================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members October 31, 2003 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Spidering Hacks -Programming .NET Windows Applications ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Steve Bass ("PC Annoyances"), APCUG User Group Reception--November 16 -Derrick Story ("iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual" & "Digital Photography Pocket Guide"), North Coast Mac Users Group Author Event--November 18 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Thanks to Everyone Who Attended the Mac OS X Conference -Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -New O'Reilly Beta Chapters -PHP Web Services Without SOAP -Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming -Page Navigation in JavaServer Faces -XForms and Microsoft InfoPath -Five More Annoying PC Annoyances -Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher -Ten Things I Dig About Xcode ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? Ask your group leader for more information. For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html Don't forget, you can receive 20% off any O'Reilly book you purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Free ground shipping is available for online orders of at least $29.95 that go to a single U.S. address. This offer applies to U.S. delivery addresses in the 50 states and Puerto Rico. For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ***Spidering Hacks Order Number: 5776 Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, "Spidering Hacks" provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies. You'll get a crash course in spidering concepts, tools, and ethics (how to know when you've gone too far). You'll collect media files and data from databases, and you'll learn how to interpret and understand the data, repurpose it for use in other applications, and even build authorized interfaces to integrate the data into your own content. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/ Sample Hacks are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spiderhks/chapter/index.html ***Programming .NET Windows Applications Order Number: 3218 "Programming .NET Windows Applications" explores all aspects of using .NET Windows Forms class libraries and the associated programming tools in Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to build applications for the Windows 9x, Windows 2000, and Windows XP desktop platforms. Step-by-step, you'll learn ways to design applications that either function alone on a PC, or work in combination with your web-based application server to take advantage of the richer interface and higher level of security. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetwinaps/ Chapter 10, "Drawing and GDI+," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pnetwinaps/chapter/index.html ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Steve Bass ("PC Annoyances"), APCUG User Group Reception, Las Vegas,NV--November 16 The Association of Personal Computer User Groups is hosting a UG exhibition and reception from 3:00-5:30 p.m. Drop by the O'Reilly table and say "hi" to me (Marsee Henon) and author Steve Bass, who will be signing copies of his new book, "PC Annoyances." (O'Reilly is giving away a free copy of PC Annoyances to APCUG Attendees--check your welcome goodie bag!)Stardust Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, NV. http://www.apcug.org/events/comdex/fall2003/index.shtm ***Derrick Story ("iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual," "Digital Video Pocket Guide," and "Digital Photography Pocket Guide"), North Coast Mac Users Group Author Event, Rohnert Park, CA--November 18 Mac DevCenter editor and author Derrick Story (iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual, Digital Video Pocket Guide, and Digital Photography Pocket Guide) provides an update on what's happening behind the scenes of Mac technology: the iSight, .Mac revelations, and interesting new features in the suite of iApps. Drop by the O'Reilly table to peruse our new Mac titles. The fun gets underway at 7:00 p.m. Rohnert Park Senior Center, Rohnert Park, CA. http://www.ncmug.org/events.html ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***To Everyone Who Attended the Mac OS X Conference UG Gathering Last Tuesday Thanks for coming! And thanks to Lorene Romero for helping us create, organize, and plan this event. It was great to meet you all! Here is the latest Mac OS X Conference Coverage: http://www.macdevcenter.com/mac/osx2003/ ***Registration Is Open for ETech 2004--San Diego, CA Gather with lead users, forward thinkers, and technology activists at O'Reilly's third annual Emerging Technology Conference to vet the projects and ideas that will radically alter not just the future of computing, but the way we live and work. ETech is slated for February 9-12, 2004 in San Diego, California. Take advantage of our Early Bird discount when you register before January 9, 2004. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ User Group members who register before January 9, 2004 get a double discount. Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off the "Early Bird" price. To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***New O'Reilly Beta Chapters November and December are busy months for new releases from O'Reilly. Visit our Beta Chapters site to get a preview of upcoming titles, including: "sendmail Cookbook;" "Mac OS X Panther Pocket Guide;" "Apache Cookbook;" "SQL Tuning;" "DNS on Windows Server 2003;" and ".NET and XML." http://www.oreilly.com/beta/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***PHP Web Services Without SOAP Web services are hot these days, and SOAP gets a lot of the buzz. It's not the only game in town, though. REST advocates claim their approach is how the Web was meant to be. You decide. Adam Trachtenberg, coauthor of "PHP Cookbook," demonstrates how to access Amazon.com's web services with PHP and REST; no special tools needed! http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2003/10/30/amazon_rest.html ***Introducing REBOL with Amazingly Easy GUI Programming Cross-platform development and deployment is tricky, though modern toolkits aim to take away some of the troubles. Some languages have already solved this issue, though. Enter REBOL, a small but powerful network-enabled programming language. Gregg Irwin introduces the language by writing a tiny survey application. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/10/30/rebol.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***Page Navigation in JavaServer Faces Any web application with more than one page needs some sort of navigation. Where does the user go when he logs in? Where does he go if his password is incorrect? JSF provides an easy-to-update page navigation model in its Application Configuration file. Budi Kurniawan explains how it works. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/10/29/jsf_page_nav.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***XForms and Microsoft InfoPath Micah Dubinko, author of "XForms Essentials," compares W3C XForms and Microsoft InfoPath, the data gathering technology shipping with Microsoft Office 2003. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/10/29/infopath.html XForms Essentials Order Number: 3692 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/xforms/ --------------------- Windows --------------------- ***Five More Annoying PC Annoyances Steve Bass, the author of "PC Annoyances," bumped into more Windows, Office, Internet, email, and hardware irritations than he could include in the book. So, rather than waste them, he's included some of them on our web site. Here are five bonus PC annoyances, and Steve's fix for each. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/10/29/pcannoyances.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Confessions of the World's Largest Switcher At the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference, Srinidhi Varadarajan reveals the details behind what it took to build Virginia Tech's G5 Supercomputer. Find out why he says you can expect to see a lot more G5 clusters in the future. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/29/osxcon_g5cluster.html ***Ten Things I Dig About Xcode Following in the footsteps of "Ten Things I Dig About Panther," James Duncan Davidson further explores one of the facets near and dear to Mac developers--their application development environment. Apple is introducing Xcode, along with Panther, and Davidson takes it for a spin and reports on his initial findings. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/10/24/panther.html Until next time-- Marsee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive Video Premiere - Britney Spears http://launch.yahoo.com/promos/britneyspears/