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> O'Reilly User Group Program
> NEWSLETTER
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> HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK...
> Books:
>  - Python books coming
> News:
>  - O'Reilly and Pearson Launch Joint Venture
>  - An Interview with the User Friendly Gang
>  - Keep Publicly Funded Research Public
>  - Larry Wall's Apocalypse 3
>  - Nine Things I Wish I had Known About Cocoa
>  - Oracle9i's Improved RMAN
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> ***********************************************
> NEWS from O'Reilly and Beyond
> ***********************************************
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> GENERAL INTEREST:
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> O'REILLY AND PEARSON LAUNCH JOINT VENTURE
> O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. and the Pearson Technology Group, a
> division of Pearson plc, announced last week a joint venture, launching
> a new online information retrieval service for the enterprise IT
> market--Safari Tech Books Online.  It's O'Reilly, and the best of the
> rest. To take a look at Safari, go to:
> http://safari.oreilly.com/mainhom.asp?home No UG discounts are being
> offered on this service due to already low pricing.  To kick off the
> Safari launch, we're offering a chance to win a $1000 tech book
> shopping spree. No purchase necessary. Enter the drawing at:
> http://oreilly.com/news/safari_drawing_0901.html For the complete press
> release: http://press.oreilly.com/safari_jvlaunch.html
>
> According to SeyboldReports.com, Safari Books Online is Inexpensive,
> easy to use, and loaded with high-quality content--the Safari online
> reference service for IT professionals will provide stiff competition
> for Books24x7.com.
> http://safarijv:sa257ebz@www.seyboldreports.com/ebooks/features/011002-oreilly.
> html
>
>
> AN INTERVIEW WITH THE USER FRIENDLY GANG
> We visited Columbia Internet and spoke with members of the popular
> comic strip.  http://oreilly.com/news/rootofevil_1001.html
>
>
> MAC:
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> NINE THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT COCOA
> Practical advice to programmers getting started with Apple's Cocoa,
> especially programmers used to command-line environments.
> http://mac.oreilly.com/news/cocoatips_1001.html
>
> SHELL SCRIPTS, COMMAND LINES, AND CLASSPATHS
> For a look at Java programming on the Mac, read:
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/10/02/osx_java.html
>
>
> OPEN SOURCE:
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> KEEP PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH PUBLIC
> Just as scientific research must undergo peer review, software
> developed by publicly funded research should be released under an open
> source or free software license, according to OpenInformatics.org. If
> you agree, sign their petition at
> http://www.openinformatics.org/dsp_petition.php
>
> LARRY WALL'S APOCALYPSE 3
> As the design of Perl 6 unfolds, Larry continues his analysis with a
> discussion of operators:
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html
>
> PYTHON.OREILLY.COM
> If you haven't seen O'Reilly's latest Python page, you may want to
> gander at http://python.oreilly.com/ for the latest Python articles and
> books
>
>
> ORACLE:
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> ORACLE9i'S IMPROVED RMAN
> Coauthor of O'Reilly's upcoming "Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference," Darl
> Kuhn, writes about the significant improvements made to Oracle's
> Recovery Manager: http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclerman_1001.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.
>
> Two new Python books are coming...
> ----------------------------------
> Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition - November
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr2/
>
> Python & XML - December
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/
>
> REMINDER:
> Your group members receive a 20% discount on all books purchased direct
> from O'Reilly, using the DSUG discount code.
>
>
> *************************************************
> EVENTS
> *************************************************
>
> The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference is only four
> weeks away!
>
> New dates and location--as previously announced:
> The Westin Grand
> 2350 M Street NW
> Washington, DC 20037
> November 5-8, 2001
> FREE EXHIBIT HALL PASSES AVAILABLE
>
> New keynote joining us:
> Mark Lucovsky of Microsoft, architecht of the .NET My Services, will
> discuss several Microsoft initiatives for building distributed
> services.
> http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/1079
>
> Why attend the conference?
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/
>
>
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> OTHER STUFF
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>
> If you have an announcement for your group that you'd like my help
> with, just ask. I'm happy to include the info in an upcoming
> newsletter.
>
> If you're interested in having an O'Reilly author speak at your
> meetings, we'll try to arrange something. Email requests to me. If you
> have a travel budget for speakers, let me know.
>
>
> Until next week,
> Denise
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