From marsee at oreilly.com Thu Apr 1 20:14:57 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 1 Message-ID: ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders April 1, 2004--Happy April Fool's Day ================================================================ -New--Put Up a Safari Bookshelf Banner, Get a Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book's ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. ***Please send copies of your book reviews Email me a copy of your newsletters or book reviews. 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So Snaggy and Nitrozac offer their brand of advice on how to look great on iChat AV, in spite of iSight. With tips on proper lighting, camera angles, and using the right foundation, Snaggy and Nitrozac offer more of the high-tech humor you've come to know and love in their comic and in their book, "The Best of The Joy of Tech." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/16/iSight.html ***Creating Online Help with Tinderbox Apple's online help system, Apple Help, has a dubious reputation among some Mac users, mainly because of poky performance. But Panther has improved the situation. Matt Neuburg built an online help system for a Mac application using a note-taking hypertext outliner called Tinderbox. 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In these first excerpts in a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 ("Sound") of "Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/jenut3_ch17/index.html ***Bug Prevention with Code Generation: A J2EE Case Study If you had to drill 12,000 holes, would you prefer a manual drill, or its automated equivalent? Francesco Aliverti-Piuri describes using code generation for discovering bugs in a J2EE example. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/31/codeGen.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Create Project Item Wizards In a recent project, Niel Bornstein and his team had to produce a platform that included a set of base classes that other developers could use to develop Windows forms in Visual Studio .NET 2003. 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Limited time offer: Enroll in all three courses and save $895. http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/dotnet.php3 ------------------------------------ Fun April Fool's Day Stuff ------------------------------------ 10 stories that could be pranks--but aren't http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3589239.stm Google Copernicus Center is hiring (Google, 2004) http://www.google.com/jobs/lunar_job.html The technology behind Google's great results (Google, 2002) http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html Programming Parrot in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2001) http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/ The Story Behind the Parrot Prank http://www.oreilly.com/news/parrotstory_0401.html Still a good joke--47 years on http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/3591687.stm 10 funniest media jokes on April Fools day http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/90/363/12398_jokes.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***Check out the new O'Reilly User Group Wiki for the latest news You can look for a meeting, user group, or post information any time you want. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/view?HomePage Until next time-- Marsee From whatever at davidnicol.com Tue Apr 6 14:00:58 2004 From: whatever at davidnicol.com (david nicol) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] legendary at&t long distance rate inversion Message-ID: <1081278053.1324.4.camel@plaza.davidnicol.com> The current 2600 includes a letter from one Elvis Carter-Abbot asking about a legendary at&t long distance rate inversion. The 2600 letter response team thinks it would have made front page news at the time had it actually happened. -- david nicol "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with" -- S.C.C. definition of "robot" From cscheppers at kc.rr.com Mon Apr 12 23:15:19 2004 From: cscheppers at kc.rr.com (C.J. Scheppers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Tuesday meeting Message-ID: Hi, I look forward to the meeting Tuesday evening although I'll arrive late from a previous meeting nearby. I have apple OS X loaded on my notebook now so I'm anxious to start running perl on it. C.J. From garrett at scriptpro.com Tue Apr 13 15:26:20 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Tuesday meeting Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C925E@EXCH_MISSION> C.J. Scheppers wrote: > > I look forward to the meeting Tuesday evening although I'll arrive > late from a previous meeting nearby. > > I have apple OS X loaded on my notebook now so I'm anxious to start > running perl on it. We have the Stein room reserved for 7PM. I will be late if I can make it at all. At some point, I'd like to get involved in a discussion of what motivates participation in the group and monthly meetings, and what we can do better to facilitate meeting those collective needs. -- 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 at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040413/9e9296d5/attachment.htm From amoore at mooresystems.com Tue Apr 13 16:07:28 2004 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Tuesday meeting In-Reply-To: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C925E@EXCH_MISSION> References: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C925E@EXCH_MISSION> Message-ID: <20040413210728.GA14690@mooresystems.com> On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:26:20PM -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote: > We have the Stein room reserved for 7PM. > > I will be late if I can make it at all. My class schedule has changed to allow me to start attending again. I'm somewhat sick, so I was hesitant to attend, but I guess I'll stop by if I can just so that no one is alone there. Maybe I'll try to recruit some guys from work to join me. > At some point, I'd like to get involved in a discussion of what motivates > participation in the group and monthly meetings, and what we can do better > to facilitate meeting those collective needs. For me, it's a matter of my schedule working out and remembering to go. I'll try to remember to broach this subject this evening. Does anyone have any agenda items on their minds for this evening? See you at 7! -Andy From DDumler at jccc.net Tue Apr 13 16:38:56 2004 From: DDumler at jccc.net (David Dumler) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Tuesday meeting Message-ID: <7D5D8911668F50499D80DA10A4ED68AB62684B@ns-exch05.jccc.net> I will more than likely be late as well, but I do plan to attend. -----Original Message----- From: kc-bounces@mail.pm.org [mailto:kc-bounces@mail.pm.org]On Behalf Of amoore@mooresystems.com Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 4:07 PM To: kc@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Kc] Tuesday meeting On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 03:26:20PM -0500, Garrett Goebel wrote: > We have the Stein room reserved for 7PM. > > I will be late if I can make it at all. My class schedule has changed to allow me to start attending again. I'm somewhat sick, so I was hesitant to attend, but I guess I'll stop by if I can just so that no one is alone there. Maybe I'll try to recruit some guys from work to join me. > At some point, I'd like to get involved in a discussion of what motivates > participation in the group and monthly meetings, and what we can do better > to facilitate meeting those collective needs. For me, it's a matter of my schedule working out and remembering to go. I'll try to remember to broach this subject this evening. Does anyone have any agenda items on their minds for this evening? See you at 7! -Andy _______________________________________________ kc mailing list kc@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kc From garrett at scriptpro.com Wed Apr 14 08:15:10 2004 From: garrett at scriptpro.com (Garrett Goebel) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Last night's meeting? Message-ID: <71BEC0D4E1DED3118F7A009027B12028034C9260@EXCH_MISSION> Would anyone who made it to last night's meeting be able to write up a summary? -- 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 at scriptpro dot com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040414/730e7866/attachment.htm From cscheppers at kc.rr.com Wed Apr 14 15:16:44 2004 From: cscheppers at kc.rr.com (C.J. Scheppers) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:14 2004 Subject: [Kc] Tuesday meeting In-Reply-To: <200404141700.i3EH0je19294@mail.pm.org> References: <200404141700.i3EH0je19294@mail.pm.org> Message-ID: Hi, I arrived at the Tuesday meeting about 8pm to find Mike, David and Kevin. Many thanks to David who helped me get perl working in the terminal window on my Apple G3 notebook running OS X.2.8 David was VI-ing for trouble! CJ From marsee at oreilly.com Thu Apr 15 20:00:16 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (marsee@oreilly.com) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:15 2004 Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 15 Message-ID: ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders April 15, 2004 ================================================================ -Safari Reviewers--please disregard the email you recently received from O'Reilly -Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner, Get A Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book's ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. 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Check out David Pogue's visit to Gloucester County College, NJ and photos from Miquel de Icaza's LUG presentation at Novell's Brainshare, Salt Lake City, UT. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/topics?UGEvents You can also look for a meeting or user group, or post info any time you want. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/view?HomePage Until next time-- Marsee From tlgalenson at yahoo.com Sat Apr 17 13:13:38 2004 From: tlgalenson at yahoo.com (Tom Miller) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:15 2004 Subject: [Kc] meeting schedule Message-ID: <20040417181338.55851.qmail@web13909.mail.yahoo.com> Apparently I have mis-laid where I put the KC Perl Mongers meeting schedule. When do "we" meet? Tom (can't find anything today) Miller --------- Excellent Web developer tutorials at: www.w3schools.com you name it, they have it! Onsite Tech support: www.bluecollarcc.com 300,000+ files for download at: www.chatnfiles.com --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos: High-quality 4x6 digital prints for 25¢ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/kc/attachments/20040417/a26a0000/attachment.htm From amoore at mooresystems.com Sat Apr 17 16:17:25 2004 From: amoore at mooresystems.com (Andrew Moore) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:15 2004 Subject: [Kc] meeting schedule In-Reply-To: <20040417181338.55851.qmail@web13909.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040417181338.55851.qmail@web13909.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20040417211725.GB7667@mooresystems.com> On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:13:38AM -0700, Tom Miller wrote: > Apparently I have mis-laid where I put the KC Perl Mongers meeting schedule. When do "we" meet? http://kc.pm.org/ says it all. 2nd Tuesday of each month at planet sub (50th and Main). There was apparently a meeting last Tuesday, but I slept through it, and I'm not sure if many attended. I guess the next one will be 5/11/04. I hope to see you there. -Andy From marsee at oreilly.com Thu Apr 29 13:28:31 2004 From: marsee at oreilly.com (Marsee Henon) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:31:15 2004 Subject: [Kc] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 29 Message-ID: ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders April 29, 2004 ================================================================ -O'Reilly's New & Upcoming books on your group's site -Looking for Amazon Reviewers -Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner, Get a Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book's ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. 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Here he explains how objects and classes are supposed to work in Perl 6. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Join Larry and Damian Conway this July in Portland for their OSCON session on Perl 6. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5046 ***Getting the Most Out of XMMS XMMS (X Multimedia System), available with just about every Linux distro, is simple enough to use, yet many users fail to reach below the surface and take advantage of its many capabilities. In this article, Rickford Grant takes you from the basics of using XMMS to its more advanced features, such as creating playlists, playing Internet radio broadcast streams, and more. Rickford is the author of "Linux for Non-Geeks" from No Starch Press. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/04/15/xmms_tips.html Linux for Non-Geeks A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow, and Have-Some-Fun Guidebook Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270348 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270348/ ***Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache's Blackbox Logs Benchmarking LAMP sites can be tricky; how do you know which pages or applications need tuning? Fortunately, you can easily tune your Apache logs to provide more useful profiling information. Chris Josephes explains a Blackbox log format for Apache http. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/04/22/blackbox_logs.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Mad Macs and the Unshredder Maybe Apple Computer should avoid all that nasty litigation with Apple Corps and simply change its name. How about Mad Macs? Michael Swaine thinks outside of the music box. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/27/swaine.html ***BBEdit: Its Unix Support Doesn't Suck Either, Part 1 In this first article of a two-part series, Kevin O'Malley introduces you to BBEdit's Unix support features. He also includes a nifty hack for listing the songs on your iPod, copying songs from your iPod to iTunes, and playing a song in iTunes--all from within BBEdit. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/27/bbedit_pt1.html ***GarageBand for the Musical Newbie If you don't play an instrument but you have a good ear, a G4 laptop, and GarageBand, can you create an interesting song? Giles Turnbull explores. 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Check out the O'Reilly User Group wiki site for help: UGSuggestions http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/null?UGSuggestions UGNeeds http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/null?UGNeeds O'Reilly User Group Wiki http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee