From brandon at squareonedesign.com Tue Sep 18 12:22:31 2001 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter #9 from O'Reilly UG Program Message-ID: -----Original Message----- From: Denise Olliffe [mailto:deniseo@oreilly.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 5:12 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter #9 from O'Reilly UG Program O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER Volume 1, #9 I would like to say to that I hope you and your loved ones are safe at this devastating time in our country. If you get the chance, please drop me a line and let me know how you are. At times like these, it is sometimes best to keep some semblance of normalcy, and I hope you agree. In that spirit, here's our news: HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books: - Java and XSLT - T1: A Survival Guide - VB .NET Language in a Nutshell - Fall Promotion News: - O'Reilly's Conference in D.C. POSTPONED - Learning the C# Error Handling Mechanism - Teaching Kids to Program with REALbasic - O'Reilly Releases "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" Under the GNU License - CrossOver Brings QuickTime Movies to Linux: Part 1 ************************************************* NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond ************************************************* I would be grateful if you would alert your group to the news they'd find valuable. POSTPONED: ----------------------- Due to the attack on NY and our nation's capital this week, the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference, scheduled to begin next week in D.C., has been postponed. To keep updated on new dates, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ Please inform your members if you believe they intended on going. We have already contacted those who have registered. APPLE/MAC: ----------------------- Teaching Kids to Program with REALbasic Teaching a few programming basics to kids will show them what's really going on behind the monitor, and REALbasic is a great tool for the task. Here are some fun programming projects that children can grasp, by Matt Neuburg, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming "REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition". http://mac.oreilly.com/news/realbasic_0901.html Open Source: ----------------------- O'Reilly Releases "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" Under the GNU License: Recognizing the natural fit between an open documentation standard and open source development, O'Reilly & Associates has released "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" under the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License version 1.1. http://web.oreilly.com/news/docbooklic_0901.html CrossOver Brings QuickTime Movies to Linux: Part 1 Writing for O'Reilly's Linux DevCenter, Derrick Story rejoices that QuickTime multimedia capabilities are finally available for Linux users, and he examines the new CrossOver plug-in that makes this possible. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/06/crossover_partone.html ..NET ------------------------ Learning the C# Error Handling Mechanism Writing for O'Reilly's .NET DevCenter, Budi Kurniawan introduces error handling in C# and offers examples on how to use it. To learn more about Microsoft's latest programming language, don't miss O'Reilly's recently released "Programming C#." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/09/04/error_handling.html To help make the move from COM to .NET as smooth as possible, here are some migration tips and strategies by Juval Lowy, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming "COM and .NET Component Services." >From COM to .NET http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/comdotnet_0901.html ************************************************* BOOK NEWS ************************************************* REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE Please email me to request review copies. Press announcements are available for your use, please ask for a copy. Fall Promotion Buy two O'Reilly books from participating booksellers and choose a third book of equal or lesser value for free. All O'Reilly titles in print qualify. This limited-time offer is valid only in the U.S. and Canada. For a list of booksellers, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/retailpromo_0901.html Books Just Released: ---------------------- Java and XSLT http://oreilly.com/catalog/javaxslt/ Sample Chapter 5: XSLT Processing with Java http://oreilly.com/catalog/javaxslt/chapter/ch05.html T1: A Survival Guide http://oreilly.com/catalog/t1survival/ Sample Chapter 5: Timing, Clocking, and Synchronization in the T-carrier System http://oreilly.com/catalog/t1survival/chapter/ch05.html VB .NET Language in a Nutshell http://oreilly.com/catalog/vbdotnetnut/ Appendix A: What's New and Different in VB .NET http://oreilly.com/catalog/vbdotnetnut/chapter/appa.html Be well. Until next week, Denise From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Sun Sep 23 22:38:30 2001 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: This Month's Meeting, GR.pm Officer Succession, Etc. Message-ID: <20010924033830.84908.qmail@web13001.mail.yahoo.com> There is no presentation planned for this Friday's meeting (unless someone would like to volunteer for a last minute topic). However, I'd at least like to gather for a lunch meeting. The topic I'd like to discuss, at lunch and via the mailing list if you'd like, is difficult for me to broach. (I'm feeling a little verklempt.) We need to talk about officer succession and the future of GR.pm. I realize this summer was more dismal than it should have been for GR.pm meetings and I'd like to apologize for not doing more to try to organize presentations for those meetings, etc. With summer over, typically more of us, myself included, will spend more of our leisure time indoors hacking Perl, working on pet programming projects, etc. So I'm unhappy to say that at this time when we need a GR.pm president making meeting arrangements, preparing presentations, etc., I find myself with diminished time and mental energy for such duties. Both my professional and personal involvements have been rather engaging lately and I expect their intensity and complexity to increase in coming months. So I'm asking you to think about whether you'd be interested in a position as a GR.pm officer - particularly that of president. I suppose it's also a good time to think about what you'd like GR.pm to be. Like any voluntary organization, GR.pm has always been what the participants make of it. I've always thought that as long as it was some mixture of good people, good idea sharing, good times, good food, and good code, then it was a success. Let me, Paul, and the rest of the group know what you think - even if it's just your hankerin's for a lunch venue. (Though BD's Mongolian BBQ has been declared the unofficial restaurant of GR.pm (TMTOWTDI), personally, I've been Jonesin' for some curry. :) ) Oh, and wherever we meet, I'll make sure the lending library comes along so we all have an opportunity to check-in/check-out books. +Joel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com From bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com Mon Sep 24 08:13:41 2001 From: bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com (bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: This Month's Meeting, GR.pm Officer Succession, Etc. Message-ID: <85256AD1.00491F1E.00@corpnj148ls01.mcgraw-hill.com> Joel Meulenberg on 09/23/2001 11:38:30 PM Please respond to joelmeulenberg@home.com To: grand-rapids-pm-announce@happyfunball.pm.org cc: (bcc: Bill Day/C-I-G) Subject: This Month's Meeting, GR.pm Officer Succession, Etc. I haven't been doing a whole lot of work in Perl lately, so I'm not sure I have a whole lot of subject specific mental energy to contribute. But I thoroughly enjoy hearing what others are up to in West Michigan. I've been a lurker for the last couple of years. I think it's finally my turn to contribute something (besides that I will need some important sounding things to put on my resume soon). I hereby officially submit my willingness to become a GR.pm officer (although I'd rather be librarian than president). There is no presentation planned for this Friday's meeting (unless someone would like to volunteer for a last minute topic). However, I'd at least like to gather for a lunch meeting. The topic I'd like to discuss, at lunch and via the mailing list if you'd like, is difficult for me to broach. (I'm feeling a little verklempt.) We need to talk about officer succession and the future of GR.pm. I realize this summer was more dismal than it should have been for GR.pm meetings and I'd like to apologize for not doing more to try to organize presentations for those meetings, etc. With summer over, typically more of us, myself included, will spend more of our leisure time indoors hacking Perl, working on pet programming projects, etc. So I'm unhappy to say that at this time when we need a GR.pm president making meeting arrangements, preparing presentations, etc., I find myself with diminished time and mental energy for such duties. Both my professional and personal involvements have been rather engaging lately and I expect their intensity and complexity to increase in coming months. So I'm asking you to think about whether you'd be interested in a position as a GR.pm officer - particularly that of president. I suppose it's also a good time to think about what you'd like GR.pm to be. Like any voluntary organization, GR.pm has always been what the participants make of it. I've always thought that as long as it was some mixture of good people, good idea sharing, good times, good food, and good code, then it was a success. Let me, Paul, and the rest of the group know what you think - even if it's just your hankerin's for a lunch venue. (Though BD's Mongolian BBQ has been declared the unofficial restaurant of GR.pm (TMTOWTDI), personally, I've been Jonesin' for some curry. :) ) Oh, and wherever we meet, I'll make sure the lending library comes along so we all have an opportunity to check-in/check-out books. +Joel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email alerts & NEW webcam video instant messaging with Yahoo! 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URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20010924/a5261ad5/attachment.htm From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Thu Sep 27 20:20:50 2001 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: GR.pm Meeting Friday, Sep 28th @ Schlotzky's Deli on 28th St. by Woodland Mall Message-ID: <20010928012050.22256.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> OK, I didn't get too much feedback on the lunch venue, but Paul suggested the Schlotzky's Deli on 28th St. by Woodland Mall because one half of the restaurant is usually vacant and quiet and we should be able to make part of that "our space" for an informal lunch meeting. Oh, and Brandon, if you bring your own squirrel meat, I'm sure you can convert a Schlotzky's smoked turkey sandwich into a Schlotzky's smoked squirrel sandwich. :) Some people have expressed some interest in posts as GR.pm officers, so we should have something to talk about in that regard tomorrow. I forgot to mention earlier that I'm certainly willing to continue maintaining the Majordomo mailing lists (more of a chore than you might imagine - quite a bit of churn on the lists, people asking for help, etc.), but I'd be happy to let someone take that over as well if they're interested. Oh, and please remember to bring your books from the lending library. We'll have the big box there. See you tomorrow! +Joel __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com From joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com Thu Sep 27 20:26:03 2001 From: joelmeulenberg at yahoo.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: GR.pm Meeting Friday, Sep 28th @ Schlotzky's Deli on 28th St. by Woodland Mall Message-ID: <20010928012603.22771.qmail@web13002.mail.yahoo.com> Woops, I forgot to mention that we'll start at 11:45am. Yeah, I know, it's different from the usual 11:30am, but for some reason most people show up closer to 11:45am anyway, so we'll just make that the arrival time. See you at Schlotzky's at 11:45am. --- Joel Meulenberg wrote: > OK, I didn't get too much feedback on the lunch venue, but Paul > suggested the Schlotzky's Deli on 28th St. by Woodland Mall because > one > half of the restaurant is usually vacant and quiet and we should be > able to make part of that "our space" for an informal lunch meeting. > Oh, and Brandon, if you bring your own squirrel meat, I'm sure you > can > convert a Schlotzky's smoked turkey sandwich into a Schlotzky's > smoked > squirrel sandwich. :) > > Some people have expressed some interest in posts as GR.pm officers, > so > we should have something to talk about in that regard tomorrow. > > I forgot to mention earlier that I'm certainly willing to continue > maintaining the Majordomo mailing lists (more of a chore than you > might > imagine - quite a bit of churn on the lists, people asking for help, > etc.), but I'd be happy to let someone take that over as well if > they're interested. > > Oh, and please remember to bring your books from the lending library. > > We'll have the big box there. > > See you tomorrow! > > +Joel > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. http://phone.yahoo.com From bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com Fri Sep 28 14:00:31 2001 From: bill_day at mcgraw-hill.com (bill_day@mcgraw-hill.com) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:42 2004 Subject: For Immediate Release: Message-ID: <85256AD5.00685824.00@corpnj148ls02.mcgraw-hill.com> GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Bill Day came to power today as president of grand-rapids.pm.org in a bloodless coup. Matt Heusser has assumed responsibilities as vice president. Joel Mulenberg the former head of grand-rapids.pm.org contacted in his office in exile at priority-health.com was quoted as saying "I'm just glad we were able to have a peaceful transition of power". Paul Tjapkes the former vice president has denied having accepted computer equipment for his part in the coup. Al Tobey was quoted as saying "Lies, Lies, Lies". Steve Polling considered himself to humble to submit a quote. In all seriousness. Matt and I were elected by the quorum present at today's meeting. I would like to thank Joel and Paul for their service over the last year (or so). If I can do anywhere as near a good a job as Joel has done, I will consider myself successful. We discussed topics for future meetings. Al Tobey is working on a presentation of POSIX - IPC stuff for the October meeting Because of the Holidays the November and December meetings may be combined. Matt Heusser is working on a Perl.NET presentation for January. Joel Mulenberg is working a more complete implementation of PerlBots for presentation sometime in 2002. I am currently activly seeking submissions for future presentations. Don't be afraid that your presentation is either too advanced or too remedial. Again I would like to thank Joel and Paul for their past service.