-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, July 12 Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:18:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program NEWSLETTER July 12, 2002 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: NEWS: - -Marshall McLuhan vs. Marshalling Regular Expressions - -Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips - -Getting Loopy with Python and Perl - -W3C XML Schema Design Patterns: Dealing With Change - -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Conference Call for Participation - -Top Ten iPhoto Tips - -O'Reilly at Macworld Conference & Expo in New York - -Wanted: Visual Studio .NET User Groups CONFERENCE NEWS - -The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is Almost Here! - -Camping out at Kid's World--OSCON - -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Registration is Open - -Put up a Conference Banner--Get a Free Book BOOK NEWS: - -ASP.NET in a Nutshell - -XML Schema - -Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition - -PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS - -Chicago.PM--Damian Conway in Chicago, August 19-23 - -NWOUG Summer Conference--Portland, Oregon ================================================ NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND ================================================ Spread the word to your members.... - ------------------------------- GENERAL NEWS - ------------------------------- MARSHALL MCLUHAN VS. MARSHALLING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS Andy Oram explains why the success of "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Ed." should help assuage the panic Marshall McLuhan envisioned. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/07/08/platform.html "Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition" releases this month. Order Number: 2890 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/index.html TOP TEN WEB PERFORMANCE TUNING TIPS Here are ten tips that will help you get the most bang out of your web server, by Patrick Killelea, the author of "Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/06/27/web_tuning.html Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Order Number: 172X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/ - --------------------- ONLAMP - --------------------- GETTING LOOPY WITH PYTHON AND PERL How do Python's loop constructs stack up to Perl's? Find out in this article by Aahz, one of the featured speakers at this month's Open Source Convention. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2002/06/27/pythonandperl.html O'Reilly Open Source Convention Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina July 22-26, 2002--San Diego, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ - --------------------- XML - --------------------- W3C XML SCHEMA DESIGN PATTERNS: DEALING WITH CHANGE In this XML.com article, Dare Obasanjo writes about how to design W3C XML schemas to handle change over time. For more on schemas, check out O'Reilly's recently released "XML Schemas." Order Number: 2521 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/index.html - --------------------------- BIOINFORMATICS - --------------------------- O'REILLY BIOINFORMATICS CONFERENCE--CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Proposals Due September 9, 2002 The second O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference is slated for February 3-6, 2003, at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego, California. Individuals and companies interested in making presentations, giving tutorials, or participating in panel discussions are invited to submit proposals. For more information: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/e_sess - --------------------- Mac - --------------------- TOP TEN IPHOTO TIPS Derrick Story offers tips to help you avoid the iPhoto "gotchas" that lurk beneath its Aqua surface. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/08/iphoto_tips.html And for the most comprehensive guide to iPhoto, don't miss "iPhoto: The Missing Manual." Order Number: 365x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/iphototmm/ MACWORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO IN NEW YORK Come by and Visit O'Reilly at Booth # 365. Keep an eye out for our new books "iPhoto: The Missing Manual" and "Office X: The Missing Manual" which will be released at the show. Office X: The Missing Manual Order Number: 3323 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/offxtmm/ - --------------------- .NET - --------------------- WANTED: VISUAL STUDIO .NET USER GROUPS Does your group use Visual Studio .NET or do you belong to another user group that does? Please let me know at marsee@oreilly.com or have your group leader register with our site: http://ug.oreilly.com/ ================================================ CONFERENCE NEWS ================================================ THE O'REILLY OPEN SOURCE CONVENTION IS ALMOST HERE! Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina July 22-26, 2002--San Diego, CA You still have time to register: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2002/create/ord_os02 CAMPING OUT AT KID'S WORLD--OSCON Back again by popular demand, Kid's World is available Monday through Thursday, providing exceptional daycare for your young ones. Register now to ensure that your children don't miss out on the fun. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/kids_world.html O'REILLY MAC OS X CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS OPEN Registration is open for the first-ever O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. Designed to foster discovery and community between Mac OS X users and groups just coming aboard this state-of-the-art operating system, the conference takes place at the Westin Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA from September 30 to October 3, 2002. "Apple has made a bold move to build the future into the platform," notes Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates. "Mac OS X offers a rich, powerful environment, and serious users are looking to wring everything they can out of it." Conference Program Chair Rael Dornfest concurs, "Old Mac hands have as much to learn as Unix users. As a result, the demand for information about using and developing on Mac OS X is intense." O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Westin Santa Clara September 30 - October 3, 2002 -- Santa Clara, CA http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT User Group members who register before August 9, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/ord_mac02 Featured speakers in the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference include: James Gosling, Sun's co-inventor of Java, and a recent Mac convert; David Pogue, best-selling author of "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual" and the "New York Times" technology columnist; Darwin developer Wilfredo Sanchez Vega; Jordan Hubbard, Apple's manager of BSD technologies; Adam Engst, editor of TidBITS; Tim O'Reilly, CEO and founder, O'Reilly & Associates; journalist Leander Kahney; brian d foy, publisher of "The Perl Review"; and Cory Doctorow, co-founder of OpenCola and co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. "Mac OS X is one of the most exciting things happening in the industry today," concludes Tim O'Reilly. "We're putting together a conference that features the many traditions and technologies that come together in this new crossroads. One of the most exciting things about conferences is the opportunity for people to meet and share ideas and knowledge face to face. The O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference is designed to let Unix people and Mac people learn from each other, and to let both learn from the people who're pushing the envelope." PUT UP A CONFERENCE BANNER, GET A FREE BOOK We are looking for user groups to display our conference banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with our O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. Mac OS X Conference Banners: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/banner_ads.html ================================================ BOOK NEWS ================================================ REVIEW COPIES ARE AVAILABLE, email me for a copy. If you need your books by a certain date, please allow at least three weeks for shipping. Please send me copies of your newsletters. 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/ ASP.NET IN A NUTSHELL Order Number: 1169 As a quick reference and tutorial in one, "ASP.NET in a Nutshell" goes beyond the published documentation to highlight little-known details, stress practical uses for particular features, and provide real-world examples that show how features can be used in a working application. This book covers application and web service development, custom controls, data access, security, deployment, and error handling. Theres also an overview of web-related class libraries. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ Chapter 6, "User Controls and Custom Server Controls," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/chapter/ch06.html XML SCHEMA Order Number: 2521 The W3C's XML Schema offers a powerful set of tools for defining acceptable XML document structures and content. While schemas are powerful, that power comes with substantial complexity. This book explains XML Schema foundations, a variety of different styles for writing schemas, simple and complex types, datatypes and facets, keys, extensibility, documentation, design choices, best practices, and limitations. Complete with references, a glossary, and examples throughout. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/ Chapter 12, "Creating More Building Blocks Using Object-Oriented Features," and "Chapter 14: Documenting Schemas," are available online at: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xmlschema/chapter/index.html WRITING EXCEL MACROS WITH VBA, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3595 Newly updated for Excel 2002, "Writing Excel Macros with VBA, 2nd Edition" provides Excel power-users, as well as programmers who are unfamiliar with the Excel object model, with a solid introduction to writing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros and programs for Excel. In particular, the book focuses on the Visual Basic Editor and the Excel VBA programming environment. Excel features a complete, state-of-the-art integrated development environment for writing, running, testing, and debugging VBA macros. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exlmacro2/ Chapter 17, "The Workbook Object," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exlmacro2/chapter/index.html PC HARDWARE IN A NUTSHELL, 2ND EDITION Order Number: 3536 In addition to coverage of the fundamentals and general tips about working on PCs, this book includes chapters focusing on motherboards, processors, memory, floppies, hard drives, optical drives, tape devices, video devices, input devices, audio components, communications, power supplies, and maintenance. Special emphasis is given to upgrading and troubleshooting existing equipment so you can get the most from your existing investments. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut2/ Chapter 28, "Building a PC," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pchardnut2/chapter/index.html ================================================ ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM YOUR PEERS ================================================ Chicago, IL-- CHICAGO.PM--DAMIAN CONWAY IN CHICAGO, AUGUST 19-23 Damian Conway will be teaching several of his popular Perl courses. The classes will be: - -Data Munging with Perl, August 19-20, 2002 - -Advanced Object-Oriented Perl, August 21-22, 2002 - -Practical Parsing with Perl, August 23, 2002 For more information see: http://chicago.pm.org/ Portland, OR-- THE NORTHWEST ORACLE USERS GROUP-- Will be holding its summer conference and seminars in Portland, Oregon on July 22nd and 23rd. Complete details and online registration are available: http://www.nwoug.com/conferences/july2002.htm Until next time, Marsee - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Jim Freedom is worth protecting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPS9DtSsk3ywszI1FEQICkgCeKBtUF+BYzZ/qcHg6xVlIOKX9f9EAn3AO PpHm25MWTdrr9iaZKt0d7T/w =qWvN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----