-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI - from one of PLUG's biggest supporters - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Sept 6 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:11:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter September 6, 2002 Please Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -Essential Blogging - -WebLogic 6.1 Server Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition - -WebSphere 4.0 AEs Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition - -JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition - -TOAD Pocket Reference for Oracle - -Java NIO - --------------------- Upcoming Events - --------------------- - -O'Reilly "Practical VoIP Using VOCAL" authors to speak in Milipitas, CA Sept. 12 - -Two Derrick Story Appearances: The Apple Store in Palo Alto, CA Sept. 17 The Mac Computer Expo in Santa Rosa, CA Sept. 21 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference 30% Special Discount Offer - ---------------------------------------------------------------- News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -"Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Ed." has been awarded the "Linux Journal" 2002 Editors' Choice for books. - -"Programming ColdFusion" has been nominated for the "ColdFusionDeveloper's Journal" Readers' Choice Award - -Which XP Book? (And The Architecture of O'Reilly Book Series) - -Introducing Smarty: A PHP Template Engine - -Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder - -Mac on Linux - -Web Services: Objects or XML Endpoints? - -Flash MX and the Bigger Picture: Lightweight Internet Applications - -The Fusion of Perl and Oracle - -Web Services and the Search for Really Big Prime Numbers - -802.11, .Mac, Backup--All Coming Together - -Switching to Mac OS X ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ *Essential Blogging Order Number: 3889 Written by leading bloggers, Essential Blogging includes practical advice and insider tips on the features, requirements, and limitations of applications such as Blogger, Radio Userland, Movable Type, and Blosxom. This book will get you up and blogging in no time. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/essblogging/ Chapter 6, "Advanced Blogger," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/essblogging/chapter/index.html *WebLogic 6.1 Server Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition Order Number: 4176 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/weblogicworkbook/ *WebSphere 4.0 AEs Workbook for Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition Order Number: 4184 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/websphereworkbook/ The goal of these workbooks is to discuss vendor specific requirements and best practices for building and running the example programs for O'Reilly's "Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd edition." Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition is still available for review copies Order Number: 2262 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/entjbeans3/ *JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition Order Number: 317X "JavaServer Pages, 2nd Edition" is completely revised and updated to cover the substantial changes in the 1.2 version of the JSP specification, and also includes detailed coverage of the new JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL). This book illustrates how JSP capitalizes on the power of Java servlets to create effective, portable web applications. It shows how to get started using the Apache Tomcat server, and provides detailed coverage of JSP syntax and features, error handling and debugging, authentication and personalization, and how to use JSTL for database access, XML processing, and internationalization. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jserverpages2/ Chapter 3, "JSP Overview," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jserverpages2/chapter/ch03.html Hans Bergsten's Web Site http://www.thejspbook.com/index.jsp *TOAD Pocket Reference for Oracle Order Number: 3374 The Tool for Oracle Application Developers (TOAD) is a popular graphical user interface for the Oracle database that allows programmers to build, test, debug, and format their code within an interactive development environment. With the easy-to-use TOAD interface, changes that once took hours can be done in just minutes. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tdpr/ A sample excerpt, "SQL Tuning," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tdpr/chapter/excerpt.html * Java NIO Order Number: 2882 "Java NIO" explores the new I/O capabilities of version 1.4 in detail and shows you how to put these features to work to greatly improve the efficiency of the Java code you write. This compact volume examines the typical challenges that Java programmers face with I/O and shows you how to take advantage of the capabilities of the new I/O features. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanio/ Chapter 4, "Selectors," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanio/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ *O'Reilly "Practical VoIP Using VOCAL" authors to speak at Borders in Milipitas, CA Meet David Kelly, Luan Dang, and Cullen Jennings, authors of the just-released "Practical VoIP Using VOCAL" discuss "Voice over Internet" on September 12, 2002 7:00 PM. Borders McCarthy Ranch Marketplace 15 Ranch Drive, Milpitas, CA Phone:408.934.1180 http://www.bordersstores.com/events/event_detail.jsp?SEID=15122759 Practical VoIP Using VOCAL Order Number: 0782 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/voip/ * Two Derrick Story Appearances in the San Francisco Bay Area: - --September 17, The Apple Store, Palo Alto, CA-- To begin your mastery of digital photography, make a date to join pro shooter Derrick Story (coauthor of "iPhoto:The Missing Manual"`) at the Palo Alto Apple Store on Tuesday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. He'll reveal many of the secrets that pros have been using for years to make breathtaking images. And he'll show you how to manage those great works of art using iPhoto. Grab your digital camera and don't miss this free event. The Apple Store in Palo Alto 451 University Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94301 (650) 617-9000 http://www.apple.com/retail/paloalto/ iPhoto:The Missing Manual Order Number:365x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/iphototmm/ - --September 21, Santa Rosa Junior College, Santa Rosa-- O'Reilly will be at the Mac Computer Expo 2002. Derrick Story is presenting "Creating Stunning Images for iPhoto" at 10:00am and be signing copies of his book from 1:30-3:00pm at our table. Mac Computer Expo 2002 Saturday-September 21, 2002 , 9:30am to 3:30pm Santa Rosa Junior College-Doyle Student Center 1501 Mendocino Avenue, Santa Rosa CA Free Admission, $2:00 Parking For more information go to the North Coast Mac Users Group's website: http://www.ncmug.org/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ *O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference special 30% Discount Offer O'Reilly Online Friends and Family discount. Enter macosx02ff in the discount field. For more discount info see: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/discounts.html O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Westin Santa Clara September 30 - October 3, 2002 -- Santa Clara, CA Hear from Tim O'Reilly, Jordan Hubbard, David Pogue, James Gosling, and others. http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ - --------------------- General News - --------------------- *"Linux Device Drivers, 2nd Edition" has been awarded the "Linux Journal" 2002 Editors' Choice for books. Order Number: 0081 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/ *"Programming ColdFusion" has been nominated for the "ColdFusionDeveloper's Journal" Readers' Choice Award. Cast your vote here: http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/readerschoice2002/ Programming ColdFusion Order Number: 6986 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coldfusion/ *Which XP Book? (And The Architecture of O'Reilly Book Series) What's the difference between an In a Nutshell and a Missing Manual? Where do O'Reilly's Learning, Essentials, and Cookbook books fit in? Tim O'Reilly writes about the architecture of O'Reilly's book series in the latest Ask Tim. http://www.oreilly.com/ask_tim/ - --------------------- Open Source - --------------------- *Introducing Smarty: A PHP Template Engine Separate logic from layout using PHP templates. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2002/09/05/smarty.html *Roll Your Own Digital Video Recorder Program your set-top to do exactly what you want. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/08/29/howardwen.html *Mac on Linux http://maconlinux.net/ - --------------------- .NET - --------------------- *Web Services: Objects or XML Endpoints? - From chatty versus chunky interfaces to state and other pitfalls, Matthew McDonald offers valuable advice for every .NET Web service programmer. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/09/03/webservices.html Matthew is a coauthor of O'Reilly's upcoming Programming .NET Web Services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/ - --------------------------- Web Developement - --------------------------- *Flash MX and the Bigger Picture: Lightweight Internet Applications Flash: bolstering the browser for a better Web experience. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/09/05/flash_runtime.html - --------------------------- Oracle - --------------------------- *The Fusion of Perl and Oracle Andy Duncan explains that Perl's symbiosis with the Oracle database helped in constructing the Perl DBA Toolkit, and he ponders what Ayn Rand might have thought of these two strange bedfellows. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/09/04/perlfororacle.html Andy is a coauthor of "Perl for Oracle DBAs." Order Number: 2106 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/ - --------------------- Java - --------------------- *Web Services and the Search for Really Big Prime Numbers What do searching for extraterrestrials, curing cancer, and finding big prime numbers all have in common? These problems are all being attacked with grid computing, a a technique of breaking a large problem into small tasks that can be computed independently. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/28/wsdc.html - --------------------- Mac - --------------------- *802.11, .Mac, Backup--All Coming Together MacDevCenter editor Derrick Story writes about how to use "Backup" and 802.11b to protect from data loss while on the go. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/09/03/backup.html Derrick Story and Rael Dornfest will present a session on Building a .Mac-Based Web Site at our upcoming conference: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/view/e_sess/3146 *Switching to Mac OS X For traditional Mac users and those new to the platform, switching to Mac OS X may at first seem daunting. But it's easier than most people think. Our authors take this process and organize it into manageable, easy to understand steps in our "Switch to Mac OS X" series. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/48 Until next time, Marsee - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Jim Freedom is worth protecting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPXl71ysk3ywszI1FEQLqpwCgoYAWJkd9u5YHvDu/0UeAHtnYywYAoOzZ YcmfSFm7Xl4N32Nb1US33hIQ =V4y4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----