---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter #4 from O'Reilly UG Program Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:47:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Denise Olliffe" To: farli@qwest.net O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER Volume 1, #4 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books: - Programming C# - Learning Perl, 3rd Edition - Essential SNMP News: - Coverage of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention - Top 10 New Features in Oracle9i - Rockin' in the Free Software World - Top 10 ColdFusion Programming Tips - Embracing the Web: Part 3 **************************** NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond **************************** I would be grateful if you would alert your group to the news they'd find valuable. GENERAL INTEREST: ----------------- What is Meerkat, anyway? Meerkat: an Open Wire Service http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/rss/2000/03/17/about_meerkat.html APPLE/MAC: ---------- For a look at installing PHP on OS X, see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/07/20/php_macosx.html Macworld New York report: Jobs' keynote steady, but no sizzle http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/07/19/macworldny_keynote.html The Mac Devcenter is your source for news http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/ JAVA: ----- Two Lesser-Known Java API's O'Reilly author Ian Darwin discusses regular expressions and JavaServer Pages. For a comprehensive collection of Java programming problems, solutions, and practical examples, check out Ian's recently released Java Cookbook. http://java.oreilly.com/news/javacook_0701.html OPEN SOURCE: ------------ O'Reilly Open Source Convention News Coverage: TODAY, see the Webcast of the Mundie vs. Tiemann debate, from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention: Edited version--available late Thursday at: http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2001/ Complete Dr. Dobb's technetcast--available Thursday afternoon at: http://technetcast.ddj.com/tnc_catalog.html?item_id=1267 Get the latest news, interviews and audio/video coverage at the O'Reilly Network's conference site, including Craig Mundie's keynote about Microsoft's Shared Source strategy: http://www.oreillynet.com/oscon2001/ Dan Gillmor on the Future of Open Source In this Mercury News article, Dan Gillmor is both optimistic and concerned for the Open Source Movement: http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/opinion/dgillmor/dg072501.htm HP Opens Cooltown Source Code CNET reports that Hewlett-Packard will release the source code for its Cooltown computing project under the GPL. The Cooltown project attempts to make computing services ubiquitous by attaching Web pages to everyone and everything. HP made the announcement at this week's O'Reilly Open Source Convention. http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6627735.html Other open source news: Do you rock? Dave Phillips has written a guide to free software available for guitarists who use Linux (and vice versa). The article includes notation formats for file exchange, instrument tuners, effects processors, and a few cool surprises: Rockin' in the Free Software World http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/linux/2001/07/20/linux_guitar.html Also see: A Response to the .NET Challenge http://lwn.net/2001/0712/ ORACLE: ------- Top 10 New Features in Oracle 9i http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oracleessential_0701.html MICROSOFT/.NET: --------------- A Response to the .NET Challenge: The open source community's response to Microsoft's .NET platform is summarized in this Linux Weekly News editorial: http://lwn.net/2001/0712/ Embracing the Web: Part 3 The final installment of a three-part series examining the concepts behind Microsoft's .NET platform: http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/netframework3_0701.html WEB: ---- Top 10 ColdFusion Programming Tips http://web.oreilly.com/news/coldfusion_0701.html WIRELESS: --------- Monitor your home remotely (although, my dog would probably object) by using your mobile phone: Home Monitor on a Cell Phone http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/07/23/monitor.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. For UPCOMING titles, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html Programming C# http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp/ Sample Chapter: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progcsharp/chapter/ch18.html Learning Perl, 3rd Edition http://oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/ Sample Chapter: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lperl3/chapter/ch04.html Essential SNMP http://oreilly.com/catalog/esnmp/ Sample Chapter: http://oreilly.com/catalog/esnmp/chapter/ch02.html BOOK REVIEWS: ------------- Thanks to all UGs that review our books, and post reviews online or in monthly newsletters--we appreciate it. Here are a few online: Java Metroplex Users Group reviews "Java Security, 2nd Edition": http://www.javamug.org/reviews/ora/javasec.html CedarLUG reviews "Learning Python": http://www.cedarlug.org/ other O'Reilly titles also reviewed by CedarLUG at this site ****************************** ANNOUNCEMENTS from your peers ****************************** If your UG has an announcement that you'd like my help communicating to other groups, let me know. I'm happy to include the info in an upcoming newsletter. Please include complete contact info for your group. **************** Throw me a bone **************** This month, I'm searching for user groups with the following interests to join the O'Reilly UG Program: - Wireless - .NET - ColdFusion - XP - C# or C++ - Bioinformatics (Perl or Python groups may find this of interest) If you happen to know of a group, please pass on contact info. Who knows, maybe there's a goodie in it for you. Until next week, Denise -------------------------------------------------------