-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 FYI from O'Reilly - ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, Aug 28 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 15:49:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter August 28, 2002 Spread The Word To Your Members... Highlights This Week: - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition - -Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition - -HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition - -XSL-FO - -Perl for Oracle DBAs - -XPath and Xpointer - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -Mac OS X Conference Early Registration Pricing Extended to September 9 - ---------------------------------------------------------------- News - ---------------------------------------------------------------- - -The Growing Politicization of Open Source - -Web Basics with LWP - -Exegesis 5 - -OSCON presentation Files Available Online - -Mastering Visual Studio .NET - -XSLT Processing in .NET - -Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix - -Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger - -A Pet Market with Flash - -Rethinking the Java Curriculum: Goodbye, HelloWorld! - -Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed - -iBooks and TiBooks and MyBooks - -Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar ================================================ 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 three 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/ *Essential System Administration, 3rd Edition Order Number: 3439 Whether you use a standalone Unix system, routinely provide administrative support for a larger shared system, or just want an understanding of basic administrative functions, "Essential System Administration" is for you. This comprehensive and invaluable book combines the author's years of practical experience with technical expertise to help you manage Unix systems as productively and painlessly as possible. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/ Chapter 11, "Backup and Restore" is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/esa3/chapter/index.html *Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition Order Number: 0359 Want to design distinctive, cohesive web sites that "work"? This updated bestseller teaches you how to blend aesthetics and mechanics for web sites and intranets that are easy to navigate, appealing to your users, scalable, and simple to maintain. Most books on web development concentrate on either the graphics or the technical issues of a site. This book focuses on the framework that holds the two together. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/ Chapter 8, "Search Systems," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/infotecture2/chapter/index.html *HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition Order Number: 382X "HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition" is the most comprehensive, up-to-date book available on HTML and XHTML. The authors cover every element of HTML/XHTML in detail, explaining how each element works and how it interacts with other elements. With hundreds of examples, the book gives you models for writing your own effective web pages and for mastering advanced features like style sheets and frames. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html5/ Chapter 7, "Formatted Lists," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/html5/chapter/index.html *XSL-FO Order Number: 3552 Extensible Style Language-Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a set of tools developers and web designers use to describe page printouts of their XML (including XHTML) documents. XSL-FO teaches you how to think about the formatting of your documents and guides you through the questions you'll need to ask to ensure that your printed documents meet the same high standards as your computer-generated content. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/ Chapter 6, "Inline Elements," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslfo/chapter/index.html *Perl for Oracle DBAs Order Number: 2106 Perl is a very powerful tool for Oracle database administrators, but too few DBAs realize how helpful Perl can be in managing, monitoring, and tuning Oracle9i, Oracle8i, and earlier databases. You don't need to be a Perl expert to reap the rewards of reading "Perl for Oracle DBAs." The book explains what you need to know about Perl, profiles the best Perl open source applications available to DBAs, and provides the Perl DBA Toolkit, a comprehensive suite of ready-to-use scripts designed to ease the burden of Oracle database administration. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/ Chapter 1, "Perl Meets Oracle," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleperl/chapter/index.html *XPath and XPointer Order Number: 2912 Referring to specific information inside an XML document is a little like finding a needle in a haystack. XPath and XPointer are two closely related languages that play a key role in XML processing by allowing developers to find these needles and manipulate embedded information. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xpathpointer/ Top Ten Tips to Using XPath and Xpointer: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/14/xpath_tips.html Chapter 3, "Location Steps and Paths," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xpathpointer/chapter/index.html ================================================ Conference News ================================================ *Mac OS X Conference Early Registration Pricing Extended to September 9 User Group members who register before September 9, 2002 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the early registration price. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2002/create/ord_mac02 O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Westin Santa Clara September 30 - October 3, 2002 -- Santa Clara, CA Hear from Tim O'Reilly, Jordan Hubbard, David Pogue, James Gosling, and others. http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ The cutoff date for room reservations has been extended to September 13, 2002. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/19/hotel.html ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ - --------------------- Open Source - --------------------- *The Growing Politicization of Open Source Legislation to require open source software in California opens Pandora's box. Tim O'Reilly says It's a slipperyslope once you ask the government to legislate what software people can use! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1840 *Exegesis 5 Are Perl 6's regular expressions messing with your head? Damian Conway describes what real programs using Perl 6 grammars look like. http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/22/exegesis5.html For a list of O'Reilly's Perl books and articles see: http://perl.oreilly.com/ *Web Basics with LWP This Perl.com article by Sean M. Burke offers sample recipes for performing common tasks with LWP (Library for WWW in Perl). http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html Sean is the author of O'Reilly's "Perl & LWP" Order Number: 1789 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/ Did you miss out on an OSCON presentation? Want to know what you missed? You can now download the presentation files from the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/presentations.html - --------------------- .NET - --------------------- *Mastering Visual Studio .NET This upcoming (February 2003) O'Reilly book will give intermediate and advanced VS.NET programmers in-depth coverage of advanced window functionality, macros, advanced debugging, add-ins, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/ Beta chapters are online in PDF format: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastvsnet/chapter/index.html *XSLT Processing in .NET Joe Feser gives an overview of the many ways XML can be transformed using XSLT within the .NET Framework. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/08/14/dotnetxslt.html For more info on XSLT take a look at: XSLT Order Number: 0537 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xslt/index.html *Introducing ASP.NET Web Matrix ASP.NET Web Matrix is Microsoft's latest offering for .NET programmers. Positioned somewhere between Visual Studio .NET and plain text editors, it provides a useful tool to accelerate web development. This article looks at the ASP.NET Web Matrix's capabilities. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/08/12/aspmatrix.html For complete ASP.NET reference and tutorial information: ASP.NET in a Nutshell Order Number: 1169 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ - --------------------------- Web Development - --------------------------- *Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger What about the notion to pay people to blog for commercial sites covering genre-specific content? By providing financial incentive for great bloggers to publish, we remove economic constraints and enable them to devote their energies full-time to producing compelling content and to creating outstanding Weblogs. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/12/megnut.html *A Pet Market with Flash This article gives an overview of Macromedia's Pet Market, an example of a Flash-powered enterprise application architecture to compete with J2EE and .NET. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/16/pet_market.html - --------------------- Java - --------------------- *Rethinking the Java Curriculum: Goodbye, HelloWorld! In this series, Daniel Steinberg applies Extreme Programming concepts to the problem of teaching Java. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/08/21/javaxp.html - --------------------- Mac - --------------------- *Mac OS 10.2 Reviewed David Pogue writes, "If you're among the 23 million Mac fans who have been watching the skies for a sign that it's safe to upgrade to X, version 10.2 is it." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/22/technology/circuits/22STAT.html?ex=10311681 81&ei=1&en=259e2d7d81910a96 David will present a keynote at O'Reilly's upcoming Mac OS X Conference: http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon *iBooks and TiBooks and MyBooks Apple's Switch campaign is great, but nobody tells you what you REALLY need to know when switching. Here is Nathan Torkington's top-ten list of switching essentials. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/1839 *Setting up a Site Server with Jaguar Mac OS X 10.2 is a lean, mean site serving machine. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html Until next time, Marsee - ------------------------------------------------------- - -- Jim Freedom is worth protecting -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBPW1cAisk3ywszI1FEQLPeQCfcqlmsaGo8kMu852Iw1KIDxvzFicAnROH AAAczywp0hYQf+L/wTh/sdOu =/hoj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----