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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 the O'Reilly UG Program, July 11 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:38:37 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members July 11, 2006 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Agile Retrospective -bash Quick Reference (PDF) -BigNum Math -The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition -Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications -Classic LEGO Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools -Combating Spyware in the Enterprise -Dictionary of Information Security -Essential Computer Security -Hacking the Cable Modem -FileMaker 8.5: Integrating the Web (PDF) -How to Cheat at Managing Information Security -How to Cheat at Securing a Wireless Network -How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project (PDF) -The Internet: The Missing Manual -Joe Grand's Best of Hardware, Wireless, and Game Console Hacking -Learning PHP and MySQL -LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition -PC Music--The Easy Guide -Photoshop Workflow Setups -Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition -Rails Recipes -SUSE Linux -Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook -VB 2005 Black Book -Wicked Cool PHP -XQuery (Rough Cuts Version) -Your Life in Web Apps (PDF) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Phillip Torrone at HOPE Number Six, New York, NY--July 22 -O'Reilly Authors at the Apple Store, San Francisco--August 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -EuroOSCON Registration is Open -Register for OSCON, July 24-28--Portland,OR -OSCON Exhibit Hall Passes Still Available -OSCamp 2006 at OSCON, July 24-28 ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -What Is a Wiki? (and How to Use One for Your Projects) -The Long View of Identity -Nat Torkington Previews OSCON 2006 -Rethinking Community Documentation -The Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop Iceland Adventure -Secrets of the Arpeggiator -Parallels Desktop for the Mac -Wireless Security on the Road Without a VPN -How To Recover from Registry Corruption -Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools -Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications -Five Keys to Improving Web Site Conversions -How to Code HTML Email Newsletters -What's New in Eclipse 3.2 Java Development Tools? -Making the Most of JDBC with WebRowSet -MAKE Podcast: Weekend Projects--Make a Workbench -Building Tricorders --------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases--Books, PDFs, and Rough Cuts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Get 30% off a single book or 35% off two or more books from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, SitePoint, or Syngress 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 $29.95 or more. For more details, go to: <http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html> 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> ***Agile Retrospective Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0977616649 Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right or wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as "post-mortems") are only held at the end of the project--too late to help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental. You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0977616649/> ***bash Quick Reference (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527764 In this quick reference, you'll find everything you need to know about the bash shell. Whether you print it out or read it on the screen, this PDF gives you answers to annoying questions that come up when you're writing shell scripts: What characters do you need to quote? How do you get variable substitution to do exactly what you want? How do you use arrays? <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bashqr/> ***BigNum Math Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491128 "BigNum Math" takes the reader on a detailed and descriptive course of the process of implementing bignum multiple precision math routines. The text begins with a coverage of what "bignum math" means and heads into the lower level functions. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491128/> ***The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271069 "The Book of JavaScript" teaches how to add interactivity, animation, and other tricks to web sites with JavaScript. Rather than provide a series of cut-and-paste scripts, that takes the reader through a series of real world JavaScript code with an emphasis on understanding. Each chapter focuses on a few important JavaScript features, shows how professional web sites incorporate them, and gives you examples of how to add those features to web sites. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271069/> ***Build Your Own AJAX Web Applications Publisher: SitePoint ISBN: 0975841947 This practical hands-on guide for first-time AJAX will walk you through building multiple AJAX applications, with each application highlighting a different strength and use of AJAX. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on modern, standards-compliant techniques, accessibility, and cross-browser compatability. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975841947/> ***Classic LEGO Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 159749089X The perfect book/DVD for the Lego Mindstorms geek eager to extend the life of their RIS 1.x and 2.x kits, RCX Bricks, motors, and programs by building new projects. Includes forty projects, software tools such as LDraw, MLCad, and POV-Ray, and complete RCX and NQC code files. All projects are in PDF form on the DVD, ready for printing, copying, or annotating. A perfect resource for clubs and classes as well. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/159749089X/> ***Combating Spyware in the Enterprise Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490644 "Combating Spyware in the Enterprise" is the first book published on defending enterprise networks from increasingly sophisticated and malicious spyware. System administrators and security professionals responsible for administering and securing networks ranging in size from SOHO networks up to the largest, enterprise networks will learn to use a combination of free and commercial anti-spyware software, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, intrusion prevention systems, and host integrity monitoring applications to prevent the installation of spyware, and to limit the damage caused by spyware that does in fact infiltrate their networks. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490644/> ***Dictionary of Information Security Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491152 The dictionary has the most up-to-date terms, including those related to computer viruses, malware, and more recent technologies such as wireless networking. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491152/> ***Essential Computer Security Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491144 Do you want your computer to be absolutely, positively, 100% secure against all vulnerabilities and exploits both known now and those yet to be discovered? 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Yet by its nature, wireless networks are the most difficult to secure and are often the favorite target of intruders. This book provides the busy network administrator with best-practice solutions for securing the wireless network. The book endorses the principle that the best strategy is to deploy multiple layers of security, each reinforcing the other. Yet it never strays from its emphasis on the practical; that any tool or methodology that is deployed must work reliably, allow sufficient access, and require a minimal amount of maintenance. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490873/> ***How to Keep Your Boss from Sinking Your Project (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528027 Like it or not, your project needs management. Yet few good software projects can survive bad management. If you're a programmer on a high-visibility project, this PDF offers five principle guidelines for managing upward that will help you help your boss make the right decisions about setting project expectations, working with users and stakeholders, putting the project on the right track and keeping it there. The PDF also covers what problems cause projects to fail and how to fix them, and what you can do to keep your software project from running into trouble. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/managingsoftprojects/> ***The Internet: The Missing Manual Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059652742X The Internet is synonymous with change--that's one of its charms, and one of its headaches. You think you know the Internet, but are you really up to speed on internet telephony, movie and TV downloading, multiplayer games, online banking and dating, and photosharing? This utterly current book covers getting online, searching/finding information, downloading and sharing movies, music, and photos, and the latest ways to keep in touch. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/internettmm/> ***Joe Grand's Best of Hardware, Wireless, and Game Console Hacking Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491136 This book is perfect for any devoted hardware hacker, homebrew gamer, or geek compelled to void hardware warranties. Twenty projects from the books "Hardware Hacking" and "Game Console Hacking" are compiled on a single DVD, providing hi-res color for clear views of each step in the hack along with the ability to print individual sheets. Hacks include Xbox, PS2, Wireless 802.11, Macintosh, iPod, and most of the classic consoles from Atari and Nintendo. The book includes chapters on hacking tools and electrical engineering basics as well as the background on each hardware device. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491136/> ***Learning PHP and MySQL Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101104 Featuring basic concepts explained in plain English, "Learning PHP and MySQL" is the ideal guide for newcomers attracted to the popular PHP and MySQL combination. Learn in an easy-to-follow fashion how to generate dynamic web content. Also covers error handling, security, HTTP authentication, and more. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnphpmysql/> ***LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596005288 "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition" is an invaluable resource for determining what you need to practice to pass the Linux Professional Institute exams. This book will help you determine when you're ready to take the exams, which are technically challenging and designed to reflect the skills that administrators need in real working environments. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lpicertnut2/> ***PC Music--The Easy Guide Publisher: PC Publishing ISBN: 1870775201 Completely updated with new sections on the MP3 revolution, the PC as a complete Media Center and the realization of your PC as a recording studio, this new edition of "PC Music--The Easy Guide," will show you what can be done, what it all means, and what you will need to start creating and enjoying your own music on your PC. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1870775201/> ***Photoshop Workflow Setups Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101686 Adobe Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment. This first book in our new series on digital photography offers a step-by-step approach to Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for your specific needs in a visually uncluttered workspace. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photoworkflow/> ***Python in a Nutshell, Second Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596100469 "Python in a Nutshell" provides a solid, no-nonsense quick reference to information that programmers rely on the most. This book will immediately earn its place in any Python programmer's library. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonian2/> ***Rails Recipes Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0977616606 You've read the tutorials and watched the online videos. You have a strong grasp of all of the ingredients that make up a successful Rails application. But ingredients don't just turn themselves into a meal. Chad Fowler's "Rails Recipes" is a collection of recipes that will take you step by step through the most cutting edge, modern Rails techniques, mixing the ingredients to create world-class web applications. Learn how to do it, and how to do it right. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0977616606/> ***Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059652370X A master photographer and teacher since 1977, Stephen Johnson is widely recognized as a pioneer of digital photography. His new book chronicles his ride on the bleeding edge of this medium's evolution, and provides a practical in-depth introduction to digital photography that includes the latest techniques. Complete with beautiful color photographic examples and illustrations, this book is a unique, passionate, holistic examination for every student of photography. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/stephenjohnson/index.html> ***SUSE Linux Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059610183X Whether you use SUSE Linux from Novell, or the free openSUSE distribution, this book has something for every level of user. The modular, lab-based approach not only shows you how--but also explains why--and gives you the answers you need to get up and running with SUSE Linux. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/suselinux/> ***Syngress IT Security Project Management Handbook Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490768 As the late management guru Peter Drucker once said, "Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work." The intent of this book is not to lead you through long, arduous planning processes while hackers are stealing your network out from under you. The intent is to provide you with effective network security planning tools so that you can "degenerate into hard work" as quickly as possible to keep your network secure with the least amount of effort. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490768/> ***VB 2005 Black Book Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1933097086 "Visual Basic 2005 Black Book" is one of the first comprehensive books that covers the new version of Visual Basic and the development features of Microsoft's .NET platform in depth. It explains the major changes to VB and provides numerous tips and practical solutions for developing applications and guides the programmer through all the new features of VB 2005 with detailed coverage of the new controls, language enhancements, and architecture features. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097086/> ***Wicked Cool PHP Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271026 "Wicked Cool PHP" provides PHP scripts that can be implemented immediately to make programmers' lives easier, including scripts for processing credit cards, getting live shipping quotes, and accepting PayPal payments online. Author William Steinmetz approaches the limitations of PHP frankly and honestly, showing readers where security holes might be created by novice programmers and suggesting workarounds for when PHP fails. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271026/> ***XQuery (Rough Cuts Version) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527888 "XQuery" delivers a carefully-paced tutorial that teaches everything a developer needs to start querying XML and databases. Learn how to join multiple data sources or hugely disparate data sources and documents, quickly sort the results or find query errors based on the data schema, and query elements differently depending on their type. This book covers the most useful functions of XQuery and explains how to query a variety of relational and XML sources. It also includes specific sections on learning XQuery for SQL and XSLT programmers. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xquery/> ***Your Life in Web Apps (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059652806X Have you dreamed of a simpler life where web apps and a browser meet all of your computing needs? All you need is a network connection. In this PDF Giles Turnbull introduces you to a day of web apps-only, then he surveys the best and most innovative web apps from the current crop available right now. He also addresses practicality, security issues, and backup strategies for living the web app life. Is it really possible? This PDF will help you decide. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/usingwebapps/> ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--the first one plus four more for $34.95. 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Featured speakers include Jeff Waugh, Damian Conway, Greg Stein, Rasmus Lerdorf, Marten Mickos, Tim O'Reilly, and many others. <http://conferences.oreilly.com/eurooscon/> User Group discounts are available, email marsee@oreilly.com for more information. To register for the conference, go to: <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/register.html> ***OSCON, July 24-28--Portland,OR OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, is still where open source rubber meets the road. OSCON happens July 24-28, 2006 in open source hotspot Portland, Oregon. Hundreds of sessions and tutorials will be offered. Thousands of open source mavericks, brainiacs, hackers, activists, scientists, and their admirers, some in business-casual disguise will be there. Read all about it. <http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/> Use code "os06dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. To register for the conference, go to: <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/register.html> ***OSCON Exhibit Hall Passes Still Available Don't have the budget or time for all of OSCON? You can register for a free Expo Hall pass: <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/register.html> The Expo Hall pass includes the following: -Entrance to the Exhibit Hall and all events held in the Exhibit Hall including a reception on Wednesday, July 26 from 6:00pm-7:30pm. -Admission to the Products & Services track -Admission to Vendor Presentations held in the Exhibit Hall -Access to BOFs <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/bof.html>, evening events <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/events.html>, and community meetings -Access to OSCAMP <http://oscamp.org/> ***OSCamp 2006 at OSCON, July 24-28 OSCamp 2006, included with the free Expo Hall pass, is a grassroots cooperative effort with O'Reilly. OSCamp seeks to organize the fringe of activity that has grown up around OSCON during the last several years so the event can rock even more! Come together to network, write code, have fun and learn about the cool things that are afoot in the movement. Bring your friends. OSCamp is an "open" space for meeting, learning, connecting, and writing code...with no limits or agendas. The only charge is to come and learn and contribute as much as you can. The agenda is created and modified "on the fly" by the participants. You can add to the agenda any issue of importance to you. It will be discussed and addressed to the greatest extent possible. All of the key points and next steps will be captured online at OSCamp.org so the entire Freedom/Libre/Open community can benefit. Register for the exhibit hall pass and make sure you use the special code os06oscamp. <http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/register.html> For OSCamp information, registration, and schedule, go to: <http://oscamp.org/> ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***What Is a Wiki? (and How to Use One for Your Projects) Wikis are becoming known as the tool of choice for large, multiple-participant projects because jumping in and revising the pages of a wiki is easy for anyone to do. This article covers how to effectively use a wiki to keep notes and share ideas among a group of people, and how to organize that wiki to avoid lost thoughts, and encourage serendipity. Matt Webb and Tom Stafford co-authored this article using a wiki, as they did to write their book, "Mind Hacks." <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/what-is-a-wiki.html> ***The Long View of Identity Who are you online? Your digital identity is a complex bundle of information--not just what you say about yourself, but what other people say about you and how trustworthy they are. O'Reilly editor Andy Oram recently attended the Identity Mashup conference at Harvard Law's Berkman Center and reports on one of the most vital issues of privacy and usability on the Internet. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/06/29/the-long-view-of-identity.html> --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Nat Torkington Previews OSCON 2006 This year's Open Source conference runs July 24-28 in Portland, Oregon. Nat Torkington talks about what you can expect at this year's show. He explains that each technology has a great set of talks, but the strength of OSCON is that so many different topics are covered in one conference. It allows you to stretch and learn things from and share ideas with people solving similar problems using different tools. (5 minute, 47 seconds) <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/07/oscon-podcast-preview.html> ***Rethinking Community Documentation Good documentation makes good software great. Poor documentation makes great software less useful. What is good documentation though, and how can communities produce it effectively? Andy Oram explores how free and open source software projects can share knowledge with users and how publishers and editors fit into the future of documentation. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/06/rethinking-community-documentation.html> --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***The Adobe Lightroom/Photoshop Iceland Adventure From Derrick Story: The team of Adventure photographers arrive in Iceland on July 28. This is an Adventure both in the sense of location photography and RAW workflow. Each shooter will be using Adobe Lightroom on a laptop in the field to process and output the images. Here?s a quick overview of who is going, where they will be, and the reports from Iceland that will be coming your way. <http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2006/07/the_adobe_lightroomphotoshop_i.html> ***Secrets of the Arpeggiator Arpeggiators are some of the handiest gadgets in computer music. With an absolute minimum of dexterity, you can create driving rhythms and superhuman tapestries of notes. Jim Aikin explains how arpeggiators work, what features to look for, and how to use them to revitalize your music. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/06/29/secrets-of-the-arpeggiator.html> --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Parallels Desktop for the Mac The short version of this discussion about Parallels can be summed up in a single word: amazing. Nothing is perfect, of course, and there is room for improvement as Parallels moves this product beyond version 1.0. However, if you have an Intel-based Mac and need or want to run Microsoft Windows, some version of Linux, or some other supported operating system, read on. Todd Ogasawara reports. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/06/27/parallels-desktop-for-mac.html> ***Wireless Security on the Road Without a VPN A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a secure way to connect to web sites and email while using wireless networks. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to a VPN, so what do you do? In this article you'll learn how to secure your online activities without a VPN. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/06/20/wireless-security.html> --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***How To Recover from Registry Corruption What do you do if your system crashes and you've got a corrupt registry? Mitch Tulloch comes to your rescue with advice on how to recover and restore your registry. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/06/27/recovering-from-registry-corruption.html> ***Inside Vista's New Diagnostic Tools Vista comes with a great suite of diagnostic tools for helping your PC run better and avoid crashes. Here's the rundown on what they are and how to use them. <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/06/20/inside-vistas-new-diagnostic-tools.html> --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications Eager to dabble in remote scripting, but don't know where to start? Let Ajax guru Matthew Eernisse be your pilot and guide you to the heights of Web 2.0 success. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/build-your-own-ajax-web-apps> ***Five Keys to Improving Web Site Conversions Are your visitors not buying enough, subscribing to your newsletter, or downloading samples? Ensure good and growing conversions with this guide. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/improving-web-site-conversions> ***How to Code HTML Email Newsletters Find out the best way to make your HTML newsletters and ezines sizzle with this handy how-to guide to the unique challenges in coding HTML for email. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/code-html-email-newsletters> --------------------- Java --------------------- ***What's New in Eclipse 3.2 Java Development Tools? The popular Eclipse IDE's latest release, version 3.2, is the cornerstone of an ambitious release of ten Eclipse-branded projects on the same day. But what's in it for you? Ed Burnette takes a look at the new features in Eclipse's Java Development Tools and shows you how they'll make your development much easier. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/28/whats-new-in-eclipse-3-2-java-development-tools.html> ***Making the Most of JDBC with WebRowSet Database to XML and back again. If everyone's doing some or all of this, then shouldn't we write it once, get it right, and standardize? JDBC 3.0's WebRowSet offers a profound increase in power over the old ResultSet. Sharad Acharya shows you what's possible. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/06/21/making-most-of-jdbc-with-webrowset.html> --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***MAKE Podcast: Weekend Projects--Make a Workbench Every week, Bre Pettis will be bringing you a project that you can make over the weekend. For this first podcast, you can learn how to make a workbench for your garage, studio, or get your priorities straight and put it in your livingroom! <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/make_podcast_weekend_projects.html> ***Building Tricorders We're featuring four sessions from the first day of the Where 2.0 conference. Josh Peterson tells you to live your life as if you're on vacation; Mike Liebhold looks at a future in which the invisible annotations on the world around you becomes visible; Schuler Erle demos Gutenkarte, which reveals geographic information in the books you read; and Lauren Gelman cautions us about the privacy issues in exposing our data. (DTF 06-26-2006: 26 minutes, 15 seconds) <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/06/26/distributing-the-future.html> 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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