| Subject: | Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, September 14 |
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| Date: | Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:12:45 -0700 |
| From: | Marsee Henon <marsee@oreilly.com> |
| To: | scotth@scottharney.com |
================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders September 14, 2006 ================================================================ -Looking for Slashdot and Amazon Reviewers for "Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks" -Put Up a MAKE or CRAFT Banner, Get a Free Book ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review Books are Available Copies of our books are available for your members to review--just send me an email to request books and and please include the book's ISBN number (click on the "More Details" link to find the ISBN.) Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. ***Please Send Copies of Your Book Reviews Email me a copy of your newsletter or book review. 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MAKE Banners: <http://www.makezine.com/usergroups/banners/> CRAFT Banners (Craft comes out in October 2006): <http://www.craftzine.com/usergroups/banners/> ================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members September 14, 2006 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Ajax and Web Services (PDF) -ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book -Classic LEGO Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools -Code Craft -Designing and Building Enterprise DMZs -Enemy at the Water Cooler -Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security -Firewall Policies and VPN Configurations -Getting Started with .NET 3.0 (PDF) -Getting Started with Atlas (PDF) -Getting Started with Hibernate 3 (PDF) -Hacking the Cable Modem -How to Cheat at Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts -JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition -Mac OS X Tiger Server Administration (PDF) -MAKE: Volume 07 -PC Music: The Easy Guide -Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual -Photoshop Workflow Setups -Ruby Cookbook (PDF Version) -Ruby on Rails: Up and Running -Running Mac OS X on Windows (PDF) -Scripting InDesign with JavaScript (PDF) -SQL Hacks: Rough Cuts Version -Ubuntu Linux for Non-Geeks -Virtualization with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 -Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly at the Sonoma County Book Festival, Santa Rosa, CA-- September 16 -chromatic ("Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook" and "Perl Hacks") at the Seattle Perl Users Seattle, WA--September 19 -Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography") joins SFDIG, San Francisco, CA--October 3 -C.J. Date ("The Relational Database Dictionary" and "Database in Depth") at the Data Management Association, Beaverton, OR-- October 4 -Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom School Tour -Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series -Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour -Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at NCMUG's Macintosh Computer Expo, Santa Rosa, CA--October 7 -Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA--October 8 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -ETech 2007 Call for Papers -Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -CRAFT on Newsstands October 17 -Work for O'Reilly -User Group Members receive a special 30% discount on O'Reilly Learning Courses -Unit Testing Your Documentation -Understanding Newlines -Digital Media Insider Podcast: Playing with Audio Plugins -George Jardine Discusses the Adobe Lightroom Adventure -Image Sharpening With Photoshop CS2 -A Briefing on Synching -Unify and Synchronize Your iTunes Libraries -How to Remove Startup Programs -Building Photo Uploaders with XAML -Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations -How to Publish Multiple Websites Using a Single Tomcat Web Application -Batch Updates with PL/pgSQL -Visualizing Database Information with Tableau -MAKE Japan Now Available -Weekend Projects: Batometer Instructions -Barbara Brundage discusses "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" -Life Cycles -Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash -Advanced Accessibility Techniques --------------------------------------------------------------- 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? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: <http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html> ***Ajax and Web Services (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528531 Ajax and web services are a perfect match for developing web applications. Ajax has built-in abilities to access and manipulate XML data, the native format for almost all REST and SOAP web services. Using numerous examples, this document explores how to fit the pieces together. Examples demonstrate how to use Ajax to access publicly available web services from Yahoo! and Google. You'll also learn how to use web proxies to access data on remote servers and how to transform XML data using XSLT. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ajaxwebserv/> ***ASP.NET 2.0 Black Book Publisher: Paraglyph Press ISBN: 1933097175 The book covers the entire spectrum of ASP.Net 2.0, from Webparts to Master Pages, incorporating newer technologies including Ajax and Atlas, developing mobile Web applications using ADO.Net 2.0, and data binding to many sources including databases, file-streams, and XML. Hundreds of unique programming solutions are provided that developers can use right away to save many hours of programming time. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097175/> ***Classic LEGO Mindstorms Projects and Software Tools Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 159749089X The perfect book/DVD for the Lego Mindstorms geek eager to extend the life of their RIS 1.x and 2.x kits, RCX Bricks, motors, and programs by building new projects. Includes 40 projects, software tools such as LDraw, MLCad andPOV-Ray; and complete RCX and NQC code files. All projects are in PDF form on the DVD, ready for printing, copying or annotating. A perfect resource for clubs and classes as well. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/159749089X/> ***Code Craft Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271190 "Code Craft" teaches programmers how to move beyond writing correct code to writing great code. The book covers code writing concerns, including code presentation style, variable naming, error handling, and security; and the wider issues of programming in the real world, such as good teamwork, development processes, and documentation. "Code Craft" presents language-agnostic advice that is relevant to all developers, from an author with loads of practical experience. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271190/> ***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 E-mail 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/> ***Enemy at the Water Cooler Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491292 Organizations spend billions each year securing assets. Most countermeasures are designed to address external attacks. What happens when the attacker is a trusted employee with access to sensitive assets? Insider threats are easy to perpetrate, hard to prevent, and managing them is politically charged. Spanning over a decade, this book shares real life stories of insider threats and countermeasures through various geographies and business verticals. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491292/> ***Essential Computer Security: Everyone's Guide to Email, Internet, and Wireless Security Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491144 Do you want your computer to be absolutely, positively, 100% secure against all vulnerabilities and exploits both known now and those yet to be discovered? That is simple--leave your computer in the box it came in. The only way to be 100% secure is never to turn the computer on. Once you turn the computer on, you begin a tight-rope-balancing act between functionality, convenience, and security. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491144/> ***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. "Defense-in-depth" and "least privilege" are merely holes in your perimeter waiting to be exploited, unless you can define and maintain protocol rules that allow only the minimum protocols required to provide your requisite services. This book provides fundamental information necessary to configure firewalls and build VPNs and DMZs to survive the dangers of today's internet. Products covered include Cisco PIX Firewall, ISA Server 2004, Check Point NGX, Juniper's NetScreen Firewalls, SonicWall, and Nokia. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490881/> ***Getting Started with .NET 3.0 (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 059652921X Learn how to create more dynamic user experiences and build secure web services using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), two of the foundational pillars of .NET 3.0, with this succinct and well-written PDF document. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dotnet30pdf/> ***Getting Started with Atlas (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596529171 In this Short Cut, Microsoft MVP Wei-Meng Lee introduces you to Atlas by showing ten ways you can use the technology to improve the user experience of your existing ASP.NET 2.0 apps. There's no better way to get acquainted with Atlas than by diving into a project, so read on and get started. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/atlaspdf/> ***Getting Started with Hibernate 3 (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528183 This PDF updates the introductory material from the award-winning "Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" to teach you how to jump right in and get productive with the current release of Hibernate. You'll be walked through the ins and outs of setting up Hibernate and some related tools that make it easier to use--and that may give you new ideas about how to store information in your Java programs. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hibernate3pdf/> ***Hacking the Cable Modem Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593271018 Inside "Hacking the Cable Modem," you'll learn the history of cable modem hacking, how a cable modem works, the importance of firmware, how to unblock network ports and unlock hidden features, how to hack and modify your cable modem, what uncapping is and how it makes cable modems upload and download faster. Written for people at all skill levels, the book features step-by-step tutorials with easy to follow diagrams, source code examples, hardware schematics, links to software (exclusive to this book!), and previously unreleased cable modem hacks. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271018/> ***How to Cheat at Windows System Administration Using Command Line Scripts Publisher: Syngress If you want to streamline the administration of your Windows servers and workstations by using command line scripts, this is the book for you. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft attempts to ease administrative tasks by adding more and more layers of graphical user interface (GUI) or configuration wizards (dialog boxes). While these "wizards" are interactive and make the administrator's job simpler, they are nowhere near as quick or efficient as a well-crafted command-line script or batch file. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491055/> ***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/> ***Mac OS X Tiger Server Administration (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596529546 "Mac OS X Tiger Server Administration" gives Unix, Windows, and Mac administrators what they need to master every aspect of this server, from the command line to Apple's graphical tools. Full of much-needed insight, clear explanations, and troubleshooting tips, the book shows readers how to utilize Tiger server's capabilities and features in their individual environments, while highlighting the differences between Mac OS X and other server platforms. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxtigersa/> ***MAKE: Technology On Your Time Volume 07 Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527187 If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. "MAKE Volume 07" is the Backyard Biology issue, with DNA extraction, plant grafting, home mycology lab, snail cryogenics, and more. Also, learn how to make your own Stirling engine, install a video camera on a model rocket, make a head-mounted water cannon, and dozens of other projects to satiate your inner maker. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/makemag06v7/> ***PC Music: The Easy Guide Publisher: PC Publishing ISBN: 1870775201 Completely updated with new sections on the MP3 revolution, the PC as a complete Media Center and the realisation of your PC as a recording studio, this new edition of "PC Music--the easy guide," will show you what can be done, what it all means, and what you will need to start creating and enjoying your own music on your PC. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1870775201/> ***Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual The most popular photo-editing program on the market, Photoshop Elements not only has Photoshop's marvelous powers, but includes creative capabilities the mothership lacks. The latest version, "Photoshop Elements 5," offers new scrapbook features among many other improvements. Our Missing Manual carefully explains every feature (something no other book has done) by putting each one into a clear, easy-to-understand context--all with a bit of wit and good humor. This book is for the Windows users of Photoshop Elements. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photoshope5tmm/> ***Photoshop Workflow Setups Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101686 Adobe Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use in a production environment. This first book in our new series on digital photography offers a step-by-step approach to Photoshop's vast collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they work, but how they should work for your specific needs in a visually uncluttered workspace. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/photoworkflow/> ***Ruby Cookbook (PDF Version) 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 for it in the Cookbook. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyckbk/> ***Ruby on Rails: Up and Running Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101325 This compact guide from O'Reilly teaches you the basics of Ruby on Rails, the super-productive new way to develop full-featured web applications. Discover how to install and use both the Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework. More advanced material shows you just how fast Ruby on Rails can go. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rubyrails/> ***Running Mac OS X on Windows (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528434 Despite Apple's move to Intel's CPU architecture, if you want to run the Mac OS X operating system on your Windows PC, the only logical way to do it is to run it in an emulator. In this Short Cut, you will learn how to install Mac OS X on your PC using PearPC, an open source emulator that emulates the PowerPC architecture. We'll walk you through all of the steps needed to successfully get Mac OS X working, as well as show you how to configure additional settings to make Mac OS X functional. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runningmacpc/> ***Scripting InDesign with JavaScript (PDF) Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596528175 InDesign provides a powerful set of tools for producing beautiful documents. While you can certainly do all your work by hand through InDesign's graphical interface, there are many times when it's much easier to write a script. Once you've automated a task, you can run it over the whole document, ensuring consistency, or just when you need it, simplifying and speeding your layout process. All it takes is a bit of JavaScript knowledge and a willingness to explore InDesign's programming features. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/scriptingindesign/> ***SQL Hacks: Rough Cuts Version Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596527152 Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database. It offers 100 hacks--unique tips and tools--that bring you the knowledge of experts who apply what they know in the real world to help you take full advantage of the expressive power of SQL. You'll find practical techniques to address complex data manipulation problems. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlhks/> ***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/index.html> ***Virtualization with Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1597491063 This book provides the essential concepts as well as an advanced understanding of Microsoft's Virtual Server 2005 and explains what the virtual evolution is and why it is important. Readers of this book will have the requisite knowledge to plan and execute a server consolidation project as well as build both basic and advanced virtual machines and a virtual infrastructure. In short, this book will evolve its readers into virtual gurus. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491063/> ***Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596101775 This book will help you solve more than 300 of the most common and not-so-common tasks that working Visual Basic 2005 programmers face every day. If you're a seasoned .NET developer, beginning Visual Basic programmer, or a developer seeking a simple and clear migration path from VB6 to Visual Basic 2005, the Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook delivers a practical collection of problem-solving recipes for a broad range of Visual Basic programming tasks. It's sure to save you time, serving up the code you need, when you need it. <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vb2005ckbk/> ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions 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--one plus four more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this great offer for UG Members: five volumes for the cost of four. Subscribe at: <http://www.makezine.com/go/ugsub> ***Craft 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.craftzine.com/go/craftug> ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: <http://events.oreilly.com/> ***O'Reilly at the Sonoma County Book Festival, Santa Rosa, CA--September 16 Visit our booth to peruse just a few of our many titles, grab a catalog, and pick up a copy of MAKE magazine while you're there. <http://www.socobookfest.org/> ***chromatic ("Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook" and "Perl Hacks") at the Seattle Perl Users Seattle, WA--September 19 Join author chromatic for a talk on "Perl Hacks You Might Not Know," featuring hacks from the book and some new hacks. He'll also cover embedding Parrot in Perl 5 and Ruby and bootstrapping tests for a language using Parrot. <http://seattleperl.org/> ***Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography") joins SFDIG, San Francisco, CA--October 3 Photographer and author Stephen Johnson will be discussing his hard won insights into digital photography and print making. Existing SFDIG 2006 members get in free, or you can attend an individual meeting for a fee of $20. <http://sfdig.org/site/events/index.html> ***C.J. Date ("The Relational Database Dictionary" and "Database in Depth") at the Data Management Association, Beaverton, Oregon--October 4 Author Chris Date shares the secrets to Dropping ACID, Nullology: the study of the empty set, View Updating, and Database Graffiti at the "Masterclass with Chris Date" training event. <http://www.damaglobal.org/chris_date_10_4_06.php> ***Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom School Tour Author Julieanne Kost will provide students with an in-depth seminar on using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta, highlighting their combined support for a digital workflow. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: <http://projectphotoshoplightroom.com/schools.php> ***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series Author Peter Krogh will be teaching the "Get Your DAM Stuff Together" track for ASMP's "It's Your Business" Series. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: <http://www.asmp.org/commerce/education> ***Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour Author Eddie Tapp will teach you the complete digital workflow from capture to final output. During this seminar, Monte Zucker and Eddie Tapp cover concept to completion--posing, pixels, Photoshop, and printing--everything needed to create beautiful digital photographic portraits. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to: <http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?OrganizationNumber=802> ***Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at NCMUG's Macintosh Computer Expo, Santa Rosa, CA--October 7 Author Derrick Story will be at speaking at the annual NCMUG Macintosh Computer Expo. O'Reilly will be on hand to sell books at the Expo. <http://www.ncmug.org/mce.html> ***Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual") at Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa, CA--October 8 Author Derrick Story will be holding half-day seminar through the Santa Rosa Junior College Community Education program. <https://busapp02.santarosa.edu/CommunityEducation/> ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***ETech 2007 Call for Papers According to Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." But just how advanced is sufficiently advanced? Clarke's Third Law provides the inspiration for the next ETech, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The 2007 edition of the conference is all about magical innovations and will reveal the sufficiently advanced technology behind them. The next ETech takes place on March 26-29, 2007 in San Diego, California. Proposals are due no later than October 9, 2006. <http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech> ***Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo Are Now Being Accepted The Call for Participation for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo has just opened: an invitation for database experts and enthusiasts to share their knowledge of MySQL with the global open source community. The theme for the 2007 conference is "Scale to New Heights with MySQL." This annual event brings nearly 2,000 MySQL developers, DBAs, users, and partners together in Santa Clara, California. The Call for Participation ends November 7, 2006; the conference takes place April 23-26, 2007. <http://www.mysqluc.com> ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***CRAFT on Newsstands October 17 >From the team who brought you MAKE, CRAFT is the first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, Craft's goal is to unite, inspire, inform, and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials, and tools; resourceful spirits who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities. We call them "Makers." <http://www.craftzine.com/> We anticipate a very quick sellout (as was the case with the inaugural issue of MAKE). Avoid the crushing disappointment of an empty newsstand, and reserve a copy today by subscribing with this special UG discount URL: <http://www.craftzine.com/go/craftug> ***O'Reilly Media Announces Co-Publishing Agreement with Adobe Systems We just announced the Adobe Developer Library, a new publishing imprint in partnership with Adobe Systems, designed to meet the rising demand among developers for tools and resources to help create the next generation of rich internet applications. Adobe and O'Reilly have entered into an agreement to co-publish and co-brand books and online learning resources for developers creating applications with technologies such as Adobe Flex, ActionScript, and Adobe Flash and Flash Video. Stay tuned for more information. ***Work for O'Reilly We have immediate openings for the following: -Digital Content Specialist -Senior Software Engineer -Strategic Sales Executive For more information and more job openings, go to: <http://jobs.oreilly.com/> ***User Group Members receive a special 30% discount on O'Reilly Learning 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/> --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Unit Testing Your Documentation It's fairly easy to prevent errors in code from occurring and reoccurring; unit tests are an effective strategy to prevent regressions. But what about the example code in your documentation? Errors there can frustrate and thwart readers and learners. Fortunately, it's possible to test your documentation almost as effectively. Leonard Richardson, coauthor of the "Ruby Cookbook," demonstrates how he kept his code examples correct. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/07/unit-testing-docs.html> ***Understanding Newlines Munging text is familiar to agile language programmers. It's very straightforward, right? Text comes in, text changes, and text goes out. Yet in a multi-OS world with networks, internationalization, and character sets, is text really that simple? Xavier Noria delves into how computers handle text to explain the newline problem and how to work with it in agile languages. <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/08/17/understanding-newlines.html> --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Digital Media Insider Podcast: Playing with Audio Plugins Listen as songwriter and Pro Tools guru Gina Fant-Saez transforms a dust-dry vocal into a gorgeous soundscape by chaining four cool effect plugins, and then builds a song from scratch using only virtual instruments. <http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/09/07/playing-with-audio-plugins.html> ***George Jardine Discusses the Adobe Lightroom Adventure George Jardine, pro shooter and Adobe Lightroom Evangelist, was part of the Lightroom Adventure team that traveled to Iceland during the summer of 2006. In this interview by fellow Adventurer Derrick Story, George talks about working with other world class photographers on location and the development of Adobe Lightroom... and how the two forces came together in Iceland. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/08/17/george-jardine-lightroom-adventure.html> ***Image Sharpening With Photoshop CS2 Having trouble applying Photoshop's Unsharp Mask filter to your creations? Using the Unsharp Mask can be tricky business but, as author Corrie explains, some good technique, a little patience, and an artistic eye is all you need to sharpen your images to a professional standard. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/sharpening-photoshop-cs2> --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***A Briefing on Synching The idea behind synchronizing, or synching, is simple: take information you collect on one device, like the contact lists you keep on your laptop, and combine it with similar information on other devices so that the two sets of information match. Sounds easy enough, but there are a few tricks to understand. In this "Take Control" excerpt, Michael Cohen provides an informative overview for getting your info in sync. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/09/05/synching.html> ***Unify and Synchronize Your iTunes Libraries Last June, David Miller published an article that explained how to synchronize playlists on iTunes. Today, Matthew Russell extends this idea by investigating and presenting three different ways to synchronize the actual contents of your iTunes music libraries when they are scattered across multiple machines. Then in the second half of the article, Matthew lays the foundation for a custom Python script that you can extend across multiple platforms and in various other ways. <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/08/22/synchronize-itunes-libraries.html> --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***How to Remove Startup Programs Got a PC that takes a week and a day to boot up? Most likely, it's filled with programs that start at bootup--programs you don't need. Mitch Tulloch shows you all the secrets of how to ferret out and remove these time and resource wasters. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/22/how-to-remove-startup-programs.html> ***Building Photo Uploaders with XAML Who says Windows can't play nice with open source applications? Jack Herrington uses the XAML technology on Windows Vista to create a visually appealing and user-friendly image uploading application for getting pictures into a PHP web application. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/08/29/building-photo-uploaders-with-xaml.html> --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Separation of Concerns in Web Service Implementations The principle of "separation of concerns" is much repeated in SOA circles... so why are transactional integrity, security, and business logic so often intermingled in SOA implementations? In this article, Tieu Luu shows how to use Spring to separate out security concerns in an Axis-based web service. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/09/06/separation-of-concerns-in-web-services.html> ***How to Publish Multiple Websites Using a Single Tomcat Web Application While the idea of mapping several names onto one Apache instance with VirtualHost directives is well known, what do you do when you're serving web apps with Tomcat? Satya Komatineni has both the code and the configs that you'll need to make this work. <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/08/30/publishing-multiple-sites-using-single-tomcat.html> --------------------- Databases --------------------- ***Batch Updates with PL/pgSQL Loops are slow, algorithmically speaking. Every time you find yourself looping over data, you have a process that, at best, scales linearly with the number of items to process. SQL gives you options to perform multiple updates at once; David Wheeler demonstrates how to make them work with PL/pgSQL. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/09/07/plpgsql-batch-updates.html> ***Visualizing Database Information with Tableau Although there are several tools available to help users efficiently and easily create pivot tables or cross-tabulations, being able to visualize the cross-tabulations in real time is much more useful. Ben Lorica and the O'Reilly Research team recently tried a visual analysis and reporting tool called Tableau. It worked well for them; might it work in your data warehouse? <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2006/08/24/tableau_review.html> --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***MAKE Japan Now Available MAKE is coming to Japan! It will share content from the pages of MAKE, but will be specifically for Japan. <http://www.oreilly.co.jp/books/4873112982/> You can download a sample MAKE 01 (Japanese PDF) here: <ftp://ftp.oreilly.co.jp/download/make01_sample.pdf> ***Weekend Projects: Batometer Instructions <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/weekend_projects_batometer_ins.html> For More MAKE Projects and info, go to: <http://makezine.com/> --------------------- Podcasts --------------------- ***Barbara Brundage discusses "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" In this podcast, O'Reilly Media's Sara Peyton interviews Barbara Brundage. Barbara's an extraordinary harpist who has performed for dignitaries and celebrities around the world including Margaret Thatcher, Tom Cruise, the Clintons, and Isaac Stern. She's also the go-to expert when it comes to using Photoshop Elements. Her brand new book, "Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual" is all about the just-announced version of Elements. And she's going to talk to us about the cool new tools for digital photographers and scrapbookers in this new program. <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/12/barbara-brundage-interview-ps-elements5.html> ***Life Cycles Releasing early and often. Mark Lucovsky contrasts his experience at Microsoft and at Google. Simon Phipps says that "lock in is the new lock out" and we preview Euro OSCON. Six Apart's Anil Dash has a stack of services you might use to build your applications and Damian Conway pokes fun at the world of Web 2.0 businesses. (DTF 09-11-2006: 26 minutes 45 seconds) <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/11/distributing-the-future.html> --------------------- Web --------------------- ***Flex 2: Rich Internet Applications in a Flash Take your interactive web apps to the next level with Adobe's Flex 2--it's fast, fashionable, and free! Join Josh as he walks through the process of developing a simple Flash project that shows just how easy it is to build cross-platform web apps with Flex 2. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/flex-2-internet-applications> ***Advanced Accessibility Techniques If you think the W3C guidelines are your ticket to an accessible site, think again! While the W3C guidelines are important, if you want your web site to be truly accessible, you'll need to venture beyond these guidelines. Trenton explains all in this hands-on technical tour. <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/accessibility-techniques> Until next time-- Marsee Henon ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/ http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================___________________ Nolug mailing list nolug@nolug.org Received on 09/14/06
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