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To register for the conference, go to: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/where2005/create/ord_where ================================================ News From O'Reilly & Beyond ================================================ --------------------- General News --------------------- ***Historical Maps Online David Rumsey writes about his collection of more than 150,000 historical maps of the Americas and the world, many of which he has made available free to the public in an online map library. At O'Reilly's Where 2.0 Conference, David will draw on his personal map collection, as well as his work with geographic information systems, to discuss how information of all kinds has been mapped and will be mapped in the future. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/06/02/davidrumsey.html ***Creating a Textbook My Way: An Interview with Charles Anderson Charles Anderson is an assistant professor in the Division of Computer Science at Western Oregon University, teaching mostly networking and operating system courses. Being very particular about the materials covered in his classes, he's had difficulty finding appropriate and timely textbooks. Learn how Charles used SafariU to create his custom textbook, while avoiding copyright fair use limitations and the time-consuming process of gathering appropriate materials. Check out the SafariU homepage for details and a demo. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/safariuanderson.html ***Wire Frame Your Site Many elements of a site affect how successfuly it communicates with users. Wire frames can untangle your site's layout from its graphical communication, to help boost usability, logical content flow, and support the creation of a compelling graphic design. http://www.sitepoint.com/article/wire-frame-your-site --------------------- Open Source --------------------- ***Live Backups of MySQL Using Replication One of the difficulties with a large and active MySQL database is making clean backups without having to bring the server down. A simple method to ensure reliable backups is to set up replication for MySQL. Russell Dyer, author of "MySQL in a Nutshell," walks through the process of using replication for data backups. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/16/MySQLian.html ***Ajax on Rails XMLHttpRequest and Ruby on Rails are two hot topics in web development. As you ought to expect by now, they work really well together. Curt Hibbs explains the minimal Ajax you need to know and the minimal Ruby you need to write to Ajax-ify your Rails applications. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/rails_ajax.html ***Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks Every day, programmers perform unglamorous but necessary data crunching: recycling legacy data, checking configuration files, yanking data out of web server logs, and more. Knowing how to crunch data with the least amount of effort can make the difference between meeting a deadline and making another pot of coffee. Greg Wilson, author of Pragmatic's "Data Crunching," offers ten tips for crunch time. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/06/09/datacrunching.html ***What's New In PHP 5.1 Explore the new features and changes to the popular open-source web development technology. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=272086 --------------------- Mac --------------------- ***An Introduction to Tiger Terminal, Part 2 In this second tutorial on Tiger Terminal by MacinTech UG member Mary Norbury-Glaser, you'll learn how to use the terminal app to look at external volumes, then enable ssh to access files, scp to securely copy them remotely, sftp for secure ftp, and finally how to use rsync to synchronize files between two computers. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/14/terminal2.html ***Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight Deadlines PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text, graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your message across in high style. But what if you're on a short deadline? Franklin Tessler, author of "Office 2004 for Mac: The Missing Manual," shows you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together slideshows in no time. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/10/office04forMac.html ***It's True! Jobs Switches to Intel: A Review of the WWDC 05 Keynote Don't get too comfortable after making the transition to Mac OS X. Steve Jobs decides to keep things interesting by announcing during his WWDC 05 keynote that Apple will switch to Intel processors. Here's what he said and how he plans to make it happen. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/06/07/wwdc.html --------------------- Windows/.NET --------------------- ***Using Tabbed Browsing in Internet Explorer 6 You don't need to wait for Internet Explorer 7 for tabbed browsing--with the latest MSN Toolbar, you can use it in IE 6. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use it. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/06/14/ie_tabs.html ***Using Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool The Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool can rid your PC of malware, even if you're already protected by antivirus software. Mitch Tulloch shows you the ins and outs of how to use it. Mitch is the author of "Windows Server Hacks." http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/06/01/ malware_removal.html ***Porting a Project from Visual Studio .NET to Mono Three years ago, when .NET was still in pre-release status, Kevin Farnham developed a C# application to automatically generate stock market web pages. Recently, he ported the project to Mono and Debian Linux. Follow along to see how the port went. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/06/13/vs2mono.html --------------------- Java --------------------- ***How to Talk About Jini, J2EE, and Web Services at a Cocktail Party Heard about distributed technologies for Java, but not sure what they are or why they're important? Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates, authors of "Head First Java, 2nd Edition," present this cocktail-party overview. Hold your own in conversation with Java geeks. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/08/27/cocktails.html ***Exploring Laszlo Classes, Attributes, and Events Laszlo offers an interesting option for rich client-side GUIs--XML markup of widgets and their event handling, which is then converted into a Flash executable that is run with the Flash plugin in the user's browser. Satya Komatineni introduces Laszlo and shows how to get started writing web applications with it. http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/06/15/laszlo.html --------------------- Digital Media --------------------- ***Adam Williams: Massive Guitars, Micro Computers The former Powerman 5000 guitarist reveals how to make huge guitar sounds on a home computer--without waking the neighbors--then shares loads of MP3 examples. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/15/williams.html ***Bring Your MIDI Music to Life Jim Aikin shares numerous tips on getting the best musical expression out of them--both through playing technique and crafty computer editing. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/06/08/controller2.html --------------------- MAKE --------------------- ***MAKE's Rebellious Credo: Void the Warranty! "New York Times" columnist Lawrence Downes recently touted the virtues of O'Reilly's new MAKE magazine. Downes salutes MAKE's renegade DIY spirit, noting, "In this world, to tinker--to open the case, to fiddle with wires, and see what happens--is to rebel." Are you ready to rebel? (Free registration required) http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12sun3.html? ***MAKE: Blog Phillip Torrone kicks the tires on the iPod photo connector. The iPod photo connector is a neat little accessory ($29) that you plug in to your iPod photo and to your supported camera; it can transfer all the photos off your camera and to the iPod, giving you 40/60 gigs of storage. The connector charges the shuffle and you can make a super-cheap DIY version of the Belkin media reader, too. http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/06/ipod_photo_conn.html ***For more information on MAKE, go to: http://www.makezine.com/ ================================================ From Your Peers =============================================== ***Don't forget to check out the O'Reilly UG wiki to see what user groups around the globe are up to: http://wiki.oreillynet.com/usergroups/index.cgi -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC