From bmathis at directedge.com Fri Aug 3 21:07:30 2001 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:30 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: People Behind Perl - Artur Bergman] Message-ID: <3B6B58E2.5060709@directedge.com> www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. First, it saddens me to have to bring you the news that Frank Willison, O'Reilly's editor-in-chief suffered a massive heart attack on Monday morning at the O'Reilly office and passed away soon after. I knew of Frank only by his reputation and his "Frankly Speaking" columns, but he was a great source of wit, insight, and friendship in the O'Reilly family. http://www.oreilly.com/news/frank_0701.html Those of you at the Perl Conference will have heard the great news that the Perl Mongers and Perl Monks have merged into Yet Another Society. This establishes YAS as the central clearing-house for contributions to Perl and other open-source languages. Larry confirmed this by passing on a donation that he had received for Perl's upkeep to Kevin Lenzo of YAS. YAS has also completed its membership application to the Unicode Consortium. http://www.yetanother.org/ Slides from the Perl conference are getting gradually uploaded; Dan Sugalski's talks on the internals of Perl 6 are now available from dev.perl.org, courtesy of Ask Bjorn Hansen. (That man rocks!) http://dev.perl.org/perl6/talks Finally, I hear rumblings that the Parrot project may yet become a reality. More when that's confirmed... * What's new on perl.com Neither sketchy network access, conference burn-out, nor long-distance travelling can conspire to prevent me from bringing you this week's perl5-porters summary. This week brings news of more "hash clamping" discussion, the minutes of the perl5-porters meeting at TPC, a solution to asyncronous callbacks, testing for h2ph, and much more. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010730.html For our feature article this week, we continue our series on the People Behind Perl. This time, I bring you an interview with Artur Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on Perl's new threading model. While the model was created by Gurusamy Sarathy, Artur's really spent a lot of good time and effort making iThreads usable to the ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us about what got him into Perl development, and what he's doing with threads right now. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html And now, time for me to continue on my tour of the US; the next time we meet will be in Washington, DC! SC *** This Week's Features *** People Behind Perl: Artur Bergman We continue our series on the People Behind Perl with an interview with Artur Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on Perl's new threading model. While the model was created by Gurusamy Sarathy, Artur's really spent a lot of good time and effort making iThreads usable to the ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us about what got him into Perl development, and what he's doing with threads right now. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html *** This Week on p5p 2001/07/30 Hash "clamping", a meeting of the perl-5 porters at TPC, and more! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010730.html *** The State of the Onion 5 Larry Wall gives his annual summary of the state of the Perl world. This year, as one might expect, the major focus was on Perl 6. Larry gave 33 lightning talks, of 55 seconds each, outlining elements of Perl 6's design. Here's a rundown on what Perl 6 is going to be. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/25/onion.html *** Mail Filtering with Mail::Audit Does your e-mail still get dumped into a single Inbox because you haven't taken the time to figure out the incantations required to make procmail work? 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Row-level locking, ACID transactions, crash recovery and more are supplied by Gemini, a new MySQL table type that provides the performance, scalability and reliability required by the most demanding applications. Get the NuSphere MySQL Advantage today. Visit http://www.nusphere.com/op ================================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large. The big Perl news this week is, of course, YAPC::Europe. This year's conference focused on security in all its various guises. We'll bring you a full report on the conference next week, but you can get eyewitness reports by looking at the use.perl diaries of various attendees: http://use.perl.org/~acme http://use.perl.org/~quidity http://use.perl.org/~binky http://use.perl.org/~blech http://use.perl.org/~james A Conway's work is never done! Our illustrious Damian, only barely recovered from his mammoth speaking program at the Perl Conference is back on the road again; he's heading for Seattle, where Perl hackers can hear him give his terrifyingly beautiful talk on "Extreme Perl - The horror that is SelfGOL". http://zipcon.net/spug/ http://yetanother.org/damian/events/Extreme.html Maybe Mark-Jason Dominus's barf bags should be supplied... (You may enjoy reading about some of Mark's other TPC talks too.) http://perl.plover.com/yak/dirty/ http://perl.plover.com/yak/ Be sure to check Damian's web pages to keep up to date with his speaking tours. http://yetanother.org/damian/ Rich Bowen shipped a huge slew of -- well, okay, four -- Date:: modules, for all your non-standard date processing needs: Date::Passover gets you Jewish festivals, Date::Chinese gets you the current year's animal; the other two are more interesting, being helper modules to assist in calculation of other useful facts about dates: Date::GoldenNumber tells you a year's golden number, useful for quickly working out the day for any given date, and Date::SundayLetter is another algorithm for the same sort of thing. http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-Passover http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-Chinese http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-GoldenNumber http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Date-SundayLetter If date and time modules are your thing, consider subscribing to the datetime list, set up to coordinate the efforts of date and time module authors: mailto:datetime-subscribe@perl.org Now, normally I wouldn't be telling you about interesting developments on the Python mailing lists, but this time, Perl is directly concerned. Eric Raymond wondered out loud whether or not it would be worth taking the Python idea and making some real mileage out of it -- that is, to look at developing an interpreter that can share bytecode between Perl and Python. (And maybe other languages too.) As Eric predicted, the challenges are as much social as they are technical; trying to merge the development efforts of the Perl and Python communities is not an easy task. (and I know because I've tried to do it, with language-dev.) However, the idea is out there and people are playing with it. We've seen a lot of discussion on python-dev of how Perl does its stuff, and we're hoping that'll move over to language-dev and give us a clear picture of what everyone wants from a shared-bytecode interpreter. We will, of course, keep you posted. * What's new on perl.com This week is the last leg of my whistle-stop tour of the US, and so I have the last smaller-than-usual Perl 5 Porters summary for you. This week brings news of The Great SDK Debate, work on subroutine prototyping, -Wall fixing, and much much more: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010808.html Bryan Warnock is back with his summary of what's going on on the Perl 6 mailing lists. However, more importantly, he talks about some of the Perl 6 goings-on at the Perl conference, including the State of the Onion, the Perl 5 Porters meeting and the Perl6 Q&A. Read more! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010809.html Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html SC ========================================================================= The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference Inventing the Post-Web World September 18-21, Washington, DC, Omni Shoreham Hotel Early bird registration ends August 17--Register Now and Save! Hear from Paul Prescod, Jeremie Miller, Brandon Wiley, Steven Hazel, Eric Reis--learn about XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Freenet, Jabber--100 sessions to choose from. http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ ========================================================================= *** Featured Articles *** Quantum::Entanglement Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html *** Creating VoiceXML Applications With Perl Kip Hampton shows you how to use VoiceXML and Perl to connect the telephone to the Web. http://xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/09/perlxml.html *** This Week on p5p 2001/08/07 Subroutine Prototypes, the Great SDK Debate, and much more! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010808.html *** People Behind Perl : Artur Bergman We continue our series on the People Behind Perl with an interview with Artur Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on Perl's new threading model. While the model was created by Gurusamy Sarathy, Artur's really spent a lot of good time and effort making iThreads usable to the ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us about what got him into Perl development, and what he's doing with threads right now. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html *** The State of the Onion 5 Larry Wall gives his annual summary of the state of the Perl world; this year, as one might expect, the major focus was on Perl 6. Larry gave 33 lightning talks of 55 seconds each, each of those outlining another element of Perl 6's design. We bring you a rundown on what Perl 6 is going to be. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/07/25/onion.html Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com/ O'Reilly computer books, software, and online publishing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to perl-unsubscribe@paprika.oreillynet.com NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email elists-admin@oreillynet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Sun Aug 12 16:39:52 2001 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:30 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Meeting this week Message-ID: <3B76F7A8.60406@directedge.com> Yes, you read right, after a long hiatus, we have a meeting this week! Our meeting is this Wednesday, August 15th, at 8:00pm on the U of R campus. For information on how to get there, check out the web site at http://rochester.pm.org/meetings.html Looking forward to seeing everyone! -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From whyte at eznet.net Wed Aug 15 19:51:26 2001 From: whyte at eznet.net (Tony Whyte) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:30 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Meeting this week References: <3B76F7A8.60406@directedge.com> Message-ID: <3B7B190E.F9E0527B@eznet.net> Didnt see any sign of mongers near 703 at 815 tonight, shucks. Did the meeting get moved. ? Tony -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Wed Aug 15 22:25:46 2001 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:31 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Meeting this week References: <3B76F7A8.60406@directedge.com> <3B7B190E.F9E0527B@eznet.net> Message-ID: <3B7B3D3A.6030804@directedge.com> Tony Whyte wrote: > > Didnt see any sign of mongers near 703 at 815 tonight, shucks. Did the meeting > get moved. ? > > Tony Sorry about that. Nope, it wasn't moved, but I got there a little late.. Work called just as I was leaving the house.. it sucks being on call :) -- Brian Mathis Direct Edge http://www.directedge.com -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Wed Aug 15 22:31:07 2001 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:31 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] [Fwd: Perl.com Newsletter: YAPC Europe Report] Message-ID: <3B7B3E7B.1080003@directedge.com> www.perl.com update -------------------------------------- The Email for www.perl.com Subscribers =========================================================== Sponsored by Macromedia ANNOUNCING MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION 5: BUILD AND DEPLOY APPLICATIONS FAST. ColdFusion 5 ? the fastest way to assemble content publishing systems, business intelligence solutions, and self-service applications. Experience the high performance of ColdFusion with a FREE DOWNLOAD: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/network/08/macromedia/1 =========================================================== Hello, world. This is Simon Cozens, www.perl.com managing editor, bringing you the latest goings on from the world of Perl and our own site. * Perl at large. Ring out the bells! The third edition of the Llama Book, "Learning Perl," is finally out. This edition has Randal Schwartz joined by Tom Phoenix for a greatly revised version of the classic beginner's textbook. Buy one for a friend today! http://perl.oreilly.com/news/perlint_0801.html http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/ Fans of Microsoft's .NET will be pleased to note that ActiveState has another beta of Perl.NET out; this one is supposed to run much faster and more reliably than the old beta. Instead of attempting to compile Perl code down to C#, this uses a proxy which sits between the .NET framework and an ordinary Perl interpreter. http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/PerlNET/More Detractors of Microsoft's .NET, on the other hand, will be pleased to note that Sun's open-source JXTA peer-to-peer messaging layer is being implemented in Perl, by a project supported by Sun themselves. http://jxtaperl.jxta.org/servlets/ProjectHome Finally, I wrote a summary of what's been going on with Perl 6 recently, bringing the mailing lists up to date with some things that have been going on in other places: http://archive.develooper.com/perl6-internals@perl.org/msg03449.html * What's new on www.perl.com? Speaking of Perl 6, Bryan Warnock's back, bringing us up to date with the Perl 6 world since the Perl conference; he walks us through what's really going on with properties, provides pointers to Damian and Dan's slides, and to his own worn on opcode dispatches. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010811.html This week's Perl 5 Porters summary brings news of the drive towards specifications for POD, more great work on Unicode, and quite a lot of work on threads. Read on! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010815.html Last week, we mentioned that Yet Another Perl Conference Europe took place in Amsterdam last week. Jourke Visse was there, and he brings us up to date on what we missed... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html Enjoy! 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To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html *** Creating VoiceXML Applications With Perl Kip Hampton shows you how to use VoiceXML and Perl to connect the telephone to the Web. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/09/perlxml.html *** People Behind Perl : Artur Bergman We continue our series on the People Behind Perl with an interview with Artur Bergman, the driving force behind much of the work on Perl's new threading model. While the model was created by Gurusamy Sarathy, Artur's really spent a lot of good time and effort making iThreads usable to the ordinary Perl programmer. Artur tells us about what got him into Perl development, and what he's doing with threads right now. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/01/artur.html ============================================================ Get 40% off your next purchase of O'Reilly books! 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This set of slides teaches a tiny subset of Perl which is still extremely useful. As Larry has often said, it's officially OK to program in a subset of Perl, and this is a good subset to start with: http://www.consultix-inc.com/downloads/minperl_1a.ps.gz http://www.consultix-inc.com/ And another one! This time, John Keiser provides the missing documentation on how to mix C++ and Perl: http://www.johnkeiser.com/perl-xs-c++.html In terms of development, there's good news from the Mac world; Matthias has fixed some bugs, and now the Mac:: modules will work in the next MacPerl 5.6.1 alpha release: http://use.perl.org/journal.pl?op=display&id=665&uid=1 And finally... sick of getting spam? Set Eliza on them... http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=103656&lastnode_id=104196 * What's new on perl.com There is no Perl 5 Porters summary this week, although we do hope to bring you the next edition of Larry's Apocalypse and Damian's Exegesis later this week. Bryan Warnock, however, is here as usual, bringing us the latest from perl6-internals and perl6-language. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010818.html This week's feature article is one I'm very pleased to bring you, and one I encourage everyone to read. We've all, at some point in our web development lives, written some kind of templating system. Then we've found out about the myriad of systems available on CPAN: HTML::Template, HTML::Mason, embperl, and so on. At the Perl Conference, Perrin Harkins gave us a grand tour of the different modules out there and how they compare. He's written his thoughts and findings down into an article which should help you choose the best templating system for your needs. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html Enjoy, SC ============================================================= The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference September 18-21, Washington, DC, Omni Shoreham Hotel Early bird registration ends Sept. 7--Register Now and Save! Hear from Paul Prescod, Jeremie Miller, Brandon Wiley, Steven Hazel--learn about XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Freenet, Jabber. 100 sessions to choose from. http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ ============================================================= Choosing a Templating System Perrin Harkins takes us on a grand tour of the most popular text and HTML templating systems. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html *** This Week on Perl 6 (12 - 18 August 2001) Modules, work on the internals, language discussion and more... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010818.html *** Apache::CodeRed Tired of seeing your web server logs fill up with Code Red error messages? Reuven M. Lerner shows us how to write an Apache module to notify system administrators about Code Red 2 attacks. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/08/16/code_red.html *** Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001 A review of this year's YAPC::Europe in Amsterdam. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html *** This Week on p5p 2001/08/15 POD specification, Unicode work, threading and more! http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010815.html *** Quantum::Entanglement Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html ============================================================ Get 40% off your next purchase of O'Reilly books! Help Perl.com understand more about your technology interests and your work. Take our survey and get 40% off your next order of O'Reilly books. Plus you'll be entered into a contest to win $500 worth of O'Reilly books! Just visit: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/conf/register?xsource=perl&id=1 ============================================================== Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. 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Try a FREE COLDFUSION DOWNLOAD: http://www.oreillynet.com/nlr/network/08/macromedia/1 ============================================================== Hello, world! This is Simon Cozens, managing editor of www.perl.com, here to bring you the week's news and developments both in the Perl world and on our own site. * Perl at large If you're involved in any form of government work, Lisa Nyman has set up a mailing list just for you! The list is for "the discussion of Perl and other open source software in use in government - local, national, provincial, etc." Lisa, if you remember from our Perl success stories, is one of the people pushing for Perl at the Census Bureau, and gave a talk about the use of Perl in the Bureau at last year's YAPC, as well as a BOF on governmental use of Perl at the recent Perl conference. mailto:gov-subscribe@perl.org http://perl.oreilly.com/news/census_0101.html http://yapc.org/America/previous-years/19100/schedule/author/nyman.html Perl has been instrumental in bringing stored procedures to mysql: in fact, you can now program your stored procedures in Perl. Isn't that cool? What's also cool, but fewer people know about, is that postgresql has been doing this for a while. http://software.tangent.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/23/0817244&mode=thread&thre shold= http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?plperl.html Finally, we have a survey for you: If you haven't already registered at O'Reilly Network (http://oreillynet.com/cs/on_reg/register), this is a good time to sign up. Completing the survey entitles you to a 40% discount on your next purchase of O'Reilly books, and you'll also be entered into the grand prize drawing for $500 worth of O'Reilly books. I'm sure that's worth a few minutes of your time. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/conf/register?xsource=perl&id=1 * What's new on perl.com The perl5-porters summary returns this week, with news of clashes of v-strings, callbacks in the core, coderefs in @INC (with documentation!) and more. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p5pdigest/20010827.html Similarly, the perl6 summary brings news of actual, real code being developed for Perl 6, as well as discussions of closures, method syntax, variable naming and modules. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/p6pdigest/20010825.html At the Perl conference, many of us were moved by Jon Bjornstad's lightning talk. Jon has a disabled friend, Sue, who is quadraplegic and cannot speak. To help out, Jon wrote a Perl/Tk program which lets her select words and sentences to speak, read a book, look up words in a dictionary and view pictures. Dan Brian talks to Jon about what he's done and why. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/27/bjornstad.html Enjoy, SC ================================================================ The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference September 18-21, Washington, DC, Omni Shoreham Hotel Early bird registration ends Sept. 7--Register Now and Save! Hear from Paul Prescod, Jeremie Miller, Brandon Wiley, Steven Hazel--learn about XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, Freenet, Jabber. 100 sessions to choose from. http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ ================================================================ *** Featured Articles *** Choosing a Templating System Perrin Harkins takes us on a grand tour of the most popular text and HTML templating systems. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/21/templating.html *** Apache::CodeRed Tired of seeing your web server logs fill up with Code Red error messages? Reuven M. Lerner shows us how to write an Apache module to notify system administrators about Code Red 2 attacks. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/08/16/code_red.html *** Yet Another Perl Conference Europe 2001 A review of this year's YAPC::Europe in Amsterdam. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/13/yapc-europe.html *** Quantum::Entanglement Quantum::Superpositions rocked the Perl world, as it provided a way to get more than one thing done at once. (in constant time.) Quantum::Entanglement goes yet further, using solid quantum physics theory to get an infinite number of things done at once. To tell you more would be to spoil the surprise, but the module's author, Alex Gough, tells us what it is and how it works... http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/08/08/quantum.html ============================================================ Get 40% off your next purchase of O'Reilly books! Help Perl.com understand more about your technology interests and your work. Take our survey and get 40% off your next order of O'Reilly books. Plus you'll be entered into a contest to win $500 worth of O'Reilly books! Just visit: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/conf/register?xsource=perl&id=1 ============================================================== Sister Sites: --------------------------------- O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com The Source for Open and Emerging Technologies. XML.com http://xml.com/ XML from the Inside Out. ONLamp.com http://onlamp.com O'Reilly Network's High-Performance Web Development Site. O'Reilly and Associates http://www.oreilly.com/ O'Reilly computer books, software, and online publishing. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you want to cancel a subscription to this newsletter, send an email to perl-unsubscribe@paprika.oreillynet.com NOTE: Please make certain to unsubscribe from the email address at which you receive this message For non-automated human help email elists-admin@oreillynet.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org From bmathis at directedge.com Fri Aug 31 09:12:28 2001 From: bmathis at directedge.com (Brian Mathis) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:19:31 2004 Subject: [roch-pm] Newsletter #8 from O'Reilly UG Program (fwd) Message-ID: O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER Volume 1, #8 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books: - XSLT - Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ - Java & XML, 2nd Edition - The Root of All Evil (the latest from Illiad) News: - Top Ten Java and XSLT tips - P2P Goes to War - Load Balancers As Firewalls - Fighting Malicious Mobile Code in a Windows Environment ************************************************* NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond ************************************************* I would be grateful if you would alert your group to the news they'd find valuable. Java: --------------- Top Ten Java and XSLT tips O'Reilly author Eric Burke provides ten valuable tips for using XSLT with Java. To learn how to apply XSL transformations in real-world situations with Java, don't miss Eric's upcoming "Java and XSLT." http://java.oreilly.com/news/javaxslt_0801.html Learn about servlet filters from this ONJava.com article: Learning Servlet Filters http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/08/28/filters.html P2P: --------------- For several decades, the military has been using large-scale client-server systems to build networked environments where soldiers can train in simulated battle conditions. Now the military is looking at peer-to-peer technology as a way to build these simulations without a vulnerable central server. Michael Macedonia, the Chief Scientist and Technical Director for the U.S. Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM), talks with O'Reilly editor Richard Koman about how the military simulates battle, how peer-to-peer technology could change that, and the advances that have made a $69 flight simulator program as valuable as the multimillion dollar systems of a few years ago: P2P Goes to War http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/28/p2pwar.html Security: ---------------- Server load balancers can perform double duty as cost-efficient firewalls. Learn why and pick up some useful techniques, including configuration examples, in this article by Tony Bourke, author of O'Reilly's recently released "Server Load Balancing." Load Balancers as Firewalls http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/loadbalancing_0801.html The PC world continues to use methods that simply don't protect users against viruses, worms, trojans, and other infectious code. Here are the preventive modifications that should be made to every Windows PC, according to Roger A. Grimes, author of O'Reilly's recently released "Malicious Mobile Code": Fighting Malicious Mobile Code in a Windows Environment http://security.oreilly.com/news/maliciouscode_0801.html ************************************************* BOOK NEWS ************************************************* REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE Please email me to request review copies. Press announcement available for your use, please ask for a copy. Just Released: ---------------------- XSLT http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/ Sample Chapter 5: Creating Links and Cross-References http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/chapter/ch05.html Java Programming with Oracle SQLJ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orasqlj/ Sample Chapter 8: Contexts and Multithreading http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orasqlj/chapter/ch08.html Java & XML, 2nd Edition http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml2/ Sample Chapter 12: SOAP http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml2/chapter/ch12.html The Root of All Evil, by Illiad http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rootofevil/ Sample Strips: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rootofevil/chapter/index.html Book Reviews in from UGs online: ----------------------------------- Word 2000 in a Nutshell Reviewed by PC Clubhouse member, Harvey Ottovich http://www.pcc.org/reviews/revword2000.htm Beyond Contact Reviewed by Licking County Computer Society member, Nancy Rowe http://www.lccsohio.org/Reviews/Beyond%20Contact/BeyondContact.htm Thanks to all the groups that write reviews of our books. I am only able to post online reviews in my newsletter, to save space. Discount Reminder: Your members are entitled to 20% off O'Reilly books when purchased direct. Order online at www.oreilly.com or by phone: 800-998-9938. You must provide the DSUG discount code in order to receive the 20% off. ************************************************* UPCOMING EVENTS ************************************************* O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Service Conference September 18-21, 2001, Washington, D.C. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 7th! http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ UG member discount available, please enquire. 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