[vox] [fwd] Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 16
Bill Kendrick
nbs at sonic.net
Fri Nov 16 14:22:10 PST 2007
----- Forwarded message from Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com> -----
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:04:16 -0800
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, November 16
To: pr at lugod.org
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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November 16, 2007
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UG News
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***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
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***What's New in Ubuntu 7.10? (a.k.a. Gutsy Gibbon)
Ubuntu is arguably the most popular desktop Linux distribution out
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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>
***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
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charged with improving the user experience for visitors to Yahoo! Web
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***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
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/11/01/the-mojo-of-dojo.html>
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***My paperless office
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***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
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***OpenSocial: It's the data, stupid
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/11/opensocial_social_mashups.html>
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Until next time--
Marsee Henon
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