If anyone knows me and would like to refer me anyway ;-), I'm looking to make a move in the next 30 to 120 days. I'm currently evaluating opportunities in contracting, consulting, corporate IT, etc., so I don't have too many limitations on the nature of the work as long as it is IT and a challenge (opportunity to use perl is a big plus, though). Relocation and travel are not a problem. Resume and references available on request. Regards, Steve Johnson From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Wed Jun 27 10:14:27 2001 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:40 2004 Subject: GR.pm June Meeting (6/29/2001) Cancelled Message-ID: <20010627151427.78218.qmail@web13007.mail.yahoo.com> Since we don't presently have anything to talk about (presentations and whatnot) and there wasn't much interest in a social lunch, Paul and I thought it was best to just skip this month's meeting. Two data points do not make a trend, but it's beginning to feel like the seemingly cyclical "summer lull" for GR.pm has set in. BTW, anyone got any new modules they've played with? +Joel ===== Perl mongers do it more than one way. (TMTOWTDI) http://grand-rapids.pm.org/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ From brandon at squareonedesign.com Thu Jun 28 15:21:06 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:40 2004 Subject: Book Update Message-ID: Hey everyone, O?Reilley has a new format for the info they send me. Instead of periodic book announcements, they are sending more of a formal newsletter at regular intervals. Here is the book listing from the first of those newsletters: Here's a list of O'Reilly's latest titles. Review copies are available upon request. Click on either link for book details--the press release is the top link, for those who make use of the it. Com+ Programming with Visual Basic http://press.oreilly.com/compluspvb.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compluspvb/ Subclassing & Hooking with Visual Basic http://press.oreilly.com/subhook.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/subhookvb/ ..Net Framework Essentials http://press.oreilly.com/dotnetfrmess.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnetfrmess/ Oracle Essentials: Oracle9i, Oracle8i & Oracle8 http://press.oreilly.com/oressentials2.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oressentials2/ Cisco IOS Access Lists http://press.oreilly.com/cisrtlist.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cisrtlist/ Effective Awk Programming, 3rd Edition http://press.oreilly.com/awkprog3.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3/ For UPCOMING titles, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html Reminder: Your members receive 20% discount on all books purchased direct from O'Reilly using the DSUG discount code. Let me know which books people are interested in and I?ll request review copies. Danke, Brandon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20010628/7b21aa10/attachment.htm From chuckwilliams1 at home.com Fri Jun 29 03:22:29 2001 From: chuckwilliams1 at home.com (Chuck Williams) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:40 2004 Subject: YAPC Montreal Message-ID: <3B3C3AC5.DA787FCB@home.com> Hi, I'm on the grand rapids list even tho I live on the east side of the state (berkley, mi -- never found a local Perl list). I haven't seen anything here on this so if anyone's interested I can share what a great time I had at Yet Another Perl Conference in Montreal. This is my web site page with everything I thought worth keeping about the conference: http://members.home.com/chuckwilliams1/yapc.htm And I've gotta say all the local people were very very nice. They mostly spoke French. Anyway the speakers were fine, attendance was about 350, McGill University (downtown Montreal) had excellent facilities. My first YAPC so I have nothing to compare it to. But many of the speakers were CPAN authors or book authors (or both). They knew Perl "intimately". My primary purpose in going was to get better acquainted with what the Perl community expects from programmers (standards, so to speak). So I got that accomplished just by "being there". And that's my story. Thanks for listening! Chuck Williams chuckwilliams1@home.com