>Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 16:28:32 -0700 (PDT) >From: Marsee Henon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 31 > >O'Reilly User Group Program >NEWSLETTER >May 31, 2002 > > >HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: >NEWS: >-A Bad, Sad Hollywood Ending? >-The Next Hot Jobs >-O'Reilly's spring catalog available on Google >-Standard Data Vocabularies Unquestionably Harmful >-Perl Success Stories Sought >-Achieving Closure >-Writing for Perl.com? >-Flying High with AirPort >-All About the Little Green Glob >-Building Palm Conduits, Part 1 >-System.Drawing with C# > >CONFERENCE NEWS >-OSCON Conference Updates > Early Bird Discount Date Coming Up Soon--June 10, 2002 > Room Share Mailing List > Lightning Talk Proposals > >BOOK NEWS: >-Java and SOAP >-Ant: The Definitive Guide >-Planning for Web Services: Obstacles and Opportunities >-Learning Unix for Mac OS X > >ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS >-Join TMOUG for the 2nd Annual Golf Outing and Meeting > >================================================ >NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND >================================================ > >Spread the word to your members.... > >------------------------------- >GENERAL NEWS >------------------------------- >A BAD, SAD HOLLYWOOD ENDING? >Tim O'Reilly comments on a recent "Business Week" article that points >out the dangers to open source from the Hollings bill and the Broadcast >Protection Discussion Group. >http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1428 > >For more on these topics, don't miss Lawrence Lessig's keynote on >"Freeing Culture" at the upcoming O'Reilly Open Source Convention. >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/keynotes.html > > >THE NEXT HOT JOBS >This list from Smart Money.com includes "Bioinformatician" and >"Wireless Engineer. " >http://smartmoney.com/consumer/index.cfm?story=working-june02#ai > >O'Reilly can get you started... > >Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics >Order Number: 0804 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/ > >Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills >Order Number: 6641 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/ > >802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide >Order Number: 1835 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/802dot11/ > > >O'REILLY'S SPRING CATALOG AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE >Go to: http://catalogs.google.com/ and then click on the "Computers" >section, or by typing "O'Reilly" in the search box. (If you would like >to receive paper catalogs for your members, please let me know.) > >--------------------- >XML >--------------------- >STANDARD DATA VOCABULARIES UNQUESTIONABLY HARMFUL >Walter Perry argues that standard XML vocabularies are an >invitation to fraud. >http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/perry.html > >--------------------- >PERL >--------------------- >PERL SUCCESS STORIES SOUGHT >Do you have a Perl success story that you'd like to share? >Let Betsy Waliszewski know. >For more information see: >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1438 > > >ACHIEVING CLOSURE >What's a closure, and why are they so important? >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/05/29/closure.html > > >WRITING FOR PERL.COM? >Here are our submission guidelines: >http://www.perl.com/pub/a/general/writing.html > >--------------------- >MAC >--------------------- >FLYING HIGH WITH AIRPORT by Derrick Story >This first-person account by airline pilot Jim Dearien details setting >up an AirPort network and getting his legacy PCs to work on it. This >adventure was motivated by one goal: he wanted to buy his first Mac. >See how Jim pulled it off. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/28/mac_dev.html > >For more articles from Derrick see: >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/54 > > >ALL ABOUT THE LITTLE GREEN GLOB >Polish your Cocoa applications by implementing intelligent "zoom" >buttons at the top of the windows. Mike Beam shows you how. >http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/16/cocoa.html > >For more articles by Mike Beam see: >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/159 > >--------------------- >.NET >--------------------- >BUILDING PALM CONDUITS, PART 1 >This excerpt from "Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS," offers an >introduction to building conduits, synchronization software that >connects Palm apps and data stores. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/vbpalm_4/index1.html > >Programming Visual Basic for the Palm OS >Order Number: 2009 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vbpropalm/ > >SYSTEM.DRAWING WITH C# >Learn the System.Drawing namespace, which contains types that help you >with drawing. This crash course willl enable you to write better--and >probably faster--code. Here is a 10-minute crash course. >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/05/20/drawing.html > >================================================ >CONFERENCE NEWS >================================================ >******************************* >OSCON CONFERENCE UPDATES >******************************* >EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DATE COMING UP SOON--JUNE 10, 2002 >Please let your members know that if you register by June 10, 2002, you >are eligible for the "Early Bird" discount of $200. You and your >members are ALSO eligible for the "User Group" discount of 20%. (So if >you register by June 10th, and use the user group discount code, you'll >get 20% off the reduced "Early Bird" rate.) The User Group discount >code is DSUG. > >ROOM SHARE MAILING LIST >If you wish to save on your OSCON housing costs, you may wish to >room-share. We have set up a room-share email list to facilitate >finding a suitable roommate. Please visit the Room Sharing page to >submit your information and be added to the mail list. The list will be >updated and broadcast weekly. > >Room Share Mailing List Form: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/rs > >LIGHTNING TALK PROPOSALS >We are planning to have lightning talks for every track and conference >at OSCON. A lightning talk is a 5-minute tightly-focused presentation. >Discuss your favorite extension, rant, sing the praises of an >under-appreciated developer, plug your product or company, beg for a >job, or even present a Shakespearean-style play! (don't laugh--we had >one of these in 2001). >Lightning Talk Proposals form: >http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/ > >O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION >Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina >July 22-26, 2002--San Diego, CA >http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ > >================================================ >BOOK NEWS >================================================ >REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your >books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for >shipping. Please send me copies of your newsletters. > >Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase >direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. > >Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ > >JAVA AND SOAP >Order Number: 1754 >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/ >In addition to covering the basics such as the structure of a SOAP >(Simple Object Access Protocol) message, SOAP encoding, and building >simple services using RPC and messaging, "Java and SOAP" covers many >topics that are essential to real-world development. Chapter 5, >"Working with Complex Data Types," is available in PDF format: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javasoap/chapter/index.html > >The source code for this book is available on Robert Englander's >website: http://mindstrm.com:8199/soap.htm > > >ANT: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE >Order Number: 1843 >Ant is the premier build-management tool for Java environments. Ant is >part of Jakarta, the Apache Software Foundation's open source Java >project repository. Ant is written entirely in Java and is platform >independent. Using XML, a Java developer describes the modules involved >in a build, and the dependencies between those modules. Ant then does >the rest, compiling components as necessary in order to build the >application. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/ > >Chapter 1, "Ant Jumpstart," is available in PDF format: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/anttdg/chapter/index.html > > >PLANNING FOR WEB SERVICES: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES >An O'Reilly Research Report >(Sorry, no review copies available) >Following the groundbreaking "P2P Networking Overview" from O'Reilly >Research, "Planning for Web Services" guides tech executives and >managers through the inflated claims, competing standards, and acronym >soup to arrive at a realistic appraisal of web services' potential for >your business. With profiles of more than thirty of the key players in >this emerging sector, the report concludes with a straightforward >checklist of the strategic issues and questions every IT decision-maker >should answer before committing to web services. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wsrep/ > >An Executive Summary of the report is available online at: >http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/04/12/execreport.html > > >LEARNING UNIX FOR MAC OS X >Order Number: 3420 >This book is a concise introduction to just what a reader needs to know >to get started with Unix on Mac OS X. With Mac OS X, they now have the >ability to not only continue to use their preferred platform, but to >explore the powerful capabilities of Unix. This title gives the reader >information on how to use the Terminal application, become functional >with the command interface and explore many Unix applications. >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/ > >Chapter 4, "Customizing Your Session," is available online: >http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lunixmacosx/chapter/ch04.html > >================================================ >ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS >================================================ > >Ohio-- >Join the Toledo Metro Oracle User's Group for the 2nd Annual Golf >Outing and Meeting! On June 18th, @ The Tamaron Country Club, 8:30am to >12 Noon Please RSVP to Kellie Jakubowski at 419-475-6999 or via email >at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or register online at http://www.tmoug.org. > >Until next week, > >Marsee
--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX and Network Consultant http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams
