[sf-lug] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 16

jim stockford jim at well.com
Mon Nov 19 08:43:23 PST 2007 


> From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
> Date: November 16, 2007 10:41:42 AM PST
>
> Hi there,
>
> I'd like to share Tim O'Reilly's post about his recent trip to
> Beijing "China Foo Camp: On the Outside, Looking In."
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/china_foo_camp.html>
> Tim writes about his experiences in China, the smog,
> and the differences between the tech cultures in Shanghai and Beijing.
>
> As we start to think about the end of the year, I should point out
> the incredible list of books we have coming out in December. It seems  
> to
> be an O'Reilly tradition to get as many books out as possible by the
> holidays. Take a look at the list of upcoming titles and you'll see
> what I mean. <http://www.oreilly.com/store/upcoming.html>
>
> If any of these look like they might be just right for your group,
> don't heistate to send me a list. The earlier we start the better.
> As usual all Amazon, Slashdot, and oreilly.com reviews are appreciated.
>
>
> --Marsee
>
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> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> November 16, 2007
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> New Releases--Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts
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>
> ***Absolute FreeBSD, Second Edition (No Starch)
> ISBN 10: 1593271514
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781593271510/>
>
>
> ***Design Accessible Web Sites (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
> ISBN 10: 1934356026
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356029/>
>
>
> ***Get Up and Running with Dojo
> ISBN 10: 059651705X
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517052/>
>
>
> ***GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
> ISBN 10: 0974514098
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/974514098/>
>
>
> ***Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Second Edition (No Starch)
> ISBN 10: 1593271441
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271441/>
>
>
> ***Knoppix Hacks, Second Edition
> ISBN 10: 059651493X
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514938/>
>
>
> ***Linux Networking Cookbook
> ISBN 10: 0596102488
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102487/>
>
>
> ***The Nikon D80 Dbook (Rocky Nook)
> ISBN 10: 1933952156
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952154/>
>
>
> ***Oracle Essentials, Fourth Edition
> ISBN 10: 0596514549
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514549/>
>
>
> ***The PHP Anthology, Second Edition (SitePoint)
> ISBN 10: 0975841998
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0975841998/>
>
>
> ***Using Moodle, Second Edition
> ISBN 10: 059652918X
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529185/>
>
>
> ***MAKE Magazine Subscriptions
> The annual subscription price for four issues is $34.95. When you
> subscribe with this link, you'll get a free issue--one plus four 
> more for $34.95. So subscribe for yourself or friends with this
> great offer for UG Members: five volumes for the cost of four.
> Subscribe at:
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>
>
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>
> ================================================
> Upcoming Events
> ================================================
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>
> ***Michael Hüttermann at Java User Group Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe,
>    Germany--Nov 23, 2007
> Author Michael Hüttermann (Agile Java-Entwicklung in der Praxis) is
> presenting "Testing Java Rich UI Swing applications."
> <https://jug-ka.dev.java.net/>
>
> ***Derrick Story Teaches a Workshop at the Santa Rosa Junior College,
>    Santa Rosa, CA--Dec 1
> Author Derrick Story (Digital Photography Pocket Guide and iPhoto 6:  
> The
> Missing Manual) will be holding a workshop titled "I've Taken Great
> Photos, Now What?"at the Santa Rosa Junior College Community Education
> program."
> <https://busapp02.santarosa.edu/CommunityEducation/>
>
> ***James Shore Will Be Presenting at the Orlando Agile Development
>    Practices Conference, Orlando, FL--Dec 3-6
> Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be leading two
> different sessions at the Orlando Agile Development Practices
> Conference. His two sessions, entitled "Maximizing ROI with Agile
> Release Planning" and "That's Not Right! Using Fit to Prevent Business
> Rule Defects" are sure to be instructive and applicable for all in
> attendance.
> <http://www.sqe.com/agiledevpractices/>
>
> ***Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up
>    Tour, Chicago, IL--Dec 3
> Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day  
> of
> free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will
> leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and
> information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential
> ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so
> register early!
> <http://www.adobeas3tour.com/>
>
> ***Author Steve Feuerstein Gives Seminar on Oracle and PL/SQL Best
>    Practices, Birmingham, UK--Dec 6
> Author Steve Feuerstein (Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 4th
> Ed. and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Ed.) will present a two hour
> masterclass entitled "Best Practice PL/SQL" at the UKOUG annual
> conference.
> <http://www.ukoug.org/>
>
> ***James Shore Will Be Leading a Workshop at San Francisco BayAPLN, San
>    Francisco, CA--Dec 11
> Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be leading a
> workshop entitled "Agile Planning in Action" at San Francisco Bay's
> APLN. This popular and novel workshop introduces participants to agile
> planning by allowing them to plan their own tutorial. Participants  
> learn
> the basics of agile planning, then use those lessons to create a
> tutorial covering the agile topics they're most interested in. When
> they're done, James will deliver the tutorial on the spot! This is a
> great session that exposes participants to the benefits and challenges
> of real agile planning. Plus, participants get a second tutorial on the
> subjects they care about most.
> <http://bayapln.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1>
>
> ================================================
> Conference News
> ================================================
> ***Registration for TOC is now open, New York, NY--February 11-13
> Technology is transforming publishing. Are you ready for the future?
> This conference is a must attend event for anyone interested in shaping
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>
> ***The call for participation for Velocity, the Web Performance and
>    Operations Conference, is now open.
> Velocity, a new O'Reilly event happening June 23-24 in Burlingame, CA,
> is dedicated to obtaining the crucial skills and knowledge to build web
> sites that are fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available. Are you
> a web developer, engineer, or technical manager doing outstanding work
> to optimize the experience of your users? If so, we want to hear from
> you.The submission deadline for all proposals is midnight January 3,
> 2008.
> <http://conferences.oreilly.com/velocity>
>
> ***The call for participation is open for RailsConf 2008, happening
>    May 29--June 1, 2008 in Portland, OR.
> Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media are seeking leaders for RailsConf
> sessions and tutorials, including a large number of advanced-level
> proposals for the 2008 event. Proposals are due December 13.
> <http://conferences.oreilly.com/rails/>
>
> ***Last Chance--Where 2.0 2008 Call for Participation ends November 26
> O’Reilly Media invites technologists and strategists, CTOs and CIOs,
> technology evangelists and scouts, researchers, programmers,
> geographers, researchers and academics, artists and activists, business
> developers, and entrepreneurs to lead conference sessions and tutorials
> at Where 2.0 2008. Where 2.0 will be held May 12-14, 2008 at the San
> Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California, US. Proposals are
> due no later than November 26, 2007.
> <http://conferences.oreilly.com/where/>
>
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> ================================================
> News From O'Reilly & Beyond
> ================================================
>
> ***2007 December Coders Social, Portland, OR--December 11th
> Multiple Portland programming users groups are going to combine  
> meetings
> into one large meeting. This will be a socializing, festive atmosphere
> meant to allow the local group members to get to know each other a bit
> better.
> <http://pdxgroups.pbwiki.com/2007-December-Coders-Social>
>
> ***The Bay Area Functional Programmers continued their tour of
>    Functional Web Frameworks
> In November David Pollak presented lift <http://liftweb.net/>, his
> Scala-based web framework. David's talk followed HAppS
> <http://happs.org/>, a Haskell web framework, talk in October. BayFP
> finishes the series with Yariv Sadan presenting the Erlang framework
> ErlyWeb <http://erlyweb.org/> in December. Videos & slides are  
> available
> for all the talks at the BayFP blog.
> <http://bayfp.org/blog>
>
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> ---------------------
> Articles
> ---------------------
> ***What's New in Ubuntu 7.10? (a.k.a. Gutsy Gibbon)
> Ubuntu is arguably the most popular desktop Linux distribution out
> today. On the 18th of October, the latest release, 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
> was released. Here is a comprehensive history of Ubuntu and a look at
> some of the many new and improved features.
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/09/26/whats-new-in-ubuntu 
> -710-aka-gutsy-gibbon.html>
>
> ***Flash CS3 Screencast
> Sometimes reading about a feature just isn't enough. When you need to
> see how a program works, try a Missing Manual screencast--video
> tutorials accompanied by step by step guidance, here's the latest one
> on Flash.
> <http://examples.oreilly.com/flashcs3mm/screencasts/ 
> flash_drawing_modes/screencast.html>
>
> ***Bre Pettis From MAKE Magazine on WIRED Science
> Bre shows off a High Speed Photography Hack in this video on the new  
> PBS
> show WIRED Science.
> <http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/213-high_speed_photos.html>
>
> ***Yahoo's Web Performance Guru: 14 Tenets for Speeding Up Sites
> In seven years at Yahoo!, Steve Souders had focused most of his effort
> on back-end engineering tasks like squeezing more performance out of a
> database, or optimizing the memory usage in C++ programs running on a
> server. Three years ago, when he was named Chief Performance Yahoo! and
> charged with improving the user experience for visitors to Yahoo! Web
> sites, he expected it would mean doing more of the same.
> <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200710/ai_n21044677>
>
> ***Google Calling: Inside Android, the gPhone SDK
> Google has finally unwrapped the gPhone, and rather than a product,  
> it's
> a platform called Android. Today, Google is releasing an early SDK for
> Android and Brian DeLacey has been given an early preview of what
> you'll find inside.
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/12/google-calling-inside- 
> the-gphone-sdk.html>
>
> ***The Mojo of Dojo
> Few use raw JavaScript anymore if they can possibly avoid it, in the
> same way that few people code in assembly language. Dojo is one of a
> group of powerful JavaScript toolkits that can do a lot of the work for
> you, and Matthew Russell has put together this introduction.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/01/the-mojo-of- 
> dojo.html>
>
> ***Rick Sammon's Travel Tips for Photographers
> Seasoned travel photographer Rick Sammon sits down with Derrick Story  
> in
> the O'Reilly Media booth at PhotoPlus Expo '07 in New York City. In  
> this
> podcast, Rick draws upon his experiences to offer good advice for
> photographers on the go.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2007/10/26/rick- 
> sammon.html>
>
> ***DIY Surround-Sound DVDs
> Learn how to make 5.1-channel Dolby Digital DVDs at home without pricey
> pro software. Plus--a sneaky way to hook multiple speakers to a stock
> Mac.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2007/10/25/diy- 
> surround-sound-dvds.html>
>
> For more articles, go to:
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/>
>
> ---------------------
> Blogs
> -------------------
> ***My paperless office
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/11/my_paperless_office.html>
>
> ***Is Apple Losing To Microsoft On Python Integration?
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/11/ 
> is_apple_losing_to_microsoft_o.html>
>
> ***If Social Networking Sites *Really* Wanted to Interoperate
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/11/ 
> if_social_networking_sites_rea.html>
>
> ***Flash Killers ---Java FX, Silverlight, Groovy and Xoetrope
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/11/ 
> flash_killers_java_fx_silverli.html>
>
> ***Skinny Languages and Fat Tools
> <http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/10/ 
> skinny_languages_and_fat_tools.php>
>
> ***OpenSocial: It's the data, stupid
> <http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/ 
> opensocial_social_mashups.html>
>
> For more blogs, go to:
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/>
>
> Until next time--
>
> Marsee Henon
>
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