[vox] [fwd] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, October 9
Bill Kendrick
nbs at sonic.net
Sat Oct 14 00:04:14 PDT 2006
----- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon -----
Hello,
Just a note to let you know that we have 33 new releases (wow!) in this
issue. In order to make this newsletter somewhat readable, I have left
out the book descriptions, please click on the URL for more information
on each title.
Thanks for looking,
Marsee
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-Put Up a MAKE or CRAFT Banner, Get a Free Book
-USdig Looking to Start New Chapters in the US
-Need an Expo Pass for Photoplus Expo 2006 in New York?
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***Get a Head Start on Your Holiday Events
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thing to worry about this busy holiday season.
***USdig Looking to Start New Chapters in the US
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group chapter? USdig (http://www.usdig.org/) is looking for leaders in
New York, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, and more.
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October 9, 2006
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-ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
-The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition
-Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET, Second Edition
-Color Management in Digital Photography
-Cryptography for Developers
-CSS Cookbook, Second Edition
-Developers Guide to Web Application Security
-Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition
-Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON (PDF)
-Essential Electronics for Software Folk
-Fedora Linux
-Fine Art Printing for Photographers
-From Darkroom to Lightroom, Second Edition (PDF)
-GIMP 2 for Photographers
-Hack the Stack
-HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition
-Java Generics and Collections
-Learning JavaScript
-Mapping and Modding Half-Life 2 Complete
-MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell
-Practical Color Management: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography
-Process Improvement Essentials
-Programming Atlas
-Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition
-Scripting for Testers
-Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit
-Syngress Force Emerging Threat Analysis
-Using Microformats (PDF)
-Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
-WarDriving and Wireless Penetration Testing
-Web Scripting Little Black Book
-Windows PowerShell Quick Reference (PDF)
-Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit
-MAKE & CRAFT Magazine Subscriptions
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-Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6:
The Missing Manual") at the Silicon Valley Mac User Group, Cupertino,
CA--October 16
-David McFarland ("CSS: The Missing Manual") at DevGroup NW,
Portland, OR--October 19
-Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") at PhotoPlus Expo,
New York, NY--Nov 2-4, 2006
-Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom
School Tour
-Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series
-Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour
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-Submit Your Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo
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-2.6 Million Lines of Code
-Smalltalk for Everyone Else
-User Group Members Receive a Special 30% Discount on
O'Reilly Learning Courses
-Sharing Internet Connections
-Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules
-Two Slick QuickTime Tricks
-Web Domination Using Photoshop
-Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes
Purchases)
-Better Registry Searching
-Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
-What is Java Content Repository
-Managing a Honeypot
-Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes--Which are You?
-Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests
-The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer (Podcast)
-Listen to DerEngel(No Starch's "Hacking The Cable Modem") on
NYC's WBAI-FM
-TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue
-Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way (Podcast)
-Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules
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***ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook
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***The Book of JavaScript, Second Edition
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***Build Your Own ASP.NET Website Using C# & VB.NET, Second Edition
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***Color Management in Digital Photography
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***Cryptography for Developers
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***CSS Cookbook, Second Edition
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***Developers Guide to Web Application Security
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***Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition
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***Dynamic Apache with Ajax and JSON (PDF)
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***Essential Electronics for Software Folk
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***Fedora Linux
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***Fine Art Printing for Photographers
Publisher: Rocky Nook
ISBN: 1933952008
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***From Darkroom to Lightroom, Second Edition (PDF)
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596529775
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lightroom/>
***GIMP 2 for Photographers
Publisher: Rocky Nook
ISBN: 1933952032
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933952032/>
***Hack the Stack
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1597491098
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597491098/>
***HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition
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***Java Generics and Collections
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***Learning JavaScript
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***Mapping and Modding Half-Life 2 Complete
Publisher: Paraglyph Press
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097132/>
***MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596102291
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/mcseceeian/
***Practical Color Management: Eddie Tapp on Digital Photography
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596527683
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/colormgmt/>
***Process Improvement Essentials
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596102178
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/artofsoftware/>
***Programming Atlas
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ISBN: 0596526725
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***Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition
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ISBN: 0596009836
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***Scripting for Testers
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 0977616614
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***Snort Intrusion Detection and Prevention Toolkit
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***Syngress Force Emerging Threat Analysis
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***Using Microformats (PDF)
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 05965282-3
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/microformats/>
***Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596101775
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/vb2005ckbk/>
***WarDriving and Wireless Penetration Testing
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 159749111X
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/159749111X/>
***Web Scripting Little Black Book
Publisher: Paraglyph Press
ISBN: 1933097191
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1933097191/>
***Windows PowerShell Quick Reference (PDF)
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596528132
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/windowspowershell/>
***Wireshark & Ethereal Network Protocol Analyzer Toolkit
Publisher: Syngress
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490733
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***Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide" and "iPhoto 6:
The Missing Manual") at the Silicon Valley Mac User Group, Cupertino,
CA--October 16
Author Derrick Story will talk about digital photography at the Apple
Campus in Cupertino.
<http://svmug.org/>
***David McFarland ("CSS: The Missing Manual") at DevGroup NW,
Portland, OR--October 19
Author David McFarland's talk, "Troubleshooting CSS Layouts," explores
the most common pitfalls web designers face when using Cascading
Style Sheets. Learn how to avoid common CSS gotchas as well as tricks
for making your web pages behave in Internet Explorer.
<http://www.devgroupnw.org/events/events.asp>
***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book") at PhotoPlus Expo, New York, NY--November 2-4
Author Peter Krogh will be attending PhotoPlus Expo and speaking in the
iView Multimedia booth and ASMP sessions.
<http://www.photoplusexpo.com/ppe/index.jsp>
***Julieanne Kost ("Window Seat") Project: Photoshop Lightroom
School Tour
Author Julieanne Kost will provide students with an in-depth seminar on
using Adobe Photoshop CS2 and Adobe Lightroom beta, highlighting their
combined support for a digital workflow. For a complete list of cities
and dates, go to:
<http://projectphotoshoplightroom.com/schools.php>
***Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book"), ASMP/It's Your Business Event Series
Author Peter Krogh will be teaching the "Get Your DAM Stuff Together"
track for ASMP's "It's Your Business" Series. For a complete list of
cities and dates, go to:
<http://www.asmp.org/commerce/education>
***Eddie Tapp ("Photoshop Workflow Setups") Pro Tips Tour
Author Eddie Tapp will teach you the complete digital workflow from
capture to final output. During this seminar, Monte Zucker and Eddie
Tapp cover concept to completion--posing, pixels, Photoshop, and
printing--everything needed to create beautiful digital photographic
portraits. For a complete list of cities and dates, go to:
<http://www.tix.com/Schedule.asp?OrganizationNumber=802>
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Conference News
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***Submit Your Proposals for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo
The Call for Participation for the 2007 MySQL Conference & Expo has just
opened: an invitation for database experts and enthusiasts to share
their knowledge of MySQL with the global open source community. The
theme for the 2007 conference is "Scale to New Heights with MySQL." This
annual event brings nearly 2,000 MySQL developers, DBAs, users, and
partners together in Santa Clara, California. The Call for Participation
ends November 7, 2006; the conference takes place April 23-26, 2007.
<http://www.mysqluc.com>
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General News
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***2.6 Million Lines of Code
Announcing O'Reilly Code Search, where you can enter search terms to
find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O'Reilly books. The database
currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, comprises 2.6
million lines of code, all edited and ready to use.
<http://labs.oreilly.com/code/>
***Smalltalk for Everyone Else
The Pragmatic Programmers advise learning a new language every year.
Instead of yet another Algol derivative, why not master object
orientation with perhaps the purest OO language ever devised? Smalltalk
and the Squeak environment offer a powerful and usable learning
experience; Keith Fieldhouse provides an introduction.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/09/21/learning_smalltalk.html>
***User Group Members Receive a Special 30% Discount on
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Open Source
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***Sharing Internet Connections
Protecting your computer when you're online is good. If you have
multiple computers in your home or small business, protecting all of
them is also good--especially if you can share your internet connection.
Dru Lavigne demonstrates how to allow other computers to use the network
safely with a FreeBSD or similar Unix system and fwbuilder.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/10/05/FreeBSD_Basics.html>
***Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules
Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application,
hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown
unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the
appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and
response times and load averages under control. This case study explores
their technique.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/apache/2006/09/28/httpd_scaling.html>
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Digital Media
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***Two Slick QuickTime Tricks
Turn your video on its ear! Our hands-on tutorial shows you how to work
with vertical movies and then embed them in a web page with a friendly
new kind of trigger.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2006/09/29/two-slick-quicktime-tricks.html>
***Web Domination Using Photoshop
The time has come for designers to execute their plans to dominate the
World Wide Web with stunning graphics! Here, Corrie provides a full
arsenal of fundamental techniques, before launching you on a stellar
trajectory that takes in buttons in all their forms. With her
step-by-step instructions, handy hints, and secret tricks, you'll have
everything you need to bring the Web to its knees...in awe!
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/web-domination-photoshop>
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Mac
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***Your New iTunes Movies to DVD (and Protect Your Other iTunes
Purchases)
How much money have you spent at the iTunes store? And what do you have
to show for it? An iPod full of music? TV shows? Those new games and
movies? Too many people forget how much cash they've put into their
digital media. And when bad things happen--house fires, computer theft,
iPod loss--they're not always prepared to be able to recover those
digital assets. Erica Sadun shows you archiving techniques to preserve
your (hefty) iTunes investment.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/09/19/burn-itunes-to-dvd.html>
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Windows/.NET
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***Better Registry Searching
Finding what you need in the registry is harder than trying to find a
needle in a haystack. Mitch Tulloch shows you how to find what you
need--fast!
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2006/09/26/better-registry-searching.html>
***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Here's the weekly summary of a mix of Windows Mobile and general mobile
tech related items from Todd Ogasawara's blog.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/10/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_5.html>
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Java
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***What is Java Content Repository
You might have heard of JSR-170, but what is a content repository, and
what can you do with it? Well, do you want to manage documents with
versioning, search, access control, and more? Content repositories offer
these features, and JSR-170 codifies them into a single API. Sunil Patil
shows how to use the reference implementation--Apache Jackrabbit--to
create a blogging application.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/10/04/what-is-java-content-repository.html>
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Sys Admin/Web
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***Managing a Honeypot
If intruders are always scanning the Internet for potential victims--and
they are--can you find the intruders and their exploits by putting up
fake networks that only a deliberate scan could find? That's the theory
behind honeypots. Peter Mikhalenko discusses the implementation, theory,
and legality of using a honeypot to protect your network.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2006/09/28/honeypots.html>
***Survey Exposes The Four Web Dev Stereotypes--Which are You?
In what may be the largest survey of web developers ever, The State of
Web Development 2006/2007 exposes four key web professional stereotypes.
In this review, Nick explains how the stats were collated, and what they
revealed about the industry and those who work in it.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/survey-web-dev-stereotypes>
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MAKE
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***Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests
Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween
contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter. Depending on what type of maker or
crafter you are, enter one or all of the following contests:
Hack-o-Lantern, Costume, Decorations, Gadgets and More, and
Treat-or-Treat.
Have your entries in before Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006, at 1:59 pm EST.
We're giving you a little time to take photos and get them up
post-Halloween, but you can enter any time starting now. Contest is open
to anyone on planet Earth or the surrounding orbit. Remember you can
enter any time just by tagging your photos on Flickr (flickr.com) with
"MAKECRAFTHALLOWEEN" and adding them to the MAKE and/or CRAFT photo
pools. To enter Trick-or-Treat just post about MAKE/CRAFT or the contest
on your blog.
For complete contest information, rules, and prizes, go to:
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/10make_craft_halloween_contests.html>
For More MAKE Projects and info, go to:
<http://makezine.com/>
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Podcasts
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***The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer
In "Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography," the renowned photographer
writes about his journey on the "bleeding edge of digital photography's
evolution." In this podcast, Johnson talks to Sara Peyton about his
career, photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age, and why, for
him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring about the
wild places he wandered in. (20 minutes 27 seconds), Stephen Johnson, a
digital photography pioneer and author of Stephen Johnson on Digital
Photography, discusses photo techniques, photo ethics in a digital age,
and why, for him, taking landscape photos became synonymous with caring
about the wild places he wandered in.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/29/digital-photography-pioneer.html>
***Listen to DerEngel(No Starch's "Hacking The Cable Modem") on
NYC's WBAI-FM
DerEngel talks about how he collected the information for the book, his
background as a hardware hacker, the EFF's participation in reviewing
the book from a legal standpoint, and the importance of supporting free
speech in a corporate world. The cable companies may not be happy with
this book, but DerEngel and the WBAI host agree that "Hacking The Cable
Modem" contains useful info for understanding how Internet
broadbandworks and that there are curious tinkerers who just like to
learn new stuff, not commit malicious acts.
<http://www.2600.com/offthehook/2006/1006.html>
***TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue
Find out what to expect with the subject of one of David's upcoming
titles on the anticipated Microsoft Windows Vista and some other ways to
get info on tech from David Pogue. We'll also find out why David loves
the latest Tivo!
<http://www.techtalkradio.com/books/poque.htm>
**Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way
Eddie Tapp, 2006 Photoshop Hall of Famer, award-winning photographer,
and much sought after educator, discusses his new book from O'Reilly,
"Photoshop Workflow Setups." In this interview by new O'Reilly staffer
Sara Peyton, Eddie talks about his photography roots, the art of taking
pictures, his new book...and why he lives by the rule of 300. (15
minutes 33 seconds)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/09/15/eddie-tapp-podcast.html>
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Web
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***Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules
Yogesh Makwana and Syvum Technologies had a problem: their application,
hosted on a shared server, used too much CPU time and had grown
unresponsive. Moving to a virtual private server and using the
appropriate Apache modules and architecture brought their costs and
response times and load averages under control. This case study explores
their technique.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/apache/2006/09/28/httpd_scaling.html>
Until next time--
Marsee Henon
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