---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 8th Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 13:35:27 -0800 (PST) From: Denise Olliffe To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER November 8, 2001 Highlights this week... Books: - Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference - Java RMI - Perl for Website Management - Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics - Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition News: - O'Reilly Conference Coverage - Thoughts on the Microsoft Settlement - Five Steps to Adding Physics-Based Realism to Your Games - Java Developer's Readers' Choice Awards - Introduction to Cocoa Graphics, Part 2 - Dreamweaver: A Visual Tool for Serious Web Coders Announcements: - Phil Schiller speaking at NCMUG meeting Nov. 20th ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members... GENERAL INTEREST -------------------- O'REILLY CONFERENCE COVERAGE Today is the final day of the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference. The O'Reilly Network has been covering the conference, and if you'd like to get the latest conference news, weblogs from the conference floor, daily photos, as well as articles by speakers, go to: http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/conference/dc_con.html THOUGHTS ON THE MICROSOFT SETTLEMENT Microsoft's continued contention that they've done nothing wrong remains the biggest block in accepting any proposed settlement, says Tim O'Reilly. http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/808 FIVE STEPS TO ADDING PHYSICS-BASED REALISM TO YOUR GAMES If you want to spice up your computer games, check out this overview of the major steps you must take to develop physics-based simulations, by David M. Bourg, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Physics for Game Developers." http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2001/11/01/physics.html JAVA -------------------- JAVA DEVELOPER'S READERS' CHOICE AWARDS You can vote for Best Java Book, Best Embedded Java Application, Best Java Modeling Tool, and more. O'Reilly Java books have won "Best Java Book" award every year--if you're happy with our Java titles, help us keep the winning sreak alive! http://www.sys-con.com/java/readerschoice2002/ MAC/APPLE -------------------- INTRODUCTION TO COCOA GRAPHICS, PART 2 If you'd like to learn about 2D graphics in Cocoa, see: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/11/06/cocoa.html WEB ------------------- DREAMWEAVER: A VISUAL TOOL FOR SERIOUS WEB CODERS Real coders do use HTML editors, and here's one that passes muster, says Bruce Epstein, coauthor of "Dreamweaver in a Nutshell." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2001/11/02/dreamweaver.html ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. Press release can be found at http://press.oreilly.com/ JUST RELEASED: ------------------- Oracle RMAN Pocket Reference Order Number: 2335 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/rman/ Java RMI Order Number: 4525 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javarmi/ Sample Chapter 10: Serialization http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javarmi/chapter/ch10.html Perl for Website Management Order Number: 6471 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlwsmng/ Sample Chapter 8: Parsing Web Access Logs http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlwsmng/chapter/ch08.html Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics Order Number: 0804 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/ Sample Chapter 10: GenBank http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/begperlbio/chapter/ch10.html Learning the Unix Operating System, 5th Edition Order Number: 2610 http://oreilly.com/catalog/lunix5/ Sample Chapter 2: Using Window Systems http://oreilly.com/catalog/lunix5/chapter/ch02.html =============================================== ATTENTION NORTHERN CALIFORNIA USER GROUPS =============================================== North Coast Mac Users Group proudly presents: PHIL SCHILLER, APPLE VICE PRESIDENT OF WORLDWIDE MARKETING November 20, 2001 7:00 p.m. Doubletree Hotel One Doubletree Drive Rohnert Park, CA 94928 http://www.ncmug.org/ Phil Schiller will be the guest speaker at North Coast Mac User Group's monthly meeting on November 20th. Phil will be discussing the latest and greatest features of Macs OS X operating system, highlighting the recent release of version 10.1. He will also detail the future of the Digital Hub as Apple continues to specialize in the integration of digital electronic equipment such as cameras, video cameras, mp3 players and cd burners with their computers. *This meeting is FREE and open to the public* O'Reilly will have a table at the meeting, so stop by and meet us and support NCMUG! ================================================== UPCOMING O'REILLY EVENTS ================================================== O'REILLY BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE You've heard by now that we're hosting our first O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference, January 28-31, 2002 in Tucson, AZ. As an O'Reilly User Group Program member, you get a double discount. If you register early, you not only receive Early Bird pricing, you also get 20% off the Early Bird price by using the DSUG discount code. Early Bird registration ENDS DECEMBER 7TH. Programmers (especially Perl, Python, Java and XML) should be interested in this rapidly growing field. For more conference information, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ I hope you are doing well, and life is good. Until next week.... --Denise -------------------------------------------------------