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Register online: <http://www.oreillyschool.com/?CMP=BAC-ostug> ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- UG News --------------------- ***Interview with the Python Atlanta Programmers O'Reilly Book Club Noah Gift and Doug Hellmann talk about the PyAtl O'Reilly Book Club they started. Maybe your groups should think about starting your own version. <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/2007/09/interview_with_the_python_atla_1.html> ***Calling All Flex Developers Are you doing any development work (including skinning and UI design) with Adobe Flex? Here's your chance to be a contributor to an Adobe Developer Library book to be published in 2008, "Flex 3 Cookbook." Adobe's got a terrific site for Flex developers of any stripe to show their best stuff, and O'Reilly and Adobe are partnering on a book that will include some of the best contributions from the site. Each contribution uses the classic O'Reilly cookbook "Problem/Solution/Explanation" format; if you've got strong material to show the rest of the world, it couldn't be easier to write up your material in the online fields, and join the cookbook party. Flex developers are in very short supply in an exploding market, so here's your chance to show your stuff to the rest of the community! <http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/communityengine/index.cfm?event=homepage&productId=2> ***SCALE 6X Looking For Speakers in Several Areas The Sixth Annual SoCal Linux Expo will be February 8th-10th, 2008. The Expo has expanded to included specialized conferences on the Friday prior to SCALE including the Women in Open Source conference, the health care conference, now known as DOHCS--Demonstrating Open Source Health Care Systems, and newly added "Open Source in Education" which focuses on opportunities for Open Source in the field of education. If you have any experience in any of the above-mentioned areas, please consider sharing it with the Open Source community at SCALE. All of the calls are now open for submittals. For SCALE 4X and 5X the speaker slots filled rapidly. Submittal info for each conference can be found on their respective CFP pages. <http://socallinuxexpo.org/scale6x/conference-info/calls-for-papers/> ***INETA Community Leadership Summit September 29, Irvine, CA INETA and the INETA User Groups of Southern California are hosting a Community Leadership Summit open to all .Net Development Community user group leaders, as well as those active in volunteering support. This will be an excellent opportunity to meet others in the community and to exchange information and ideas. <http://summit.ineta.org/> ***Perl Survey 2007 Closes September 30th The Perl Survey is attempting to take a snapshot of the Perl world as it currently stands. Whether you're a web developer, sysadmin, or using Perl for scientific research or finance or just tracking your DVD collection, they want to hear about it. <http://perlsurvey.org/> ***The Bay Area Functional Programmers Group Now programmers in the San Francisco Bay using or interested in functional programming and functional programming languages such as Haskell, OCaml, SML, Scala, and Erlang have a place to meet, discuss, and learn together. Attendance at the first meeting was great, with over 25 people enjoying pizza and beer at Amici's in San Francisco and a fairly even split between Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, and Scala enthusiasts. The next meeting will be October 11th, 2007 at 7:30pm. If you're interested in coming, or would like to give a talk, please join the mailing list and introduce yourself. <http://bayfp.org/blog/> ***WoTech Talks to Jen Blackledge, Web Mistress at Edge Wireless, Bend Oregon WoTech is a blog for and about women who work in technology and Jen Blackledge is with the Central Oregon Web Professionals' Usergroup. <http://wotech.bendtech.com/?p=5> --------------------- Articles --------------------- ***Women in Technology: Hear Us Roar The brainchild of Tatiana Apandi, an associate editor at O'Reilly, this new series features articles solicited from technology's female side--and all focused on what it's like to carve out a career in technology. <http://www.oreillynet.com/womenintech/> To hear more from Tatiana, listen to her interview with Chuck Joiner on MacVoices. <http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-789-tatiana-apandi-on-oreillys-women-of-technology-hear-us-roar-series/> ***An Introduction to Erlang Not long ago, ONLamp readers were introduced to Haskell, a functional language. Another popular functional language is Erlang, which also features powerful features to manage concurrency. Gregory Brown recently tried it out, and has this summary. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/13/introduction-to-erlang.html> ***Linux vs. BSD, What's the Difference? Linux mavens are usually pretty sure they'll never go back to (or start using) Windows. They may like Mac OS, but usually don't jump ship for that either. But how about the other open source Unix descendant, BSD? Dru Lavigne offers a basic primer on what's different in PC-BSD for a Linux user, and what's better. <http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2007/08/23/linux-vs-bsd-whats-the-difference.html> ***Schemaless Java-XML Data Binding with VTD-XML This article introduces a Java-XML binding technique based on VTD-XML and XPath. This approach doesn't mandate a schema, takes advantage of XML's inherent loose encoding, and avoids needless object creation, so it is much more efficient for lightweight data binding. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/09/07/schema-less-java-xml-data-binding-with-vtd-xml.html> ***Moonlight: Silverlight Goes Mono By now, you may have heard the buzz around Silverlight, Microsoft's attempt to put Adobe out of the rich browser client business. But did you know that the Mono gang have been busy making an open source version for Linux? You do now. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/08/23/moonlight-silverlight-goes-mono.html> ***Creating Google Custom Search Engines Tired of searching for cheesecake recipes and getting nothing but pinup calendars? Google has a little-known feature that lets you design your own search engines that will search only the sites you want. Bernard Farrell introduces us to this useful capability and shows how to set one up. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/06/creating-google-custom-search-engines.html> ***Organizing Power Tips with Joe Schorr Do you know the difference between blue folders and yellow folders? What do you do if you're about to meet with clients and want only their images to show in Aperture? In this podcast interview with Joe Schorr, Derrick Story discovers advanced organizing tips for Aperture power users. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/09/05/organizing-power-tips.html> ***Lightroom Getting Started--Basic Tonal Control in Lightroom 1.1 Using Lightroom's Develop module, you can do a lot to bring out the best tonal qualities of your images. Lightroom has easy-to-use sliders that allow you to react to the Exposure, Highlight/Shadow, and Brightness/Contrast needs of your images. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/08/29/tone-and-color-in-lightroom.html> For more articles, go to: <http://www.oreillynet.com/> --------------------- Blogs ------------------- ***Will Anyone Pay for a Newspaper Online? <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/will_anyone_pay.html> ***Three vantage points from which to view patents <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/three_vantage_p.html> ***The Watering Hole <http://www.oreillynet.com/wateringhole/blog/> ***Will Java 7 Be Beautiful? <http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/will_java_7_be_beautiful.php> ***Pardon My French, But This Code Is Crap! <http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/pardon_my_french_but_this_code_1.php> ***Visualizing Color Space <http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/visualizing_color_space_1.html> ***Lightroom and The Traveling Photographer <http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/09/lightroom_and_the_traveling_ph.html> ***Easy iPhone Toolchain Installation <http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/09/easy_iphone_toolchain_installa.html> ***Google Presentation vs. PowerPoint vs. Keynote? <http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/09/google_presentation_vs_powerpo_1.html> ***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup <http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/09/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_53.html> ***Freeware/Open Source for Windows Weekly Summary <http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/09/freewareopen_source_for_window_42.html> ***The 64-Bit Experience With Ubuntu Feisty Fawn <http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/08/the_64bit_experience_with_ubun.html?ref=most_discussed> ***Cross-Distro Collaboration <http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2007/09/crossdistro_collaboration.html> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ -- Neil Schneider pacneil_at_linuxgeek_dot_net http://www.paccomp.com Key fingerprint = 67F0 E493 FCC0 0A8C 769B 8209 32D7 1DB1 8460 C47D When I was a boy I was told that anyone could grow up to be president. 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