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----- Forwarded message from marsee@oreilly.com ----- From: marsee@oreilly.com To: waltman@pobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 15 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:00:16 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members April 15, 2004 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Linux Unwired -High Performance MySQL -Jeff Duntemann's Wi-Fi Guide, Second Edition -Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition -The GNOME 2 Developer's Guide -qmail -Access Cookbook, 2nd Edition -The Spam Letters ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Mac User Group Day at O'Reilly in Sebastopol, CA--April 24 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Registration Is Open for OSCON 2004 -O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Discount Ends June 18 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Your O'Reilly Account: New Single Sign On -Virtual Book Signings -Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems -Data Mining Email -Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts -Launchers for Mac OS X -Panther Command-Line Tools: The Missing Manpages -Getting Connected While on the Road Using Infrared or Bluetooth -Hacking Windows Server -Java and Security, Part 1 -Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java -VSJ Reader Awards 2004 -New Language Features in C# 2.0 -O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Photos from recent UG events on the O'Reilly User Group Wiki ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, or Syngress book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Linux Unwired Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596005830 "Linux Unwired" is a one-stop wireless information source for on-the-go Linux users. The book provides a complete introduction to all the wireless technologies supported by Linux. If you're considering wireless as a supplement or alternative to cable and DSL, using wireless to network computers in your home or office, or using cellular data plans for access to data nearly everywhere, this book will show you the full-spectrum view of Linux's wireless capabilities, and how to take advantage of them. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lnxunwired/ Chapter 3, "Getting on the Network," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lnxunwired/chapter/index.html ***High Performance MySQL Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596003064 "High Performance MySQL" is an insider's guide to the poorly documented issues of MySQL reliability, scalability, and performance. The book gives in-depth coverage of MySQL indexing and optimization so you can make better use of these key features. You'll learn practical replication, backup, and load-balancing strategies with information that goes beyond available tools to discuss their effects in real-life environments. And you'll learn the supporting techniques you need to carry out these tasks, including advanced configuration, benchmarking, and investigating logs. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hpmysql/ Chapter 7, "Replication," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hpmysql/chapter/index.html ***Jeff Duntemann's Wi-Fi Guide, Second Edition Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1932111883 This new edition of this bestselling Wi-Fi guide provides everything Wi-Fi users need to design, build, protect, and extend Wi-Fi wireless networks! Author Jeff Duntemann uses practical techniques for setting up and using Wi-Fi gear and software. The second edition is expanded and brought fully up to date, covering more on setting up hotspots, community networking, security, Wireless Protected Access (WPA), new Wi-Fi standards (802.11g), and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932111883/ ***Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006802 "Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition" has been updated for Oracle10g. This pocket-size book covers: fundamental language elements; statements for program control, cursor management, and exception handling; the basics of records, procedures, functions, triggers, and packages; the calling of PL/QL functions in SQL; new Oracle 10g elements; and much more. When you need a reminder or a quick answer to a PL/SQL problem, you'll find it in this compact reference. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr3/ Sample excerpts on "Bulk Binds" and "Oracle Database 10g" are available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/orplpr3/chapter/index.html *** The GNOME 2 Developer's Guide Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270305 "The GNOME 2 Developer's Guide" is the official GNOME Foundation guide to programming GUIs and applications using the GTK+ and GNOME API. Developed in partnership with the GNOME Foundation, this book is for programmers working with the GNOME 2 desktop environment. Each section begins with an example program that serves as a tutorial, then develops into a reference on the topic. Knowledge of the C programming language is required, but no GUI programming experience is necessary http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270305/ ***qmail Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 1565926285 "qmail" concentrates on common tasks like moving a sendmail setup to qmail and setting up a "POP toaster," a system that provides mail service to a large number of users on other computers sending and retrieving mail remotely. The book fills crucial gaps in existing documentation, detailing exactly what the core qmail software does. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/qmail/ Chapter 8, "Delivering and routing local mail," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/qmail/chapter/index.html ***Access Cookbook, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006780 Access power users and programmers at all levels will rely on the "Access Cookbook" for quick solutions to gnarly problems. The second edition is fully updated for Access 2003, and it's also one of the first books to thoroughly explore new support for .NET managed code and XML. All of the examples have been tested for compatibility with Access 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003. This new edition also covers Access with SharePoint, SmartTags, .NET, and XML. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/accesscook2/ Chapter 7, "VBA," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/accesscook2/chapter/index.html ***The Spam Letters Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270321 From the man behind TheSpamLetters.com--featured in "Entertainment Weekly," the "New York Times," and Slashdot--comes a collection of brilliant and entertaining correspondence with the people who send out mass junk emailings (a.k.a. spam). Compiled from the nearly 200 entries written by Jonathan Land, "The Spam Letters" taunts, prods, and parodies the faceless salespeople in your inbox, giving you a chuckle at their expense. If you hate spam, you'll love "The Spam Letters." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270321/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Mac User Group Day at O'Reilly in Sebastopol, CA--April 24 Join O'Reilly and NCMUG for a special Mac User Group Day in Sebastopol on Saturday, April 24 from 2-6pm. This event is free! Speakers include Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition," "iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual"), Chris Stone ("Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"), Tom Negrino & Dori Smith ("Mac OS X Unwired"), and Scott Fullam ("Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks"). For more information and a complete schedule of events, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/macugday_hi_res.pdf Please RSVP to let us know you will be attending at mugevent@oreilly.com. Mac User Group Day 2:00pm-6:00pm, Saturday, April 24 O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Hwy North Sebastopol, CA 95472 800-998-9938 Ext. 7103 For directions, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/seb_directions.html The 58th Annual Sebastopol Apple Blossom Festival will be also be happening. Come to Sebastopol early to watch the parade downtown. It starts at 10am and ends by noon, followed by a festival in Ives Park. For more info, go to: http://www.sebastopolappleblossom.org/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Registration Is Open for OSCON 2004 Come to the 2004 O'Reilly Open Source Convention and meet open source leaders, learn useful skills, and engage in conversations with developers, business leaders, and technology strategists. This year's OSCON explores everything from the latest innovations in Perl, PHP, and Python to the great Linux debate and much more. Join us in Portland, Oregon July 26-30. O'Reilly Open Source Convention Portland Marriott Downtown Portland, OR July 26-30, 2004 http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ***O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Discount Ends June 18 User Group members who register before June 18, 2004 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/ord_os04 ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Your O'Reilly Account: New Single Sign On O'Reilly customers and guests now have a single address and one password to access all things O'Reilly, from oreilly.com and Safari Bookshelf to all of the O'Reilly Network sites and DevCenters. When possible, we've consolidated your prior, separate accounts into one new account. Logging into the new system is quick and easy; details on how to do it have been emailed to you, and you can read more about O'Reilly's single sign on in Tony Stubblebine's weblog. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4692 ***Virtual Book Signings Snaggy & Nitrozac are back this week offering their brand of humor and technical know-how to the use of video conferencing technology. They've used their virtual book signing events to demonstrate the power of iSight and iChat AV, but their aim is to spark your creative juices to find other ways to apply these technologies, perhaps to connect with friends and family around the world, or perhaps for use in your own business. Snaggy & Nitrozac are the authors of "The Best of the Joy of Tech." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/13/virtualbooksigning.html --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Planning for Disaster Recovery on LAMP Systems The beauty of LAMP systems is that you can develop them as formally or informally as you like. Unfortunately, when it comes time to plan for disaster recovery, that informality can work against you. Robert Jones presents several guidelines for development and configuration that can make recovery easier. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/04/08/disaster_recovery.html ***Data Mining Email Thousands of useful facts lie inaccessible on your hard drive, hidden within email messages and attachments. How much more productive would you be if you could extract, index, and search that information? Robert Bernier demonstrates how to store data from emails into a database, where you can use data-mining techniques to analyze it. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/04/08/datamining_email.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Managing Packages on Panther with DarwinPorts Ernest E. Rothman provides an overview along with installation and update instructions for DarwinPorts, one of Mac OS X's many packaging options. Ernest is a coauthor of "Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/darwinports.html ***Launchers for Mac OS X LaunchBar is the best known Finder enhancer on the platform, but there are many noteworthy challengers, including Quicksilver. Giles Turnbull test drives a few launchers and gives a report. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/09/launchers.html ***Panther Command-Line Tools: The Missing Manpages Finally, Mac OS X system administrators and developers have a quick reference to the command-line utilities that have missing, incomplete, or inaccurate manpages. Find the command syntax, a brief description, and the command's directory location in Appendix B of "Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks." If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a trial subscription. https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/promo.asp?code=ORA14&portal=oreilly&CMP=BAC-TP2974244892 --------------------- Windows --------------------- ***Getting Connected While on the Road Using Infrared or Bluetooth The always-on Internet: How to connect to the Internet using your mobile phone, laptop, and infrared or Bluetooth. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/04/06/on_road_connect.html ***Hacking Windows Server Mitch Tulloch has gathered 100 hacks in his "Windows Server Hacks" book to help system administrators master the more powerful features of Windows Server. To provide a real look at what these hacks can help you do, we offer three excerpts here: How to use an ADSI-based script to search for domain users; how to use the Hyena utility to quickly find out which user on your network has a particular file open; and how to locate all machines that have automatic logon enabled in their registry. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/excerpt/winserverhacks_chap03/index.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Java and Security, Part 1 In part one in a two-part series of excerpts from Chapter 17 of "WebLogic: The Definitive Guide," authors Avinash Chugh and Jon Mountjoy examine WebLogic's various security mechanisms, beginning with a look at the Java Security Manager and how WebLogic filters connection requests. They also cover WebLogic's authentication and authorization framework and how it supports the standard J2EE security services. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/weblogic_chap17/index.html ***Wiring Your Web Application with Open Source Java Building a web application with Java can be a complex process when architecting a combination of UI, business logic, and persistence. This article introduces a way to leverage open source software to lessen the burden. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/07/wiringwebapps.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***VSJ Reader Awards 2004 O'Reilly is among the winners of this year's VSJ Reader Awards, holding favored status in two categories: Best Book publisher for Developers, and Book of the Year for Jesse Liberty's "Programming C#." http://www.vsj.co.uk/survey/ "Programming C#, 3rd Edition," by Jesse Liberty ISBN: 0-596-00489-3 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp3/ ***New Language Features in C# 2.0 Four years ago, a new upstart language named C# surprised the development world with its elegance and consistency. Now that Microsoft has released a technology preview version of Visual Studio 2005 (formerly codenamed Whidbey), .NET's favorite language is back, with some new innovations. In this two-part servies by Matthew MacDonald, you'll get a first look at three of the four major language refinements in the latest version of C#. Part One: http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/05/csharpwhidbeypt1.html Part Two: http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/12/csharpwhidbeypt2.html ***O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series Learn .NET programming skills and earn a .NET Programming Certificate from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. The .NET Certificate Series is comprised of three courses that give you the foundation you need to do .NET programming well. The courses are: Learn XML; Learn Object-Oriented Programming Using Java; and Learn C#. Limited time offer: Enroll in all three courses and save $895. http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/dotnet.php3 ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***Photos from recent UG events on the O'Reilly User Group Wiki We've added a "Past Events" section on the UGEvents page to share photos and highlights from recent events. Check out David Pogue's visit to Gloucester County College, NJ and photos from Miquel de Icaza's LUG presentation at Novell's Brainshare, Salt Lake City, UT. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/topics?UGEvents You can also look for a meeting or user group, or post info any time you want. http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/view?HomePage Until next time-- Marsee ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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