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----- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> ----- From: Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> To: waltman@pobox.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 29 Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:28:31 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members April 29, 2004 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Eclipse -Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, 4th Edition -WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Matthew Gast, ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide" & "Network Printing"), Networld+Interop, Las Vegas, NV--May 9-14 -Chuck Toporek, O'Reilly Mac editor and author ("Inside .Mac & Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"), Apple Store, San Francisco, CA--May 14 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -OSCON discounts for non-UG members -O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Discount Ends June 18 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Tell us what you really think--take our US catalog survey -SafariU: Create, Customize, and Share Teaching Material -"Hacking the Xbox" featured in "Popular Science Magazine" -The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus -Apocalypse 12 -Getting the Most Out of XMMS -Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache's Blackbox Logs -Mad Macs and the Unshredder -BBEdit: Its Unix Support Doesn't Suck Either, Part 1 -GarageBand for the Musical Newbie -Using Excel's Calendar Controls -Perfect Text Editors for Coders -Declarative Programming in Java -New Features in VB.NET Whidbey, Part 1 -DataGrids, Improved ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Need help finding local speakers or want to be a speaker? ================================================ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Eclipse Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596006411 "Eclipse" is a fast-track approach to mastery of Eclipse. It's a tightly focused book that examines all aspects of Eclipse: the menus, preferences, views, perspectives, editors, team, and debugging methods, and how they're used every day by thousands of developers. Eclipse covers hundreds of techniques, from the most basic Java development to creating your own plugin editors for the Eclipse environment. Development of practical skills is emphasized with dozens of hands-on examples that get down to business. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/eclipse/ Chapter 9, "Web Development," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/eclipse/chapter/index.html ***Learning Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora, 4th Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059600589X This book provides a clear, no-nonsense introduction to the Red Hat distribution of Linux. It takes you through installation and shows you the key parts of the system, always with an eye toward what can go wrong and what you need to know to get over the humps. New in this edition are installation instructions and package updating for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora, and information on the GRUB bootloader and the CUPS printer system. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnredhatentlnx/ Chapter 10, "Connecting to the Internet," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnredhatentlnx/chapter/index.html ***WarDriving: Drive, Detect, Defend Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1931836035 This book educates users of wireless networks as well as those who run the networks about the insecurities associated with wireless networking. This effort is called WarDriving. In order to successfully WarDrive there are hardware and software tools required. This book covers those tools, along with cost estimates and recommendations. Since there are hundreds of possible configurations that can be used for WarDriving, some of the most popular are presented to help readers decide what to buy for their own WarDriving setup. Many of the tools that a WarDriver uses are the same tools that could be used by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a wireless network. Since this is not the goal of a WarDriver, the methodology that users can use to ethically WarDrive is presented. In addition, complete coverage of WarDriving applications, such as NetStumbler, MiniStumbler, and Kismet, are covered. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836035/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Matthew Gast ("802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide" & "Network Printing") Networld+Interop--May 9-14 Matthew presents his LAN Access Security--Wireless and Wired class for the Interop Labs this year in Las Vegas, NV. Please make sure to visit Matthew at the show bookstore Tuesday, May 11th 10:30am-11am and Wednesday, May 12th 5pm-5:30pm. http://www.interop.com/ ***Chuck Toporek, O'Reilly Mac editor and author ("Inside .Mac & Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"), at SF Apple Store--May 14 Chuck is a special guest speaker at the San Francisco Apple Store. http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***OSCON discounts for non-UG members. Here is a list of the current discounts we offer in addition to our User Group discount. Please let your friends/co-workers know! (Please Note: We will always provide the highest possible discount. However, the following discounts cannot be combined--this includes the UG discount. However they can be used with the Early Bird pricing which ends June 18.) *Company Team Discount--10% off per person if you register 3 or more people from one company. *Full-Time Student--65% off with proof of status, a copy of ID & class schedule. *Academic Instructor--50% off with proof of full time academic instructor status on organization letterhead. *Academic Staff--25% off with proof of full time academic employee status on organization letterhead. *Federal Government Discount--10% off with proof of agency connection. *Alumni--Have you attended one of our O'Reilly conferences? If so, you are eligible for a 20% alumni discount. For more discount information, or to register with these discounts, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/29/register.html ***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 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Portland Marriott Downtown Portland, OR July 26-30, 2004 http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Tell us what you really think--take our US catalog survey We'd like to get your feedback about how you use our US catalog. We've got an online survey posted that takes about 5-8 minutes to complete. We'd really appreciate your input. And you can enter to win our new "History of Programming Languages" poster. Thanks for your help. http://www.zoomerang.com/recipient/survey-intro.zgi?p=WEB2GXTFYX9H ***SafariU: Create, Customize, and Share Teaching Material Are you a teacher or trainer? Looking for a way to truly customize your course textbook and offer students exactly the material you choose to teach, while saving them a good bit of money? Become a SafariU beta tester and check out the new web-based publishing platform from O'Reilly that allows you to create custom textbooks and online syllabi. http://academic.oreilly.com/safariu-more.csp To see SafariU in action, register to join SafariU's developers for a live webcast: https://secure.commpartners.com/eventmanager/form.php?user=OReilly&id=1 ***"Hacking the Xbox" featured in "Popular Science Magazine" Read the article featuring Andrew "bunnie" Huang's book on their site: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/computers/article/0,12543,611099,00.html Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270291 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270291/ ***The Fuss About Gmail and Privacy: Nine Reasons Why It's Bogus Tim says in his current weblog "There's been a lot of fuss about the privacy implications of gmail, but the benefits far outweigh the drawbacks." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/4707 --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Apocalypse 12 Larry Wall writes, "Some people will be surprised to hear it, but Perl is a minimalist language at heart." Here he explains how objects and classes are supposed to work in Perl 6. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/04/16/a12.html Join Larry and Damian Conway this July in Portland for their OSCON session on Perl 6. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5046 ***Getting the Most Out of XMMS XMMS (X Multimedia System), available with just about every Linux distro, is simple enough to use, yet many users fail to reach below the surface and take advantage of its many capabilities. In this article, Rickford Grant takes you from the basics of using XMMS to its more advanced features, such as creating playlists, playing Internet radio broadcast streams, and more. Rickford is the author of "Linux for Non-Geeks" from No Starch Press. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/04/15/xmms_tips.html Linux for Non-Geeks A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow, and Have-Some-Fun Guidebook Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270348 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270348/ ***Profiling LAMP Applications with Apache's Blackbox Logs Benchmarking LAMP sites can be tricky; how do you know which pages or applications need tuning? Fortunately, you can easily tune your Apache logs to provide more useful profiling information. Chris Josephes explains a Blackbox log format for Apache http. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2004/04/22/blackbox_logs.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Mad Macs and the Unshredder Maybe Apple Computer should avoid all that nasty litigation with Apple Corps and simply change its name. How about Mad Macs? Michael Swaine thinks outside of the music box. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/27/swaine.html ***BBEdit: Its Unix Support Doesn't Suck Either, Part 1 In this first article of a two-part series, Kevin O'Malley introduces you to BBEdit's Unix support features. He also includes a nifty hack for listing the songs on your iPod, copying songs from your iPod to iTunes, and playing a song in iTunes--all from within BBEdit. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/27/bbedit_pt1.html ***GarageBand for the Musical Newbie If you don't play an instrument but you have a good ear, a G4 laptop, and GarageBand, can you create an interesting song? Giles Turnbull explores. Whether you're a maestro or a newbie, you'll be able to turn inspiration into demos with the help of O'Reilly's upcoming "GarageBand: The Missing Manual." http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/04/20/garageband.html --------------------- Windows --------------------- ***Using Excel's Calendar Controls Entering dates incorrectly in an Excel spreadsheet can affect calculations, charts, or pivot tables based on those dates. Dave and Raina Hawley, authors of "Excel Hacks," show how to use the standard Calendar Control to make dates easy for users to enter and to ensure that the dates are entered correctly. They also show how to use an Advanced Calendar Control to add or subtract days, weeks, or months from within a calendar. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/04/27/excelhacks.html Excel Hacks ISBN: 059600625X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/excelhks/ ***Perfect Text Editors for Coders Tired of wimpy and all-but-useless Notepad and WordPad? Get the three best text editors on the planet with special features for coders--and they're all free or shareware. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/04/20/editors.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Declarative Programming in Java JSR-175 introduces Java annotations, a means of attaching metadata to your Java classes. Narayanan Jayaratchagan looks at how annotations work in J2SE 1.5 and the many ways in which they can be used. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/21/declarative.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***New Features in VB.NET Whidbey, Part 1 Microsoft has recently released the Community Preview of the next Visual Studio .NET, Whidbey. One of the enhancements in Whidbey is the new, improved VB.NET language. Wei-Meng Lee shows you what's in store with the new language.features.http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/26/vbnet20_pt1.html ***DataGrids, Improved In Jesse Liberty's book "Programming ASP.NET," he was unable to begin the discussion of DataGrids without first describing, in some detail, the ADO.NET object model, including DataAdapters, DataTables, DataSets and DataReaders. In this, the first column on Whidbey, he shows how to use Whidbey's new ASP.NET DataGrids. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/04/19/liberty.html Programming ASP.NET, 2nd Edition ISBN: 0596004877 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progaspdotnet2/index.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***Need help finding local speakers or want to be a speaker? Check out the O'Reilly User Group wiki site for help: UGSuggestions http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/null?UGSuggestions UGNeeds http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/null?UGNeeds O'Reilly User Group Wiki http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi Until next time-- Marsee ----- End forwarded message -----
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