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From: Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com>
To: waltman@pobox.com
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, June 19
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:40:38 -0700

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June 18, 2007
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***Stephen Johnson conducts workshop in Ireland
   Jun 20-30, 2007, Ireland
Join Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) and Anthony
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***Michele Leroux Bustamante at the SoCal Code Camp
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***Bruce Tate and Justin Gehtland at Enterprise Ruby Conference
   Jul 16-18, 2007, Quest Conference Center
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Authors Bruce Tate (Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, Better, Faster,
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the Enterprise Ruby Conference in Columbus, Ohio, a conference
demonstrating Ruby?s place in the Enterprise. 
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***Gordon Meyer at the Southeastern Wisconsin Windows User Group
   Jul 18, 2007, Brookfield, Wisconsin
Author Gordon Meyer (Smart Home Hacks) makes an appearance at this
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***Why Do People Write Free Documentation? Results of a Survey 
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<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/06/14/why-do-people-write-free-documentation-results-of-a-survey.html>


***David Pogue: Now a Badass
Gizmodo recently received over 100 entries to a challenge to make the NY
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Open Source
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***An Introduction to Haskell, Part 1: Why Haskell 
Most programmers spend most of their life writing programs using
imperative coding. You tell the computer what to do in a step-by-step
fashion. Haskell is a horse of a different color, it encourages
functional programming. Don't know what that is? Adam Turoff explains
all in the first half of an introduction to Haskell.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/05/21/an-introduction-to-haskell---part-1-why-haskell.html>


***Good and Bad PHP Code
Kevin Yank discusses examples of good & bad PHP code, and how he tests
people applying for programming positions.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/25/good-and-bad-php-code/>


***A Holiday Gantry Web Application 
Ruby on Rails may get all the attention as a quick and easy way to
implement CRUD-type screens, but there are similar packages available
for other languages. Phil Crow shows how Gantry, a Perl-based CRUD
generator, saved Christmas.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/06/14/a-holiday-gantry-web-application.html>


***Creating MyTube with Flex and PHP 
Flex is Adobe's answer to the problem of finding a multi-platform
environment for rich browser applications. Jack Herrington highlights
some of the power of Flex by showing how you can combine it with PHP to
produce a quick and easy video blogging site.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/05/24/creating-mytube-with-flex-and-php.html>

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Digital Media
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***dekeBytes: Palettes Aren't Panels (Vampires Aren't Zombies)
Deke McClelland Explains "With the release of its CS3 products, Adobe
has once again ever so slightly shifted its official marketing and
documentation language. The newest casualty? Palettes. Palettes no
longer exist. The word 'palettes' has been struck from the Adobe
lexicon. Those things that were palettes are now 'panels.'"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/06/palettes_arent_panels_vampires_1.html>


***Joe Schorr on iPhoto to Aperture
Many photographers have scores of valuable images stored in iPhoto
libraries. As Aperture becomes incorporated into the workflow, what's
the best way to move those pictures to the Aperture environment? And
what if you want to share your Raw files with both iPhoto and Aperture?
In this podcast, Joe Schorr, senior product manager for Aperture,
explains all of the inside tricks for working with both iPhoto and
Aperture libraries.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/06/01/iphoto-to-aperture.html>

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Mac
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***WWDC Keynote: Oh Boy, Just What I Always Wanted 
Learn about the new features announced in Leopard, Safari for Windows,
and the way iPhone development is going to work. Daniel Steinberg
reports from this year's WWDC keynote. 
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/12/wwdc-keynote-report.html>


***iPod Mic Shootout
Apple finally added "CD-quality" recording to the iPod. But how good is
it really? Recording engineer Mark Nelson plugs in three leading add-on
mics and records voice and guitar to find out.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/05/18/ipod-mic-shootout.html>


***Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts with Keyboard Shortcuts 
AppleScript automation is one of OS X's most useful features, and it can
be made even better with the use of keyboard shortcuts. Jochen Wolters
examines three ways to assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript, and
digs in to FastScripts and Quicksilver in this detailed tutorial.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2007/06/08/hit-and-run-launching-applescripts-with-keyboard-shortcuts.html>

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Microsoft/.NET
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***Managing Printing in Your .NET Application 
The .NET Framework makes it easy to support printing. In this article,
Wei-Meng Lee shows you the basics of printing in .NET 2.0, including how
to configure page setup, print multiple pages, preview a document before
it is printed, as well as let users select a printer to which to print. 
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/15/managing-printing-in-your-net-application.html>


***Implementing and Understanding DHCP 
Setting up DHCP on tens, hundreds, and even thousands of computers can
be daunting. Here's how to do it easily with Windows Server 2003.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/06/12/implementing-and-understanding-dhcp.html>

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Java
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***Agile Database Refactoring with Hibernate 
Your data model was near perfect when your application was first
written. Since then, it has...evolved. In this article, we will show
readers how to upgrade their faulty schemas and data models without
affecting existing applications or processes.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/06/07/agile-database-refactoring-with-hibernate.html>


***Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene 
This article shows how to use the Lucene Query Parser to build search
capability into your application, adapting it onto a legacy database
rather than using the entire Lucene package.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/24/using-the-lucene-query-parser-without-lucene.html>

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Web
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***Google Shuts Down Made-For-AdSense Sites
An overview of Google's new policies on arbirtrage and 
made-for-Adsense sites.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/23/google-shuts-down-arbitrage-and-mfa-publishers/>


***Breaking out of the Box with CSS
The caged bird may sing, but the jazziest tunes are sung by birds that
have broken out of the box! In this step-by-step guide, Jina shows you
how to take that cramped old grid-based page layout, and use CSS--and a
little imagination--to break the bonds and set your design free.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/breaking-out-of-the-box>


Until next time--

Marsee Henon


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