O'Reilly News for User Group Members

Issue 09-07

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New Releases--Books and Short Cuts
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Get 35% off from O'Reilly, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook or YoungJin books you purchase directly
from O'Reilly.

Just use your user group code when ordering online (if you cannot remember, please ask your leader, if
he can't remember, ask him to contact me) -

<http://www.oreilly.com> using UK Shopping Cart.

Did you know you can request a free book or PDF to review for your group? Ask your group leader for
more information.

For book review writing tips and suggestions, go to: <http://ug.oreilly.com/bookreviews.html>

New books available for review -

***The Art of Agile Development

ISBN 10: 0596527675
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527679/

***Big Book of Windows Hacks

ISBN 10: 0596528353
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528355/

***CSS Pocket Reference, Third Edition

ISBN 10: 0596515057
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515058/

***Eccentric Cubicle
ISBN 10: 0596510543
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510541/

***Flex 3 Early Evaluation (Short Cuts)

ISBN 10: 059651591X
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515911/

***Get Up and Running with Dojo (Short Cuts)

ISBN 10: 059651705X
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517052/

*** Getting Started with Pyparsing (Short Cuts)

ISBN 10: 0596514239
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514235/

***GIS for Web Developers (Pragmatic Bookshelf)

ISBN 10: 0974514098
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/974514098/>

***GREP in InDesign CS3 (Short Cuts)

ISBN 10: 0596517068
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596517069/>
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***The HDRI Handbook (Rocky Nook)

ISBN 10: 1933952059
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9781933952055/>

***Illustrating Guide to Astronomical Wonders

ISBN 10: 0596526857
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596526856/

***Introducing Silverlight 1.1 (Short Cuts)

ISBN 10: 0596515839
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515836/>

***iPod: The Missing Manual, 6e

ISBN 10: 0596514913
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514914/

***iMovie 08 & iDVD: The Missing Manual

ISBN 10: 0596516193
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516192/

***Learning ASP.NET 2.0 with AJAX

ISBN 10: 0596513976
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513979/>

***Learning Python, Third Edition

ISBN 10: 0596513984
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596513986/>

***Mac OS X Leopard Pocket Guide

ISBN 10: 0596529813
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529819/>

***Making Things Talk

ISBN 10: 0596510519
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510510/index.html>

***Network Security Assessment, 2e

ISBN 10: 0596510306
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510305/

***Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual

ISBN 10: 0596514441
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514440/

***Programming ASP.NET AJAX

ISBN 10: 0596514247
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514242/index.html

***sendmail, 4e
ISBN 10: 0596510292
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510299/

***Tomcat: The Definitive Guide 2e

ISBN 10: 0596101066
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596101060/
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***Windows PowerShell Cookbook

ISBN 10: 0596528493
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528492/

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Your book reviews
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Edinburgh pm reviewed-
Fonts & Encoding - http://edinburgh.pm.org/book-reviews/fonts-and-encodings.html
Head Rush Ajax - http://edinburgh.pm.org/book-reviews/head-rush-ajax.html
Mastering Perl - http://edinburgh.pm.org/book-reviews/mastering-perl.html

JUGTrento reviewed
Photoshop CS3 one-on-one - http://www.jugtrento.org/trewiki/index.php/recensioni/libri/cs3_one_on_one

Birmingham Perl Mongers reviewed -

GIMP 2 for Photographers - http://birmingham.pm.org/reviews/55
(thank you for putting the review on amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, /dot)

Flex User Group reviewed -

Programming Flex 2 : http://www.augitaly.com/flexgala/index.php?cmd=bookreader&id=17
Programming Firefox : http://www.augitaly.com/flexgala/index.php?cmd=bookreader&id=16
Apollo for Adobe Flex Developers : http://www.augitaly.com/flexgala/index.php?cmd=bookreader&id=13

Hispalinux (Juantomas Garcia for ?) reviewed

Dynamic HTML:http://www.juantomas.net/2007/10/02/dynamic-html-the-definitive-reference-third-edition/

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Upcoming Events
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ORM***SAPO codebits, Lisbon 13-16 November http://codebits.sapo.pt/

Portugal's largest ISP, SAPO, is organizing a major event: SAPO codebits.

ORM***London Perl Workshop, London, 1st December http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2007/

This year we will be encouraging people from other languages to participate so we can continue Perl's
long tradition of stealing the best ideas from other languages (including future versions of Perl itself). We
will also be doing a lot more lightning talks (because people like them).

***OpenCon, Venice 1-2 December http://www.opencon.org/site/about

The only conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD
OpenCON was born in September 2004 from an idea by Matteo Cantoni (goony) and Fabio Cazzin
(fabioFVZ). The main aim is to create a conference entirely dedicated to OpenBSD and to gather users
and OpenBSD enthusiasts from all over the world to let them share their knowledge, experiences and
information about the operating system.

A more complete list of events can be found on <www.oreillygmt.eu> or <http://events.oreilly.com/>

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Conference News
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***Call for Participation is Open for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo --
April 15-18, Santa Clara, CA
Take an active role in shaping the future of MySQL and related open
source technologies by leading sessions and tutorials at the 2008 MySQL
Conference & Expo. Visit the Proposals page for more details and to
submit your ideas. Proposals are due no later than October 30, 2007.
<http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2008/public/cfp/2>

***Where 2.0 2008 Call for Participation

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://en.oreilly.com/where2008/public/cfp/5>

***Announcing Graphing Social Patterns Conference (GSP)

The O'Reilly Graphing Social Patterns Conference is happening March 3-4,
2008 in San Diego, California. GSP explores the components of building
and distributing apps for Facebook and other social networking
platforms. The event is for both business executives and technical
developers who want to learn more about the Facebook environment, and
how to reach online communities using social networking platforms and
applications.
<http://graphingsocial.com/>

***O’Reilly’s inaugural Money:Tech Conference has been announced

The dates are February 6-7, 2008 in New York City. That’s right, in the
heart of the financial universe, New York, NY, Money:Tech will raise the
level of conversation around technology advances in the investment
industry, and bring together innovators with established players to
increase adoption and awareness and push the technology forward.
<http://conferences.oreilly.com/money/>

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News From O'Reilly & Beyond
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Articles
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***Maker Faire Austin--Adventures in Time Video
Baron Von PT and the Brebot travel forward in time to gander the FUTURE
and the future is Maker Faire Austin-October 20-21, 2007 where brains collide!
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/the_future_is_maker_faire.html>
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***Maker Faire's Sherry Huss and Dale Dougherty on Austin's NPR KUT-FM
Hear the latest on what will be happening this weekend in Austin.
<http://kut.org/items/show/10258>

***Jim Shore (Art of Agile Development) Coming Soon to a Town Near You
Jim's got many UG events lined up in Seattle, Portland, Houston, and
the SF Bay Area. Check out his web site for more info.
<http://www.jamesshore.com/Blog/Art-of-Agile-Events.html>

***Barbara Brundage’s Top 10 Elements Tips

Here's a sneek preview from author Barbara Brundage of her upcoming
book "Photoshop Elements 6: The Missing Manual."
<http://missingmanuals.com/brundage_pe6_tips.csp>

***FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual ScreenCasts

When reading isn't enough, try a screencast narrated by the authors
themselves.The latest batch is from Geoff Coffey, author of "Filemaker
Pro 9: The Missing Manual."
<http://missingmanuals.com/screencasts.csp>

***The Worldwide Lexicon: Adding Collaborative Translation to Your Site

The Worldwide Lexicon is an open source project that has recently
published a suite of collaborative translation tools that enable readers
to create, edit and share translations to and from almost any human
language. This article explains how you can use WWL to make your site or
content accessible in many languages.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/etel/2007/09/27/the-worldwide-lexicon-adding-collaborative-translation-
to-your-site.html>

***Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun
Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the
contests. Entering is easy: just upload your photos to the DIY HALLOWEEN
Flickr photo pool and tag them "DIYHALLOWEEN." Or email them to
make.magazine@gmail.com, or put them on Instructables in the MAKE group
with a tag "DIYHALLOWEEN"--and we'll upload them to the Flickr pool. The
lists of contests includes Hack-o'-Lantern, Costume, Decorations,
Haunted house and gadgets, Food, and Trick-or-Treat. Have your entries
in before Sunday, November 4, 2007, at 1:59 pm EST.
<http://www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/09/diy_halloween_make_crafts_mass.html>

For more articles, go to: <http://www.oreillynet.com/>

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Blogs
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***Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/10/facebook_techmeme_money_tech.html>

***Head First Labs: More voices==better books

<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2007/10/more_voices_better_books.html>

***7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails

<http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html>
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***YAPC::Europe 2007 Organization Post-Mortem
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/10/yapceurope_2007_organization_p.html>

***On the Road to Leopard

<http://www.oreillynet.com/mac/blog/2007/10/on_the_road_to_leopard.html>

***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup

<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2007/10/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_57.html>

***Color Me Accurate
<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/color_me_accurate_1.html>

***A Logical Editing Process

<http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/10/a_logical_editing_process_1.html>

***Does your bad Java code need help? (from Rules and Flow)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/10/does_your_bad_java_code_need_h.html>

***After Struts what?

<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2007/10/after_struts_what.html>

That's all for now.

Josette