[nr-pm] Fw: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 15

[R. Burbach]

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From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
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Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 15


> O'Reilly User Group Program
> Newsletter
> October 15, 2002
>
>
> Spread The Word To Your Members...
>
> Highlights This Week:
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> Book News
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> -DNS & BIND Cookbook
> -Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0
> -Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
> -Programming .NET Web Services
> -Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition
> -JXTA in a Nutshell
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> Upcoming Events
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> -An Evening with Peter Morville in Silicon Valley
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> News
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> -Why Human Rights Requires Free Software
> -Powering Up Your Home-Brewed Computer
> -O'Reilly Beta Chapters Are Back!
> -An Introduction to VoIP and VOCAL
> -Free Frags with Cube: The Linux First-Person Shooter
> -A Review of Komodo
> -Top Five ASP.NET Web Services Tips
> -C# News Ticker Multithreaded Application
> -Introducing Mutation Events
> -Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO
> -Google Needs People
> -Self-Playing Media with Java Media Framework
> -An Introduction to iMovie
>
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> Book News
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> ***DNS & BIND Cookbook
> Order Number: 4109
> The "DNS & BIND Cookbook" presents solutions to the many problems
faced
> by network administrators responsible for a name server. This title is
> an indispensable companion to "DNS & BIND, 4th Edition," the
definitive
> guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook
> contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday
problems,
> ranging from simple questions, like, "How do I get BIND?" to more
> advanced topics like providing name service for IPv6 addresses.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnsbindckbk/
>
> Chapter 2, "Zone Data," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnsbindckbk/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0
> Order Number: 3897
> We've updated this best selling product with the electronic versions
of
> 7 popular Perl books. Included are the second edition of "Perl in a
> Nutshell" (paperback version), the third editions of "Learning Perl"
> and "Programming Perl," the "Perl Cookbook," and 3 new titles: "Perl &
> XML," "Perl & LWP," and "Mastering Perl/Tk." Formatted in HTML, The
> "Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0," can be accessed with any web browser
> and includes a master index for the entire library.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlcdbs3/
>
>
> ***Mac OS X for Unix Geeks
> Order Number: 3560
> If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its
BSD
> core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Even
> if you're an experienced Mac user, Mac OS X is unlike earlier Macs,
and
> it's radically different from the Unix you've used before, too. "Mac
> OS X for Unix Geeks" was written by two Unix geeks who found
themselves
> in the same place you are. Their new book is your guide to figuring
out
> the BSD Unix system and Mac-specific components that are making your
> life difficult and to help ease you into the Unix inside Mac OS X.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/
>
> Chapter 3, "Directory Services," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***Programming .NET Web Services
> Order Number: 2505
> This comprehensive tutorial teaches programmers the skills they need
to
> develop XML web services hosted on the Microsoft .NET platform.
> "Programming .NET Web Services" also shows you how to consume these
> services on both Microsoft and non-Windows clients, and how to weave
> them into well-designed and scalable applications. For those
interested
> in building industrial-strength web services, this book is full of
> practical information and good old-fashioned advice.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/
>
> Chapter 2, "Creating ASP.NET Web Services," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/chapter/ch02.html
>
>
> ***Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition
> Order Number: 3811
> Nearly a quarter-million PL/SQL programmers--novices and experienced
> developers alike--have found the first and second editions of "Oracle
> PL/SQL Programming" to be indispensable references to this powerful
> language. Packed with examples and recommendations, this book has
> helped everyone, from Oracle Forms developers to database
> administrators, make the most of PL/SQL.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/
>
> Chapter 10, "Dates and Timestamps," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***JXTA in a Nutshell
> Order Number: 236X
> O'Reilly's pioneering reference is the first and last word on this
> powerful distributed computing technology. "JXTA in a Nutshell"
> delivers all the information you need to get started, including an
> overview of P2P distributed computing, an explanation of the JXTA
> Project's new platform, and ways that developers can become a part of
> the development effort.  http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jxtaian/
>
> Chapter 2, "Getting Started with JXTA," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jxtaian/chapter/ch02.html
>
> ================================================
> Upcoming Events
> ================================================
> ***An Evening with Peter Morville in Silicon Valley
> Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 7:00 pm
> Peter Morville, coauthor of "Information Architecture for the World
> Wide Web, 2nd Ed.," will be speaking on "Information Architecture and
> Strategy." Presented by The Web Content, eBusiness Perspectives, and
> Technical Development SIGs of the Silicon Valley WebGuild and the
> Usability SIG of the Society for Technical Communications, Silicon
> Valley Chapter.
>
> For location and information, please see:
> http://www.webguild.org/content/
>
>
> For more events, please see:
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> ================================================
> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
> ================================================
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> General News
> ---------------------
> ***Why Human Rights Requires Free Software
> Human rights workers should be universally feted and supported.
> Instead, however, they are chronically underfunded, goaded to justify
> every detail of their work, and threatened with dire harm. For these
> reasons, human rights work requires free software.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/platform.html
>
>
> ***Powering Up Your Home-Brewed Computer
> How to construct and debug computers you've designed.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/14/DEH_tips.html
>
>
> ***O'Reilly Beta Chapters Are Back!
> Visit our Beta Chapters site for a preview of upcoming books.
> http://www.oreilly.com/beta/
>
>
> ***An Introduction to VoIP and VOCAL
> A look at how Voice over Internet Protocol applications work and the
> architecture behind VOCAL, by the authors of "Practical VoIP Using
> VOCAL." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/voip.html
>
> Practical VoIP Using VOCAL
> Order Number: 0782
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/voip/index.html
>
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> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***Free Frags with Cube: The Linux First-Person Shooter
> Will the availability of attractive and feature-packed game engines
> attract mod communities to Linux? Howard Wen thinks so. This article
> introduces Cube 3-D, a simple, elegant, and free first-person shooter
> engine.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/10/10/cube3d.html
>
>
> ***A Review of Komodo
> Simon Cozens takes a look at ActiveState's latest Komodo release,
> Komodo 2.0. Will this version of the Perl IDE finally convince the
> hardened emacs and vi users to switch over?
> http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/komodo.html
>
> ---------------------
> .NET
> ---------------------
> ***Top Five ASP.NET Web Services Tips
> Alex Ferrara, coauthor of "Programming .NET Web Services," offers a
> brief comparison between ASP.NET web services and .NET remoting, and
> then delves into five useful tips for developing ASP.NET web services.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/10/07/webservices.html
>
> Programming .NET Web Services
> Order Number: 2505
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/
>
>
> ***C# News Ticker Multithreaded Application
> Writing multithreaded applications is one of the more advanced topics
> in computer programming. Fortunately, the .NET Framework makes it a
> piece of cake by hiding the complexity in the classes in the
> System.Threading framework. This article shows you how to create a
news
> ticker by using the System.Threading.Thread class. Its main purpose is
> to demonstrate how easy multithreaded programming can be.
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/10/14/newsticker.htm
>
> ---------------------
> XML
> ---------------------
> ***Introducing Mutation Events
> In his latest exploration of SVG, Antoine Quint introduces DOM
Mutation
> Events as a way to integrate custom components more fully.
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/mutate.html
>
>
> ***Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO
> Dave Pawson provides a simple introduction to creating printable page
> layouts with W3C XSL Formatting Objects.
> http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/xslfo.html
>
> Dave is the author of "XSL-FO."
> Order Number: 3552
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/
>
> ---------------------
> Web Development
> ---------------------
> ***Google Needs People
> Peter Morville talks about the recent stir Google created when it
> launched Google News, a service Google claims was generated without
> human editors.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/10/11/morville.html
>
> Peter is a coauthor of "Information Architecture for the World Wide
> Web, 2nd Edition."
> Order Number: 0359
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/index.html
>
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***Self-Playing Media with Java Media Framework
> The Java Media Framework may not impress you as a media player client,
> but when you realize that you can deploy content without requiring a
> specific player on the user's machine, and that you can bundle the
> player and the media in a single download, it starts to look very
> interesting.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/09/jmf.html
>
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***An Introduction to iMovie
> OK, maybe it's not movies of your kids, that thing you deeply,
> desperately want to turn into little QuickTime movies and post on your
> web site or pass around on CDs. Maybe it's river rafting, or a groovy
> hippie wedding, or even those scenes from a bachelor party that
warrant
> very limited distribution. There's probably something you want to
> capture and pass around in neat, two- to five-minute video packages.
> For me, it's the kids, and for the amateur moviemaker, there's no
> better application than iMovie on Mac OS X.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/11/imovie.html
>
> For more on iMovie, read " iMovie 2: The Missing Manual."
> Order Number: 1045
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm2/index.html
>
>
> Until next time,
>
> Marsee
>

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