[Wellington-pm]
[Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 6]
Grant McLean
grant at mclean.net.nz
Fri Aug 6 19:40:35 CDT 2004
Hi Perlers
Each month Marsee Henon, the tireless user groups coordinator from
O'Reilly and Associates, sends all the user group leaders a newsletter
full of:
- links to open source news and articles
- conference schedules
- O'Reilly publication announcements (and offers of review copies)
- special offers
I have not been in the habit of forwarding the email to the list but
I guess that's why she's sending it so perhaps I should.
I've attached the latest one below. If you think it would be useful
to post this once a month to the wellington-pm list, then speak up
and I will do so.
If no one wants it then I won't.
Regards
Grant
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> From: marsee at oreilly.com
> To: perlmongers at web.co.nz
> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 6
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2004 16:33:34 -0700
>
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> O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders
> August 6, 2004
> ================================================================
> -Free Expo Hall Passes available for PhotoShopWorld in
> Orlando, Florida--September 2
> -Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get a Free Book
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> General News
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> **Free Expo Hall Passes available for PhotoShopWorld in Orlando,
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>
> ***Put Up an O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Banner, Get a Free Book
> We are looking for user groups to display our conference banner on
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> book of your choice.
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> ================================================================
> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> August 6, 2004
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Book News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -XML Hacks
> -CSS Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
> -IRC Hacks
> -Cyber Adversary Characterization
> -OpenOffice.org Writer
> -AI for Game Developers
> -IT Ethics Handbook
> -Upgrading to PHP 5
> -SpamAssassin
> -We the Media
> -Zero-Day Exploit
> -Mono: A Developer's Notebook
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Upcoming Events
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Deke McClellend ("Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One")
> 2004 Australian InDesign Conference--August 12-14
> -Wil Wheaton ("Just a Geek" and "Dancing Barefoot") at
> Hollywood Borders--August 15
> -Wil Wheaton ("Just a Geek" and "Dancing Barefoot") at Mysterious Galaxy
> Books, San Diego, CA--August 21
> -O'Reilly at PhotoShopWorld, Orlando, Florida--August 31 & September 2
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Conference News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Registration Is Open for O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference--
> October 25-28, 2004
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -We the Media Blog
> -Techies Reshape 9/11 History
> -O'Reilly Radar: OSCON 2004
> -Top 10 Online Investing Tips
> -The Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest--Enter by August 9
> -O'Reilly and MySQL AB Present the MySQL Users Conference
> -Questioning Promises at LinuxWorld
> -Open Source and NASA's Mars Rover
> -21.5 Things You Can Do with Office 2004
> -Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide Shows for Your Mac
> -OS 9, Mine, All Mine
> -Windows Server Hacks: Creating a Password Reset Disk
> -Power Up the Windows Clipboard
> -Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0
> -XML-Java Data Binding Using XMLBeans
> -Keeping Up with the Java Joneses
> -What Countermeasures Really Mean
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> News From Your Peers
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Report from OSCON 2004
>
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> ***XML Hacks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007116
> This practical, roll-up-your-sleeves guide distills years of ingenious XML
> hacking into a complete set of tips, tricks, and tools for people who want
> to uncover the true power of XML. With plenty of real-world projects that
> illustrate how to define, read, create, and manipulate XML documents,
> you'll learn to put XML to work on the Internet and within productivity
> applications. Explore and experiment, discover clever shortcuts, show off
> just a little, and have fun in the process, with this invaluable book.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/
>
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> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlhks/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***CSS Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007779
> "CSS Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition" is an indispensable reference for web
> designers and developers. This handy book condenses all the details in its
> companion volume, "Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide," into one
> easy-to-use cheat-sheet, covering the essential information you need to
> effectively implement CSS. There's an introduction to CSS, an alphabetical
> reference to the CSS2 and CSS 2.1 properties, and detailed information
> about CSS support in browsers. When you're stuck and need an answer
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> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csspr2/
>
> A sample excerpt on "Basic Visual Layout" is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csspr2/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***IRC Hacks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 059600687X
> IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is more than an accessible, multi-platform chat
> environment; it's a network of intercommunicating servers that allows
> thousands of clients to connect from anywhere in the world. "IRC Hacks"
> shows you how IRC works, and how to best use some of the features that
> have made IRC the most successful, most scalable, and most mature chat
> system on the planet. Featuring contributions from renowned IRC hackers,
> many of whom collaborated on IRC, this collection of tips and tools covers
> just about everything needed to become a true IRC master.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/irchks/
>
> Sample hacks are available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/irchks/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***Cyber Adversary Characterization
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1931836116
> The ever-increasing emphasis and reliance on the use of computers and the
> Internet has come hand in hand with the increased threat of cyber-crime.
> Many systems and infrastructures are exceedingly vulnerable to attacks, as
> the complexity of computer networks is growing faster than the ability to
> understand and protect them. Heightened vigilance is not enough, but needs
> to be coupled with active defensive measures to guarantee the best
> protection. This book provides the reader with understanding of and an
> ability to anticipate that "cyber adversary" silently waiting in the wings
> to attack.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836116/
>
>
> ***OpenOffice.org Writer
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596008260
> This handy reference to using Writer, the word processor that comes with
> OpenOffice.org, is the open source alternative to Microsoft Word. Youâll
> learn how to write, edit, and review documents; use templates and styles
> effectively; control page layout; insert, edit, and create graphics; and
> much more--even how to make a smooth transition from Word. With the
> complete office suite included on a CD, this book makes using Writer an
> easy decision.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openoffice/
>
> Chapter 2, "Writing, Editing, and Reviewing Documents," is available
> online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/openoffice/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***AI for Game Developers
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596005555
> Written for the novice AI programmer, this book introduces techniques such
> as finite state machines, fuzzy logic, neural networks, and many others,
> in straightforward, easy-to-understand language, supported with code
> samples written in C/C++. The book explains basic techniques such as
> chasing and evading, pattern movement, and flocking to genetic algorithms,
> then presents a mix of deterministic (traditional) and non-deterministic
> (newer) AI techniques, all designed to provide usable techniques you can
> apply to your games right now.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ai/
>
>
> ***IT Ethics Handbook
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1931836140
> Ethical judgments are no different in the area of computing from those in
> any other area. Computers raise problems of privacy, ownership, theft, and
> power, to name but a few. This book covers subjects ranging from defensive
> architecture, offensive issues, privacy, the use of information, and the
> human element of employer and employee ethics. The book is written by IT
> professionals for IT professionals, and always brings any discussion back
> to a practical example and application.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836140/
>
>
> ***Upgrading to PHP 5
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596006365
> If you're using PHP 4, chances are good that an upgrade to PHP 5 is in
> your future. This book offers a concise appraisal of the differences
> between versions 4 and 5, a detailed look at what's new in PHP 5, and
> explanations of how these changes affect you. The book also covers more
> advanced features and each new feature is shown in code, helping you to
> know when to use it and how it's better than PHP 4.
>
> Chapter 4, "SQLite," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/upgradephp5/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***SpamAssassin
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007078
> SpamAssassin is the leading open source spam-fighting tool. The drawback?
> Until now, it was SpamAssassin's lack of published documentation. This
> clear, concise new guide shows system administrators how to integrate this
> tool effectively into their networks. The book clarifies installation,
> configuration, and use of SpamAssassin versions 2.63 and 3.0 for Unix
> sysadmins using Postfix, sendmail, Exim, or qmail mail servers.
> SpamAssassin, together with this essential book, provides the tools you
> need to take back your organization's inboxes.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spamassassin/
>
> Chapter 2, "SpamAssassin Basics," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spamassassin/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***We the Media
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007337
> Not content to accept the news as reported, grassroots journalists are
> dismantling Big Media's news monopoly, and publishing in real time to a
> worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just
> beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they
> cover. In "We the Media," nationally known business and technology
> columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and
> sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/
>
> The book's Introduction is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/chapter/index.html
>
>
> ***Zero-Day Exploit
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 19318360
> A group of highly sophisticated cyber-terrorists have developed a Zero-Day
> Exploit targeting critical, pertrochemical infrastructure systems in the
> United States. Once launched, the exploit will cripple the country's
> ability to respond or defend itself. The only defense against disaster
> rests with an elite cyber-security expert with the skill and savvy to
> thwart the plot.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836094/
>
>
> ***Mono: A Developer's Notebook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007922
> This no-fluff, lab-style guide jumps right into Mono 1.0 as you work
> through nearly 50 mini-projects that introduce you to the most important
> and compelling aspects of the 1.0 release. You'll learn how to acquire,
> install, and run Mono on Linux, Windows, or Mac OS X. You'll work with
> the various Mono components: Gtk#; the CLR; the class libraries (.NET and
> Mono); and much more. This book lets you roll up your sleeves and see
> what Mono can do.
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/monoadn/
>
> Chapter 3, "Core .NET," is available online:
> http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/monoadn/chapter/index.html
> ================================================
> Upcoming Events
> ================================================
> ***For more events, please see:
> http://events.oreilly.com/
>
>
> ***Deke McClellend ("Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One") 2004 Australian
> InDesign Conference, Melbourne, Australia--August 12-14
> Deke is a featured speaker at the annual national conference dedicated to
> supporting this fast-growing application user community.
> http://www.theindesignconference.com/australia/indexa.html
>
>
> ***Wil Wheaton ("Just a Geek" and "Dancing Barefoot"),
> Hollywood Borders--August 15
> Wil stops by the Hollywood Borders to sign copies of "Just a Geek" at
> 2:00pm.
> 1501 Vine Street, Hollywood, CA
> http://www.bordersstores.com/stores/store_pg.jsp?storeID=354
>
>
> ***Wil Wheaton ("Just a Geek" and "Dancing Barefoot") at Mysterious Galaxy
> Books, San Diego, CA--August 21
> WIl also stops by Mysterious Galaxy starting at 1:30 p.m.
> 7051 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., San Diego, CA
> http://www.mystgalaxy.com/
>
>
> ***O'Reilly at PhotoShopWorld, Orlando, Florida--August 31 & September 2
> Deke McClelland will be teaching Adobe Illustrator Techniques in
> a pre-conference session on August 31. Make sure you come by and
> say hi at our booth (#334) in the expo hall on September 2.
> Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL
> http://www.photoshopworld.com/
>
> ================================================
> Conference News
> ================================================
> ***Registration Is Open for O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference
> Join us for the third annual Mac OS X Conference, October 25-28, 2004, in
> Santa Clara, California. You'll hear from Stewart Copeland, the former
> drummer for the Police who now creates award-winning film and television
> scores using Mac OS X technology; "New York Times" columnist David Pogue;
> Andy Ihnatko of the "Chicago Sun-Times"; Karelia Sofware's Dan Wood; Brent
> Simmons of Ranchero Software; Michael Bartosh of 4AM Media; Mac authors
> Dori Smith, Gordon Meyer, and Ted Landau; and many more.
>
> User Group members who register before September 10, 2004 get a double
> discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the
> "Early Bird" price.
>
> To register, go to:
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>
> O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference
> October 25-28, 2004
> Westin Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
> http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/
>
> ================================================
> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
> ================================================
> ---------------------
> General News
> ---------------------
> ***"We the Media" Blog
> Nationally recognized technology columnist Dan Gillmor has launched a new
> blog that covers the shifts we're seeing as journalism becomes less of a
> lecture and more of a conversation. Check it out if you're interested in
> the future of journalism, and don't miss his latest book on the topic,
> "We the Media."
> http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
>
>
> ***Techies Reshape 9/11 History
> Within hours of the release of The 9/11 Commission Report, multiple
> formats of the report were posted online by people interested in
> increasing its accessibility and usability. One of those people was PDF
> expert Sid Steward, who reduced the file size of the commission's original
> PDF, added bookmarks, and created a front-page HTML portal. Learn how easy
> and flexible PDF can be in Sid's upcoming "PDF Hacks."
> http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64346,00.html
>
>
> ***O'Reilly Radar: OSCON 2004
> Daniel Steinberg reports on Tim O'Reilly's OSCON 2004 keynote. Tim's
> remarks focused on what is currently on his radar. He discussed Internet
> applications and social software, and ended with the announcement that
> O'Reilly will be producing the third annual MySQL Conference next year in
> Santa Clara, CA
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/07/29/radar.html
>
>
> ***Top 10 Online Investing Tips
> Plucked from the pages of "Online Investing Hacks," author Bonnie Biafore
> offers ten of the most important things you can do to improve your
> financial situation, and the tools that will simplify these tasks.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/07/23/onlineinvestinghacks.html
>
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***The Great Linux Desktop Migration Contest--Enter by August 9
> If you're considering, or you have already embarked upon, a Linux desktop
> migration, here's your chance to help guide and inspire others and be
> eligible to win an all-expense-paid trip to Barcelona, Spain. Novell and
> O'Reilly Media have joined forces to present this contest and are looking
> for entries that describe the benefits realized from a desktop migration,
> a phased migration plan, or the most practical tips for migrating to
> Linux. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/linux/contest/
>
>
> ***O'Reilly and MySQL AB Present the MySQL Users Conference
> According to Tim O'Reilly, "MySQL is at the heart of revolutionary changes
> in the computer industry." Join us in Santa Clara, CA in April 2005 to
> meet the MySQL development team, peruse the latest products and services,
> get detailed insight into new features in MySQL 5.0, and much more.
> http://www.mysqluc.com/
>
>
> ***Questioning Promises at LinuxWorld
> O'Reilly editor Andy Oram reports this week from LinuxWorld 2004 in San
> Francisco. He'll be exploring the promises of Linux and trying to
> determine how realistic they are, because, as Andy writes, "In many areas,
> the important foundations have been laid--but a lot remains to be done."
> http://oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/5357
>
>
> ***Open Source and NASA's Mars Rover
> NASA's recent Mars Rover mission uses a host of open source tools. Three
> members of the team presented how they promoted open source software at
> NASA, use it in the project, and hope to release more code in the future.
> Ann Barcomb reports.
> http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/02/oss_mars_rover.html
>
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***21.5 Things You Can Do with Office 2004
> By now you've probably read about all the new features in Microsoft Office
> 2004. Good. Because we're not going to cover them here again. Instead,
> Giles Turnbull shows you 21 and a half things you can do in Office that
> you might not have previously realized.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/08/03/ms_office.html
>
>
> ***Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide Shows for Your Mac
> Let's face it: you still have friends and family who've yet to enter the
> computer age. And yet you'd like to send them copies of your vacation
> photos (or your newborn, or your cat) taken with your digital camera. What
> to do? Wei-Meng Lee offers an alternative to using iPhoto for creating
> slide-show CDs--Ulead's DVD PictureShow for Mac. He walks us through
> how to burn digital photos onto disc so anyone with a DVD/VCD player can
> view them.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/27/DVDslideshowonMac.html
>
>
> ***OS 9, Mine, All Mine
> What serious Mac fan in his or her right mind would consider booting
> anything other than OS X? Well, lots of them. Giles Turnbull interviews a
> handful of dedicated OS 9 users to find out why.
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/23/os9.html
>
> ---------------------
> Windows
> ---------------------
> ***Windows Server Hacks: Creating a Password Reset Disk
> Losing a password for an account can be anything from a pain to a
> disaster. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows Server Hacks," shows you how
> to solve the problem by creating a password recovery disk.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/03/password_reset.html
>
>
> ***Power Up the Windows Clipboard
> The Windows Clipboard is about as useless a utility as you can imagine.
> Throw it away and replace it with one of these clipboard power tools.
> http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/03/clipboard.html
>
>
> ***Rapid Application Development with VB.NET 2.0
> Jesse Liberty has supported the idea that it really doesn't matter if you
> program in C# or in VB.NET, since both are just syntactic sugar layered on
> top of the Microsoft Intermediate Language--the true language of .NET. But
> that appears to be changing with Whidbey. Get a look at the new My Object
> in VB.NET 2.0 in this article by Jesse, author of "Programming Visual
> Basic .NET, 2nd Edition."
> http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/08/02/libertywhidbey.html
>
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> **XML-Java Data Binding Using XMLBeans
> XMLBeans, currently in the Apache incubation process, is a promising
> framework for providing XML/Java data binding unmarshalling well-formed
> XML into Java objects, and marshalling Java objects into XML files. Hetel
> Shah provides an introduction to its features.
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/28/XMLBeans.html
>
>
> ***Keeping Up with the Java Joneses
> Ian Darwin covers a variety of new Java 1.5 features, including J2SE 1.5
> threading, the return of printf, and the IDEs NetBeans and Eclipse. Ian
> wraps up this article with resources to help you keep up with the rest of
> the Java Joneses. Ian is the author of the recently released "Java
> Cookbook, 2nd Edition."
> http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/07/28/javackbk2.html
>
> ---------------------
> Security
> ---------------------
> ***What Countermeasures Really Mean
> As the number and range of attacks on computer systems have grown
> exponentially and conventional firewalls and intrusion detection systems
> have proven inadequate for the task, security researchers have started to
> talk about employing "countermeasures" to preserve security.
> http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2004/08/03/symbiot.html
>
> ================================================
> News From Your Peers
> ================================================
> ***Report from OSCON 2004
> Steve Riggins of the Portland Mac Users Group and the statewide Oregon
> MacPioneers User Group gives us his scoop on the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source
> Convention in Portland, OR. Thanks Steve! And thanks to OMUG leader Steve
> Welsh for passing this along.
> http://homepage.mac.com/ydkm/News/oscon04report.htm
>
>
> Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups
> across the globe are up to:
> http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/lpt?HomePage
>
>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee
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