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tvpm at dreamthought.com
Thu May 15 13:14:21 PDT 2008
The May news letter. Apologies for the delays, time starved. Recently
got married and am a month away from having my first child + work.
Also planning to finally sort out the twiki[1].
Enjoy,
Raf
[1] I recently became aware of the fact that we can't log back in after
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Subject: User Groups Newsletter - Issue 04-08
From: "Josette Garcia" <josette at oreilly.co.uk>
Date: Fri, May 2, 2008 11:56 am
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O'Reilly UK User Group Programme
NEWSLETTER
Issue 04-08
PDF available for download - http://www.richplum.co.uk/oreilly/0408.pdf
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Hope you are having a wonderful Spring. At O'Reilly UK we are rather wet
and miserable, so please send us some sunshine.
We just released some big news at our recent Web 2.0 Expo, our new
consulting and training division called O'Reilly InPractice. Here's an
interview with the new Chief Strategy Officer George LeBrun that's worth a
quick read.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/chatting_with_george_lebrun_ab.html>
And as usual around here, we've got lots of new books, conferences, and
other projects going on. One of the latest is a new book widget that lets
you share O'Reilly and our partners' books on your web site. You can
choose by author, topic, or just show all our new releases automatically
and it's completely customizable for your web site so you can choose the
size, design, and more.
I'm willing to trade you a book of your choice for posting one of these
cool new widgets. Send me a link and let us know how you like them.
<http://ug.oreilly.com/promote/bookwidgets.csp>
New books we're hoping to get Amazon and Slashdot reviewers for include
"Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide," "Principles of Project Management," "Subject
to Change," and "bash Cookbook." Send me an email if you are interested
and I'll get the book right out.
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***Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
ISBN 13: 9780596518370
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518370/>
***Big Book of Apple Hacks
ISBN 13: 9780596529826
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529826/>
***Fine Art Printing for Photographers, Second Edition (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 13: 9781933952314
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952314/>
***FXRuby (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 13: 9781934356074
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356074/>
***Google Apps Hacks
ISBN 13: 9780596515881
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515881/>
***Hackerteen
ISBN 13: 9780596516475
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516475/>
***Harnessing Hibernate
ISBN 13: 9780596517724
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517724/>
***Illustrated Guide to Home Chemistry Experiments
ISBN 13: 9780596514921
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514921/>
***Java Power Tools
ISBN 13: 9780596527938
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527938/>
***Learning Flash Media Server 3
9780596515904
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515904/>
***MySQL in a Nutshell, Second Edition
ISBN 13: 9780596514334
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514334/>
***Painting the Web
ISBN 13: 9780596515096
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515096/>
***Photoshop CS3 Accelerated (Young Jin)
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9788931434378/>
***Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers
ISBN 13: 9780596529888
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529888/>
***Programming Groovy (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 13: 9781934356098
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356098/>
***Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain
World (Hard Cover)
ISBN 13: 9780596516833
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516833/>
***Web 2.0 Mashups and Niche Aggregators
ISBN 13: 9780596514006
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514006/>
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Your Book Reviews
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***Durham Computer Society reviewed
Cisco IOS Cookbook (2nd edition) -
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/reviews/Cisco-IOS-Cookbook.html
*** Polish Adobe Flex User Group
Programming Flex 2 -http://adobers.org/recenzje
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Essential ActionScript 3.0 - http://adobers.org/recenzje
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Essential ActionScript 3.0 - http://adobers.org/recenzje
Programming Flex 2.0 -
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Head First C# - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514822/index.html
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Upcoming Events
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***XTech, Dublin, May 6-9th - http://2008.xtech.org/public/content/about
XTech is the premier European conference for developers, information
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***Pycon, Italy, Florence, May 9th-11th - http://www.pycon.it/
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Conference News
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News from O'Reilly & Beyond
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UG News
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***Maker Faire Coming up Soon--May 3 & 4 at the San Mateo Expo Center
"Combining old-fashioned crafters with forward-thinking technorati,
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***Adobe Lightroom Adventure contines in Tasmania
In April 2008, a group of internationally renowned photographers traveled
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lessons learned for his book on Adobe Lightroom, scheduled to be
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<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/adventure/>
Tourism Tasmania is offering a chance to win a trip for two to Tasmania,
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***MacVoices--Barbara Brundage Discusses Adobe Elements 6 for the Mac Join
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Articles
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***Why should I upgrade to Office 2008 for Macintosh?
Author Jim Elferdink talks about what's new in Office 2008 for Macintosh.
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Windows can't match, and why you may not need to invest in iWork.
<http://missingmanuals.com/office2008mac/why_upgrade.csp>
***Ruport: Business Reporting for Ruby
No one likes developing reporting tools for an application. But without
them, many applications are only half-done. Luckily, Ruby has a great
reporting infrastructure available to build on, and in this article,
you'll learn how to use it.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2008/04/08/ruport-business-reporting-for-ruby.html>
***The iPhone SDK: APIs Apple Didn't Want You to Know About
The iPhone has been a hot item ever since it came out, but running
non-Apple supplied software on it isn't easy. But the secrets to building
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here.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/03/25/the-apple-sdk-apis-apple-didnt-want-you-to-know-about.html>
***Step by Step: Using Samba to join a Windows Domain
Samba has made getting Linux and Windows systems talking to each other
much easier than it once was. But there are still some tasks that are more
than a little finicky. One of them is definitely joining a Samba client to
a domain-based Windows network. Luckily, now you'll have a step by step
guide to doing just that.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/04/01/step-by-step-using-samba-to-join-a-windows-domain.html>
For more articles, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/>
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Blogs
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***SpongeBob SquarePants Supports O'Reilly Research Finding
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/spongebob-squarepants-supports.html>
***Good Devices Gone Bad
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/03/good-device-gone-bad.html>
***Removing the Remains of the 15-day Trial
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/aperture/2008/04/removing-the-remains-of-the-15.html>
***Is the Closed Source Inevitable?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/is_the_closed_source_inevitabl_1.html>
***My Transition to Using O'Reilly Safari Online Books Service
<http://www.marckboucher.com/random-thoughts/my-transition-to-using-oreilly-safari-online-books-service/>
***Making Connections With Hackerteen
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/making_connections_with_hacker_1.html>
***Five Steps to Web 2.0
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/04/five_steps_to_web_20.html>
****The Best ActionScript Book Ever Written
<http://theflashblog.com/?p=366>
***Unforgettable Tasmania--Leo Laporte reports on the latest Lightroom
Adventure
<http://leoville.com/2008/04/14/1466/>
***Looking for a Few Good SysAdmin Problems to Solve in Python
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/04/looking_for_a_few_good_sysadmi.html>
***How to Make Applets (and JavaFx) Viable
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/04/how_to_make_applets_and_javafx.html>
***Web 2.0 Expo SF Launchpad: Six New Startup Stars
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/04/web2expo-sf-launchpad.html>
***Get Info on a Mac Without Logging in
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/04/get-info-on-a-mac-without-logg.html>
For more blogs, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/>
Until next time--
Josette
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