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Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:36:16 -0700
From: "Marsee Henon" <marsee at oreilly.com>
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, May 14
Hi there
This is our first user group newsletter offered in HTML or plain text.
I hope it's easier to read, although I think it's just as long.
Remember you can request new releases for reviews or raffles by
simply replying to this email with your list of titles. And please
include the 10 digit ISBN to make your order arrive faster!
I'm looking for user group videos or podcasts to blog about at
http://oreillyfyi.com. If you have one you want to share, send me a
short description and the url so people can watch and listen. Do you
have any other special events or news we should know about? Send them
along any time. I'll fit them in as I can.
Travel alert:
If you are going to be in Orlando for Tech*Ed the beginning of June,
make sure you let me know so we can try to meet up--if I already asked
you, no need to tell me again. I'll be in and out of the O'Reilly
booth and attending the INETA UG leader Summit on Saturday, June 2.
I'll also be going to the San Francisco Bay Area Maker Faire 2007. I'm
not sure where I'll be yet, but we we can try and say hi if your going
too.
Thanks for your help!
--Marsee
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***Scott Berkun at Book Passage, SF Ferry Building, San Francisco,
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***Ted Neward at DevTeach, Montreal, Canada--May 14-18
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***Scott Berkun at Adaptive Path, San Francisco, CA--May 16
Author Scott Berkun ("The Myths of Innovation" and "The Art of Project
Management") gives a talk based on The Myths of Innovation.
<http://upcoming.org/event/173872/>
***RailsConf, Portland, OR--May 17-20
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***Greg Kroah-Hartman, FreedomHEC 2007, Los Angeles, CA--May 18-19
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***Maker Faire 2007--Bay Area, San Mateo, CA--May 19-20
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***Jim Holmes at the West Michigan Day of .NET, Grand Rapids, MI--May
19 Author Jim Holmes ("Windows Developer Power Tools") presents Open
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***Where 2.0 Conference 2007, San Jose, CA--May 29-30
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***The Grails eXchange 2007, Barbican Centre, London--May 30-Jun 1
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***Ignite Boston!, Cambridge, MA--May 31
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***Stephen Johnson seminar: Beauty in Photography, Pacifica, CA--Jun 2
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***Mikkel Aaland & Derrick Story at Book Passage, 
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General News
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***New Adobe CS3 Books on the Way
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***A Q&A with Scott Berkun, author of "The Myths of Innovation"
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Open Source
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***Building a Data Warehouse with MySQL and Perl 
Most of us are at least somewhat familiar with the kind of relational
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But there's another kind of database model out there: the data
warehouse. Sam Tregar gives us the lowdown on this highly UNrelational
database.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/databases/2007/04/12/building-a-data-warehouse-with-mysql-and-perl.html>
***OpenBSD 4.1: Puffy Strikes Again 
OpenBSD 4.1 has recently been released. It includes improvements to
spam fighting, SMP, porting to new platforms, and much more. As usual,
Federico Biancuzzi has sought out some of the most influential OpenBSD
developers for a discussion of what you'll find in 4.1
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/05/03/openbsd-41-puffy-strikes-again.html>
***Five Ways to Improve Your Perl Programming 
Inside every tangle of obfuscated Perl code is a clean,
well-architected gem struggling to emerge from its cocoon. brian d
foy has spent a lot of time thinking about this for his new book,
"Mastering Perl," and has come up with a Top Five list of things that
every Perl programmer should be thinking about when writing code.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/04/12/five-ways-to-improve-your-perl-programming.html>
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Sys Admin
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***Top 7 Things System Administrators Forget to Do
Do system administrators really forget to do basic tasks because
they're lazy or do the pressures of the job keep them from getting
everything done? Tom Adelstein explores the top seven tasks system
administrators forget to do.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/05/03/the-top-7-things-sysadmins-forget-to-do.html>
***Five Basic Mistakes Not to Make in DNS 
DNS has managed to keep the Internet afloat for decades, but it spend
a lot of its time handling junk requests that should never have
escaped from a local WAN. Ron Aitchison has a list of five basic
things that every DNS administrator should take care of to keep DNS a
happy infrastructure.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/sysadmin/2007/04/26/5-basic-mistakes-not-to-make-in-dns.html>
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Digital Media
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***Rick LePage on Fine Art Printers for Aperture
Affordable hardware for fine art printing is more bountiful than ever.
In this exclusive Inside Aperture podcast, Macworld editor at large,
Rick LePage, covers the latest offerings from Epson, HP, and Canon.
Rick supplies plenty of insight about how HP is challenging Epson,
and some thoughts about Canon's emergence, then absence in the mid
range fine art market. Derrick Story chats with Rick during a visit
to San Francisco.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/04/30/fine-art-printers-for-aperture.html>
***Review: Boss Micro BR Palmtop Recording Studio
At just over 3x5 inches, the Boss Micro BR is a digital recording
studio you can use anywhere. It records up to 32 tracks, has a
built-in mic and drum machine, and even plays your MP3s. Can it
possibly work at just $229 street? Reviewer Gina Fant-Saez finds out.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/04/26/review-boss-micro-br-digital-recorder.html>
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Mac
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***Building Custom iQuiz Data 
iQuiz is a brand new, flashy iPod game from Apple that allows users to
create custom games and run them using the iQuiz interface. In this
tutorial, Erica Sadun shows how to create custom iQuiz files and
provides sample code and files.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/30/building-custom-iquiz-data.html>
***Customizing TextMate 
TextMate is one of the most popular text editors among Mac developers,
in part due to how much you can customize the powerful program. James
Edward Gray II recently wrote "TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac"
and presents this article on creating an RPN calculator in TextMate
as an example of how to do complex TextMate customizations.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/04/11/customizing-textmate.html>
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Microsoft/.NET
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***Preston Gralla on Vista
Safari recently interviewed Preston Gralla, author of "Windows Vista
in a Nutshell." He's authored over 30 books and countless articles for
publications ranging from PC Magazine to the Los Angeles Times. He's a
frequent guest on TV and radio shows covering technology and has
appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR.
<http://safari.oreilly.com/march07_newsletter>
***Installing and Configuring ISA 2006 
Internet Security and Acceleration Server (ISA) 2006, Microsoft's
latest release of its popular web proxy and security suite, has
become a full-blown perimeter security solution for both small and
large networks. Chris Sanders shows you how to set it up and
configure it for best performance.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/04/17/installing-and-configuring-isa-2006.html>
***Why Do ASP.NET Programmers Need to Learn CSS? 
ASP.NET has not been great at controlling the layout of elements on a
web page. Dan Hurwitz and Jesse Liberty show you how to gain precise
controls over presentation with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). They
argue that programmers who embrace CSS as their own, rather than
thinking of it as an esoteric skill of designers, place themselves
ahead of the pack.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2007/05/01/why-doaspnet-programmers-need-to-learn-css.html>
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Java
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***Interview with Tim Bray: Atom, JRuby, and the Ecumenical Sun
Tim Bray recently took some time out of his hectic schedule to talk to
the O'Reilly Network about his current work on the Atom protocol, his
views on JRuby, and Sun's evolving Web strategy. Find out what is on
Tim's mind these days.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/03/interview-with-tim-bray-atom-jruby-and-the-ecumenical-sun.html>
***An Interview with Robert Brewin 
What happens when you get the CTO of Sun and the editor of OnJava in
the same room at JavaOne? A short but informative interview for the
OnJava readers about JavaFX Script, JavaFX Mobile, and the future of
the Java platform.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/05/10/an-interview-with-robert-brewin.html>
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Web
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***PittMFUG Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group Chats with Author
Colin Moock Pittsburgh Adobe Flash Users Group interviewed Colin
Moock about his upcoming book "Essential ActionScript 3." Listen to
the podcast here:
<http://www.pittmfug.com/podcast/pittmfugColinMoock.mp3>
***Besiege Your Web Application--Load Testing over HTTP
Paul explains how to test your web apps to ensure they
can handle heavy user demand.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/05/07/besiege-your-web-application-load-testing-over-http/
>

***JavaScript and Screenreaders
Kevin Yank take a look at how Web Developers can make
their sites accessible to users who use screenreaders.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/04/30/javascript-and-screen-readers/
>

Until next time--
Marsee Henon
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