---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter #9 from O'Reilly UG Program Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:57:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Denise Olliffe To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER Volume 1, #9 I would like to say to that I hope you and your loved ones are safe at this devastating time in our country. If you get the chance, please drop me a line and let me know how you are. At times like these, it is sometimes best to keep some semblance of normalcy, and I hope you agree. In that spirit, here's our news: HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK... Books: - Java and XSLT - T1: A Survival Guide - VB .NET Language in a Nutshell - Fall Promotion News: - O'Reilly's Conference in D.C. POSTPONED - Learning the C# Error Handling Mechanism - Teaching Kids to Program with REALbasic - O'Reilly Releases "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" Under the GNU License - CrossOver Brings QuickTime Movies to Linux: Part 1 ************************************************* NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond ************************************************* I would be grateful if you would alert your group to the news they'd find valuable. POSTPONED: ----------------------- Due to the attack on NY and our nation's capital this week, the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference, scheduled to begin next week in D.C., has been postponed. To keep updated on new dates, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/ Please inform your members if you believe they intended on going. We have already contacted those who have registered. APPLE/MAC: ----------------------- Teaching Kids to Program with REALbasic Teaching a few programming basics to kids will show them what's really going on behind the monitor, and REALbasic is a great tool for the task. Here are some fun programming projects that children can grasp, by Matt Neuburg, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming "REALbasic: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition". http://mac.oreilly.com/news/realbasic_0901.html Open Source: ----------------------- O'Reilly Releases "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" Under the GNU License: Recognizing the natural fit between an open documentation standard and open source development, O'Reilly & Associates has released "DocBook: The Definitive Guide" under the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License version 1.1. http://web.oreilly.com/news/docbooklic_0901.html CrossOver Brings QuickTime Movies to Linux: Part 1 Writing for O'Reilly's Linux DevCenter, Derrick Story rejoices that QuickTime multimedia capabilities are finally available for Linux users, and he examines the new CrossOver plug-in that makes this possible. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/06/crossover_partone.html .NET ------------------------ Learning the C# Error Handling Mechanism Writing for O'Reilly's .NET DevCenter, Budi Kurniawan introduces error handling in C# and offers examples on how to use it. To learn more about Microsoft's latest programming language, don't miss O'Reilly's recently released "Programming C#." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/09/04/error_handling.html To help make the move from COM to .NET as smooth as possible, here are some migration tips and strategies by Juval Lowy, the author of O'Reilly's upcoming "COM and .NET Component Services." >From COM to .NET http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/comdotnet_0901.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. Fall Promotion Buy two O'Reilly books from participating booksellers and choose a third book of equal or lesser value for free. All O'Reilly titles in print qualify. This limited-time offer is valid only in the U.S. and Canada. For a list of booksellers, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/retailpromo_0901.html Books Just Released: ---------------------- Java and XSLT http://oreilly.com/catalog/javaxslt/ Sample Chapter 5: XSLT Processing with Java http://oreilly.com/catalog/javaxslt/chapter/ch05.html T1: A Survival Guide http://oreilly.com/catalog/t1survival/ Sample Chapter 5: Timing, Clocking, and Synchronization in the T-carrier System http://oreilly.com/catalog/t1survival/chapter/ch05.html VB .NET Language in a Nutshell http://oreilly.com/catalog/vbdotnetnut/ Appendix A: What's New and Different in VB .NET http://oreilly.com/catalog/vbdotnetnut/chapter/appa.html Be well. Until next week, Denise -------------------------------------------------------