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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
January 25, 2008
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***Ajax: The Definitive Guide
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***The Art & Science of JavaScript (SitePoint)
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***Augmented Reality @ Home (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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***Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5
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***Facebook: The Missing Manual
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***iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual
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***Learning ActionScript 3.0
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***Programming C# 3.0, Fifth Edition
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***The Ruby Programming Language
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***Visualizing Data
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514556>
***Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515164>
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***Money:Tech, New York City, New York--Feb 6-7, 2008
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******Call For Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2008--Entry deadline is
March 12, 2008
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***Greg Wilson at Amazon
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***How to Tell Your Perl Story (at OSCON)
Have you done something stunningly cool or staggeringly useful with Perl
in the past year? Conference season will be here soon; it's time to
consider giving a talk to your local monger group, a regional
conference, or even OSCON. Perl track committee member brian d foy gives
several guidelines to help you decide what to talk about and how to
present it.
<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2008/01/18/how-to-tell-your-perl-story.html>
***Creating Games in Ruby
Nearly every developer fosters a secret desire to create cool video
games, but for most of us, the barriers to entry (knowing how to create
performant graphics code) has kept us out of the game. But there are
several toolkits for Ruby that can get you on your way without a Ph.D.
Part 1:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/04/creating-games-in-ruby.html>
Part 2:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/ruby/2007/12/18/creating-games-in-ruby-part-2.html>
***Administering MySQL Using Flex
Adobe's Flex offers a rich client-side user experience, but how do you
use it to create practical applications. In this article, you'll see how
to hook Flex up to a PHP backend to do some simple MySQL administration.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2008/01/15/administering-mysql-using-flex.html>
***Joe Schorr on Leopard & Apeture
Derrick Story interviews Senior Product Manager Joe Schorr, on some of
the most enticing and useful features for Aperture photographers.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/08/joe-schorr-on-leopard-and-aperture.html>
***Less is More: Steve Jobs' Macworld 2008 Keynote Address
Steve Jobs opened the Macworld surprise envelope at the 2008 keynote
address and out slid a sleek notebook computer: the Macbook Air. Daniel
Steinberg was on hand for the unveiling and files this report about all
the new hardware, iPhone updates, and more.
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2008/01/17/macworld-2008.html>
***LILO and GRUB: Boot Loaders Made Simple
LILO and Grub are the most popular Linux bootloaders. Usually, your
Linux distribution chooses and configures one or the other for you, but
this article provides a handy comparison of the two, and offers some
troubleshooting and configuration tips if you ever want to do it by
hand.
<http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2008/01/22/lilo-and-grub-boot-loaders-made-simple.html>
***The Art & Science of JavaScript
In this tutorial, we'll look at a technique for using CSS and JavaScript
to build a first-person-perspective maze, in homage to old-school
adventure games like Dungeon Master and Doom.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/art-science-javascript>
For more articles, go to:
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Blogs
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***A Year in O'Reilly Books (2007) from Tim O'Reilly
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/01/a_year_in_oreilly_books.html>
***HF BLOCKED SCRIPT Learn Outside the Book
<http://www.oreillynet.com/headfirst/blog/2008/01/hf_javascript_learn_outside_th.html#more>
***Scott Kelby--Katrin's New Book is a Winner, and I Know Eight People
I'm Sending a Copy to This Week.
<http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2008/archives/939>
***Freaking Multitudes of .htaccess great balls of fire
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2007/12/freaking-multitudes-of-htacces.html>
***Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
<http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2008/01/windows_mobile_weekly_roundup_71.html>
***TMTOWTDI -> The Right Way to Do It
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/01/tmtowtdi_the_right_way_to_do_i.html>
***PhoneValet & iPhone: Instant Landline Voice Mail
<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/01/phonevalet-iphone-instant-land.html>
***Thoughts on Firefox 3.0
<http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2008/01/thoughts_on_firefox_30.html>