---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:58:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Denise Olliffe To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books: - Python books coming News: - O'Reilly and Pearson Launch Joint Venture - An Interview with the User Friendly Gang - Keep Publicly Funded Research Public - Larry Wall's Apocalypse 3 - Nine Things I Wish I had Known About Cocoa - Oracle9i's Improved RMAN *********************************************** NEWS from O'Reilly and Beyond *********************************************** GENERAL INTEREST: -------------------- O'REILLY AND PEARSON LAUNCH JOINT VENTURE O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. and the Pearson Technology Group, a division of Pearson plc, announced last week a joint venture, launching a new online information retrieval service for the enterprise IT market--Safari Tech Books Online. It's O'Reilly, and the best of the rest. To take a look at Safari, go to: http://safari.oreilly.com/mainhom.asp?home No UG discounts are being offered on this service due to already low pricing. To kick off the Safari launch, we're offering a chance to win a $1000 tech book shopping spree. No purchase necessary. Enter the drawing at: http://oreilly.com/news/safari_drawing_0901.html For the complete press release: http://press.oreilly.com/safari_jvlaunch.html According to SeyboldReports.com, Safari Books Online is Inexpensive, easy to use, and loaded with high-quality content--the Safari online reference service for IT professionals will provide stiff competition for Books24x7.com. http://safarijv:sa257ebz@www.seyboldreports.com/ebooks/features/011002-oreill y.html AN INTERVIEW WITH THE USER FRIENDLY GANG We visited Columbia Internet and spoke with members of the popular comic strip. http://oreilly.com/news/rootofevil_1001.html MAC: -------------------- NINE THINGS I WISH I HAD KNOWN ABOUT COCOA Practical advice to programmers getting started with Apple's Cocoa, especially programmers used to command-line environments. http://mac.oreilly.com/news/cocoatips_1001.html SHELL SCRIPTS, COMMAND LINES, AND CLASSPATHS For a look at Java programming on the Mac, read: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/10/02/osx_java.html OPEN SOURCE: -------------------- KEEP PUBLICLY FUNDED RESEARCH PUBLIC Just as scientific research must undergo peer review, software developed by publicly funded research should be released under an open source or free software license, according to OpenInformatics.org. If you agree, sign their petition at http://www.openinformatics.org/dsp_petition.php LARRY WALL'S APOCALYPSE 3 As the design of Perl 6 unfolds, Larry continues his analysis with a discussion of operators: http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2001/10/02/apocalypse3.html PYTHON.OREILLY.COM If you haven't seen O'Reilly's latest Python page, you may want to gander at http://python.oreilly.com/ for the latest Python articles and books ORACLE: ------------------- ORACLE9i'S IMPROVED RMAN Coauthor of O'Reilly's upcoming "Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference," Darl Kuhn, writes about the significant improvements made to Oracle's Recovery Manager: http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclerman_1001.html ************************************************* BOOK NEWS ************************************************* REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE Please email me to request review copies. Press announcements are available for your use, please ask for a copy. Two new Python books are coming... ---------------------------------- Python Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition - November http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonpr2/ Python & XML - December http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythonxml/ REMINDER: Your group members receive a 20% discount on all books purchased direct from O'Reilly, using the DSUG discount code. ************************************************* EVENTS ************************************************* The O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference is only four weeks away! New dates and location--as previously announced: The Westin Grand 2350 M Street NW Washington, DC 20037 November 5-8, 2001 FREE EXHIBIT HALL PASSES AVAILABLE New keynote joining us: Mark Lucovsky of Microsoft, architecht of the .NET My Services, will discuss several Microsoft initiatives for building distributed services. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/p2pweb2001/view/e_spkr/1079 Why attend the conference? http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ ************************************************* OTHER STUFF ************************************************* If you have an announcement for your group that you'd like my help with, just ask. I'm happy to include the info in an upcoming newsletter. If you're interested in having an O'Reilly author speak at your meetings, we'll try to arrange something. Email requests to me. If you have a travel budget for speakers, let me know. Until next week, Denise -------------------------------------------------------