================================================================ O'Reilly News for User Group Members February 3, 2004 ================================================================ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks -C# Cookbook -Security Assessment -Wicked Cool Shell Scripts ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Darryl León, Ph.D. ("Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell"), San Diego Bioinformatics Forum, San Diego--February 10 -Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#," "Programming Visual Basic .NET"), .NET Face to Face, Atlanta, GA--February 20-22 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Joe Trippi keynote added to Digital Democracy Teach-In -O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference -OSCON 2004: Call for Participation--Last Chance ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Wireless Mesh Networking -Interviews with Digital Democracy Activists -The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2 -The New Breed of Version Control Systems -Why Run Free Software on a PDA? -Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs -What's New in Tomcat 5 -Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1 -Serialization in .NET, Part 1 -The Macintosh's Twisted Truth -Smart File Sharing Between Macs and PCs ---------------------------------------------------------------- News From Your Peers ---------------------------------------------------------------- -San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Meeting, Pasadena, CA--February 12 ================================================ Book News ================================================ Did you know you can request a free book to review for your group? 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For more details, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/news/freeshipping_0703.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks ISBN: 0596003145 >From building a home arcade machine to creating a cubicle intrusion detection system, "Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks" offers an array of inventive, customized electronics projects for the geek who can't help looking at a gadget and wondering how it might be "upgraded." The book begins with less complex hacking projects then moves into more advanced hacks. Clear step-by-step instructions allow even those with no formal electronics- or hardware-engineering skills to hack real hardware in clever ways. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/ Excerpts are available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/chapter/index.html ***C# Cookbook ISBN: 0596003390 "C# Cookbook" provides practical answers to day-to-day C# programming questions, using code recipes collected especially for developers working on the .NET platform. In addition to the complete, documented code samples showing how to solve hundreds of specific problems, you'll find discussions of how the underlying technology works as well as material on alternatives, limitations, and other considerations where appropriate. This definitive collection of recipes will help developers of all levels solve problems now. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharpckbk/ Chapter 8, "Regular Expressions," is available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharpckbk/chapter/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- Publishing Partners New Releases ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Security Assessment Publisher: Syngress ISBN: 1932266968 The National Security Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology (IAM) provides guidelines for performing an analysis of how information is handled within an organization: looking at the systems that store, transfer, and process information. It also analyzes the impact to an organization if there is a loss of integrity, confidentiality, or availability. This book shows how to do a complete security assessment based on the NSA's guidelines. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932266968/ ***Wicked Cool Shell Scripts Publisher: No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270127 101 useful, customizable, and fun Linux, Mac OS X and UNIX shell scripts that you can use to solve common problems and personalize your computing environment. Includes an interactive calculator, a spell checker, a disk backup utility, a weather tracker, a web logfile analysis tool, and much more. The cookbook-style examples are all written in Bourne Shell (sh) syntax. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270127/ ================================================ Upcoming Events ================================================ ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***Darryl León, Ph.D. ("Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell"), San Diego Bioinformatics Forum, San Diego--February 10 Darryl will discuss "Bioinformatics: What is commercially viable and what is not." 5:30-8:00pm Diversa Corporation 4955 Directors Place, San Diego, CA 92121 http://www.sdbioinfo.org/next.html ***Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#," "Programming Visual Basic .NET"), .NET Face to Face, Atlanta, GA--February 20-22 Jesse is a featured speaker at this weekend conference for programmers working in .NET. Marriott Atlanta Century Center, Atlanta, GA. For Registration and information go to: http://www.mentor-network.com/ ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***Joe Trippi keynote added to Digital Democracy Teach-In Joe Trippi, the man whose ground-breaking use of Internet-based campaigning propelled Howard Dean from obscurity to early front-runner, has just signed on as keynoter at the Digital Democracy Teach-In. Former Dean campaign manager Trippi will take Teach-In participants inside the campaign's unconventional experiment in Internet politics, and look at both victories and lessons learned. While Dean may no longer be leading the pack, the other candidates are rushing to emulate Trippi's Internet strategy--as "Wired News" declared recently, "Internet politics is dead. Long live Internet politics." Trippi will kick off the Teach-In at 8:30 am this coming Monday, February 9, in San Diego, CA. Digital Democracy Teach-In February 9, 2004 Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA http://conferences.oreillynet.com/et2004/edemo.csp Co-located with the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference To register, go to: (Sorry, no user group discounts apply.) http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004/create/ord_et04?x-t=edemo.create.form ***O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference February 9-12, 2004 Westin Horton Plaza San Diego San Diego, CA 92101 http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ Use code DSUG when you register, and receive 20% off conference pricing. To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/28/register.html ***Last Chance--OSCON 2004: Call for Participation Individuals and companies interested in making presentations or giving tutorials at next summer's O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon are invited to submit proposals. This year's theme is "Opening the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver." Tracks of interest run the open source gamut from Apache to XML, and we're also looking for proposals for sessions that help attendees add open source to their companies. The deadline for submitting proposals is February 9. To submit a proposal, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/create/e_sess ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Wireless Mesh Networking Tomas Krag and Sebastian Buttrich take a look at some of the principles of wireless mesh networking and they demonstrate how to install and run a mesh network on a Linux-based computer. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2004/01/22/wirelessmesh.html Tomas will discuss how wireless technologies can bring Internet and Intranet connectivity to the developing world at O'Reilly's upcoming ETech 2004. http://conferences.oreilly.com/etech/ ***Interviews with Digital Democracy Activists On a recent NPR "Fresh Air" program, Terry Gross interviewed William Greene of RightMarch.com, as well as Wes Boyd and Eli Pariser of MoveOn.org. William and Wes will both be featured speakers on February 9 at O'Reilly's Digital Democracy Teach-In. http://freshair.npr.org/day_fa.jhtml?display=day&todayDate=01/21/2004 ***The Ideal Digital Photographer's Workflow, Part 2 Ken Milburn follows up on suggestions he made in Part 1 of this two-part series about creating a minimally destructive workflow for the work you do inside image-editing software. Here he offers five nondestructive editing steps to take once you've downloaded your images. Then he provides some second-stage editing techniques to enhance the impact your images will have on your clients, or your friends and family. Ken is the author of the upcoming "Digital Photography: Expert Techniques." http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2004/01/21/digital_photography.html --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***The New Breed of Version Control Systems CVS, part of the glue that holds open source development together, is showing its age. Many competitors have emerged recently, fixing misfeatures and adding new ideas. Shlomi Fish explores several current open source version control systems that may be better for your needs than CVS. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/29/scm_overview.html ***Why Run Free Software on a PDA? As PDAs gain power and capabilities, embedded Linux is more and more attractive. Sharp's Zaurus is a popular Linux PDA. Why aren't more palmtop computers running free software? Guylhem Aznar explores and evangelizes Linux on small devices. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/01/29/zaurus.html ***Troubleshooting with Postfix Logs Kyle Dent, author of "Postfix: The Definitive Guide," discusses Postfix logging in general, how to find all relevant information in the logs, and how to increase the amount of logging when more information is needed. He also suggests a few configuration guidelines that might help prevent problems from the start. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/22/postfix.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***What's New in Tomcat 5 In December 2003, the Apache Tomcat developers released version 5.0.16 as the first stable release of Tomcat 5. Jason Brittain looks at the latest features and offers insight into the goals established for version 5.0, which had a direct impact on development. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/01/28/tomcat5.html Jason is a coauthor of "Tomcat: The Definitive Guide." ISBN: 0596003188 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tomcat/index.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Effective Forms Authentication, Part 1 ASP.NET offers several possibilities for authenticating users, but when you come right down to it, there's only one reasonable alternative for most applications: forms authentication. Mike Gunderloy takes you step-by-step through creating a forms authentication project and helps you avoid the potholes. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/02/02/effectiveformsauth.html ***Serialization in .NET, Part 1 Serialization of data using built-in .NET support makes persistence easy and reusable. Dan Frumin reviews the support available for serialization and look at a couple of scenarios for using it. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/01/26/serializationpt1.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***The Macintosh's Twisted Truth Here's a recent "Wired News" article abridged from Owen Linzmayer's new release, "Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company." http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,61795,00.html Apple Confidential 2.0 No Starch Press ISBN: 1593270100 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270100/ ***Smart File Sharing Between Macs and PCs There are lots of ways to share files between Macs and PCs, and most of them are aggravating at best. Wei Meng Lee shows you a method that's much easier and cleaner than just about every other solution. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/01/30/pc_share.html ================================================ News From Your Peers ================================================ ***San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Meeting, Pasadena, CA--February 12 Come to the next meeting of SGVLUG to see "Hacking TiVo" by Claude Felizardo. This presentation will cover Tivo hacks, selection criteria, and enhancing one of today's most popular consumer electronics gadgets--the TiVo. Time: 7-9pm Location: Guggenheim Building, Room 101 on the Caltech Campus in Pasadena, CA For directions and more information, go to: http://www.sgvlug.org/ Until next time-- Marsee __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/