all - i've been remiss in getting these out to the group. if you're interested in offers that ORA has this month check out the attached. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC -------------- next part -------------- O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter June 13, 2003 Please share this information with your members... Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Essential CVS -Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules -Java Web Services in a Nutshell -Packaged Composite Applications -Linux Security Cookbook ---------------------------------------------------------------- Upcoming Events ---------------------------------------------------------------- -David Jordan & Craig Russell (Java Data Objects), JavaRanch Online Author Forum--June 17-20 -Visit O'Reilly at Apple WWDC June 23-27 -Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#, 3rd Ed"), .NET User Group of Greater Boston, Waltham, MA--July 9 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Conferences ---------------------------------------------------------------- -OSCON-New Sessions Added on MySQL -Community Software at OSCON ---------------------------------------------------------------- Safari ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Congratulations to Lee Williamson of the Portland Area .NET User Group ---------------------------------------------------------------- News ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Sun, O'Reilly, and CollabNet Partner to Develop java.net -A Musician's Take on File Sharing, DRM, and Copyleft Licensing -Etech 2003 Stories -O'Reilly Book Sales Expectations -Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book -Embedded Systems, Linux, and the Future -Running Arbitrary Scripts Under CVS -JSP Progress Bars -Using Regular Expressions and XML Classes to Parse Your Log Files -Visualizing XSLT in SVG -Deadline for Second Innovators Contest Nears -Knowing When to Let Go: Better Living Through Memory Management -Need a Free Exhibit Guest Pass for Macworld CreativePro in New York? ================================================ Book News ================================================ Review books are available--email me for a copy. ***Please include the book order number on your requests. Let me know if you need your books by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. Send or email me copies of your newsletters and book reviews. Don't forget, your members get 20% off any O'Reilly book they purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering. http://www.oreilly.com/ ***Group purchases with better discounts are available*** Please let me know if you are interested. Press releases are available on our press page: http://press.oreilly.com/ ***Essential CVS Order Number: 4591 "Essential CVS" shows you how to apply order, using CVS, to the task of managing large quantities of documents, code, web site content, and more. The book covers basic concepts and usage of CVS, and features a comprehensive reference for CVS commands. You'll also find advanced information on automation, logging, branching and merging, and "watches." With Essential CVS you can have it all: the order that CVS brings and the comprehensive documentation you need. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvs/ Chapter 2, "CVS Quickstart Guide," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvs/chapter/index.html ***Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules Order Number: 4788 "Learning Perl Objects, References & Modules" picks up where "Learning Perl" leaves off. The book offers a gentle introduction to the world of references, object-oriented programming, and the use of Perl modules. Like "Learning Perl," each chapter in "Learning Perl Objects" is designed to be small enough to be read in an hour or two, and each ends with exercises to practice what you've learned. This book covers everything that separates the Perl dabbler from the Perl programmer. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/ Chapter 3, "Introduction to References," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lrnperlorm/chapter/index.html ***Java Web Services in a Nutshell Order Number: 3994 "Java Web Services in a Nutshell" is a high-speed tutorial to the technologies Sun Microsystems is creating to implement web services with Java. This book offers a succinct introduction and a handy reference to the Java/XML APIs, more commonly known as the Java Web Services Development Pack. Filled with practical information, the book provides Java developers with everything they need to know to use J2EE APIs for web services, as well as to program with JAX-RPC. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawsian/ Chapter 3, "SAAJ," is available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javawsian/chapter/index.html ***Packaged Composite Applications Order Number: 5520 "Packaged Composite Applications" is the result of a systematic search through the brain trust of SAP for all of the relevant arguments, examples, concepts, and analogies related to Packaged Composite Applications (PCAs). The book combines the approach of a forward-looking analyst with the perspective of an executive who must make things work, without skimping on the relevant technical details. Learn about the ideas driving PCAs forward in the marketplace, and the problems and solutions that executives and technologists will encounter in implementation. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pkgcompaps/ ***Linux Security Cookbook Order Number: 3919 "Linux Security Cookbook" is a system saver. It includes real solutions to a wide range of targeted problems, such as sending encrypted email within Emacs, restricting access to network services at particular times of day, firewalling a web server, preventing IP spoofing, setting up key-based SSH authentication, and much more. With over 150 ready-to-use scripts and configuration files, this unique book helps administrators secure their systems without having to look up specific syntax. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsckbk/ Sample recipes from Chapter 9, "Testing and Monitoring," are available online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsckbk/chapter/index.html =============================================== Upcoming Events =============================================== ***For more events, please see: http://events.oreilly.com/ ***David Jordan & Craig Russell (Java Data Objects), JavaRanch Online Author Forum --June 17-20 Authors David Jordan and Craig Russell ride up to the JavaRanch for four days, answering questions and responding to Forum topics. On the last day, four winners will be randomly selected from all Forum participants to win a copy of the book. http://www.javaranch.com/bookpromo.jsp ***Visit O'Reilly at Apple WWDC June 23-27 We'll have a great new selection of Mac developer books to choose from at this show. http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ June 23-27, 2003 Moscone Center 747 Howard Street San Francisco, CA http://www.moscone.com/ ***Jesse Liberty ("Programming C#, 3rd Ed"), .NET User Group of Greater Boston, Waltham, MA--July 9 Jesse Liberty will be presenting a session, "An Introduction to Web Services, " for creating and consuming web services with an introduction to the underlying technologies of XML, XSD, WSDL, and SOAP. http://www.bostondotnet.org/ July 9, 5:00pm-6:30pm Microsoft Corporation 201 Jones Road Waltham, MA 02451 http://www.microsoft.com/usa/offices/waltham.asp ================================================ Conference News ================================================ ***OSCON-New Sessions Added on MySQL Jeremy D. Zawodny, software engineer with Yahoo!, is slated to teach two sessions titled Benchmarking MySQL Queries and MySQL Scaling Pains on Friday, July 11. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/view/e_spkr/757 ***Community Software at OSCON Get in touch with your fellow OSCON attendees during the convention. A variety of community software tools will be available for you to meet, chat, and network with other like-minded folks. We'll provide information on how to log on during the week of the convention. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/23/community_software.html There is still time to register. User Group Members--use code DSUG when you register and you'll get 20% off the conference pricing. To register, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2003/create/ord_os03 O'Reilly Open Source Convention Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, OR July 7-11, 2003 http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/ ================================================ Safari News ================================================ ***Congratulations to Lee Williamson, Vice President of the Portland Area .NET User Group--the selected winner of the 'Go On Safari' promotion. Lee's Safari Bookshelf review submission has qualified his user group to receive an on-site visit from our intrepid founder and CEO, Tim O'Reilly. Check out how Lee is using the Safari Bookshelf as part of his development 'toolbox' http://www.padnug.org/padnug/Safari.aspx. Lee says he finds Safari valuable and comparatively inexpensive at $29.99/mo for 30 books. You, too, can 'Go On Safari' as a user group member and perhaps host Tim at your next meeting. Try out the Safari Bookshelf with a Free Trial and forward your review to safari_talk at oreilly.com. (Please include your UG name in the email.) **Please use this special URL to sign up for the 14-day trial** http://www.oreilly.com/safari/ug For more information on Safari: http://safari.oreilly.com/ ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Sun, O'Reilly, and CollabNet Partner to Develop java.net On June 10 at JavaOne, Sun Microsystems announced the doors are now open at java.net, a site designed in partnership with O'Reilly & Associates and CollabNet to be the ultimate watering hole for developers to share ideas, source code, documentation, and other development work based on Java technology. http://www.java.net/ O'Reilly is also producing technical content for the site in the form of a community newspaper for Java developers called Java Today. http://today.java.net/ ***A Musician's Take on File Sharing, DRM, and Copyleft Licensing Musicans can be a very adaptable community, and many are looking at online music and file sharing differently than the companies that often contract with them. Miriam Rainsford explores issues of P2P, DRM, and copyleft licensing from her musician point of view. http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/06/10/musician_pov.html ***ETech 2003 Stories This year's ETech was a whirlwind of provocative ideas, mind-bending technological innovations, and great conversations. Tim O'Reilly offers his favorite moment and wants to hear about yours. And for more intellectual stimulation, don't miss O'Reilly's next convention--it all kicks off July 7 at OSCON 2003. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2003/06/04/etech_feedback_0603.html ***O'Reilly Book Sales Expectations How many copies of your book could you expect to sell as an O'Reilly author? How long would it take, and how much money would you bring in? Tim talks about what you can expect if you write for O'Reilly in his latest "Ask Tim." http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2003/salesexpect_0603.html ***New--Put Up an O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banner, Get A Free Book Ready for the next banner promotion? Here it is: We are looking for user groups to display our ThinkGeek banners on their web sites. If you send me the link to your user group site with one of our O'Reilly ThinkGeek banners, I will send you the O'Reilly book of your choice. O'Reilly ThinkGeek Banners: http://ug.oreilly.com/banners/thinkgeek/ --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Embedded Systems, Linux, and the Future Here's a comprehensive essay examining the various initiatives, moves, and trends having an impact on the future direction of embedded Linux, by Karim Yaghmour, author of "Building Embedded Linux Systems." http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/09/embedlinux.html Building Embedded Linux Systems Order Number: 222X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/belinuxsys/index.html ***Running Arbitrary Scripts Under CVS CVS includes several hooks to integrate with other tools, such as bug and project tracking. Jennifer Vesperman demonstrates how to expand CVS to meet your needs, using Bugzilla as an example. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/06/05/scripts.html Jennifer is the author of "Essential CVS." Order Number: 4591 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/cvs/ --------------------- Java --------------------- ***JSP Progress Bars As web interfaces become ubiquitous, more and more complex back-end processing is necessary. Of course, stateless HTTP leaves few ways to tell users what's going on. Andrei Cioroianu presents a JSP technique to display application "progress bars." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/11/jsp_progressbars.html --------------------- .NET --------------------- ***Using Regular Expressions and XML Classes to Parse Your Log Files Most systems these days can generate log files to store activity of the system. What about when you are asked to transform all that data into usuable information? Roy Osherove shows you how to use regular expressions and .NET's XML classes to turn your log files into a DataSet to allow you to search, sort, or report on your data http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/06/09/parsinglogs.html --------------------- XML --------------------- ***Visualizing XSLT in SVG XSLT stylesheets can rapidly become difficult to understand for anyone but their original author. By using XSLT on itself, this article demonstrates how to create a diagram explaining the flow of control within a stylesheet. http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/06/04/xslt-svg.html --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Deadline for Second Innovators Contest Nears The deadline for the second Mac OS X Innovators Contest is fast approaching: Monday, June 16, 2003. So polish up that software and enter today. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2003/06/05/innovators.html ***Knowing When to Let Go: Better Living Through Memory Management The basic idea of memory management is to keep objects around exactly as long as they're needed. In this article Rob Rix helps you learn how to keep objects around for as long as they are needed, but no longer. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/06/10/memory_mgmt.html ***Need a Free Exhibit Guest Pass for Macworld CreativePro July 16-18 in New York? You can register online with priority code PC0174 on or before June 16, 2003 at: http://www.macworldexpo.com/ Or I can send you some free passes to bring onsite--just let me know. Until next time-- Marsee