---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, December 23 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:23:09 -0800 (PST) From: Marsee Henon To: farli@unitywave.com O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter December 23, 2002 Note: Please update your mailing address for O'Reilly. We are still receiving many newsletters to the old address. Current contact information is: Marsee Henon O'Reilly & Associates 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA 95472 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Java Enterprise Best Practices -Managing RAID on Linux -Practical C++ Programming, 2nd Edition -XSLT Cookbook -802.11 Security ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Come Visit O'Reilly at Macworld in the South Hall, #849 -User Group Events at Macworld --------------------------------------------------------------- Conference News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference-- Early Bird Discount Extended -Open Source Convention Call for Participation ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Piracy Is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution -An Interview with David Pogue -Remember the First Online Soap? -How Perl Powers Christmas -An Interview with Jim Kent -Transparent Database Access with ADO.NET -Multiple ResultSets in ADO.NET -Remote Application Development with Mozilla -What is RSS? -VPN on Mac OS X -Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1 -Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web Radio ---------------------------------------------------------------- >From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Interview with Tim O'Reilly--India Macromedia User Group ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--please email me for a copy. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Please allow at least four 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. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Java Enterprise Best Practices Order Number: 3846 "Java Enterprise Best Practices" focuses on the Java 2 Enterprise Edition APIs, including EJB, JDBC, RMI, XML, and JMX. A compendium of J2EE best practices, this book gives developers the unvarnished, expert-tested advice that the manpages don't provide: what areas of the APIs should be used frequently (and which are better avoided); elegant solutions to problems you face that other developers have already discovered; what things to always do, what things to consider doing, and what things to never do. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaebp/ Chapter 3, "Servlet Best Practices," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaebp/chapter/ch03.html ***Managing RAID on Linux Order Number: 7303 "Managing RAID on Linux "covers everything system administrators need to know to put together a system that can support RAID. You'll learn about the different types of RAID, along with associated technologies and issues, and how to choose the best RAID system for your needs. With a step-by-step, hands-on approach, the author guides you through the installation of either Linux software RAID or a hardware RAID card. You'll get the straight story on RAID here. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mraidlinux/ Chapter 2, "Planning and Architecture," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mraidlinux/chapter/index.html ***Practical C++ Programming, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4192 "Practical C++ Programming, 2nd Edition" covers all aspects of C++ programming: style, software engineering, programming design, object-oriented design, and debugging. It also covers common mistakes and how to find (and avoid) them. End-of-chapter exercises help ensure you've mastered the material. Written in a clear, easy-going style with a hands-on approach to learning, this book is a nearly painless way to master this complex but powerful programming language. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cplus2/ Chapter 26, "Program Design," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cplus2/chapter/index.html ***XSLT Cookbook Order Number: 3722 "XSLT Cookbook" is a collection of hundreds of solutions to problems that XSLT developers regularly face. The recipes, which demonstrate and explain XSLT's template-based logic, range from simple string-manipulation and mathematical processing to more complex topics like extending XSLT, testing and debugging XSLT stylesheets, and graphics creation with SVG. Many of the recipes include alternate solutions and explore issues like convenience and performance. Among the variety of XSLT books now available, none has the explicit solution-oriented approach of this cookbook. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltckbk/ Chapter 7, "Querying XML," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xsltckbk/chapter/index.html ***802.11 Security Order Number: 2904 "802.11 Security" shows you how to plan for and successfully contend with security obstacles in your wireless deployment. This authoritative book not only explains the security issues, it also shows you how to design and build your own secure wireless network. Topics include station security, IPsec client and gateway configuration, access point security, and authentication and encryption. If you are a network, security, or systems engineer, or anyone interested in deploying 802.11-based systems, you'll want this book. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/ Chapter 7, "Mac OS X Station Security," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/80211security/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***Come Visit O'Reilly at Macworld in the South Hall, #849 O'Reilly is hosting four days of on-floor events at Macworld SF 2002, including sessions by Tim O'Reilly, David Pogue, James Duncan Davidson, and Derrick Story; plus showing off great new Mac titles such as "Mac OS X Hints," "Mac OS X Hacks," and the "Macintosh Troubleshooting Pocket Guide." This page below provides you with complete information about speaker times, in-booth specials, and an overview of O'Reilly's activities at the show. The Macworld SF Expo runs January 7 through January 10 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/macworldsf/index.csp ----------------------------------------------------------- User Group Events at Macworld ----------------------------------------------------------- ***UGU Vendor reception Come visit Marsee and Ruth at the User Group University Vendor Reception for User Group Leaders on January 6 at the Argent Hotel, 50 Third Street, San Francisco. Time to be announced. User Group University information: http://www.mugcenter.com/ugu/ugusf2003/ugusf2003.html ***O'Reilly Authors at the User Group Lounge at Macworld Room 250/262 in the West Mezzanine **David Pogue ("Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Ed." and "iMovie 2: The Missing Manual") will be giving presentations on iMovie 2 in our booth and in the Apple User Group Lounge on Tuesday, January 7 at 4 pm. **Derrick Story ("iPhoto: The Missing Manual") will be talking about iPhoto and digital photography in the Apple User Group Lounge on Wednesday, January 8, at 4 pm. User Group Lounge information and schedule: http://www.mugcenter.com/macworld/mwsf2003/ugl.html ***Please visit the Macintosh User Group Booth #2245 The Macintosh User Group Booth will feature a rotating slate of user groups who can help you learn what their organizations, and the hundreds of groups around the globe, offer Mac users of every experience level. http://www.mugcenter.com/macworld/mwsf2003/booth.html For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Online registration is open for the O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This event takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ Early Bird Discount Extended-- User Group members who register before January 10th, 2003 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and you'll get 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/bio2003/create/ord_bio03 ***Open Source Convention Call for Participation Programmers, developers, strategists, and technical staff are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the sixth annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention. This year's theme is "Embracing and Extending Proprietary Software." The submission deadline for all proposals is February 15, 2003. For more information: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/e_sess ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Piracy Is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution Tim O'Reilly draws upon his own publishing experience to comment on the current controversy over digital file sharing that's being waged by the movie and music industries. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2002/12/11/piracy.html Tim will be speaking at this spring's O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference http://conferences.oreillynet.com/etcon/ ***An Interview with David Pogue How did a theater geek who never studied computers become a best-selling technical books author? Find out in part one of our interview with David Pogue, author of "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition." http://www.missingmanuals.com/pub/a/oreilly/missingmanuals/news/interview1_12 02.html Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4508 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macosxmm2/ ***Remember the First Online Soap? We do. Check out the 2003 O'Reilly Anniversary Calendar-- jam-packed with pictures, tales, geek history, O'Reilly lore, pithy quotes, and more--at: http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/oreilly/ (Sorry, no User Group discounts available at ThinkGeek) --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***How Perl Powers Christmas We've had some fantastic Perl Success Stories in the past, but this one tops them all: How Perl is used in the distribution of millions of Christmas presents every year http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/hohoho.html --------------------- Bioinformatics --------------------- ***An Interview with Jim Kent In this O'Reilly interview, Jim Kent talks about the future of genomics, modeling biological processes, and open source bioinformatics. Jim will accept the annual Bioinformatics.Org Award in a plenary session at O'Reilly's upcoming Bioinformatics Technology Conference. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/12/10/kent.html O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference This conference takes place at the Westin Horton Plaza in San Diego on February 3-6, 2003. http://conferences.oreilly.com/biocon/ --------------------- .NET --------------------- *** Transparent Database Access with ADO.NET The dream of transparent data access is to not have to care about where the data is coming from; you have more important things to worry about, like providing a nice user interface and getting the business logic right on time. Ideally, it should not matter whether the data is coming from SQL Server, Oracle, Outlook, or anywhere else useful data may be stored. This article by Nick Harrison explains how to achieve this nirvana in .NET. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/16/transadonet.html ***Multiple ResultSets in ADO.NET Most Web Forms applications need to load multiple pieces of data. Many times we end up querying the database again and again for different data, and this reduces scalability and adds more stress to the backend database. This article by Srinivasa Sivakumar explains how to use multiple ResultSets in SQL Server and Oracle. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/12/16/multiresultsets_1202.html --------------------- Mozilla --------------------- ***Remote Application Development with Mozilla This article will give you a firm grasp of the potential uses for and limitations of remote XUL. Learn how to start using remote XUL to enhance your web sites and applications, from Myk Melez and O'Reilly author Brian King, coauthor of "Creating Applications with Mozilla." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mozilla/2002/12/17/app_dev.html Creating Applications with Mozilla Order Number: 0529 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mozilla/ --------------------- XML --------------------- ***What is RSS? In Mark Pilgrim's inaugural Dive Into XML column, he reviews the history and technical details of the varieties of RSS on the Web. He also describes a method for parsing most active RSS feeds. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/12/18/dive-into-xml.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***VPN on Mac OS X Virtual Private Networking is an excellent way to reduce the costs of multiple site and remote access networks, while simultaneously increasing the overall security of your network. Here's a detailed look at enabling VPN on Mac OS X. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/20/vpn.html ***Learning the Terminal in Jaguar, Part 1 O'Reilly Mac OS X command line guru Chris Stone is back with another series to help you get comfy with Jaguar's Terminal app. He begins by showing you what's where, and what to do with it once you're there. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/06/terminal_osx.html ***Homemade Dot Mac: Home Web Radio If the idea of having your own radio webcast intrigues you, then this article shows you how to create private playlists you can stream 24/7 to almost any web-enabled device, inside or outside the home. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/12/13/homemade_dotmac.html =============================================== >From Your Peers =============================================== ***Interview with Tim O'Reilly-India Macromedia User Group Here is an interview with Tim by Kiruba Shankar of the India Macromedia User Group http://www.kiruba.com/tim.html Have a wonderful holiday! Marsee ------------------------------------------------------- -- Jim Freedom is worth protecting