O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER May 17, 2002
HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -Tapping the Alpha Geek Noosphere with EtherPEG -Building Wireless Web Clients, Part 2 -Why Data Binding Matters -Harnessing XML with Custom Tags or ColdFusion Components -A Batch Job to Add New User IDs -Jaguar Preview is Stunning -iPhoto Tips -Web Services for Bioinformatics UPCOMING EVENTS -Simson Garfinkel at Softpro Books in Burlington, MA -Rob Flickenger will be presenting Wireless Community Networks -Usenix Annual Technical Conference-Come to the O'Reilly booth and meet our authors! CONFERENCE NEWS -Be a Sponsor at OSCON -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference BOOK NEWS: -Mac OS X Pocket Reference: A User's Guide to Mac OS X -Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- TAPPING THE ALPHA GEEK NOOSPHERE WITH ETHERPEG "So there I was at ETech, sitting in the back of the Emergence discussion, listening to Rael Dornfest, Cory Doctorow, Clay Shirky, and other extraordinary blogging minds thought about the blogging world...If only there were some way of getting into the collective stream-of-consciousness of the crowd, to gauge their actual reactions to what was really going on up on stage..." Read the rest of Rob Flickenger's weblog: http://www.oreillynet.com/1414.html For more about Rob see "Upcoming Events" further on in this newsletter. --------------------- JAVA --------------------- BUILDING WIRELESS WEB CLIENTS, PART 2 Get Amazon book info from wireless devices by Kim Topley. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/05/15/j2me2.html J2ME in a Nutshell Order Number: 253x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/ WHY DATA BINDING MATTERS Brett McLaughlin offers five examples of how data binding can save you considerable time and energy. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/05/15/databind.html Java & XML Data Binding Order Number: 2785 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxmldatabind/ --------------------- COLDFUSION --------------------- HARNESSING XML WITH CUSTOM TAGS OR COLDFUSION COMPONENTS Rob Brooks-Bilson shows how to use ColdFusion MX's Components and its XML parsing capabilities in this article from Macromedia's Application Development Center. Rob is the author of Programming ColdFusion. http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/mx/coldfusion/articles/custom_cf_tag.html Programming ColdFusion Order Number: 6986 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coldfusion/index.html --------------------- LINUX --------------------- A BATCH JOB TO ADD NEW USER IDS Arnold Robbins shows a script to automate adding many user IDs at once. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/05/09/uid.html Learning the Korn Shell, 2nd Edition, By Arnold Robbins Order Number: 1959 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/korn2/ --------------------- MAC --------------------- JAGUAR PREVIEW IS STUNNING By now you may have heard some of the announcements at the 2002 WWDC conference in San Jose, Calif., but here's a detailed overview of just about everything Steve Jobs covered in his keynote address where he introduced Apple developers to Mac OS X 10.2, code named Jaguar. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/05/09/wwdc_overview.html IPHOTO TIPS Pro photographer and Mac enthusiast Derrick Story shows you how to get the most out of iPhoto keeping you up to date with the latest plug-ins available for Apple's breakthrough digital imaging application. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/collections/iphoto.html --------------------- WEB SERVICES --------------------- WEB SERVICES FOR BIOINFORMATICS Ethan Cerami explores two bioinformatic Web Services you can try out today--XEMBL and BQS--and shows code examples of how the interfaces work. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/05/14/biows.html --------------------------------------------------- UPCOMING EVENTS WITH O'REILLY AUTHORS --------------------------------------------------- SIMSON GARFINKEL ON BUILDING COCOA APPLICATIONS AT SOFTPRO BOOKS BURLINGTON, MA Wednesday, May 22--6:30 PM In this 45-minute talk, Simson Garfinkel, coauthor of the upcoming book "Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide" will discuss the history and future of the Mac OS X operating system, and will show how you too can use Mac OS X to build graphical applications faster than you ever thought possible. Softpro Books 112 Mall Road Burlington, MA 01803For more information see: http://www.softpro.com/events.html Open Invitation to SIGS and User Groups: Softpro is happy to host your group. We have space to accomodate up to 30 people in Burlington and up to 12 in Marlborough. Reserve a time by writing to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more on information or articles by Simson Garfinkel see: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/355?x-t=book.view Building Cocoa Applications: A Step-by-Step Guide Order Number: 2351 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/buildcocoa/ ROB FLICKENGER WILL BE PRESENTING WIRELESS COMMUNITY NETWORKS Golden Gate Computer Society, San Rafael, CA June 3, 2002 Call the Golden Gate Computer Society information hotline at (415) 454-5556 or see http://www.ggcs.org/thismonth.html Building Wireless Community Networks Order Number: 2041 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wirelesscommnet/ For more information or articles by Rob Flickenger see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/80 USENIX ANNUAL TECHNICAL CONFERENCE-- COME TO THE O'REILLY BOOTH AND MEET OUR AUTHORS! Monterey, CA Thursday, June 13th at 6:00 pm Booth # 409/411 Don't miss presentations by authors David N. Blank-Edelman (Perl for System Administration), Ian Darwin (Java Cookbook), Craig Hunt (TCP/IP Network Administration), and Cricket Liu (DNS and BIND, DNS on Windows NT, and DNS on Windows 2000). http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix02/ For more O'Reilly events see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ BE A SPONSOR AT OSCON The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is slated for July 22-26, 2002 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina. If you are interested in exhibiting or sponsoring the convention, telephone Andrew Calvo at 707-827-7176, or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2002/oscon_sponsor_pkt.pdf O'REILLY MAC OS X CONFERENCE The first O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, September 30-October 3, 2002, in Santa Clara, CA, explores how Apple's completely rebuilt operating system is creating fertile ground for Mac users, *nix programmers, and Java developers alike. 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As companies start to migrate to Mac OS X from earlier versions of the Mac OS and from other flavors of Unix, IT managers are looking for a quick reference guide to get users started quickly; this Pocket Reference is that guide. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxpr/ WINDOWS XP HOME EDITION: THE MISSING MANUAL Order Number: 2602 Windows XP is the latest, most reliable, and best-looking version of the worlds most widely used operating system. But one major failing of Windows remains unaddressed in the XP edition: It comes without a single page of printed instructions. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowsxptmm/ Chapter 2, "The Desktop and Start Menu," is available in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowsxptmm/chapter/index.html -- For information on unsubscribing from this list, please visit http://rochester.pm.org