---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 13:25:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Marsee Henon marsee@oreilly.com To: basit@basit.yi.org Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 5

O'Reilly User Group Program Newsletter August 5, 2002

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Highlights This Week: ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Book News*** ---------------------------------------------------------------- -IPv6 Essentials -iPhoto: The Missing Manual -Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition -Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

---------------------------------------------------------------- ***News*** ---------------------------------------------------------------- -Protecting Privacy with Translucent Databases -O'Reilly's 250th Book on Safari -Top 100 Power Picks -2002 OSCON .NET Report -The Rotor Architecture Revisited -Making the Python Cookbook -Promiscuous Mode Problems -Flash on Mobile and Embedded Devices -Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips -2002 OSCON Java Wrap-Up -10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0 -Wanted: Bioinformatics User Groups -Dissecting .Mac -Jaguar: Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around

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***IPv6 Essentials*** Order Number: 1258 "IPv6 Essentials" provides a succinct, in-depth tour of all the new features and functions in IPv6, guiding you through everything you'll need to know to get started, including how to configure IPv6 on hosts and routers, and which applications currently support IPv6. This book will help you plan for, design, and integrate IPv6 into your current IPv4 infrastructure. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6ess/

Chapter 2, "The Structure of the IPv6 Protocol," is availble for free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ipv6ess/chapter/index.html

***iPhoto: The Missing Manual*** Order Number: 365x Apple's wildly popular iPhoto software is a gorgeous digital shoebox for downloading, organizing, printing, publishing, and touching up unlimited numbers of digital photos. In this comprehensive, witty guide, authors Pogue, Schorr, and Story give iPhoto 1.1 the one feature it lacks: a manual. With this guide, Macintosh fans can take their digital photos to the screen, to the Web, to printouts, to hardbound photo books, even to DVDs. And they'll learn how to take iPhoto far beyond its seemingly simple feature list. But the software is just the beginning. The book also covers choosing and mastering a digital camera, basic photographic techniques, and tips for shooting special subjects like kids, sports, nighttime shots, portraits, and more. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/iphototmm/

Top Ten iPhoto Tips http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/06/08/iphoto_tips.html

***Mastering Regular Expressions, 2nd Edition*** Order Number: 2890 Regular expressions are an extremely powerful tool for manipulating text and data. They have spread like wildfire in recent years, now offered as standard features in Perl, Java, VB.NET and C# (and any language using the .NET Framework), PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, MySQL, awk, Emacs, and many other popular tools and languages. If you don't use regular expressions yet, you will discover in this book a whole new world of mastery over your data. If you already use them, you'll appreciate this book's unprecedented detail and breadth of coverage. If you think you know all you need to know about regular expressions, this book is a stunning eye-opener. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/

Chapter 8, "Java" and Chapter 9, ".NET" are available free online: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/regex2/chapter/index.html

***Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition*** Order Number: 3749 "The Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition" provides a complete overview of the Perl programming language, all packed into a convenient, carry-around booklet. It is updated for Perl 5.8, and covers a summary of Perl syntax rules, a complete list of operators, built-in functions, and standard library modules, all with brief descriptions. Also included are the newest Perl features, such as enhanced regular expressions, multithreading, the Perl compiler, and Unicode support. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlpr4/

For a complete list of Perl titles, visit: http://perl.oreilly.com/

================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================

------------------------------- General News ------------------------------- ***Protecting Privacy with Translucent Databases*** Could translucent databases have helped Yale protect its data? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2002/08/02/simson.html

***O'Reilly's 250th Book On Safari*** "IPv6 Essential" is a Safari milestone--it is O'Reilly's 250th book in the subscription-based web service that lets you search hundreds of best-selling technical titles. http://safari.oreilly.com/main.asp?bookname=ipv6ess

Sign up now and get your first 14 days on Safari free. https://www.oreillynet.com/safaripromo/oreilly-14.html

***Top 100 Power Picks*** The editors of "Enterprise Systems" have selected Tim O'Reilly as one of the Top 20 IT Leaders in its annual Enterprise Systems Power 100 issue. The awards look at top influencers, forces, technologies, and products in large enterprise computing. http://www.esj.com/features/article.asp?EditorialsID=108

--------------------- .NET --------------------- ***2002 OSCON .NET Report*** http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/07/29/oscondotnet.html

***The Rotor Architecture Revisited*** Microsoft's Dave Stutz reports on activity around the Rotor project, which was recently refreshed. Besides .NET developers diving into the CLI source code, teachers and students are using it for compsci curriculum development, Microsoft is working on a project to add generics, and as reported on these pages, "diverse porting activity in the wild" has been sighted. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2002/07/22/rotor.html

--------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Making the Python Cookbook*** Putting together such a collective work presented some unique challenges. We recently spoke to the book's two editors about the community effort involved in creating the Python Cookbook. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/08/01/cookbook.html

Python Cookbook Order Number: 1673 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/pythoncook/

***Promiscuous Mode Problems*** Noel Davis looks at a vulnerability in PHP; buffer overflows in Cisco IOS, Fake Identd, HylaFAX, and EnGarde Secure Linux's resolver libraries; and problems in the reporting of Promiscuous Mode by the Linux kernel, Sun Fire servers, chfn, chsh, Pine, GNU Mailman, and the VNC challenge and response. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2002/07/30/insecurities.html

--------------------------- Web Development --------------------------- ***Flash on Mobile and Embedded Devices*** Developers take note: the market is growing! http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2002/08/02/flash_embedded.html

For related reading check out:

ActionScript: The Definitive Guide Order Number: 8520 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/actscript/

J2ME in a Nutshell Order Number: 253x http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/j2meanut/

***Top Ten Web Performance Tuning Tips*** In the world of Web publishing, lots of effort goes into building functionality, and to some degree into designing the user interface, but performance tuning is often overlooked in the mad rush to get to the next project. Here's a terrific list of top ten performance tips from Patrick Killelea, author of "Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition."

Web Performance Tuning, 2nd Edition Order Number: 172X http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webpt2/

--------------------- Java --------------------- ***2002 OSCON Java Wrap-Up*** http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/29/osconjava.html

***10 Reasons We Need Java 3.0*** It's now seven years since Sun posted the first public release of Java, and it is showing its age. There are many parts of Java that everyone agrees should be fixed, but can't be for reasons of backwards compatibility. Elliotte Rusty Harold imagines a "Java 3" that jettisons the baggage of the last decade, and proposes numerous changes to the core language, virtual machine, and class libraries. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2002/07/31/java3.html

------------------------------- Bioinformatics ------------------------------- ***Wanted: Bioinformatics info*** Do you know of any bioinformatics groups? Know anyone who does? Have you read a good bioinformatics article lately? Please let me know at marsee@oreilly.com

--------------------- Mac --------------------- ***Dissecting .Mac*** Current iTools enrollees have felt conflicting emotions about Apple's announced move to .Mac, with its annual pricing structure. Here's a look at the services being offered, and their value, from an experienced user's point of view. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/07/30/dot_mac.html

***Jaguar: Time to Stop Pussyfooting Around*** Debates about Apple's marketing of Mac OS X, upgrade pricing for Jaguar, and the viability of the Switch campaign are distracting us from what's important: it's time to move forward with this operating system as quickly as possible. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/01/jaguar.html

Until next time,

Marsee