[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 26]

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Thu Jun 26 15:24:09 PDT 2008


-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Marsee Henon
> Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 26
> Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:19:34 -0700
> 
> Hi there,
>
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> and "Your Brain: The Missing Manual." Send me an email if your interested
> and I'll get the book right out.
> 
> 
> --Marsee
>
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> June 26, 2008
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> ***Judith Bishop on C# 3.0 Design Patterns at TOOLS Europe
> Jul 3, 2008
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> ***Harold Davis at the Marin Photography Club
> Jul 8, 2008
> Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
> Photographers) discusses the ins and outs of night photography, and
> shows his work. 
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> 
> 
> ***Rick Copeland Speaks on SQLAlchemy
> Jul 10, 2008
> The Atlanta Python Meetup Group, Atlanta, GA
> Author Rick Copeland (Essential SQLAlchemy) will be giving a talk about
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> ***Harold Davis at Book Passage
> Jul 27, 2008
> 1 Ferry Building, #42, San Francisco, CA
> Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
> Photographers) presents images of the Golden Gate, reads from his book,
> answers questions, and signs copies of the book.
> <http://www.bookpassage.com/event_detailed.php?id=1780>
> 
> 
> ***Harold Davis Hosts a Photography Night at the East Bay Mac Users Group
> Aug 14, 2008
> Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
> Photographers) presents From Photography to Photoshop. He will use his
> Ringing Cedars covers as a case study for a new digital art form at the
> Expression College for Digital Arts in Emeryville. 
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> ***Derrick Story and Lesa Snider King to Speak at Mac Computer Expo this
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> 
> 
> ***The e-Book Test: Do Electronic Versions Deter Piracy?
> Read David Pogue's latest take on e-books. (Free login required.)
> <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/19/technology/personaltech/19pogue-email.html?_r=1&oref=slogin>
> 
> 
> ***Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network
> From TechCrunch "It was sort of inevitable given Facebook’s monster
> growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone:
> Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly
> worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore."
> <http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/12/facebook-no-longer-the-second-largest-social-network/>
> 
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> ***A Gallery of Illustrations from Your Brain: The Missing Manual
> View images from Your Brain: The Missing Manual. You can read more about
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> <http://missingmanuals.com/gallery_your_brain.csp>
> 
> 
> ***Top 10 Reasons to Switch from Microsoft Office to Google Apps
> Author Nancy Conner offers 10 reasons why you should consider making the
> leap from Microsoft Office to Google Apps.
> <http://missingmanuals.com/google_apps/why_switch.csp>
> 
> 
> ***Gordon Mohr Takes Us Inside the Internet Archives
> Gordon Mohr is the Chief Technologist for Web Projects at the Internet
> Archive. In this interview, he gives us a peek behind the scenes at
> what's involved in recording the continually updating web, as well as
> the legal implications and how Web 2.0 is making their job both easier
> and harder. 
> <http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/gordon-mohr-takes-us-inside-th.html>
> 
> 
> ***Steve Jobs on the Future of the iPhone
> Apple CEO Steve Jobs stood in front of a sold out crowd at Apple's WWDC
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> developers responded with sustained enthusiastic applause. That reaction
> makes perfect sense. Jobs' keynote wasn't about products -- it was about
> a promising future, especially for developers in the audience...
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/steve-jobs-on-the-future-of-th.html>
> 
> 
> ****Getting Started with the Google App Engine
> Continuing the trend started with Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2), Google
> plans to make their vast resources available to developers who wish to
> deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In
> this tutorial, you'll get a look into the APIs and database capabilities
> that Google is providing, and how to leverage them in a sample
> application.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/05/20/getting-started-with-the-google-apps-engine.html>
> 
> 
> ***Building the Green Data Center
> Bill Coleman, founder and CEO of the Cassatt Corporation, and one of the
> founders of BEA, has made it his mission to make data centers more
> energy-efficient. We caught up with him right before the O'Reilly
> Velocity conference where he is scheduled to speak to get some pointers
> on making data centers planet-friendly.
> <http://news.oreilly.com/2008/06/building-the-green-data-center.html>
> 
> 
> For more news, go to:
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> Blogs
> -------------------
> ***Author Bob Thompson bypasses the DEA and shows Phil Torrone how to
> make Iodine
> <http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/06/weekend_project_home_chem.html>
> 
> ***Make a Presentation Like Al Gore
> <http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Make_a_Presentation_Like_Al_Gore>
> 
> ***Head First Physics coming soon--here's a taste of Chapter 4
> <http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfphy/>
> 
> ****Dojo Goodness, Part 9 (gfx foo with fx)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/06/dojo_goodness_part_9_gfx_foo.html>
> 
> ****NASA's Mars24 Sunclock (Keeping Track of Phoenix)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2008/05/nasas_mars24_sunclock_keeping.html>
> 
> ***Freelance coder Gregory Brown gives you the latest on Prawn, a PDF
> writing library for Ruby.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2008/06/ruby_mendicant_proterozoic_pra.html>
> 
> ***code_swarm: Animated Visualization of the Development of some High
> Profile Open Source Projects
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/06/code_swarm_animated_visualizat.html>
> 
> ****Catching up, Fighting distractions, Polyglotting
> <http://softwarecraftsmanship.oreilly.com/news/2008/5/21/catching-up-fighting-distractions-polyglotting>
> 
> ****Head First Ajax Sneak Preview
> <http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfajax/>
> 
> ****How Hackerteen Helps... By a White-Hat Hacker
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/how_hackerteen_helps_by_a_whit.html>
> 
> ****Cooking with Flex
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/cooking_with_flex.html>
> 
> ****Are you up-to-date?
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2008/05/are_you_uptodate.html>
> 
> ***What Should iPhone Applications Cost?
> <http://blogs.oreilly.com/iphone/2008/06/what-should-iphone-application.html>
> 
> ***Thinking in Wikis
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/06/thinking-in-wikis.html>
> 
> 
> For more blogs, go to:
> <http://news.oreilly.com/>
> 
> Until next time--
> 
> Marsee Henon
> 
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