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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, May 14 Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:36:16 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members May 14, 2007 ================================================================ --------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases--Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. <http://www.oreilly.com/store/> Free ground shipping on orders of $29.95 or more. 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Meet Expert Makers and MAKE contributors, hear from O'Reilly's Hacks author, attend DIY Tutorials, explore DIY projects and demonstrations, and see the Ultimate Workshop. <http://makerfaire.com/> ***Jim Holmes at the West Michigan Day of .NET, Grand Rapids, MI--May 19 Author Jim Holmes ("Windows Developer Power Tools") presents Open Source Test Tools and Real World SharePoint. <http://www.grdotnet.org/DODN07/Default.aspx> ***Where 2.0 Conference 2007, San Jose, CA--May 29-30 The third annual O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference brings together the people, projects, and issues building the new technological foundations and creating value in the location industry. There's no better place to meet the people behind the mash-ups and platforms, and the folks looking ahead to the future of geospace. 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After that, we will have a special Keynote kicking off our Ignite night, and then onto guest speakers who catch you up on the cool, new, innovative stuff going on in technology today. Don?t blink or you?ll miss their lightning-fast, five-minute presentations. <http://www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/> ***Stephen Johnson seminar: Beauty in Photography, Pacifica, CA--Jun 2 <http://www.sjphoto.com/one-day-seminars-SP07.html> Join Stephen Johnson("Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography") in this seminar on photographic composition. Sources of inspiration will be explored, from photography to other art forms, ideas and people. There will not be rules of composition propagated here, but explorations and suggestions. A good nuts and bolts day for improving your photographs. <http://www.sjphoto.com/one-day-seminars-SP07.html> ***Mikkel Aaland & Derrick Story at Book Passage, San Francisco, CA--Jun 9 Ask the Experts: A Digital Photography Brown Bag Lunch. Leading digital photographers Mikkel Aaland ("Photoshop Lightroom Adventure and "Photoshop CS2 RAW") and Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") answer all your questions. <http://www.bookpassage.com/sf_events.php> ***Jenifer Tidwell, UPA 2007, Austin, TX--Jun 11-15 <http://upassoc.org/conference/2007/> Join Jenifer Tidwell ("Designing Interfaces") at the UPA 2007: Patterns: Blueprints for Usability Conference. <http://upassoc.org/conference/2007/> ***Stephen Few at International Summit on Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence, Rome, Italy--Jun 13-15 Author Stephen Few ("Information Dashboard Design") presents a workshop in Italy. <http://www.perceptualedge.com/> ***Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, San Jose, CA--Jun 18-20 The first O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference is being launched to raise the level of technology knowledge and discourse in the publishing industry and to provide a meeting ground for those leading the charge into the future of publishing. <http://conferences.oreilly.com/toc> ***Technology is fundamentally transforming publishing. 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In a recent conversation, Scott illuminates why much of what we think we know about innovation is not only false, but may actually stifle our creativity. <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/05/a_qa_with_scott_berkun_1.html> ***Project Management Bookshelf You'll Wonder How You Managed Without Them--Learn from veteran managers of software and web development how to plan, manage, and lead projects. These books use dozens of examples from the history of technology, business, and the arts, you'll learn how to convert the knowledge you have into ideas that can change the world. <http://oreilly.com/promos/prodmgmt/> ***600 Hours of Video Training Now in Safari Safari has added top-notch video content to the Safari Library. Safari Library customers now get full access to 75 technical and design courses from leading video training experts. This impressive collection of online videos provides high-quality instruction on web design, software development, and graphics tools and techniques. <http://my.safaribooksonline.com/video> ***Ruby on Rails Meets Eclipse Many developers are familiar with the Eclipse development environment. With RDT and RadRails, Ruby on Rails developers can have access to the same powerful feature set. Deepak Vohra provides a detailed walkthrough of how to install these packages, and how to create a simple CRUD application using them. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/04/26/ruby-on-rails-meets-eclipse.html> ***Create Create Your Own O'Reilly Shirt, Mug, or Poster In just three easy steps you can create a one of a kind shirt, mug, or poster adorned with your favorite O'Reilly animal. 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Register online: <http://www.oreillyschool.com/?CMP=BAC-ostug> --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Building a Data Warehouse with MySQL and Perl Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with the kind of relational database schemas that are created for e-commerce sites, among others. But there's another kind of database model out there: the data warehouse. Sam Tregar gives us the lowdown on this highly UNrelational database. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2007/04/12/building-a-data-warehouse-with-mysql-and-perl.html> ***OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again OpenBSD 4.1 has recently been released. It includes improvements to spam fighting, SMP, porting to new platforms, and much more. As usual, Federico Biancuzzi has sought out some of the most influential OpenBSD developers for a discussion of what you'll find in 4.1 <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html> ***Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming Inside every tangle of obfuscated Perl code is a clean, well-architected gem struggling to emerge from its cocoon. brian d foy has spent a lot of time thinking about this for his new book, "Mastering Perl," and has come up with a Top Five list of things that every Perl programmer should be thinking about when writing code. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html> --------------------- Sys Admin --------------------- ***Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do Do system administrators really forget to do basic tasks because they're lazy or do the pressures of the job keep them from getting everything done? Tom Adelstein explores the top seven tasks system administrators forget to do. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/05/03/the-top-7-things-sysadmins-forget-to-do.html> ***Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS DNS has managed to keep the Internet afloat for decades, but it spend a lot of its time handling junk requests that should never have escaped from a local WAN. Ron Aitchison has a list of five basic things that every DNS administrator should take care of to keep DNS a happy infrastructure. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html> --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Rick LePage on Fine Art Printers for Aperture Affordable hardware for fine art printing is more bountiful than ever. In this exclusive Inside Aperture podcast, Macworld editor at large, Rick LePage, covers the latest offerings from Epson, HP, and Canon. Rick supplies plenty of insight about how HP is challenging Epson, and some thoughts about Canon's emergence, then absence in the mid range fine art market. Derrick Story chats with Rick during a visit to San Francisco. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/04/30/fine-art-printers-for-aperture.html> ***Review: Boss Micro BR Palmtop Recording Studio At just over 3x5 inches, the Boss Micro BR is a digital recording studio you can use anywhere. It records up to 32 tracks, has a built-in mic and drum machine, and even plays your MP3s. Can it possibly work at just $229 street? Reviewer Gina Fant-Saez finds out. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/04/26/review-boss-micro-br-digital-recorder.html> --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Building Custom iQuiz Data iQuiz is a brand new, flashy iPod game from Apple that allows users to create custom games and run them using the iQuiz interface. In this tutorial, Erica Sadun shows how to create custom iQuiz files and provides sample code and files. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/30/building-custom-iquiz-data.html> ***Customizing TextMate TextMate is one of the most popular text editors among Mac developers, in part due to how much you can customize the powerful program. James Edward Gray II recently wrote "TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac" and presents this article on creating an RPN calculator in TextMate as an example of how to do complex TextMate customizations. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/11/customizing-textmate.html> --------------------- Microsoft/.NET --------------------- ***Preston Gralla on Vista Safari recently interviewed Preston Gralla, author of "Windows Vista in a Nutshell." He's authored over 30 books and countless articles for publications ranging from PC Magazine to the Los Angeles Times. He's a frequent guest on TV and radio shows covering technology and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. <http://safari.oreilly.com/march07_newsletter> ***Installing and Configuring ISA 2006 Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, Microsoft's latest release of its popular web proxy and security suite, has become a full-blown perimeter security solution for both small and large networks. Chris Sanders shows you how to set it up and configure it for best performance. <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/17/installing-and-configuring-isa-2006.html> ***Why Do ASP.NET Programmers Need to Learn CSS? ASP.NET has not been great at controlling the layout of elements on a web page. Dan Hurwitz and Jesse Liberty show you how to gain precise controls over presentation with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). They argue that programmers who embrace CSS as their own, rather than thinking of it as an esoteric skill of designers, place themselves ahead of the pack. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/01/why-doaspnet-programmers-need-to-learn-css.html> --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Interview with Tim Bray: Atom, JRuby, and the Ecumenical Sun Tim Bray recently took some time out of his hectic schedule to talk to the O'Reilly Network about his current work on the Atom protocol, his views on JRuby, and Sun's evolving Web strategy. Find out what is on Tim's mind these days. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/03/interview-with-tim-bray-atom-jruby-and-the-ecumenical-sun.html> ***An Interview with Robert Brewin What happens when you get the CTO of Sun and the editor of OnJava in the same room at JavaOne? A short but informative interview for the OnJava readers about JavaFX Script, JavaFX Mobile, and the future of the Java platform. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/10/an-interview-with-robert-brewin.html> --------------------- Web --------------------- ***PittMFUG Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group Chats with Author Colin Moock Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group interviewed Colin Moock about his upcoming book "Essential ActionScript 3." Listen to the podcast here: <http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/pittmfugColinMoock.mp3> ***Besiege Your Web Application--Load Testing over HTTP Paul explains how to test your web apps to ensure they can handle heavy user demand. <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-application-load-testing-over-http/> ***JavaScript and Screenreaders Kevin Yank take a look at how Web Developers can make their sites accessible to users who use screenreaders. <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/04/30/javascript-and-screen-readers/> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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