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Here are excerpts from the O'Reilly User Group program.

If this seems useful, I'll continue - if there's a move to exclude me from 
attending the meetings because of this then I'll desist :)

Seriously, please let me know (offlist is fine) if you think this sort of 
info is useful to the group as a whole.

What I've edited:

	Mac related stuff
	Events at other User Group locations (MA, for example)

	I've added comments/questions in areas bounded by rows of ******

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O'Reilly User Group Program
NEWSLETTER
April 19, 2002

HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

NEWS:
- -Tim O'Reilly Agrees with Amazon's Used Book Policy
- -The Law of Unintended Consequences
- -The Body Electronic: An Interview With IBM's Robert Morris
- -Build a Better Bookshelf Online-Get Your First 14 Days on Safari Free
- -Introducing C# And The .NET Framework, Part 1
- -The Perl Review
- -Jython Tips for Python Programmers

CONFERENCE NEWS:
- -Put Up A Conference Banner Get A Free Book

BOOK NEWS:
- -Top 25 Best-Selling Books
- -Mastering Oracle SQL

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NEWS FROM O'REILLY & BEYOND
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GENERAL NEWS
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TIM O'REILLY AGREES WITH AMAZON'S USED BOOK POLICY
In this letter to the Author's Guild, Tim explains why he disagrees
with their campaign against Amazon's used book policy, and why he
thinks used book sales help authors, publishers, and readers alike. Tim
also ties the issue to larger ones of copyright, fair use, and the
"intellectual commons."
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/1291

O'Reilly Network columnist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow
also wrote a letter supporting Amazon's policy.
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/agletter.txt

THE LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
Hollywood's legal attacks on technology today are just as shortsighted
as when it fought against the VCR in the early 1980s, because the legal
battles will stifle innovation, says Cory Doctorow, who will speak at
O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology Conference.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/16/cory.html

THE BODY ELECTRONIC: AN INTERVIEW WITH IBM'S ROBERT MORRIS
IBM is promoting the concept of "autonomic computing," in which systems
are self-healing, much like the human body. IBM's Robert Morris will be
a keynote speaker at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Technology
Conference.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/04/12/morris.html
http://conferences.oreilly.com/etcon/

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ONLAMP
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THE PERL REVIEW
This month's issue of "The Perl Review" is all about, well, Python,
including an interview with Guido van Rossum and a primer on the Python
Software Foundation. http://www.theperlreview.com/

For more on Perl see:
http://www.perl.com/ and http://perl.oreilly.com/

JYTHON TIPS FOR PYTHON PROGRAMMERS
Noel Rappin brings you ten tips on using Jython, from how to create
Java objects to how to access Java methods and fields.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/04/11/jythontips.html

JYTHON ESSENTIALS
Order Number: 2475
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jythoness/

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Do you want me to keep .NET stuff in here?
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.NET
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INTRODUCING C# AND THE .NET FRAMEWORK, PART 1
Read an overview of C# and find out where it improves upon Java, in
this first of a three-part excerpt from O'Reilly's recently released C#
in a Nutshell.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/excerpt/csharpnut_1/index1.html

C# IN A NUTSHELL
Order Number: 1819
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csharpnut/

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CONFERENCE NEWS
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PUT UP A CONFERENCE BANNER, GET A FREE BOOK
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.

O'Reilly Open Source Convention banner
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/15/banner_ads.html

EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Register by June 10th, 2002 to take advantage of
the discounted conference fees. User group discount is 20% for
conferences. Use the discount code: DSUG. Register before June 10th,
and receive a double discount! Your 20% will apply towards already
reduced "Early Bird" pricing if you register early.
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/

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BOOK NEWS
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Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase
direct from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering.

Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/

TOP 25 BEST-SELLING BOOKS
New on our web site, our best selling books.
The list changes every week. Review copies are still available.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/top25.html

MASTERING ORACLE SQL
Order Number: 1290
If you write programs to run against an Oracle database, you spend a
lot of time and mental energy writing queries to return the data your
programs need. Knowledge of SQL, and particularly of Oracle's
implementation of SQL, is the key to writing good queries in a timely
manner. In this book, the authors share their knowledge of Oracle SQL,
and show you many creative techniques that you can use to your
advantage in your own applications.
http://oreilly.com/catalog/mastorasql/

Chapter 7, "Set Operations" is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mastorasql/chapter/ch07.html

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