Fwd: Newsletter #2 from O'Reilly UG Program

Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:07:27 -0700

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Subject: Newsletter #2 from O'Reilly UG Program
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:32:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Denise Olliffe" <deniseo@oreilly.com>
To: farli@qwest.net

O'Reilly User Group Program
NEWSLETTER
Volume 1, #2
www.oreilly.com

Thanks to the 108 UGs that responded to my questions from the first
newsletter. After polling your answers, 69 groups liked the new format,
so I've decided to stay with the all-in-one newsletter, and I've
arranged the news by subject matter.

Highlights this week:
Books:
5 New titles released, including the "Java Cookbook"
News:
GNOME's Miguel de Icaza on .NET
Why does O'Reilly use animals on the book covers?
IEE Call for Papers: Open Source Software Engineering
15 tips for the Linux LPI Certification exams

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NEWS from O'Reilly & Beyond
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I would be grateful if you would pass on the info that your members
will find interesting...

GENERAL INTEREST:

GNOME's Miguel de Icaza on .NET:
In a conversation with O'Reilly Network publisher Dale Dougherty, GNOME
founder Miguel de Icaza discusses the advantages of the .NET
development environment and why the open source community should join
him in developing Mono--a free implementation of .NET. Miguel will
speak about these topics at O'Reilly Open Source Convention, this
month.  http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2001/07/09/icaza.html

Microsoft attacks open source
By Charles Babcock, Interactive Week
article quotes Tim O'Reilly
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/zd/20010702/tc/ms_attacks_open_source_1.html

Ever wonder why O'Reilly has chosen animals to grace our book covers?
Find out at:  http://www.oreilly.com/news/lejeune_0400.html or
http://www.oreilly.com/news/ediemals_0400.html

WINDOWS:

An interview with Jesse Liberty: Author of "Programming C#":
We asked Jesse how C# compares with other object-oriented programming
languages and how C# fits into the .NET Framework. To learn more, don't
miss O'Reilly's upcoming release, Programming C#.
http://dotnet.oreilly.com/news/jesse_0701.html

OPEN SOURCE:

IEE Call for Papers: Open Source Software Engineering
The Institution of Electrical Engineers is soliciting papers
representing original, completed research on open source software
engineering, especially papers providing a rigorous analysis of open
source methods and tools.  http://opensource.ucc.ie/iee-cfp.htm

If you're planning on taking the Linux LPI Certification Level 1 exams,
here are 15 tips from O'Reilly's author of "LPI Linux Certification in
a Nutshell": http://linux.oreilly.com/news/lpilinux_0601.html

APPLE/MAC:

O'Reilly Network's managing editor, Derek Story talks disc burning with
Sony's Digital Relay:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mac/2001/06/27/sony_digital_relay.html

JAVA:

O'Reilly author, Jason Hunter takes an in-depth look at the new 2.3
servlet filter model in this JavaWorld article:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-06-2001/jw-0622-filters.html

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BOOKS hot off the press--REVIEW COPIES AVAILABLE
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Please email me to request review copies.
Click on either link for book details--the press announcement is the
top link--feel free to use the release as you see fit. For UPCOMING
titles, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html

Java Cookbook
http://press.oreilly.com/javacook.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/

Web Caching
http://press.oreilly.com/webcaching.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webcaching/

Linux Device Drivers
http://press.oreilly.com/linuxdrive2.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxdrive2/

Programming Web Services with XML-RPC
http://press.oreilly.com/progxmlrpc.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progxmlrpc/

ADO: ActiveX Data Objects
http://press.oreilly.com/ado.html
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javacook/

NEW titles (not listed above):
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/new.html

Keep an eye out for "Dreamweaver 4: The Missing Manual" next week

Reminder: Your members are entitled to 20% discount on all books
purchased direct from O'Reilly. Ask me for discount code info.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS from your peers
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NEW YORK CITY:
The New York Enterprise Windows User Group focuses on the use of
Windows servers, workstations, and related products in the Enterprise.
We meet one evening a month in New York City. If you have any
questions, or to be put on the mailing list, please contact Bill Zack
at wzack@compuserve.com.

HUNTSVILLE, TENNESSEE:
The Huntsville New Technology [NT] Users Group [HuNT UG .org] will meet
at Intergraph Corp. Building 15 Auditorium, on July 16, 6-8 pm. At this
month's meeting, Executive Software will discuss Windows 2000 and
Windows NT4 Performance relating to Disk Fragmentation. Plan to attend
for a great technical presentation on how bring your Gigahertz
processor back to Gigahertz speed. Executive Software will tell us all
about the NTFS file system in Windows 2000 if you ask the questions.
HUNTUG is a non-profit, no-dues group. For directions check out our Map
at www.huntug.org/map

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UPCOMING O'Reilly events
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Enter your group to win a pass to the O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web
Services Conference. Email me for further details, if you didn't
receive my email notice. Deadline for entries is July 31st, 2001. The
winner will be annouced August 1st.

Congratulations to Classic Hackers UGA Linux Users Group of Georgia for
winning the raffle for the single pass to the O'Reilly Open Source
Convention this July.

JULY:

O'Reilly Open Source Convention
July 23-27, 2001
Sheraton San Diego Hotel, San Diego, CA
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

Don't miss author Hans Bergsten's
(JavaServer Pages) presentation at the
Georgia Web Developers Conference, July 25th.
http://www.tagonline.org/gwdc/

AUGUST:

Visit the O'Reilly booth at LinuxWorld
August 28-30
Moscone Center, Booth #1747
San Francisco, CA

SEPTEMBER:

O'Reilly Peer-to-Peer and Web Services Conference
September 18-21, 2001
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Early Bird Registration ends August 17th
http://conferences.oreilly.com/p2p/

UG Discount information for conferences:
O'Reilly offers 20% discount to UG members on all conference and
tutorial fees. Use the DSUG discount code. If registering online, enter
the code where it says "If you received a discount code, enter it
here." Register before the "Early Bird" discounts end, and you'll save
20% on already discounted "Early Bird" prices.

For more O'Reilly event information, go to:
http://events.oreilly.com/

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MISCELLANEOUS
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I'm looking for Oracle UGs and Bioinformatics UGs this month. If you
know of any, please tell them about the O'Reilly UG Program:
http://ug.oreilly.com/

If your UG has an announcement that you'd like my help communicating to
other groups, let me know. I'm happy to include the info in an upcoming
newsletter.

Does your UG have a newsletter? If so, please add me to your mailing
list if you haven't already done so:

Denise Olliffe
c/o O'Reilly & Associates
101 Morris Street
Sebastopol, CA 95472
deniseo@oreilly.com

Until next week,
Denise

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