From garrett at scriptpro.com Wed Dec 4 17:06:19 2002 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:04 2004 Subject: [Kc] December 17th Meeting Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028010BE687@EXCH_MISSION> With the holidays all around us, I'm curious how many people intend to attend the December meeting? Garrett P.S. O'Reilly was so kind as to send us a couple promotional books. Unless anyone objects, I'll use them as prizes to be awarded to the winner of each month's puzzle. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett@scriptpro.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Running Linux, 4th Edition -XML CD Bookshelf -Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide -Word Pocket Guide -PHP Cookbook -Java Swing, 2nd Edition -Mac OS X Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition -Essential System Administration Pocket Reference ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual") will be on the Radio December 7 -David G. Kelly, ("Practical VoIP Using VOCAL"), San Jose, CA--December 10 -Ian Oeschger ("Creating Applications with Mozilla"), Mountain View, CA--December 10 -Cricket Liu ("DNS and BIND"), Boulder, CO--December 12 --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference Online Registration is Open -Proposals are due December 13 for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Computers for Albatrosses -An Interview with Tim O'Reilly -HTML version of the O'Reilly UG Newsletter for your site -O'Reilly Gear Available at ThinkGeek -Put up a ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book -The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar -Internationalization and Localization with PHP -ApacheCon 2002 Coverage -Relational Modeling of Biological Data: Trees and Graphs -Data Management in Windows Forms Applications, Part 1 -C# Generics in Rotor -Chapter from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" available online -PHP with Apple's Developer Tools -Inside RelativeLayout -Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap ---------------------------------------------------------------- >From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -The Maryland Apple Corps Will Have Their Annual Holiday Party & Flea Market on December 17th ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. 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Whether you are using Linux on a home workstation or maintaining a network server, "Running Linux" will provide expert advice on what you need. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/ Chapter 7, "Upgrading the Software and the Kernel," and Chapter 15, "TCP/IP and PPP," are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux4/chapter/index.html ***XML CD Bookshelf Order Number: 3358 The "XML CD Bookshelf" provides convenient online access, from your CD-ROM drive, to seven of O'Reilly's indispensable XML books: "XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition," "XSLT," "XML Schema," "SAX2," "Java & XML, 2nd Edition," "Java and XSLT," and "Perl & XML." The CD has a master index for all seven books and a powerful search engine; the text is extensively hyperlinked, so you'll find what you're looking for quickly. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlcdbksf/ ***Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide Order Number: 4435 This book covers the most common hardware and software problems for Mac users. This slim guide distills the answers to the urgent questions that Tekserve, "the leader in Apple triage services," answers every week. It's not just a book for Mac OS X, although it includes tips for OS X and Jaguar; it's for anyone who owns a Mac of any type--there are software tips going back as far as OS 6. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactrblpg/ The table of contents are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mactrblpg/toc.html ***Word Pocket Guide Order Number: 4451 Packed with information, this pocket guide is a condensed quick reference for all users who want to complete tasks faster, without having to plow through a thousand-page tutorial. "Word Pocket Guide" covers Word 2002, 2000, and 97, and it includes an explanation of how Word works behind the scenes; a guide section for common tasks and little-known solutions; and reference tables for keyboard shortcuts, regular expressions, and common file locations. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpg/ The table of contents are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wordpg/toc.html ***PHP Cookbook Order Number: 6811 "PHP Cookbook" provides programmers with solutions and practical examples to hundreds of problems they'll encounter when working with PHP. With over 250 recipes ranging from simple tasks to entire programs that demonstrate complex tasks (such as printing HTML tables and generating bar charts), this book offers a unique and extensive collection of best practices for everyday PHP programming dilemmas. Novice to advanced PHP practitioners will find a treasure trove of useful code in "PHP Cookbook." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/ Chapter 8, "Web Basics," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/chapter/index.html ***Java Swing, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4087 This new edition thoroughly covers all the features available in Java 2 SDK 1.3 and 1.4. More than a reference, this book takes a practical approach with hundreds of useful examples, from beginning level to advanced, covering every component available in Swing. Whether you're a seasoned Java developer or just trying to find out what Java can do, you'll find this an indispensable guide. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/ Chapter 14, "Menus and Toolbars," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/chapter/ch14.html ***Mac OS X Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4583 Concise, easy to use, and thoroughly updated to cover Mac OS X 10.2, this pocket guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts of Mac OS X. It features a handy "Mac OS X Survival Guide" that shows Mac users what has changed from Mac OS 9, and it helps Windows and Unix converts get acclimated to their new OS. With over 250 tips and tricks, this practical guide is a roadmap to the power of Mac OS X. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpg2/ A Sample Excerpt, "Tips for Switchers," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpg2/chapter/index.html ***Essential System Administration Pocket Reference Order Number: 4494 This book brings together all the important Unix and Linux system administration information in a single compact volume. Not only are administrative commands covered, but this reference also includes the locations and formats of important configuration files (including both general system databases like the password and group files as well as the configuration files for major subsystems like DNS, DHCP, and sendmail). The book also includes variations in command usage and file formats for the most important Unix versions. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esapr/ A Sample Excerpt, "User Accounts," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esapr/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual") will be on the Radio December 7 The Inside Mac Radio Show With Bob LeVitus & Scott Sheppard will include author Derrick Story This Saturday, December 7, 11:00am-1:00pm PST. Derrick will be talking about Mac OS X, O'Reilly, iPhoto, and general computer stuff. For more information, please see: http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/ ***David G. Kelly, ("Practical VoIP Using VOCAL"), San Jose, CA--December 10 Author David G. Kelly will be presenting "Building a VoIP System" to the Silicon Valley Chapter of the Association of C & C++ Users. December 10, 7:00pm-9:00pm Accent Technology, 1880 Hartog Dr. San Jose, CA 95131 For more information, please see: http://www.accu-usa.org/ ***Ian Oeschger ("Creating Applications with Mozilla"), Mountain View, CA--December 10 Author Ian Oeschger is giving a talk to the Emerging Technology Group SIG for the Software Development Forum. He will introduce the Mozilla platform and show developers how to begin to create applications with Mozilla technologies. December 10, 7:00pm Mountain View Community Center 201 S. Rengstorff Ave. Room 2 Mountain View, CA For more information, please see: http://www.sdforum.org/p/calEvent.asp?CID=969 ***Cricket Liu ("DNS and BIND"), Boulder, CO--December 12 Author Cricket Liu discusses new threats to the Domain Name Service (DNS) at a Front Range UNIX Users Group meeting December 12, 4:00pm CU Academic Computing Center Building Room 123 Arapahoe and Marine Streets in Boulder, CO For more information, please see: http://www.fruug.org/announcement/index.html For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Online registration is now open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before December 16th, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Proposals are due December 13 for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference O'Reilly & Associates invites technologists, CTOs, CIOs, programmers, business developers, strategists, and policy makers to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The submission deadline for all proposals is December 13, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/create/e_sess ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Computers for Albatrosses A computer small enough to fit on an albatross? This article details the datalogger John Catsoulis built in order to track an albatross's migration patterns. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/cprog/news/albatross_1202.html John wrote "Designing Embedded Hardware." Order Number: 3625 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dbhardware/ ***An Interview with Tim O'Reilly Here's what Tim's thinking about these days, from iPod to web services to O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/03/timinterview.html The O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ ***Would you like an HTML version of the O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter for your site? Big Blue and Cousins: The Greater Victoria Personal Computer Users' Association has it available. The simplified source code may be freely adapted by other user groups. Please retain the copyright notice. http://www.bbc.org/news/oreilly.html Special thanks to Les Benson for letting us share this! ***Official O'Reilly Gear at ThinkGeek For years, our customers have asked us to make and sell various items with our animals on them. We are pleased and proud to present our first collection of official O'Reilly animal swag. www.thinkgeek.com/oreilly (Sorry, no User Group discounts available at ThinkGeek) ***Put Up An O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book We are looking for user groups to display our ThinkGeek banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our O'Reilly ThinkGeek banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. ThinkGeek Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The 2002 Perl Advent Calendar http://www.perladvent.org/ ***Internationalization and Localization with PHP Making your web sites multilingual doesn't have to mean driving yourself crazy. Learn how to deliver translated text and images simply and easily, from Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of "PHP Cookbook." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/index.html PHP Cookbook Order Number: 6811 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk/ ***ApacheCon 2002 Coverage Apache Week's coverage of this year's ApacheCon includes a summary of Tim O'Reilly's keynote on "Watching the Alpha Geeks." http://www.apacheweek.com/features/apachecon2002 For more on Apache see "Apache: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition." (Available later this month.) Order Number: 2033 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/apache3/ --------------------- Bioinformatics --------------------- ***Relational Modeling of Biological Data: Trees and Graphs Aaron Mackey shows how to build and manage a relational database that supports hierarchical data. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/11/27/bioconf.html Aaron will be giving a tutorial called "Relational Databases for Bioinformatics" at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics Technology Conference. For more information, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/. --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Data Management in Windows Forms Applications, Part 1 Chris Tavares has always enjoyed doing user interface work. As he puts it, the ability to put his work right on the screen in full view is what makes UI work different from back-end business logic, and it feels more satisfying somehow to write code that does something on the screen, rather than just adjust an account balance somewhere in some database. In this article, he will show you how the typical Model-View architecture works in .NET. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/02/wfdb1.html ***C# Generics in Rotor If you want to try using generic classes and methods in C#, you don't have to wait--Microsoft Research has released an experimental implementation. In this article by Dave Berry, he shows you how you can start working with it right away. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/02/generics.html --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Chapter from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" available online Chapter 10, "Events and Event Handling," the first of three chapters from "ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition" (out later this month) are available for viewing on Macromedia's Flash MX Application Development Center. http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/flash/articles/actionscript.html ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition Order Number: 396X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript2/ ***PHP with Apple's Developer Tools Apple's OS X developer tools were originally developed by NeXT for programmers working with Obj-C, but have since evolved for use with a wide range of languages. At the heart of these tools is an IDE called Project Builder, which is also useful for working with PHP, as this article examines. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/synd/2002/11/27/php_apple.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Inside RelativeLayout Here's a look inside the RelativeLayout package that shows you how the layout manager works, and how to extend it to support new kinds of constraints, by James Elliott, coauthor of "Java Swing, 2nd Edition." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/11/27/layout2.html Java Swing, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4087 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jswing2/ --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Gifts for Geeks on the Cheap http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/11/25/gifts.html ***iApp Power Play by Derrick Story Derrick Story says "Don't be lulled by those seemingly simple GUI interfaces: the iApps are high performance publishing tools. Here's how to use them together to create a full-fledged media development environment." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/03/power_iapps.html ================================================ >From Your Peers ================================================ *** Maryland Apple Corps, Greater Baltimore Metro Area The Maryland Apple Corps. will have their annual holiday party & flea market on December 17th at the Towson Library, Towson, MD. For more information, please contact MdAPPLE@aol.com Until next time, Marsee From whatever at davidnicol.com Mon Dec 9 20:46:30 2002 From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david nicol) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:04 2004 Subject: [Kc] pay2send alias database now open Message-ID: <1039488390.2121.55.camel@chicago.davidnicol.com> http://pay2send.com/newalias.html to reserve your favorite nickname. -- David Nicol, independent consultant and contractor 312 587 2868 God did not create the world in seven days; he screwed around for six days and then pulled an all-nighter. -- `fortune -s` From garrett at scriptpro.com Wed Dec 11 06:34:07 2002 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:05 2004 Subject: [Kc] Next Meeting 7PM January 8th Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028010BE6A4@EXCH_MISSION> As only one person has contacted me to let me know they could attended... there will be no December meeting. In order to avoid the KCLUG conflict, why don't we have the January meeting on the second Tuesday? 7PM January 8th. Stephen opened the possibility of using a conference room at his office. If it is possible to get the room for the evening, please let us know. Otherwise, I'll try to arrange for the Elvis room at Planet Sub per usual. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett@scriptpro.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20021211/5d84ba26/attachment.htm From gedascher at multiservice.com Wed Dec 11 08:16:15 2002 From: gedascher at multiservice.com (Gene Dascher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:05 2004 Subject: [Kc] Next Meeting 7PM January 8th In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028010BE6A4@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: Which is it: the second Tuesday (Jan 14), or Jan 8 (second Wednesday)? Gene -----Original Message----- From: kc-admin@mail.pm.org [mailto:kc-admin@mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of Garrett Goebel Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 6:34 AM To: kc@mail.pm.org Subject: [Kc] Next Meeting 7PM January 8th As only one person has contacted me to let me know they could attended... there will be no December meeting. In order to avoid the KCLUG conflict, why don't we have the January meeting on the second Tuesday? 7PM January 8th. Stephen opened the possibility of using a conference room at his office. If it is possible to get the room for the evening, please let us know. Otherwise, I'll try to arrange for the Elvis room at Planet Sub per usual. -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett@scriptpro.com From garrett at scriptpro.com Wed Dec 11 09:11:16 2002 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:05 2004 Subject: [Kc] Next Meeting 7PM January ==> 14th <== Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028010BE6A8@EXCH_MISSION> From: Gene Dascher > > Which is it: the second Tuesday (Jan 14), or Jan 8 (second Wednesday)? oops... I was used the calendar in my systray and incremented the month without incrementing the year... Tuesday Jan 14th! thanks, -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett@scriptpro.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20021211/8f80a682/attachment.htm From whatever at davidnicol.com Tue Dec 17 03:56:49 2002 From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david nicol) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:05 2004 Subject: [Kc] pay2send project gets some press Message-ID: <1040119007.21548.36.camel@chicago.davidnicol.com> http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,763780,00.asp -- David Nicol, independent consultant and contractor 312 587 2868 "I'm all for outsourcing, because I know that American quality is a real commodity, in the long run." -Jared Smith