[Linux-bruxelles] [Fwd: User Group Newsletter - Issue 09-06]

Jerome Warnier jwarnier at beeznest.net
Ven 13 Oct 15:18:05 CEST 2006


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O'Reilly UK User Group Programme
NEWSLETTER
Issue 09-06

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HIGHLIGHTS
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NEWS FROM O’REILLY AND BEYOND 
-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 
-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 
-Enter the MAKE & CRAFT Halloween Contests 
-The Way of a Digital Photography Pioneer (Podcast) 
-TechTalkRadio Interviews David Pogue 
-Creating Beautiful Digital Photos the Eddie Tapp Way (Podcast) 
-Scaling Dynamic Websites with Apache Modules

BOOK NEWS
- Books for review 
- Coming soon 
CONFERENCE NEWS 
YOUR BOOK REVIEWS 
YOUR NEWS


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NEWS FROM O’REILLY AND BEYOND
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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 O'Reilly
Learning Courses 
As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in  the
following University of Illinois Certificate Series:

-Linux/Unix System Administration 
-Web Programming 
-Open Source Programming 
-.NET Programming

To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1," good for a 30% discount, in Step
#3 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly
book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online:

<https://oreillylearning.com/enroll/>

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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>


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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>


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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>


***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 
--------------------- 
***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>



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BOOK NEWS
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Copies of our books are available for your members to review -- send me
an email with the delivery address together with the book you would like
to review. When the review is published, please send me a copy or the
url. I would also appreciate if you could send a copy to
www.amazon.co.uk

Latest books available for review –

              * Agile Retrospectives  

Project retrospectives help teams examine what went right and what went
wrong on a project. But traditionally, retrospectives (also known as
"post-mortems") are only help at the end of the project--too late to
help. You need agile retrospectives that are iterative and incremental.
You need to accurately find and fix problems to help the team today. Now
Esther and Diana show you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the
problems you face on a software development project on an on-going
basis. You'll see how to architect retrospectives in general, how to
design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them
effectively, how to make the needed changes and how to scale these
techniques up. You'll learn how to deal with problems, and implement
solutions effectively throughout the project--not just at the end. With
regular tune-ups, your team will hum like a precise, world-class
orchestra.

              * CSS: The Missing Manual 

Cascading Style Sheets are now a reliable method for handling all kinds
of Web page presentations -- from fonts and colors to page layout. But
due to CSS's complexity most designers treat it as a kind of
window-dressing to spruce up the appearance of their sites without
tapping into the real power of CSS. CSS: The Missing Manual clearly
explains this powerful design tool and how you can use it to build
sparklingly new Web sites, or refurbish old sites that are ready for an
upgrade.

              * Google Hacks, Third Edition 

Now that new features and services such as Google Maps, Google Talk, and
Google Desktop have been added to the expanding Google universe, we've
made the third edition of this bestseller into an infinitely more useful
book for this powerful search engine. You'll not only find dozens of
hacks for new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and
scripts for hacking the old ones.

              * JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fifth Edition 

The indispensable reference for JavaScript programmers since 1996,
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition is completely revised and
expanded to cover JavaScript as it is used in today's Web 2.0
applications.

              * LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Edition

LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, Second Editionis a thoroughly
researched reference to the Linux Professional Institute exams. The book
is divided into four parts, one for each of the LPI exams. Each part
features not only a summary of the core skills you need, but sample
exercises and test questions, along with helpful hints to let you focus
your energies.

              * Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 07

If you like to tweak, disassemble, recreate, and invent cool new uses
for technology, you'll love MAKE, our project-based quarterly for the
inquisitive do-it-yourselfer. Make Volume 07 is the Backyard Biology
issue, with DNA extraction, plant grafting, home mycology lab, snail
cryogenics, and more. Also, learn how to make your own Stirling engine,
install a video camera on a model rocket, make a head-mounted water
cannon, and dozens of other projects to satiate your inner maker.

              * Mastering Regular Expressions, Third Edition 

Written in the lucid, entertaining tone that makes a complex, dry topic
become crystal-clear to programmers, and sprinkled with solutions to
complex real-world problems, Mastering Regular Expressions, Third
Edition offers a wealth of information that you can put to immediate
use.

              * Photoshop Workflow Setups

Adobe Photoshop has so many different work areas and tools that it can
become confusing or even intimidating for digital photographers to use
in a production environment. This first book in our new series on
digital photography offers a step-by-step approach to Photoshop's vast
collection of menus, palettes, and tools, showing you not only how they
work, but how they should work for your specific needs in a visually
uncluttered workspace.

              * PHP Cookbook, Second Edition 

When it comes to creating dynamic web sites, the open source PHP
language is red-hot property: used on more than 20 million web sites
today, PHP is now more popular than Microsoft's ASP.NET technology. With
our Cookbook's unique format, you can learn how to build dynamic web
applications that work on any web browser. This revised new edition
makes it easy to find specific solutions for programming challenges.

              * Programming Python, Third Edition 

An industry standard just got even better. This bestseller from O'Reilly
has been updated to reflect the many changes introduced by Python 2.5.
It teaches the most common Python application domains from the ground up
with plenty of real-world examples and in-depth discussion. Ideal for
novices as well as advanced practitioners.

              * Ruby on Rails: Up and Running

This compact guide from O'Reilly teaches you the basics of Ruby on
Rails, the super-productive new way to develop full-featured web
applications. Discover how to install and use both the Ruby scripting
language and the Rails framework. More advanced material shows you just
how fast Ruby on Rails can go.

              * Software Testing Foundations

This book offers basic knowledge that helps to achieve structured and
systematic evaluation and testing. This should contribute to an improved
quality of the software. The content of this book is written in a way
that does not subsume previous knowledge of software quality assurance.
A continuous case example is included in order to help understand every
shown topic and its practical solution. It corresponds to the
requirements of the ISTQB Foundation Certificate. The knowledge needed
for the exams can be acquired by self-studies. The book can also be used
to extend the knowledge after or parallel to participation in a course.

              * The Relational Database Dictionary 

Avoid misunderstandings that can affect the design, programming, and use
of database systems. Whether you're using Oracle, DB2, SQL Server,
MySQL, or PostgreSQL, The Relational Database Dictionary will prevent
confusion about the precise meaning of database-related terms (e.g.,
attribute, 3NF, one-to-many correspondence, predicate, repeating group,
join dependency), helping to ensure the success of your database
projects. Carefully reviewed for clarity, accuracy, and completeness,
this authoritative and comprehensive quick-reference contains more than
600 terms, many with examples, covering issues and concepts arising from
the relational model of data.

              * Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography 

A master photographer and teacher since 1977, Stephen Johnson is widely
recognized as a pioneer of digital photography. His new book chronicles
his ride on the bleeding edge of this medium's evolution, and provides a
practical in-depth introduction to digital photography that includes the
latest techniques. Complete with beautiful color photographic examples
and illustrations, this book is a unique, passionate, holistic
examination for every student of photography.



****Coming Soon

              * ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook 
              * Craft Volume 01
              * CSS Cookbook, Second Edition 
              * Digital Photography Expert Techniques, Second Edition 
              * Essential Electronics for Software Folk (Pragmatic
                Bookshelf) 
              * Everyday Scripting with Ruby (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 
              * HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, Sixth Edition 
              * Java Generics and Collections 
              *  “Just Right” Software Planning & Estimation (Pragmatic
                Bookshelf)
              * Learning JavaScript 
              * MCSE Core Elective Exams in a Nutshell 
              * Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
              * Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, Second Edition
                (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 
              * Process Improvement Essentials Programming Atlas
              * Programming Embedded Systems, Second Edition 
              * Visual Basic 2005 Cookbook
                
                

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Conference News 
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*** Put Up an O'Reilly EuroOSCON Banner 
At long last I have got the winners – 
Mugara group in Zagossa, Spain wins 10 O’Reilly books 
Lonix, London, UK wins one year sub to Make Magazine 
Congratulations to both groups and thank you all for putting up the
banner.


***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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YOUR EVENTS
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***HP-Interex EMEA Technical Conference on HP-UX    
13-15 November 2006 in Valbonne, France 
Enjoy the sun of the Côte d'Azur while learning about HP-UX.


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O’REILLY WILL BE THERE!
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*** UK Geospatial Mash-up 
20 / 10 / 2006 at 09:30 , Ordnance Survey, Southampton  
A meeting for all those interested in working with and using services
based on UK Geo data.

***LinuxWorld Conference & Expo  
25/26 October,  Olympia 2, London 
The UK's only open source event for business decision-makers and
technical professionals. The event delivers information and resources to
implement Linux and open source solutions into business infrastructure
and enterprise networks. 

***EuroBSDCon 2006 
November 10th - 12th 2006, Milan, Italy 
Hosted in the foggy northern Italy, the fifth EuroBSDCon aims at being a
new successful chapter in the itinerant series of european BSD
conferences. EuroBSDCon represents the biggest gathering for BSD
developers from the old continent, as well as users and passionates from
around the World. It is also a chance to share experiences, know-how,
and cultures.

*** OpenCON 2006 
2/3 December, Venice, Italy 
The conference is entirely organized by OpenBEER
(http://www.openbeer.it ), the italian OpenBSD users group. OpenCON
lasts about two days and, as usual, many official developers have
already confirmed their presence. The main topics will be: information
security, secure programming, and anything related to OpenBSD. The
manifestation is completely free of charge, but it will be possible to
buy tshirts and gadgets to fund both OpenCON and OpenBSD. 

 ***Flash on the Beach 
Flash on the Beach conference is the first major Flash conference in the
UK for over 6 years! Over 40 of the world's most talented Flash
designers, developers and artists presenting on 3 tracks over 3 full
days with mixer get togethers each morning and evening for essential
networking opportunities. Flash on the Beach has brought together the
most creative, technical, inspirational awe-inspiring, educational and
entertaining industry leading speakers in the rich media industry.


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YOUR BOOK REVIEWS
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***UKUUG  
All the UKUUG reviews are now online, there are too many to list them,
but please have a look on http://www.ukuug.org/books/reviews/ 

*** ActionScript.it reviewed – 
Ajax Hacks  - http://www.actionscript.it/showContent.cfm?id=698 

*** Durham Computer Society reviewed – 
Intermediate Perl -
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/reviews/Intermediate-Perl.html 
Head Rush Ajax - http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/reviews/HeadRushAjax.html 
XAML in a Nutshell -
http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/reviews/XAML-In-a-Nutshell.html 
DNS & Bind, 5e - http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/reviews/DNS-and-BIND-5.html

***Perl it reviewed – 
Perl Hacks - English version: 
http://www.varlogarthas.net/blog/2006/08/perl_hacks.html 
Italian version: 
http://www.perl.it/documenti/bibliografia/37.html

*** MMUG-Egypt reviewed – 
DV Flimmaking from start to finish -
http://mmug-egypt.mxdj.com/reviewing_dv_flimmaking_reviewed_by_rafiq_elmansy.htm

***GNUraghe il LUG di Oristano reviewed – 
Learning GNU Emacs - http://www.gnuraghe.org/?O%
27Reilly_Users_Group:Recensioni:Learning_GNU_Emacs

***Apriti Software reviewed – 
Python in a Nutshell 2e -
http://www.apritisoftware.it/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=45 

***London Perlmongers reviewed – 
Time Management for System Administrators
-http://london.pm.org/reviews/time_management_sysadmins.html

***Nordest Perlmongers reviewed –  
Unicode Explained -
http://www.varlogarthas.net/blog/2006/10/unicode_explained.html

***JUG Trento reviewed – 
Building Scalable Web Sites -
http://www.jugtrento.org/trewiki/index.php/recensioni/libri/ScalableWebSites 
Enterprise SOA -
http://www.jugtrento.org/trewiki/index.php/recensioni/libri/EnterpriseSOA 
 

That's all for today. 
Josette




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