--=-/QTJuZxlDFnKgMX3xgAI Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=-J1WL6hY7qld2UfmirCto" --=-J1WL6hY7qld2UfmirCto Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable FYI --=20 Jim Freedom is all we really want --=-J1WL6hY7qld2UfmirCto Content-Disposition: inline Content-Description: Forwarded message - Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 18 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Return-path: Envelope-to: farli@deru.com Delivery-date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:04:27 -0700 Received: from rock.oreilly.com ([209.204.146.34] helo=smtp.oreilly.com) by kuu.deru.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 196aDq-0006ir-00 for farli@deru.com; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:04:26 -0700 Received: (from marsee@localhost) by smtp.oreilly.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id h3II4HF27998 for farli@deru.com.; Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon Message-Id: <200304181804.h3II4HF27998@smtp.oreilly.com> To: farli@deru.com Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, April 18 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter April 18, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition -The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, Version 1.0 -O'Reilly Pocket References ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Rael Dornfest ("Mac OS X Hacks" & "Google Hacks") A32 and SVMUG Meeting, Cupertino, CA--April 21 -Simon St. Laurent ("Programming Web Services with XML-RPC"),=20 XML Special Interest Group of New York, NY--April 22 -Directory Experts Conference, Scottsdale, AZ--Apr 28-May 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Day Passes are available for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention -O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation -Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner,=20 Get a Free Book --------------------------------------------------------------- Safari=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- -"Go On Safari" winner--Alfredo Octavio, Caracas Macintosh User Group ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Interview with Tim O'Reilly -Eight Search Engine "C" Changes -Special Offer--Free 'Intro to XML' Online Class -Knoppix: A Painless Introduction to Linux -PHP and Heredocs -Reading and Writing Excel Files with POI -.NET Streams Explained -Migration to Windows Server 2003 Now Easier -Getting Dreamweaver MX Up to Speed with PHP -Implementing BIND on Mac OS X -Apache Web Serving with Jaguar, Part 2 -Tell Us What You Think: The First Survey of Mac DevCenter Readers ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -SF Java By The Bay Meeting, San Francisco, CA--April 23 -MD25MD: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of The Maryland Apple Corps, Baltimore, MD--June 1 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Book News =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Review books are available--email me for a copy. ***Please include the book order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping.=20 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/ ***Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4389 "Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition" is the complete guide to application development using VB.NET. Thorough, entertaining, and easy to follow, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of the language, object-oriented programming, and the .NET Framework. Then it goes further, showing you how to create Windows and web applications, as well as web services. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progvbdotnet2/ Chapter 15, "Building Web Applications with Web Forms," is online now: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progvbdotnet2/chapter/index.html ***The Web Programming CD Bookshelf, Version 1.0 Order Number: 5105 We've packed six of our best-selling web programming guides into this CD-ROM, giving you 4,668 pages of O'Reilly references and tutorials, all fully searchable and cross-referenced. You can search either the individual index for each book, or the master index for the entire collection. =20 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/wprogcdbs/ ***O'Reilly Pocket References Our pocket references and pocket guides are comprehensive, inexpensive, compact, and easy to use. They pack lots of the hard-to-remember details of programming and web syntax, focused tutorials that explain the basics of a new technology, and power-user tips into your back pocket. =20 http://pocketrefs.oreilly.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Upcoming Events =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ***Rael Dornfest ("Mac OS X Hacks" & "Google Hacks"),=20 A32 and SVMUG meeting, Cupertino, CA--April 21 Author Rael Dornfest will be speaking with the Association of A32 Users and the Silicon Valley Mac Users Group about his two new Hacks books. April 21, 7 pm Beatles Conference Room, DeAnza Building Three Apple Corporate Campus Cupertino, California=20 Meeting Directions: http://www.a32.org/inner_pages/map.html For more info: http://www.a32.org ***Simon St. Laurent ("Programming Web Services with XML-RPC"),=20 XML Special Interest Group of New York, NY--April 22 O'Reilly author and editor Simon St. Laurent will be presenting the XML used in Microsoft Office 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 will include enormous new XML functionality, especially in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel, as well as a new (though limited-distribution) application, InfoPath. This talk will take a close look at what's included and not included in this set of tools, as well as how developers can integrate them with their own systems. April 22, 7-9pm Goldman Sachs 180 Maiden Lane, Room 30C1 New York, NY To reserve a place at this meeting please send a request to wperry@xml-sig.org. You will receive a confirmation by return email. Security requires that those attending this meeting be registered at least a day in advance so that their names are available to check against attendance at the door. Please register before Monday, April 21, to insure that you will be admitted. ***Directory Experts Conference, Scottsdale, AZ--Apr 28-May 1=20 Authors Robbie Allen ("Active Directory, 2nd Edition" and "Active Directory Cookbook," both coming in summer 2003) and Cricket Liu ("DNS and BIND," "DNS on Windows NT," and "DNS on Windows 2000") are featured keynote speakers. April 28-May 1 Scottsdale Mountain Shadows Marriott Resort & Golf Club 5641 East Lincoln Drive Scottsdale, Arizona=20 http://www.netpro.com/welcome/decadus/index.cfm =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Conference News =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ***Day Passes are available for the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference Can't make the whole conference? Buy a day pass for=20 April 23, 24, or 25. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2003/create/ord_et03 For more info on the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference:=20 http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ ***Registration is open for the 2003 O'Reilly Open Source Convention --Portland, OR Programmers, developers, strategists, technical staff, and other open source votaries from around the world congregate for five days of tutorials, conference sessions, and networking of the flesh-and-blood variety. Recognizing that open source tools have moved squarely into the mainstream, this year's convention focuses on "embracing and extending proprietary software." O'Reilly Open Source Convention Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, OR July 7-11, 2003 http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ Early Bird Discount-- User Group members who register before May 23, 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/os2003/create/ord_os03 ***O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation System administrators, developers, strategists, technical staff, and power users are invited to submit proposals to lead tutorial and conference sessions at the second annual O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. Suggested topics include: Scripting Genius, Amazing Applications, Ingenious Hacks, and SysAdmin Mac Style, to name a few. http://conferences.oreilly.com/macosxcon/ The submission deadline for proposals is May 14, 2003: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2003/create/e_sess ***Put Up an O'Reilly Open Source Convention Banner, Get A Free Book Ready for the next conference banner promotion? Here it is: 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 Open Source Convention banner, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. OSCON Conference Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/oscon2003/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Safari News =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ***"Go On Safari" Tip of the Week Winner--Alfredo Octavio,=20 Caracas Macintosh User Group "Even if you have a University library or a big bookstore nearby, you'll find Safari's accessibility and sheer number of books very convenient...There are books by Sun, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Apprentice Hall, Que, Adobe Press, Sams, Macromedia Press, Cisco Press, and Microsoft Press among others. The variety of publishers guarantees that you will find a book on a topic with any experience level you need." Your group can also participate in this introductory program just for user group members. To "Go on Safari," any of your members who sign up for our Safari 14-day free trial send comments on their experiences, or tips and tricks for how they used Safari (it only needs to be 2 sentences long, but it may be longer) to safari_talk@oreilly.com. Every week someone will be chosen from the tips or comments submitted to receive fun stuff from O'Reilly (T-shirts, book bags, or other surprises). If a member of your user group is selected, your group receives free gifts, too. Whatever the individual member receives, your UG will get one, too, to give away at your next meeting, or use however you see fit. Recipients--and their comments--will be announced in the User Group Newsletter. **Please use this special UG URL to sign up for the 14-day trial** http://www.oreilly.com/safari/ug For more information on Safari: http://safari.oreilly.com/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D News From O'Reilly & Beyond =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --------------------- General News --------------------- ***An Interview with Tim O'Reilly=20 Tim isn't just talking about open source; he's talking about the basic human impulse to share and participate. In this Switch interview, he places art, western science, music, and the movies squarely in the middle of open source culture. http://switch.sjsu.edu/~switch/nextswitch/switch_engine/front/front.php?art= c=3D268 Tim will be talking about these kinds of topics at next week's Emerging Technology Conference. =20 http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/ ***Eight Search Engine "C" Changes=20 Tara Calishain, a self-proclaimed search engine addict, ponders the future direction search engines could take. How might pay-for-inclusion programs and other revenue generators change the way we search? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/04/11/googlehacks.html Tara is a coauthor of "Google Hacks." Order Number: 4478 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/googlehks/ ***Special Offer--Free 'Intro to XML' Online Class Enroll in any Linux/Unix online certification class at the Learning Lab and get a free 'Intro to XML' course, a $298 value. Receive hands-on experience in sys admin with a live coach. Graduates of the four course series receive certification from the University of Illinois, one of the top five engineering schools in the U.S. http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/sysadmin.php3 --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Knoppix: A Painless Introduction to Linux A new release of Knoppix has hit the mirrors. Burn a copy and give it to a friend. =20 http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3065 ***PHP and Heredocs Tired of having PHP, HTML, and even SQL jumbled together in the same file? Are your designers, coders, and DBAs going crazy trying to keep everything in check? A clean layer of separation can help. Daniel Smith explains how PHP's heredocs can make your life much easier by separating presentation, content, and logic. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/04/10/php_heredocs.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Reading and Writing Excel Files with POI The Jakarta POI project provides a nice Java API for reading and writing Microsoft file formats. After learning about the project, most people ask, "How can I write a spreadsheet?" Andrew C. Oliver and the POI folks demonstrate how to read and write Excel files using the Horrible SpreadSheet Format class. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/04/16/poi_excel.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***.NET Streams Explained On of the common challenges facing beginning .NET programmers is the large number of classes in the .NET Class Library. Looking for the correct class to use for file handling can be confusing. There are many classes in the System.IO namespace, each looking not much different from the others. Wei-Meng Lee explains the differences between the Stream classes. HTTP://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/04/14/streams.html ***Migration to Windows Server 2003 Now Easier=20 Gartner Research suggests that up to 70 percent of Microsoft Windows users still run NT. If you or your company are considering migrating to Server 2003 in the next year, you'll need a copy of the bestselling book for both Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, "Active Directory, 2nd Edition." http://www3.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?doc_cd=3D112816 Active Directory, 2nd Edition Order Number: 4664 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actdir2/ --------------------- Web Development --------------------- ***Getting Dreamweaver MX Up to Speed with PHP David McFarland has updated his article on Dreamweaver's PHP extensions to include some free and commercial products from Interakt. If you missed his article the first time around, Dave has written a comprehensive list of available add-ons for using PHP with Dreamweaver. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/02/07/dreamweaver.html Dave is the author of" Dreamweaver MX: The Missing Manual." Order Number: 3498 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/drmweavmxtmm/ --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Implementing BIND on Mac OS X The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) distribution is a suite of Unix utilities that works with the Domain Name System. The nslookup and dig utilities are a part of the BIND distribution, but the named DNS server is what people most often refer to as BIND. The DNS server portion is what we will be focusing on in this article. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/15/bind.html ***Apache Web Serving with Jaguar, Part 2 Kevin Hemenway explores the world of CGI access in his continuing series of articles on Apache Web Serving with Jaguar. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/11/apache_jaguar_pt2.html Kevin is a coauthor of "Mac OS X Hacks." Order Number: 4605 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcosxhks/ ***Tell Us What You Think: The First Survey of Mac DevCenter Readers =20 If you want to know, you've got to ask. We're asking Mac DevCenter readers to participate in an online survey. We've sweetened the pot with a chance to win books and T-shirts. Here's how it works. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/11/survey.html =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D News From Your Peers =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D ***SF Java By The Bay Meeting, San Francisco, CA--April 23 Java By The Bay, the Java user group for San Francisco presents Grid Computing: An introduction to Open Grid Services Infrastructure by Sastry Malladi and Creating a Java Development Environment with Open Source Tools and Oracle9i JDeveloper on Linux by Rob Clevenger. Registration and refreshments at 5:30pm and speakers begin at 6 pm. Please RSVP at http://www.vircon.com/events/javabythebay.htm Wednesday April 23, 2003 The Commonwealth Club 595 Market Street, San Francisco, CA =20 ***MD25MD: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of The Maryland Apple Corps,=20 Baltimore, MD--June 1 The Maryland Apple Corps, in cooperation with The Mid-Atlantic Macintosh User Groups Team celebrates twenty-five years as the Greater Baltimore area's Apple/Macintosh Users Group! Very special keynote address by Steve Wozniak, Apple Co-Founder/Technology & Industry Innovator with special guests: Chuck Joiner (Apple User Group Advisory Board Chairman/Hershey Apple Core President), Dave Marra (Apple K-12 Senior Systems Engineer/User Group Guru), Daniel M. East (Mid-Atlantic Macintosh User Groups Team President), Victor Nazarian (Technologies Expert/Consultant/Maryland Apple Corps Member), Fred Showker (Association of Apple Computer Users & Groups Editor/User Group Network President), Gail Murphy Glore (WiredWomen Founder/Apple Consultants Network Member/Fmr. User Group Advisory Board), and others. June 1, 2:00pm, Baltimore Hebrew Congregation 7401 Park Heights Avenue=20 Baltimore, MD 21208-5490 *event location subject to change based on capacity. http://www.mamugs.org/md25md/ Until next time-- Marsee --=-J1WL6hY7qld2UfmirCto-- --=-/QTJuZxlDFnKgMX3xgAI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+nvo4chsi2tkkdN4RAjOqAKCO7HaK1RoMHCJtXaKJZk6Ek/PKxACeOV3t pM2wfOb3wUCq31/Drvb6Lgg= =VWsB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-/QTJuZxlDFnKgMX3xgAI--