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[marsee@oreilly.com: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 21]


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From: Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com>
To: waltman@pobox.com
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 21
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:55:53 -0700

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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
September 21, 2007
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***Ableton Live 6 Tips and Tricks (PC Publishing)
ISBN 10: 1906005028
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1906005028/>

***The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology (SitePoint)
ISBN 10: 098028581X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780980285819/>

***Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596510489
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510480/>

***AutoIt v3: Your Quick Guide
ISBN 10: 059651512X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515126/>

***C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, Third Edition
ISBN 10: 0596527578
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527570/>

***Darkstar: The Java Game Server
ISBN 10: 0596514840
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514846/>

***Designing Web Navigation
ISBN 10: 0596528108
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528102/>

***Dynamic Learning: Flash CS3 Professional
ISBN 10: 0596510586
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510589/>

***The Essential Blender (No Starch)
ISBN 10: 1593271662
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271664/>

***Essential SharePoint 2007, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596514077
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514075/>

***Essential Silverlight
ISBN 10: 0596516118
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516116/>

***Fonts & Encodings
ISBN 10: 0596102429
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102425/>

***Google Ajax Search API
ISBN 10: 0596529538
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googleajax/>

***Google Analytics
ISBN 10: 0596514964
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514969/>

***Head First SQL
ISBN 10: 0596526849
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526849/>

***High Performance Web Sites
ISBN 10: 0596529309
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307/>

***Learning ActionScript 3.0 Rough Cut
ISBN 10: 0596516630
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516635/>

***The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book (No Starch)
ISBN 10: 1593271506
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271503/>

***Linux Firewalls (No Starch)
ISBN 10: 1593271417
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271417/>

***Linux System Programming
ISBN 10: 0596009585
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009588/>

***Making Things Talk
ISBN 10: 0596510519
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/>

***The Nikon D200 Dbook (Hard Cover) (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 1933952148
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952147/>

***Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 
  Second Edition (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
ISBN 10: 0977616673
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0977616673/>

***Programming ASP.NET AJAX
ISBN 10: 0596514247
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514242/>

***Programming WPF, Second Edition
ISBN 10: 0596510373
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510374/>

***Security Data Visualization (No Starch)
ISBN 10: 1593271433
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271433/>

***Security Power Tools
ISBN 10: 0596009631
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596009632/>

***SharePoint 2007: The Definitive Guide
ISBN 10: 0596529589
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529581/>

***SOA in Practice
ISBN 10: 0596529554
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529550/>

***Software Testing Practice: Test Management (Rocky Nook)
ISBN 10: 193395213X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952130/>


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***New Dynamic Learning Seminars from O'Reilly Authors AGI
Throughout the late summer and early fall, Aquent Graphics Institute
(AGI) will be presenting its Adobe Creative Suite 3 seminar series in
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***Jesse Liberty at Ajax World--Sep 23-26
Santa Clara, CA
Author Jesse Liberty (Programming C# and Programming ASP.NET) will be
delivering a talk on Microsoft Silverlight.
<http://www.ajaxworld.com/general/speakers0907.htm>


**Mikkel Aaland at the San Francisco Apple Store--Sep 24
Apple Store, One Stockton St, San Francisco, CA
Author Mikkel Aaland will be giving an Apple Pro Session on digital
photography and his new book "Photoshop Lightroom Adventure."
<http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco/week/20070923.html>


***Jared Smith at AstriCon-Sep 25-28
Carefree Resort & Villas, Carefree, AZ
Author Jared Smith (Asterisk: The Future of Telephony, 2nd Edition)
speaks at AstriCon--the Asterisk users conference.
<http://www.astricon.net/>


***Tenni Theurer at Women and Technology Summit, Sep 27-29
Hyatt Regency,Santa Clara, CA
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, and
Nelly Yusupova, CTO Webgrrls International, will be speaking together at
Women and Technology Summit in Santa Clara September 26-29. Learn
technical tips and tricks to improve your site's speed and performance
detailed in Steve Souders new book High Performance Web Sites, allowing
your reader to connect to you more quickly. Discover the secrets of
planning and good design that help you build and retain your audience. 
<http://www.witi.com/>


***Steve Souders at The Future of Web Apps Conference--Oct 3-5
London, UK
Author and Chief Performance Yahoo! Steve Souders (High Performance Web
Sites) will deliver a Developer Track presentation on his 14 rules of
best practices for making web pages faster. He will go into more detail
in a workshop on the last day, expounding on research, case studies, and
performance tools, and advocating a faster user experience for all web
users. These guidelines focus on the front end, for example, why it's
bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets and why ETags disable
browser caching. These best practices have proven to reduce response
times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. 
<http://www.futureofwebapps.com/>


***Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene at NYCSPIN--Oct 9
Microsoft, NY, NY
"Head First PMP" authors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene talk
through the ways that software projects fail, using the signature humor
and insight in the acclaimed "Head First" series. There's an old saying:
"There's only one way to succeed, but a million ways to fail." But that
saying just isn't true when it comes to software projects. As it turns
out, there are a small number of ways that projects fail, and they'll
sound eerily familiar to any project manager, software engineer or
programmer who's been around for more than a few years. Many software
projects that started out as a small, stopgap utility turn into raging
behemoths, sucking seemingly unlimited time from your programmers. Or
the president of your company announced that your project will be done
this week, even though you know that it still has an enormous number of
bugs. Or your team delivered the software, only to have users complain
that an entire feature is missing. Or every time the team fixes a bug,
they seem to uncover a dozen more--including ones that you know were
fixed six months ago. Once you know how projects fail, you can do what
you need to do to keep them on track. 
<http://nycspin200710-oreilly.eventbrite.com/>


***Stephen Johnson conducts a Mono Lake and Eastern Sierra field
workshop--Oct 11-13
Mono Lake and Eastern Sierra, CA
Join Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) in this
dynamic combination of a traditional landscape photography workshop
while diving deep into the digital age. Technical and aesthetic
considerations will be discussed in detail, while you explore this high
desert lake and its strange environs.
<http://www.sjphoto.com/mono_wksp_frameset.html>


***Web 2.0 Summit, Oct 17-19
San Francisco, CA
An invite only event, the Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence,
innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss
and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet
economy now and in the near future.
<http://www.web2summit.com/>


***O'Reilly at PhotoPlus Expo--Oct 18-20
Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York, NY
This year's conference will offer over 100 in-depth photography and
design seminars, including several hands-on workshops, taught by
world-renowned experts. You'll find information-packed, idea-generating
sessions at the only conference in the country that's 100% focused on
photography, design & imaging. While you're there, stop by the O'Reilly
booth (# 1448) to say hi, and pick up some great new books. 
<http://www.photoplusexpo.com/ppe/index.jsp>


***Maker Faire 2007--Austin--Oct 20-21
Travis County Fairgrounds, Austin, TX
Join us for MAKE magazine's Austin Maker Faire--a hands-on event
featuring Makers whose science and technology projects will amaze you
and ignite your imagination. 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/>


***Tenni Theurer at The Ajax Experience, Boston--Oct 24-26
Seaport Hotel, Boston, MA
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, will
be speaking together at The Ajax Experience in Boston October 24-26.
Through a series of research studies, Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance
Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. Tenni
will go in-depth on these best practices detailed in Steve Souders new
book High Performance Web Sites, and also demonstrate a recently
released tool called YSlow, which was developed as an extension to
Firebug and analyzes web pages according to the performance best
practices.
<http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/>

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Conference News
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***Call for Proposals Extended for the Emerging Technology Conference--
  March 3-6, San Diego, CA
We're looking for the people who can bring the future to life, with new
technologies, new ideas, cutting edge presentations, and powerful
thinking. Proposal due date has been extended to September 24. Submit
your proposal now.
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/>


***Graphing Social Patterns conference--October 7-9, San Jose, CA
Graphing Social Patterns is the premier conference covering Facebook
business & technology issues and related social networking platforms. 
The conference is designed for both business & marketing executives, and
technical developers who want to learn more about social networking
platforms, applications, marketing, and strategy.  Conference speakers
will include representatives from Facebook, O'Reilly, LinkedIn, Google,
Slide.com, SocialMedia, RockYou, ClearSpring, Forrester Research,
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, InsideFacebook, Charles River Ventures, Altura
Ventures, among others.
<http://graphingsocial.com/>

15% discount code link for registration:
<http://graphingsocial.eventbrite.com/?discount=oreillyd1>


***O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference 2008 Call for
  Participation--February 11-13, New York City, NY
If you have something to say about where publishing is going,
join the conversation. Submit a proposal to lead conference sessions or
tutorials at TOC by October 1, 2007.
<http://en.oreilly.com/toc2008/public/cfp/1>


***Call for Participation is Open for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo--
  April 15-18, Santa Clara, CA
Take an active role in shaping the future of MySQL and related open
source technologies by leading sessions and tutorials at the 2008 MySQL
Conference & Expo. Visit the Proposals page for more details and to
submit your ideas. Proposals are due no later than October 30, 2007.
<http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/cfp/2>


***O?Reilly?s inaugural Money:Tech Conference has been announced--
  February 6-7, New York City, NY
The dates are February 6-7, 2008 in New York City. That?s right, in the
heart of the financial universe, New York, NY, Money:Tech will raise the
level of conversation around technology advances in the investment
industry, and bring together innovators with established players to
increase adoption and awareness and push the technology forward. Learn
more about Money:Tech
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/money/>

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***O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive 
   a 30% Discount
O'Reilly School of Technology has opened its virtual doors with
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-Linux/Unix System Administration
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-Open Source Programming
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To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1," good for a 30% discount,
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Register online:
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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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UG News
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***Interview with the Python Atlanta Programmers O'Reilly Book Club
Noah Gift and Doug Hellmann talk about the PyAtl O'Reilly Book Club they
started. Maybe your groups should think about starting your own version.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/09/interview_with_the_python_atla_1.html>


***Calling All Flex Developers
Are you doing any development work (including skinning and UI design)
with Adobe Flex? Here's your chance to be a contributor to an Adobe
Developer Library book to be published in 2008, "Flex 3 Cookbook."
Adobe's got a terrific site for Flex developers of any stripe to show
their best stuff, and O'Reilly and Adobe are partnering on a book that
will include some of the best contributions from the site. Each
contribution uses the classic O'Reilly cookbook
"Problem/Solution/Explanation" format; if you've got strong material to
show the rest of the world, it couldn't be easier to write up your
material in the online fields, and join the cookbook party. Flex
developers are in very short supply in an exploding market, so here's
your chance to show your stuff to the rest of the community!
<http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2>


***SCALE 6X Looking For Speakers in Several Areas
The Sixth Annual SoCal Linux Expo will be February 8th-10th, 2008. The
Expo has expanded to included specialized conferences on the Friday
prior to SCALE including the Women in Open Source conference, the health
care conference, now known as DOHCS--Demonstrating Open Source Health
Care Systems, and newly added "Open Source in Education" which focuses
on opportunities for Open Source in the field of education.

If you have any experience in any of the above-mentioned areas, please
consider sharing it with the Open Source community at SCALE. All of the
calls are now open for submittals. For SCALE 4X and 5X the speaker
slots filled rapidly. Submittal info for each conference can be found on
their respective CFP pages.
<http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/>


***INETA Community Leadership Summit September 29, Irvine, CA
INETA and the INETA User Groups of Southern California are hosting a
Community Leadership Summit open to all .Net Development Community user
group leaders, as well as those active in volunteering support. This
will be an excellent opportunity to meet others in the community and to
exchange information and ideas.
<http://summit.ineta.org/>


***Perl Survey 2007 Closes September 30th
The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it
currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using
Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD
collection, they want to hear about it.
<http://perlsurvey.org/>


***The Bay Area Functional Programmers Group
Now programmers in the San Francisco Bay using or interested in
functional programming and functional programming languages such as
Haskell, OCaml, SML, Scala, and Erlang have a place to meet, discuss,
and learn together. Attendance at the first meeting was great, with over
25 people enjoying pizza and beer at Amici's in San Francisco and a
fairly even split between Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, and Scala enthusiasts.
The next meeting will be October 11th, 2007 at 7:30pm. If you're
interested in coming, or would like to give a talk, please join the
mailing list and introduce yourself.
<http://bayfp.org/blog/>


***WoTech Talks to Jen Blackledge, Web Mistress at Edge Wireless, Bend Oregon
WoTech is a blog for and about women who work in technology and Jen Blackledge
is with the Central Oregon Web Professionals' Usergroup.
<http://wotech.bendtech.com/?p=5>

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Articles
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***Women in Technology: Hear Us Roar
The brainchild of Tatiana Apandi, an associate editor at O'Reilly, this
new series features articles solicited from technology's female
side--and all focused on what it's like to carve out a career in
technology.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/>

To hear more from Tatiana, listen to her interview with Chuck Joiner on
MacVoices.
<http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-789-tatiana-apandi-on-oreillys-women-of-technology-hear-us-roar-series/>


***An Introduction to Erlang
Not long ago, ONLamp readers were introduced to Haskell, a functional
language. Another popular functional language is Erlang, which also
features powerful features to manage concurrency. Gregory Brown recently
tried it out, and has this summary.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-to-erlang.html>


***Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference?
Linux mavens are usually pretty sure they'll never go back to (or start
using) Windows. They may like Mac OS, but usually don't jump ship for
that either. But how about the other open source Unix descendant, BSD?
Dru Lavigne offers a basic primer on what's different in PC-BSD for a
Linux user, and what's better.
<http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2007/08/23/linux-vs-bsd-whats-the-difference.html>


***Schemaless Java-XML Data Binding with VTD-XML
This article introduces a Java-XML binding technique based on VTD-XML
and XPath. This approach doesn't mandate a schema, takes advantage of
XML's inherent loose encoding, and avoids needless object creation, so
it is much more efficient for lightweight data binding.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/09/07/schema-less-java-xml-data-binding-with-vtd-xml.html>


***Moonlight: Silverlight Goes Mono
By now, you may have heard the buzz around Silverlight, Microsoft's
attempt to put Adobe out of the rich browser client business. But did
you know that the Mono gang have been busy making an open source version
for Linux? You do now.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/08/23/moonlight-silverlight-goes-mono.html>


***Creating Google Custom Search Engines
Tired of searching for cheesecake recipes and getting nothing but pinup
calendars? Google has a little-known feature that lets you design your
own search engines that will search only the sites you want. Bernard
Farrell introduces us to this useful capability and shows how to set one
up.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/06/creating-google-custom-search-engines.html>


***Organizing Power Tips with Joe Schorr
Do you know the difference between blue folders and yellow folders? What
do you do if you're about to meet with clients and want only their
images to show in Aperture? In this podcast interview with Joe Schorr,
Derrick Story discovers advanced organizing tips for Aperture power
users.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/09/05/organizing-power-tips.html>


***Lightroom Getting Started--Basic Tonal Control in Lightroom 1.1
Using Lightroom's Develop module, you can do a lot to bring out the best
tonal qualities of your images. Lightroom has easy-to-use sliders that
allow you to react to the Exposure, Highlight/Shadow, and
Brightness/Contrast needs of your images.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/08/29/tone-and-color-in-lightroom.html>


For more articles, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/>

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Blogs
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***Will Anyone Pay for a Newspaper Online?
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/will_anyone_pay.html>

***Three vantage points from which to view patents
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/three_vantage_p.html>

***The Watering Hole
<http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/>

***Will Java 7 Be Beautiful?
<http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/will_java_7_be_beautiful.php>

***Pardon My French, But This Code Is Crap!
<http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/pardon_my_french_but_this_code_1.php>

***Visualizing Color Space
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/visualizing_color_space_1.html>

***Lightroom and The Traveling Photographer
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/lightroom_and_the_traveling_ph.html>

***Easy iPhone Toolchain Installation
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/09/easy_iphone_toolchain_installa.html>

***Google Presentation vs. PowerPoint vs. Keynote?
<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/09/google_presentation_vs_powerpo_1.html>

***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/09/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_53.html>

***Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/09/freewareopen_source_for_window_42.html>

***The 64-Bit Experience With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/08/the_64bit_experience_with_ubun.html?ref=most_discussed>

***Cross-Distro Collaboration
<http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/09/crossdistro_collaboration.html>



Until next time--

Marsee Henon


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