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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, August 4 Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:10:55 -0700 ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members August 4, 2006 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Building a VoIP Network with Nortel's Multimedia Communication Server 5100 -CSS: The Missing Manual -Designing and Building Enterprise DMZs -Firewall Policies and VPN Configurations -Google Hacks, Third Edition -JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition -Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition -Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerability Research -Music Technology Magazine's Ten Minute Masters -Network Security Assessment -The Photoshop Anthology -PHP Cookbook -Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, Second Edition -Programming Python, Third Edition -The Relational Database Dictionary -Ruby Cookbook -Scripting VMware Power Tools -Stealing the Network -Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography -Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks -Web Application Security -Windows Developer Power Tools (Rough Cuts) -Windows for Intel Macs (PDF) -Windows Media Center Wizardry (PDF) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Visit O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, CA--August 15-17 -Author Rich Gibson at the Apple Store, San Francisco, CA--August 24 -O'Reilly at RailsConf Europe, Central London, UK-- September 14-15 -O'Reilly at OpenCON 2006,Venice, Italy--December 2-3 -O'Reilly Authors at Flash on the Beach, Brighton, UK--December 4-6 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -EuroOSCON Registration is Open -ETEL 2007 Call for Participation -OSCON 2006 Coverage ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Last Chance to enter our Contest (US Residents Only) -Pocket Refs in PDF -User Group Members receive a special 30% discount on Learning Lab Courses -Interview with Jakob Nielsen -Download our product catalogs in PDF -Building a Desktop Firewall -What Is OpenDocument? -Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet -The CakePHP Framework -Review: Frontier Design TranzPort -Automate Your Favorite Photoshop Routines -So Del.icio.us! Intelligent Tagging for the Mac User -How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the Mac? -Best Windows Admin Downloads -Drag and Drop Ajax Programming with Atlas -Deploying BIRT -What is Geronimo? -Receive MAKE's "Weekend Project" PDF Podcast Through iTunes -MacOSG Interviews O'Reilly Editor Edie Freedman -OSCON Feedback --------------------------------------------------------------- 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 of $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? 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But due to CSS's complexity, most designers treat it as a kind of window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites without tapping into the real power of CSS. "CSS: The Missing Manual" explains how you can use this powerful to build sparklingly new web sites, or refurbish old sites that are ready for an upgrade. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csstmm> ***Designing and Building Enterprise DMZs Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491004 "Building DMZs for Enterprise Networks" covers a sorely needed area in critical business infrastructure: the Demilitarized Zone. DMZs play a crucial role in any network consisting of a Hosted Internet Web Server, internal servers which need to be segregated, External to Internal DNS Server, and an email SMTP Relay Agent. This book covers what an administrator needs to plan out and integrate a DMZ into a network for small, medium, and Enterprise networks. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491004> ***Firewall Policies and VPN Configurations Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490881 The security provided by firewalls and VPNs is only as strong as the protocol rules and policies that you create. This book provides fundamental information necessary to configure firewalls and build VPNs and DMZs to survive the dangers of today's internet. 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You'll not only find dozens of hacks for new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks, and scripts for hacking the old ones. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks3> ***JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101996 The indispensable reference for JavaScript programmers since 1996, "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition" is completely revised and expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0 applications. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jscript5> ***Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528124 Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a complex, dry topic become crystal-clear to programmers, and sprinkled with solutions to complex real-world problems, "Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition" offers a wealth information that you can put to immediate use. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex3> ***Metasploit Toolkit for Penetration Testing, Exploit Development, and Vulnerabiity Research Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490741 This is the first book available for the Metasploit Framework (MSF), the attack platform of choice for one of the fastest growing careers in IT security: Penetration Testing. 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From analogue recording to Audio CDs, from cabling to copyright, and from filters to Firewire, this is an invaluable collection for anyone involved in the music technology field. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/187077504X> ***Network Security Assessment Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491012 This book will take readers from the discovery of vulnerabilities and the creation of the corresponding exploits, through a complete security assessment, all the way through deploying patches against these vulnerabilities to protect their networks. This book is unique in that it details both the management and technical skill and tools required to develop an effective vulnerability management system. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491012> ***The Photoshop Anthology Publisher: SitePoint ISBN: 0975841920 "The Photoshop Anthology" is full-color, 101 question-and-answer book for web designers who want to use Photoshop more effectively to build web sites and create better looking web graphics. The book will show you how you can use Photoshop to create buttons, backgrounds, text effects, optimized photos, web interfaces, animated GIFs, and more for your web site. Additionally, the book will walk you through the entire process of designing a Website in Photoshop--from using layers to keep organized to using the slice tool to create individual web site elements. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975841920> ***PHP Cookbook Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101015 When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/phpckbk2> ***Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, Second Edition Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf ISBN: 0977616673 All over the world, software teams are using unit testing both to verify their code and as a way of helping them design better code. This book is unique in the way it covers two aspects: showing developers both how and what? <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0977616673> ***Programming Python, Third Edition Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596009259 An industry standard just got even better. This bestseller from O'Reilly has been updated to reflect the many changes introduced by Python 2.5. It teaches the most common Python application domains from the ground up with plenty of real-world examples and in-depth discussion. Ideal for novices as well as advanced practitioners. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/python3> ***The Relational Database Dictionary Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527985 "The Relational Database Dictionary" is exactly what designers, programmers, students, and database administrators (DBAs) need, a single source where they can find precise definitions. Authored by C.J. Date, a respected expert, this pocket-sized dictionary is the definitive glossary of terms and concepts used with relational databases such as Oracle products, IBM's DB2, Microsoft's SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. It provides structure and clarity that will help build proficiency and accuracy in working with today's relational databases. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/relationaldb> ***Ruby Cookbook Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596523696 From data structures and algorithms, to integration with cutting-edge technologies, the "Ruby Cookbook" has something for every programmer. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk> ***Scripting VMware Power Tools Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490598 This book covers the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server. It then discusses in detail the different scripting API's and how they can be leveraged to provide some very useful, practical and time saving tools to manage a virtual infrastructure. From virtual server provisioning to backups and everything in between, all will be covered in detail with real world examples that have been tested and will work either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications for the reader's specific environments. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490598> ***Stealing the Network Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597490814 The best-selling "Stealing the Network" series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet. As with previous titles, "How to Own a Shadow" is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, highly detailed scenarios of computer intrusions, and counter-strikes. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490814> ***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> ***Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271182 This newbie's guide to Ubuntu lets readers learn by doing. Step-by-step projects build upon earlier tutorial concepts and increase the reader's understanding of topics such as installing new software; Internet connectivity; working with removable devices; and even handling DVDs and iPods. Average desktop users are eased into the world of commands, thus allowing them to work with script-based applications; converting RPMs to DEB files; and compiling software from source. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271182> ***Web Application Security Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 159749061X This book defines web application security, why it should be addressed earlier in the lifecycle in development and quality assurance, and how it differs from other types of internet security. Additionally, the book examines the procedures and technologies that are essential to developing, penetration testing, and releasing a secure web application. Through a review of recent web application breaches, the book will expose the prolific methods hackers use to execute web attacks using common vulnerabilities such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, and Buffer Overflows in the application layer. By taking an in-depth look at the techniques hackers use to exploit web applications, readers will be better equipped to protect confidential. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/159749061X> ***Windows Developer Power Tools (Rough Cuts) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527926 There is a wealth of open and free software available today for Windows developers who want to extend the development environment, reduce development effort and increase productivity. "Windows Developer Power Tools" is an encyclopedic guide to more than 100 free and open source tools available to programmers who build applications for Windows desktops and servers, including web applications and services. With its unique task-oriented organization, this book will help you find the tools you need to solve common (and uncommon) problems. Each tool in the book includes a capsule summary--a mini user's guide--to help readers get up to speed quickly. This one-stop resource covers a wide range of open source and freeware tools to help you answer questions around planning, developing, testing, and rolling out great software. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowsdpt> ***Windows for Intel Macs (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059652840X Mac users can easily install and use Windows thanks to Boot Camp and Parallels Desktop for Macs with Intel processors. But once you've installed Windows, then what? This guide by Todd Ogasawara, a Microsoft MVP and Mac journeyman, will help you unite Windows software with Mac hardware. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowsforintelmacs> ***Windows Media Center Wizardry (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN:0596527845 "Windows Media Center Wizardy" is a guide to getting the most out of a PC running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, delving into the hidden features and extended capabilities not at first apparent when using this extremely powerful interface. This book is written as a series of "How To" sections, each concentrating on an area of functionality little exploited by typical users, although extremely useful when exposed. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coolthings> ***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. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this great offer for charter subscribers: five volumes for the cost of four. Subscribe at: <http://www.makezine.com/go/ugsub> ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Visit O'Reilly at LinuxWorld, San Francisco, CA--August 15-17 Stop by our booth (#928) to check out our latest Linux and open source titles. We'll also have author appearances from Gerald Carter ("LDAP System Administration"), Chris DiBona ("Open Sources 2.0"), Greg Kroah-Hartman ("Linux Kernel in a Nutshell"), and Kyle Rankin ("Ubuntu Hacks"). <http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/live/12/events/12SFO06A> ***Author Rich Gibson at the Apple Store, San Francisco, CA--August 24 Join Rich Gibson ("Google Maps Hacks" and "Mapping Hacks") and BMUG DBNet SIG for an evening at the Apple Store in San Francisco at 6pm. <http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco/> ***Visit O'Reilly at RailsConf Europe, Central London, UK-- September 14-15 Come hear David Heinemeir Hansson ("Agile Web Development with Rails"), Chad Fowler ("Rails Recipes and Programming Ruby, Second Ed."), Dave Thomas ("Programming Ruby, Second Ed." and "Agile Web Development with Rails"), and Kathy Sierra (co-founder of the "Head First" series and javaranch.com). Stop by the O'Reilly stand to purchase books at a discount and say hi to our authors at the First European RailsConf 2006. <http://europe.railsconf.org/> ***Visit O'Reilly at OpenCON 2006,Venice, Italy--December 2-3 OpenCON is the first conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD and organized by OpenBEER, the Italian OpenBSD users group. Topics include information security, secure programming, and anything related to OpenBSD. Come and visit the O'Reilly booth where you will be able to purchase our books at a discount. <http://www.opencon.org/index.php> ***O'Reilly Authors at Flash on the Beach, Brighton, UK--December 4-6 Meet Joey Lott ("Flash 8 Cookbook," "ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook," and "Programming Flash Communication Server") and Robert Reinhardt ("Programming Flash Communication Server") at this Flash Design and development conference. 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ETel happens February 28 to March 1, 2007 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California. <http://conferences.oreilly.com/etel/> ***OSCON 2006 Coverage SitePoint's Kevin Yank reports on OSCON 2006 in Portland. <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/category/webtech/> For More OSCON Coverage, go to: <http://www.oreillynet.com/conferences/blog/oscon/> ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Last Chance to Enter Our Contest (US Residents Only) The 2006 O'Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off, a contest open to US residents who use Adobe Photoshop, wraps up August 15th. Win great prizes, get your work in front of the industry's A-list judges, and learn some new tricks. Enter now to win! <http://www.oreilly.com/go/pscontest-ug> ***Pocket Refs in PDF O'Reilly Pocket References are now available in PDF format. They're bookmarked, searchable, and portable. <http://www.oreilly.com/store/series/pocketrefs> ***User Group Members receive a special 30% discount on Learning Lab Courses As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series: -Linux/Unix System Administration -Web Programming -Open Source Programming -.NET Programming To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1," good for a 30% discount, in Step #3 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online: <https://oreillylearning.com/enroll/> ***Interview with Jakob Nielsen Matt Mickiewicz interviews Jakob Nielsen about AJAX, usability's close link to keyword advertising, and some of the advertising formats we're seeing around the web today. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/interview-jakob-nielsen> ***Download our product catalogs in PDF: Digital Media Catalog: <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digitalmedia_spring2006.pdf> Microsoft Developers and Administrators Catalog: <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/60113_microsoft_catalog.pdf> Programmers and System Administrators Catalog: <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/60190_prog_sysadmin_cat.pdf> --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Building a Desktop Firewall By now, many internet users know that they need a firewall to protect their computers while they're online. A nice GUI firewall builder called fwbuilder makes it possible to set up a working firewall in ten minutes--on Linux, *BSD, and Mac OS X. Dru Lavigne shows how it works on FreeBSD. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/08/03/FreeBSDBasics.html> ***What Is OpenDocument? The OpenDocument Format (ODF), an open source file format standard for electronic office documents, is poised to change the world from an application-centric model of computing to a document-centric model. Sam Hiser looks at this new standard, how it implements XML for office documents, the technical and political wranglings in the standard, available tools, applications that offer ODF support, who's implementing ODF, and more. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/07/27/what-is-opendocument.html> ***Linux on the Nokia 770 Internet Tablet Nokia's 770 Internet Tablet is more than a phone, according to John Littler. It's a Debian GNU/Linux system. This makes it a prime target for hackers. Littler explores some of the built-in utilities and some of the other tricks you can use. <http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2006/07/20/nokia-770.html> ***The CakePHP Framework CakePHP is a mature framework for PHP developers who want the structure and time-saving benefits of Ruby on Rails, without having to leave their comfort zone. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/application-development-cakephp> --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Review: Frontier Design TranzPort This wireless, two-way remote control won acclaim in the pro audio community for simplifying computer recording. Now it works with iTunes as well. Songwriter Spencer Critchley tests it with iTunes and Reason, discovering how to loop song sections, create remote playlists, and even tranzform iTunes into a foot-controlled backup band. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/07/20/review-frontier-design-tranzport.html> ***Automate Your Favorite Photoshop Routines If you find yourself performing the same tasks over and over again in Photoshop, it's time for you to tap the power of actions. Scott Bourne shows you how. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/07/13/automating-photoshop-routines.html> --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***So Del.icio.us! Intelligent Tagging for the Mac User It's time to learn about del.icio.us, a glorious, minimalist, tag-tastic bookmarks database. It was designed to be a "large-scale outboard memory," with added sharing smarts. It works like this: you take all your digital stuff and throw it into your del.icio.us account. Thanks to tagging and searching, you can find your stuff easily later. And you can find other people's stuff, too. Giles Turnbull shows you how. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/18/delicious.html> ***How Does Open Source Software Stack Up on the Mac? Apple does a great job of providing elegant software for its platform. But there are plenty of good offerings beyond the fruits of Cupertino. In this amazing survey of proprietary and open source software, Matthew Russell attempts to organize what's available on both fronts and even dares to assign grades. Has he missed anything? <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/07/25/software-stack-for-the-mac.html> --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Best Windows Admin Downloads There are more than 9,000 tools, templates, white papers, and other items available from the Microsoft Download Center. Which are the best for Windows administrators? Mitch Tulloch clues you in. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/07/18/best-windows-admin-downloads.html> ***Drag and Drop Ajax Programming With Atlas Think you need to write scripts and use JavaScript if you want to write Atlas apps? Think again. Jesse Liberty shows you an easier, more effective, and more productive way--using drag-and-drop programming. <http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/01/drag-and-drop-ajax-programming-with-atlas.html> --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Deploying BIRT If you have a need for generating or displaying reports, you may want to have a word with BIRT. The Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools project is an open source Eclipse effort to enable the creation and deployment of complex reports. Jason Weathersby shows you how to grind out reports and display them in web applications and RCP-based desktop apps. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/26/deploying-birt.html> ***What Is Geronimo? Geronimo is Apache's open source, Java EE-compatible application server, based on a flexible system of interchangeable components. This makes it ideal for a wide range of enterprise deployments. In this article, Kunal Jaggi shows you how to get started with Geronimo. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/07/19/what-is-geronimo.html> --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***Receive MAKE's "Weekend Project" PDF Podcast Through iTunes Picnic Geometry: In this weeks video edition of Weekend Projects, learn to make geometric spheres from all sorts of things you might find at a picnic. Watch the video to see how to build an icosohedron out of paper plates, cups, and plastic sheeting. This is a great project to do as a family, just make sure you have enough supplies for each person involved to make one. If possible, use recycled materials. <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/make_podcast_weekend_projects_3.html> Recent projects include: "Make A Kite Aerial Photography Rig" <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/weekend_project_instructions_m.html> Rodent Powered Nightlight <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/07/> weekend_project_instructions_r.html --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***MacOSG Interviews O'Reilly Editor Edie Freedman Edie discusses the O'Reilly animals, our Photoshop Cookbooks, and the 2006 O?Reilly Photoshop Cook-Off contest. Here are the details from Macsimum News. <http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/macosg_podcast_crew_interviews_oreilly_media/> ***OSCON Feedback OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, is winding down. Conference publicist Suzanne Axtell took a microphone into the exhibit hall and asked various attendees and sponsors for their thoughts on OSCON. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/07/28/oscon-feedback.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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