---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter #7 from O'Reilly UG Program Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 18:00:51 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise Olliffe" To: farli@qwest.net NEWSLETTER O'Reilly UG Program Volume 1 #7 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK.... Books: -Malicious Mobile Code News: - Apache::CodeRed - The Great Rewiring--an interview with Clay Shirky - An Excuse to Use VB .NET Today - Top Ten Traps in C# for C++ Programmers - HyperCard ************************************************* NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond ************************************************* I would be grateful if you would alert your group to the news they'd find valuable. Apache: ------- Apache::CodeRed Reuven M. Lerner writes about Code Red 2 attacks, and shows system administrators how to be alerted to the problem: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2001/08/16/code_red.html Apple/Mac: ---------- HyperCard Danny Goodman has insights into HyperCard's history and possibilities of it's future: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/08/17/goodman.html C++/C#: ------- Top Ten Traps in C# for C++ Programmers http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/programmingCsharp_0801.html Web Services & Peer-to-Peer: ---------------------------- An interview with Clay Shirky... The Great Rewiring Clay talks about "rewiring" web services and the future of P2P: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/20/shirky.html Clay will also be online this week to discuss these ideas, so if you want to send in your thoughts, go to: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/20/shirky.html?page=3#thread VB/.NET: -------- Looking for an excuse to use VB .NET today? Jose Mojica describes how to get around problems associated with component versioning in VB 6 by using VB .NET. Jose is the author of "COM+ Programming with Visual Basic." http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/complus_0801.html ************************************************* BOOKS hot off the press ************************************************* REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE Please email me to request review copies. Press announcement available for your use, please ask for a copy. Malicious Mobile Code http://oreilly.com/catalog/malmobcode/ Sample Chapter 11: Malicious ActiveX Controls http://oreilly.com/catalog/malmobcode/chapter/ch11.html Programmers may want to find out more about the Bioinformatics field. This rapidly growing industry has many people turning their heads to start new careers, helping biologists transform the way they process data. O'Reilly has released its first Bioinformatics book: Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/ For a full description on the book, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/bioskills/desc.html also... In January, O'Reilly will be offering our first Bioinformatics conference: O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/cfp.html For NEW and UPCOMING titles, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html ************************************************* UPCOMING EVENTS ************************************************* NEXT WEEK: LinuxWorld August 28-30 Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA O'Reilly will be at Booth 1747 Drop by Wednesday the 29th at 4:30 and meet some of O'Reilly's best authors--bring your favorite book to have it signed! SEPTEMBER: O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Service Conference September 18-21, 2001, Washington, D.C. EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 7th! http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ The conference is central to what's happening now in web services, with tutorials on SOAP, Jabber, Groove, JXTA and more. SPEAKER HIGHLIGHT: Michael Macedonia, PhD, will be offering an overview/infrastructure conference session on P2P and network-centric warfare. Michael is the Chief Scientist and Technical Director for the US Army Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command (STRICOM). Here is what Michael has to say about the P2P movement: "We are fast approaching a world of 200 million supercomputer tied together via broadband networks. By 2005, PCs will have 4 Ghz processors, gigabytes of RAM and terabyte storage while connected via cable or DSL broadband networks. Layered on this will be graphics supercomputers called game consoles tied into the same networks for entertainment-on-demand. The commoditization of high performance computing and emergence of an enormous P2P fabric is reshaping our knowledge culture on a global scale. As the Chief Scientist for the Army's Simulation Training and Instrumentation Command, I see this as a powerful medium for improving the readiness of our forces through collaborative education and simulation-on-demand." For more on Michael's session, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_sess/1621 ************************************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS from your peers ************************************************** FREEMONT, CA: 7th International CCT Users Group Conference For Specctra Autoroute Users September 20-22 in Fremont, CA More information available at http://www.cctug.org/conference_2001 Until next week, --Denise -------------------------------------------------------