[lug] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 16
Ken Weinert
mc at quarter-flash.com
Wed Mar 17 07:05:15 MST 2004
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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
March 16, 2004
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Book News
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-Hardcore Java
-MCSE Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network Exam 70-298
Study Guide & DVD Training System
-MCSE Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network
Infrastructure Exam 70-297 Study Guide & DVD Training System
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Upcoming Events
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-Robbie Allen, ("DNS on Windows Server 2003," "Active Directory"),
Directory Experts Conference--March 21-24
-Dave Taylor ("Wicked Cool Shell Scripts," "Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Panther"), TriState Oracle Users Group Author Event,
Amarillo, TX--March 23
-CJ Rayhill, O'Reilly CIO, CATS Conference 2004,
San Luis Obispo, CA--March 24-26
-Adam Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook"), PHP Quebec Conference--March 25-26
-Mac User Group Day at O'Reilly in Sebastopol, CA--April 24
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Conferences
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-Enter to Win a Free Conference Pass
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News
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-End of Shutter Lag? The Contax SL300R T* Might Be the Sign of Good Things
to Come
-New Titles on Safari
-Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
-Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development?
-Homemade Embedded BSD Systems
-Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts
-Tell Us What You Think: The 2nd Mac DevCenter Survey
-Setting Up a Virtual Private Network
-Windows Server 2003 Add-Ons, Part 2
-BlackMamba: A Swing Case Study
-Job Scheduling in Java
-Graphical Composition in Avalon
-O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series
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News From Your Peers
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***Hardcore Java
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596005687
"Hardcore Java" focuses on the little-touched but critical parts of the
Java programming language that the expert programmers use. Learn about
extremely powerful and useful programming techniques such as reflection,
advanced data modeling, advanced GUI design, and advanced aspects of JDO,
EJB, and XML-based web clients. This unique book reveals the true wizardry
behind the complex and often mysterious Java environment.
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Chapter 2, "The Final Story," is available free online:
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***MCSE Designing Security for a Windows Server 2003 Network
Exam 70-298 Study Guide & DVD Training System
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1932266550
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932266550/
***MCSE Designing a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory and Network
Infrastructure
Exam 70-297 Study Guide & DVD Training System
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1-932266-54-2
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932266542/
Both of these study guides are an integration of text, DVD-quality
instructor led training, and web-based exam simulation and remediation.
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***Robbie Allen, ("DNS on Windows Server 2003," "Active Directory"),
Directory Experts Conference--March 21-24
Robbie is a featured speaker at NetPro's spring event.
Hyatt Regency, Reston, VA.
http://netpro.com/events/decadspring04/index.cfm
***Dave Taylor ("Wicked Cool Shell Scripts," "Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Panther"), TriState Oracle Users Group Author Event,
Amarillo, TX--March 23
The TriState Oracle Users Group welcomes author Dave Taylor of Intuitive
Systems. Dave has promised a fun and entertaining talk and will bring
several of his top-selling books. This event is open to the public; please
RSVP to April Wells at AWells at csedge.com.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSOUG/
***CJ Rayhill, O'Reilly CIO, CATS Conference 2004,
San Luis Obispo, CA--March 24-26
Besides being O'Reilly's CIO, CJ is also the General Manager of our new
Education Division. She will be discussing the connection between the open
source movement and education at the seventh annual Community of Academic
Technology Staff Conference.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
http://cats.cdl.edu/conf2004/
***Adam Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook"), PHP Quebec Conference--March 25-26
Adam presents a session on "Web Services in PHP" at this bilingual event.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/en/conf2004/main
***Mac User Group Day at O'Reilly in Sebastopol, CA--April 24
Join O'Reilly and NCMUG for a special Mac User Group Day in Sebastopol,
California on Saturday, April 24 from 2-6pm.
Speakers include Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide,
2nd Edition," "iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual"), Chris Stone
("Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"), Tom Negrino & Dori Smith
("Mac OS X Unwired"), and Scott Fullam ("Hardware Hacking Projects
for Geeks").
For more information and a complete schedule of events, go to:
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Please RSVP to let us know you will be attending at mugevent at oreilly.com.
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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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General News
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***End of Shutter Lag? The Contax SL300R T* Might Be the Sign of Good
Things to Come
Kyocera's RTUNE technology provides amazing performance in a digital
camera that fits easily in your shirt pocket. Is this the beginning of the
end for shutter lag? Derrick Story examines the Contax SL300R T* and shows
you how the bar has been raised for pocket digicams.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/09/contax.html
***New Titles on Safari
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Network Safari Bookshelf. New titles include: "Windows XP Pro: The Missing
Manual;" "Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 10g, 3rd Edition"; "Squid:
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in a Nutshell." If you haven't gone on Safari yet, get a free trial.
https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/promo.asp?code=ORA14&portal=oreilly&CMP=BAC-TP2974244892
***Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
At the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, CA,
Robert Kaye lead a talk on "Next-Generation File Sharing with Social
Software." For those who were able to attend, this essay builds upon that
session. And if you missed the talk altogether, you can now get up to
speed.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2004/03/05/file_share.html
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Open Source
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***Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development?
Miguel de Icaza recently led a two-day meeting that brought together
developers and early adopters of the Mono project, an open source effort
to create a free implementation of the .NET Development Framework. Edd
Dumbill attended the gathering and reports on how Mono could become the
first-choice platform for Linux software development.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/11/mono.html
***Homemade Embedded BSD Systems
BSD runs nicely on older PCs, but they can be noisy and time-consuming to
set up. Worse yet, the hardware may be at the end of its life. Is there a
better alternative to dedicated (and closed) hardware devices? Michael
Lucas demonstrates using BSD on a low-power, low-fuss Soekris box.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html
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Mac
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***Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts
Here's how to write a shell script that watches the news from
Slashdot.org. After applying the code in this article by Dave Taylor,
coauthor of "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther," all you'll have to do is
launch the Terminal to see the latest Slash headlines.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/12/rss_scripting.html
***Tell Us What You Think: The 2nd Mac DevCenter Survey
We're asking Mac DevCenter readers to participate in our second online
survey. We've sweetened the pot with a chance to win books.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/09/survey.html
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Windows
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***Setting Up a Virtual Private Network
What to do if you want to securely access your network when you're out of
the office? The quickest and safest way is to set up a VPN. Wei-Meng Lee
shows you how.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/09/vpn_connection.html
***Windows Server 2003 Add-Ons, Part 2
Looking to power up Windows Server 2003? It's only a year old, but already
there are dozens of ways you can increase its effectiveness and make it
easier to manage. In this second article of a multi-part series, Mitch
Tulloch shows you how to get the most out of Windows Server 2003 with
three more feature packs.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/09/ws_addons2.html
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Java
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***BlackMamba: A Swing Case Study
It's one thing to learn the bits and pieces of a Swing GUI--how to create
a model and wire it up to a JTable or JTree. It's quite another to think
through and develop a full-blown application. Ashwin Jayaprakash uses an
email client, BlackMamba, to show how the pieces of a Swing application
fit together.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/10/blackmamba.html
***Job Scheduling in Java
Scheduling recurring execution of a piece of code is a common task for
Java developers. The Timer class has its place, but as Dejan Bosanac
explains, developers with more sophisticated requirements might want to
check out the Quartz API.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/10/quartz.html
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.NET
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***Graphical Composition in Avalon
Longhorn introduces significant new graphics technology, code-named
"Avalon." Avalon renders an application's visual elements onto the screen
using a much more sophisticated approach than Windows has previously used.
In this article, Ian Griffiths show how this new graphical composition
model solves various limitations of Win32, what new user interface design
techniques this enables, and what it means to developers.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/03/08/winfs_detail_3.html
***O'Reilly Learning Lab's .NET Certificate Series
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the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. The .NET
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time offer: Enroll today in all three courses and save $895.
http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/dotnet.php3
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