From brandon at squareonedesign.com Mon Jul 1 08:48:22 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 28 Message-ID: You know the drill... Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, June 28, 2002 6:13 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 28 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER June 28, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -The Strange Case of the Disappearing Open Source Vendors -Wearable Computers -O'Reilly's Improved Shopping Cart -Colin Moock on Flash MX -ActiveState Active Awards 2002-Today is the Last Day to Submit Nominations -Seven Common SSL Pitfalls -I've Switched From Windows, Now What? -Pizza, HoHos, and MacHack 2002 -User Controls and Custom Server Controls, Part 1 CONFERENCE NEWS -New Presentations Added to OSCON -Julian Cash's Amazing Photos From Last Year's Open Source Convention BOOK NEWS: -VB.NET Core Classes in a Nutshell -Perl & LWP -Java Management Extensions -XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition -Network Security with OpenSSL -sed & awk Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- THE STRANGE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING OPEN SOURCE VENDORS Tim O'Reilly explains why open source is good for businesses even if it isn't always good for software vendors. 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Nominate your favorites for the Programmers' Choice Active Awards. Until June 28, 2002, you can select the one programmer that you think has done the most for each language. Perl, PHP, Python and XSLT winners will be announced at O'Reilly's Open Source Conference July 23, 2002. Tcl winners will be announced at the Tcl conference in September. http://www.activestate.com/Corporate/Awards/ActiveAwards.html SEVEN COMMON SSL PITFALLS If you are deploying SSL-enabled applications with OpenSSL here are seven pitfalls you'll want to avoid, by the authors of "Network Security with OpenSSL." http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/06/27/openssl.html Network Security with OpenSSL Order Number: 270x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openssl/ --------------------- MAC --------------------- I'VE SWITCHED FROM WINDOWS, NOW WHAT? Terrie Miller is a full-time web producer who is documenting her switch to Mac OS X. 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Andrew Duthie and Matthew MacDonald provide an overview of ASP.NET controls in this excerpt from "ASP.NET in a Nutshell." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/aspdotnetian_6/index1.html ASP.NET in a Nutshell Order Number: 1169 http://www.oreillynet.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ NEW PRESENTATIONS ADDED TO OSCON We've added many new exciting presentations to our OSCON program. See what's new, and take advantage of a great program http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/whats_new.html CHECK OUT JULIAN CASH'S AMAZING PHOTOS FROM LAST YEAR'S OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION. http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/ ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. 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The Web is a vast data source that contains everything from stock prices to movie credits, and with LWP all that data is just a few lines of code away. Anything you do on the Web, whether it's buying or selling, reading or writing, uploading or downloading, news to e-commerce, can be controlled with Perl and LWP. You can automate Web-based purchase orders as easily as you can set up a program to download MP3 files from a web site. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/ Chapter 7, "HTML Processing with Tokens," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/chapter/index.html JAVA MANAGEMENT EXTENSIONS Order Number: 2459 "Java Management Extensions" is a practical, hands-on guide to using the JMX APIs, Sun Microsystems new Java-based tool for managing enterprise applications. This one-of-a kind book is a complete treatment of the JMX architecture (both the instrumentation level and the agent level), and its loaded with real-world examples for implementing Management Extensions. It also contains useful information at the higher level about JMX (the big picture) to help technical managers and architects who are evaluating various application management approaches and are considering JMX. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javamngext/ Chapter 2, "Standard Mbeans," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javamngext/chapter/index.html XML IN A NUTSHELL, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 2920 This powerful new edition provides developers with a comprehensive guide to the rapidly evolving XML space. Serious users of XML will find topics on just about everything they need, from fundamental syntax rules, to details of DTD and XML Schema creation, to XSLT transformations, to APIs used for processing XML documents. Simply put, this is the only reference of its kind among XML books. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut2/ Chapter 9, "Xpath," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlnut2/chapter/index.html NETWORK SECURITY WITH OPENSSL Order Number: 270x "Network Security with OpenSSL" enables developers to use this protocol much more effectively. Traditionally, getting something simple done in OpenSSL could easily take weeks. This concise book gives you the guidance you need to avoid pitfalls, while allowing you to take advantage of the librarys advanced features. And, instead of bogging you down in the technical details of how SSL works under the hood, this book provides only the information that is necessary to use OpenSSL safely and effectively. In step-by-step fashion, the book details the challenges in securing network communications, and shows you how to use OpenSSL tools to best meet those challenges. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openssl/ Chapter 1, "Introduction," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openssl/chapter/index.html SED & AWK POCKET REFERENCE, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3528 For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are power tools for editing. sed, awk, and regular expressions allow programmers and system administrators to automate editing tasks that need to be performed on one or more files, to simplify the task of performing the same edits on multiple files, and to write conversion programs. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sedawkrepr2/ The "sed & awk Pocket Reference" is a companion volume to "sed & awk, Second Edition," "Unix in a Nutshell, Third Edition," and "Effective awk Programming, Third Edition." These books are still available for review copies, just let me know. Effective awk Programming, 3rd Edition Order Number: 0707 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/awkprog3/ sed & awk, 2nd Edition Order Number: 2255 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/ Unix in a Nutshell: System V Edition, 3rd Edition Order Number: 4274 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixnut3/ Until next time, Marsee From brandon at squareonedesign.com Fri Jul 12 14:45:31 2002 From: brandon at squareonedesign.com (Brandon Gohsman) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, July 12 Message-ID: Newsletter! Brandon Gohsman Square One Design 560 5th Street NW, Suite 301 Grand Rapids, MI 49504 T 616.774.9048 F 616.774.8003 E brandon@squareonedesign.com W http://www.squareonedesign.com -----Original Message----- From: Marsee Henon [mailto:marsee@oreilly.com] Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:29 PM To: brandon@squareonedesign.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, July 12 O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER July 12, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -Marshall McLuhan vs. Marshalling Regular Expressions -Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips -Getting Loopy with Python and Perl -W3C XML Schema Design Patterns: Dealing With Change -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference Call for Participation -Top Ten iPhoto Tips -O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo in New York -Wanted: Visual Studio .NET User Groups CONFERENCE NEWS -The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is Almost Here! -Camping out at Kid's World--OSCON -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Registration is Open -Put up a Conference Banner--Get a Free Book BOOK NEWS: -ASP.NET in a Nutshell -XML Schema -Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition -PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS -Chicago.PM--Damian Conway in Chicago, August 19-23 -NWOUG Summer Conference--Portland, Oregon ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- MARSHALL MCLUHAN VS. MARSHALLING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS Andy Oram explains why the success of "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed." should help assuage the panic Marshall McLuhan envisioned. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/08/platform.html "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition" releases this month. Order Number: 2890 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/index.html TOP TEN WEB PERFORMANCE TUNING TIPS Here are ten tips that will help you get the most bang out of your web server, by Patrick Killelea, the author of "Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/27/web_tuning.html Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Order Number: 172X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/ --------------------- ONLAMP --------------------- GETTING LOOPY WITH PYTHON AND PERL How do Python's loop constructs stack up to Perl's? 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This book covers application and web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling. Theres also an overview of web-related class libraries. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ Chapter 6, "User Controls and Custom Server Controls," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/chapter/ch06.html XML SCHEMA Order Number: 2521 The W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable XML document structures and content. While schemas are powerful, that power comes with substantial complexity. This book explains XML Schema foundations, a variety of different styles for writing schemas, simple and complex types, datatypes and facets, keys, extensibility, documentation, design choices, best practices, and limitations. Complete with references, a glossary, and examples throughout. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/ Chapter 12, "Creating More Building Blocks Using Object-Oriented Features," and "Chapter 14: Documenting Schemas," are available online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/chapter/index.html WRITING EXCEL MACROS WITH VBA, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3595 Newly updated for Excel 2002, "Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition" provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on the Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete, state-of-the-art integrated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exlmacro2/ Chapter 17, "The Workbook Object," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exlmacro2/chapter/index.html PC HARDWARE IN A NUTSHELL, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3536 In addition to coverage of the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, this book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. Special emphasis is given to upgrading and troubleshooting existing equipment so you can get the most from your existing investments. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut2/ Chapter 28, "Building a PC," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut2/chapter/index.html ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Chicago, IL-- CHICAGO.PM--DAMIAN CONWAY IN CHICAGO, AUGUST 19-23 Damian Conway will be teaching several of his popular Perl courses. The classes will be: -Data Munging with Perl, August 19-20, 2002 -Advanced Object-Oriented Perl, August 21-22, 2002 -Practical Parsing with Perl, August 23, 2002 For more information see: http://chicago.pm.org/ Portland, OR-- THE NORTHWEST ORACLE USERS GROUP-- Will be holding its summer conference and seminars in Portland, Oregon on July 22nd and 23rd. Complete details and online registration are available: http://www.nwoug.com/conferences/july2002.htm Until next time, Marsee From joelmeulenberg at attbi.com Sat Jul 13 01:05:07 2002 From: joelmeulenberg at attbi.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: Fwd: Meeting Message-ID: <000c01c22a33$3d2c5750$6901a8c0@attbi.com> The following message bounced because (due to the acquisition Matt refers to below) Matt was sending his email from a new email address (Matthew.Heusser@2020.net) rather than the address that was on the mailing list (his old McGraw Hill address). So, I've forwarded the message to the list. Also, Matt, I've taken the liberty of switching your email address on both the "announce" and discussion lists. Here's Matt's original message: ----------------------------------------------- Folks: As some of you may know, the last PM meeting was botched. The president couldn't make it, so I was supposed to take the VideoTape to the Perl Mongers meeting. Then I got bought. (Er ... , CAP, A division of McGraw-Hill, was purchased by 20/20 technologies, inc, a Canadian Software Firm.) So, someone came over here to pick up the tape. Because I was in the Employee Orientation, I left the tape with the receptionist. Only, SHE went to the employee orientation about 15 minutes later. So, do you guys want to wait an entire month until the next meeting, or just call it a do-over and have one sooner? BTW, my honest apologies on not getting the tape to the meeting. I feel terrible about it - I did have permission to leave to go to the meeting ... then, thursday night, my manager found out that I didn't really have permission anymore. And he couldn't tell me until Friday morning at 10:30 ... regards, Matthew Heusser, -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20020713/d89edac3/attachment.htm From joelmeulenberg at attbi.com Sat Jul 13 01:36:27 2002 From: joelmeulenberg at attbi.com (Joel Meulenberg) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: Meeting References: <000c01c22a33$3d2c5750$6901a8c0@attbi.com> Message-ID: <002f01c22a37$9db8d860$6901a8c0@attbi.com> > So, someone came over here to pick up the tape. > Because I was in the Employee Orientation, > I left the tape with the receptionist. > Only, SHE went to the employee orientation about > 15 minutes later. Yes, specifically, I recruited Keith Brunsting because, being a former McGraw Hill employee, he has specific knowledge of the McGraw Hill offices. (Actually, I tried to get Paul Tjapkes for the same reason, but he had some wimpy excuse like needing to productionalize a completely revamped Priority Health web site with new interactive services or something like that - whatever. ; ) ) After rifling through every container he could find in your cube (while you were away "being sold" to another company), Keith gave up and returned to the car, which I kept running at the curb out in front of the 99 Monroe building for a quick escape. I didn't mind waiting while Keith ransacked your cube and lifted a few McGraw Hill laptops that were lying around (oops, did my fingers type that thought?) because, outside, I was watching the show as everyone evacuated downtown G.R. buildings due to a gas main leak. Oh, and I took a few moments to inflate a slowly-leaking tire with my portable air compressor. So, taking into account the auto maintenance and the new laptops, I'd say the trip was a great success. (OK, OK, that's all true *except* for the laptops.) > So, do you guys want to wait an entire month until > the next meeting, or just call it a do-over and have > one sooner? Well, we've gone this far into July, so I guess I'd vote for just doing the video at the normally scheduled July meeting (on the 26th). +Joel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/archives/grand-rapids-pm-announce/attachments/20020713/5ad519de/attachment.htm From williamday at email.com Tue Jul 23 10:06:17 2002 From: williamday at email.com (Bill Day) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: Reminder: Perl Mongers this friday Message-ID: <20020723150618.21573.qmail@email.com> This friday (July 26), Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will meet at Priority Health, classroom 1 at 11:30. We will once again attempt to view the film that was thwarted last month due to corporate intrigue, missing receptionists, and public utility failures. Since Keith Sederholm will be on vacation, you are on your own for food. Agenda is typical: 11:30 a.m. Welcome and introductions Lunch (BYO) Lending Library (remember to return books) View film 1:00 p.m. Adjourn P.S. Matt still has my copy of the video, so can someone (Matt) be sure to bring a copy. See you there. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Save up to $160 by signing up for NetZero Platinum Internet service. http://www.netzero.net/?refcd=N2P0602NEP8 From williamday at email.com Wed Jul 24 11:11:16 2002 From: williamday at email.com (Bill Day) Date: Wed Aug 4 00:00:49 2004 Subject: Reminder: Perl Mongers this friday Message-ID: <20020724161116.3147.qmail@email.com> Sorry I neglected to mention this in my original email: Classroom 1 is in the basement of building 1239. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Day" Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:06:17 -0500 To: grand-rapids-pm-announce@happyfunball.pm.org Subject: Reminder: Perl Mongers this friday > This friday (July 26), Grand Rapids Perl Mongers will meet at Priority Health, classroom 1 at 11:30. > > We will once again attempt to view the film that was thwarted last month due to corporate intrigue, missing receptionists, and public utility failures. > > Since Keith Sederholm will be on vacation, you are on your own for food. > > Agenda is typical: > > 11:30 a.m. Welcome and introductions > Lunch (BYO) > Lending Library (remember to return books) > View film > 1:00 p.m. Adjourn > > P.S. 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