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FYI ----- 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, June 26 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:33:05 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members June 26, 2008 ================================================================ --------------------------------------------------------------- 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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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 and told them that Apple is about to release phones that are better than the ones in their pocket and will cost half of what theirs cost. The 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: <http://news.oreilly.com/> --------------------- 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 ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/OReillyMedia ================================================================ ----- End forwarded message ----- Attachment:
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