---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 22 Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:54:47 -0800 (PST) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER March 22, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: -Listmania! on Amazon -Build Your Own Bookshelf on the Web -Emerging Technology Briefs: JXTA -Megnut:Attendee-Centered Conference Design -Cocoa for your Python? -Opening Up the PlayStation 2 with Linux -A Perl Hacker's Foray into .NET -Secure Mail Reading on Mac OS X -JavaOne in San Francisco -Java Recipe of the Day -JSP Standard Tag Libraries, Part 1 -Web Service Sublimation -Introducing XML::SAX::Machines, Part Two BOOK NEWS: -Java in a Nutshell, 4th Edition -J2ME in a Nutshell -Transact-SQL Cookbook -Java Web Services CONFERENCE NEWS: -Early Bird Registration Extended Through April 5, 2002 -The Emerging Technology Conference--Community Meetings (All community meetings are free and open to the public.) ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS ------------------------------- LISTMANIA! ON AMAZON User Group Members--please remember to add your favorite O'Reilly books to your lists. http://www.amazon.com/ BUILD YOUR OWN BOOKSHELF ON THE WEB Get your first 14 days free when you subscribe to Safari Tech Books Online, with 600 of the best technical books available from O'Reilly and other top publishers. This special offer lets you select up to ten books to search, bookmark, and annotate. Cut and paste code examples. Find your answers fast. Access a world of technical knowledge at your fingertips. For more information: https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html EMERGING TECHNOLOGY BRIEFS: JXTA Here's a look at Sun's JXTA, a peer-to-peer networking framework, from O'Reilly Research's series of one-page technology summaries. Don't miss the tutorial on writing JXTA applications at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/03/12/jxta.html MEGNUT:ATTENDEE-CENTERED CONFERENCE DESIGN "Since this is my first monthly Megnut column for O'Reilly Network, I thought it would be polite to introduce myself. My name is Meg Hourihan, you may know me from megnut.com, my weblog, or from The Megway, a Segway parody some friends and I created. I co-founded a small company called Pyra, and until February 2001 I was the director of development for our product, Blogger. " See Megnut: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/03/19/megnut.html --------------------- PYTHON --------------------- COCOA FOR YOUR PYTHON? Stephen Figgins wonders,"I am suffering from Mac lust. I feel irresistibly drawn to the new iMac. That lovely TFT monitor has cast a spell on me. Yet I still have wits enough to wonder, what is the state of Python and OS X?" Find out here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/1/31/pythonnews.html --------------------- LINUX --------------------- OPENING UP THE PLAYSTATION 2 WITH LINUX Howard Wen takes a look at Sony's upcoming Linux distribution kit for the PlayStation 2. The bout between Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft with their video game consoles could become even more heated when Linux enters the fray this spring. Sony will sell online the "Linux (for PlayStation 2)" Release 1.0 in the U.S. in May 2002. (A European version will come out that month, too, and the Japanese version earlier in April.) http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/03/21/linuxps2.html -------------------- PERL -------------------- A PERL HACKER'S FORAY INTO .NET By Simon Cozens "No, I haven't sold out; I haven't gone over to the dark side; I haven't been bought. I'm one of the last people to be using closed-source software by choice. But one of the traits of any self-respecting hacker is curiosity, and so when he hears about some cool new technology, he's almost obliged to check it out and see whether there's anything he can learn from it. So this particular Perl hacker took a look at Microsoft's .NET Framework, and, well, Mikey, I think he likes it." http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/03/19/dotnet.html --------------------- MAC --------------------- SECURE MAIL READING ON MAC OS X In this article Jason McIntosh describes a danger inherent in most mail-reading methods, and ways to work around it on OS X, using the Mail program. He will also give you a brief tour of some SSH client tools that subtly stow away in the Mac OS X distribution. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2002/03/19/secure_mail.html Check out more OS X articles at the Mac Devcenter on O'Reilly Network http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/ -------------------- JAVA -------------------- JAVAONE IN SAN FRANCISCO March 25-29, 2002, Moscone Convention Center Come by and visit O'Reilly at booth #1725 The 2002 JavaOne conference includes industry leaders, visionaries, forecasters, and inventors star as this year's cast of keynote speakers. Experience the wisdom of such luminaries as Scott McNealy, James Gosling, Paul Saffo, John Gage, and many more. For more information: http://servlet.java.sun.com/javaone/home/0-sf2002.jsp JAVA RECIPE OF THE DAY All receipes are from "The Java Cookbook," by Ian Darwin. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/javacook/solution.html "The Java Cookbook" is still available for review. Order Number: 1703 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/ JSP STANDARD TAG LIBRARIES, PART 1 Custom tags make working with JSP easier and more efficient, but wouldn't it be good to have standard ways to perform common tasks? Enter JSP Standard Tag Libraries, an attempt to provide a common and standard set of custom tags. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/03/13/jsp.html -------------------- XML -------------------- WEB SERVICE SUBLIMATION By Timothy Ewald, Martin Gudgin March 20, 2002 This month's Endpoints column examines the characteristics of Web Service applications, including typing and message coupling. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/endpoints.html INTRODUCING XML::SAX::MACHINES, PART TWO This month, Kip Hampton's introduction to Perl's XML::SAX::Machines tool continues, adding flexibility to Apache-based apps and demonstrating the construction of a SAX controller. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/03/20/machines.html ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ JAVA IN A NUTSHELL, 4TH EDITION Order Number: 2831 Java just keeps growing, adding features, functionality, complexity, and tempting developers to growl with frustration. The new 1.4 release of Java 2 Standard edition increases the size of the platform by 50%, to 2757 classes in 135 packages. The new 4th edition still contains an accelerated introduction to the Java programming language and its key APIs so you can start writing code right away. And with more than 250 new pages, author David Flanagan quickly brings you up to speed. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut4/ Read Chapter 4 "The Java Platform" http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/javanut4_ch04/index.html For more informatin on David Flanagan http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/156?x-t=book.view J2ME IN A NUTSHELL Order Number: 253x This book provides a solid, no-nonsense reference to the "alphabet soup" of micro edition programming, covering the CLDC, CDC, KVM and MIDP APIs. The book also includes tutorials for the CLDC, KVM, MIDP and MIDlets, MIDlet user interfaces, networking and storage, and advice on programming small handhelds. Combined with O'Reilly's classic quick reference to all the core micro-edition APIs, this is the one book that will take you from curiosity to code with no frustrating frills in between. http://oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/ Chapter 3 "The Mobile Information Device Profile and MIDlets" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/chapter/ch03.html TRANSACT-SQL COOKBOOK Order Number: 7567 This unique cookbook contains a wealth of solutions to problems that SQL programmers face all the time. The recipes inside range from how to perform simple tasks, like importing external data, to ways of handling issues that are more complicated, like set algebra. Authors Alex Spetic and Jonathan Gennick, two authorities with extensive database and SQL programming experience, include a discussion with each recipe to explain the logic and concepts underlying the solution. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/transqlcook/ Chapter 8 "Statistics in SQL" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/transqlcook/chapter/ch08.html JAVA WEB SERVICES Order Number: 2696 This book gives the experienced Java developer a way into the Web Services world. It helps you to understand what's going on, what the technologies mean and how they relate, and shows Java developers how to put them to use to solve real problems. You'll learn what's real and what isn't; what the technologies are really supposed to do, and how they do it. "Java Web Services" shows you how to use SOAP to perform remote method calls and message passing; how to use WSDL to describe the interface to a web service or understand the interface of someone else's service; and how to use UDDI to advertise (publish) and look up services in each local or global registry. "Java Web Services" also discusses security issues, interoperability issues, integration with other Java enterprise technologies like EJB; the work being done on the JAXM and JAX-RPC packages, and integration with Microsoft's .NET services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawebserv/ Chapter 6 "UDDI: Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration" http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawebserv/chapter/ch06.html ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION EXTENDED THROUGH APRIL 5, 2002 As a part of our extended family, take an additional 30% off of your fees when you register with the discount code ET02FF Early bird registration ends April 5, 2002! Registration: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2002/create/ord_et02 THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE--COMMUNITY MEETINGS The emerging Internet Operating System benefits greatly from your participation in a special interest community focused on building one of the critically important pieces of this puzzle. Please join us for one of these community meetings during the week of the conference. ALL COMMUNITY MEETINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/18/community.html JXTA Community Meeting Date: Tuesday, May 14 Time: 7:00pm Location: Stevens Creek Room JXTA will hold a community meeting Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at 7 PM at the Westin Santa Clara, in conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Project JXTA started as a research project at Sun to address the peer-to-peer space. JXTA is a set of open, generalized peer-to-peer protocols that allow any connected device (cell phone, to PDA, PC to server) on the network to communicate and collaborate. Check the JXTA web site for more information: http://www.jxta.org/ Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) Date: Wednesday, May 15 Time: 7:00pm - 9:00pm Location: Stevens Creek Room The Bay Area Wireless Users Group (BAWUG) will hold its monthly meeting at the Westin Santa Clara in conjunction with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. BAWUG was founded to promote wireless use for the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Visit the BAWUG website for more information: http://www.bawug.org/ Until next week, Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- -- Jim Freedom is worth preserving