F Y I . . . ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 15 Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 18:33:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter October 15, 2002 Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -DNS & BIND Cookbook -Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 -Mac OS X for Unix Geeks -Programming .NET Web Services -Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition -JXTA in a Nutshell ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -An Evening with Peter Morville in Silicon Valley ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Why Human Rights Requires Free Software -Powering Up Your Home-Brewed Computer -O'Reilly Beta Chapters Are Back! -An Introduction to VoIP and VOCAL -Free Frags with Cube: The Linux First-Person Shooter -A Review of Komodo -Top Five ASP.NET Web Services Tips -C# News Ticker Multithreaded Application -Introducing Mutation Events -Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO -Google Needs People -Self-Playing Media with Java Media Framework -An Introduction to iMovie ================================================ 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 four 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/ ***DNS & BIND Cookbook Order Number: 4109 The "DNS & BIND Cookbook" presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. This title is an indispensable companion to "DNS & BIND, 4th Edition," the definitive guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday problems, ranging from simple questions, like, "How do I get BIND?" to more advanced topics like providing name service for IPv6 addresses. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnsbindckbk/ Chapter 2, "Zone Data," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dnsbindckbk/chapter/index.html ***Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0 Order Number: 3897 We've updated this best selling product with the electronic versions of 7 popular Perl books. Included are the second edition of "Perl in a Nutshell" (paperback version), the third editions of "Learning Perl" and "Programming Perl," the "Perl Cookbook," and 3 new titles: "Perl & XML," "Perl & LWP," and "Mastering Perl/Tk." Formatted in HTML, The "Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 3.0," can be accessed with any web browser and includes a master index for the entire library. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlcdbs3/ ***Mac OS X for Unix Geeks Order Number: 3560 If you're one of the many Unix developers drawn to Mac OS X for its BSD core, you'll find yourself in surprisingly unfamiliar territory. Even if you're an experienced Mac user, Mac OS X is unlike earlier Macs, and it's radically different from the Unix you've used before, too. "Mac OS X for Unix Geeks" was written by two Unix geeks who found themselves in the same place you are. Their new book is your guide to figuring out the BSD Unix system and Mac-specific components that are making your life difficult and to help ease you into the Unix inside Mac OS X. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/ Chapter 3, "Directory Services," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mosxgeeks/chapter/index.html ***Programming .NET Web Services Order Number: 2505 This comprehensive tutorial teaches programmers the skills they need to develop XML web services hosted on the Microsoft .NET platform. "Programming .NET Web Services" also shows you how to consume these services on both Microsoft and non-Windows clients, and how to weave them into well-designed and scalable applications. For those interested in building industrial-strength web services, this book is full of practical information and good old-fashioned advice. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/ Chapter 2, "Creating ASP.NET Web Services," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/chapter/ch02.html ***Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 3rd Edition Order Number: 3811 Nearly a quarter-million PL/SQL programmers--novices and experienced developers alike--have found the first and second editions of "Oracle PL/SQL Programming" to be indispensable references to this powerful language. Packed with examples and recommendations, this book has helped everyone, from Oracle Forms developers to database administrators, make the most of PL/SQL. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/ Chapter 10, "Dates and Timestamps," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oraclep3/chapter/index.html ***JXTA in a Nutshell Order Number: 236X O'Reilly's pioneering reference is the first and last word on this powerful distributed computing technology. "JXTA in a Nutshell" delivers all the information you need to get started, including an overview of P2P distributed computing, an explanation of the JXTA Project's new platform, and ways that developers can become a part of the development effort. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jxtaian/ Chapter 2, "Getting Started with JXTA," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jxtaian/chapter/ch02.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***An Evening with Peter Morville in Silicon Valley Wednesday, October 30, 2002, 7:00 pm Peter Morville, coauthor of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Ed.," will be speaking on "Information Architecture and Strategy." Presented by The Web Content, eBusiness Perspectives, and Technical Development SIGs of the Silicon Valley WebGuild and the Usability SIG of the Society for Technical Communications, Silicon Valley Chapter. For location and information, please see: http://www.webguild.org/content/ For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Why Human Rights Requires Free Software Human rights workers should be universally feted and supported. Instead, however, they are chronically underfunded, goaded to justify every detail of their work, and threatened with dire harm. For these reasons, human rights work requires free software. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/platform.html ***Powering Up Your Home-Brewed Computer How to construct and debug computers you've designed. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/14/DEH_tips.html ***O'Reilly Beta Chapters Are Back! Visit our Beta Chapters site for a preview of upcoming books. http://www.oreilly.com/beta/ ***An Introduction to VoIP and VOCAL A look at how Voice over Internet Protocol applications work and the architecture behind VOCAL, by the authors of "Practical VoIP Using VOCAL." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/10/11/voip.html Practical VoIP Using VOCAL Order Number: 0782 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/voip/index.html --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Free Frags with Cube: The Linux First-Person Shooter Will the availability of attractive and feature-packed game engines attract mod communities to Linux? Howard Wen thinks so. This article introduces Cube 3-D, a simple, elegant, and free first-person shooter engine. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/10/10/cube3d.html ***A Review of Komodo Simon Cozens takes a look at ActiveState's latest Komodo release, Komodo 2.0. Will this version of the Perl IDE finally convince the hardened emacs and vi users to switch over? http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/komodo.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Top Five ASP.NET Web Services Tips Alex Ferrara, coauthor of "Programming .NET Web Services," offers a brief comparison between ASP.NET web services and .NET remoting, and then delves into five useful tips for developing ASP.NET web services. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/10/07/webservices.html Programming .NET Web Services Order Number: 2505 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognetws/ ***C# News Ticker Multithreaded Application Writing multithreaded applications is one of the more advanced topics in computer programming. Fortunately, the .NET Framework makes it a piece of cake by hiding the complexity in the classes in the System.Threading framework. This article shows you how to create a news ticker by using the System.Threading.Thread class. Its main purpose is to demonstrate how easy multithreaded programming can be. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/10/14/newsticker.htm --------------------- XML --------------------- ***Introducing Mutation Events In his latest exploration of SVG, Antoine Quint introduces DOM Mutation Events as a way to integrate custom components more fully. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/mutate.html ***Printing from XML: An Introduction to XSL-FO Dave Pawson provides a simple introduction to creating printable page layouts with W3C XSL Formatting Objects. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/09/xslfo.html Dave is the author of "XSL-FO." Order Number: 3552 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/ --------------------- Web Development --------------------- ***Google Needs People Peter Morville talks about the recent stir Google created when it launched Google News, a service Google claims was generated without human editors. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/10/11/morville.html Peter is a coauthor of "Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition." Order Number: 0359 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/index.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Self-Playing Media with Java Media Framework The Java Media Framework may not impress you as a media player client, but when you realize that you can deploy content without requiring a specific player on the user's machine, and that you can bundle the player and the media in a single download, it starts to look very interesting. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/10/09/jmf.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***An Introduction to iMovie OK, maybe it's not movies of your kids, that thing you deeply, desperately want to turn into little QuickTime movies and post on your web site or pass around on CDs. Maybe it's river rafting, or a groovy hippie wedding, or even those scenes from a bachelor party that warrant very limited distribution. There's probably something you want to capture and pass around in neat, two- to five-minute video packages. For me, it's the kids, and for the amateur moviemaker, there's no better application than iMovie on Mac OS X. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/11/imovie.html For more on iMovie, read " iMovie 2: The Missing Manual." Order Number: 1045 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/imoviemm2/index.html Until next time, Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- -- Jim Freedom is worth protecting