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Introduction to Flex 2
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A step-by-step introduction to one of the hottest new imaging trends. We'll walk you through making the best HDR images-from image capture to digital darkroom tips and tricks.
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- High Performance MySQL, Second Edition
- Intellectual Property and Open Source
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- Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition
- Learning Flex 3
- Learning Perl, Fifth Edition
- Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition
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- The Productive Programmer
- Propellerhead Reason 4 Tips and Tricks, Fourth Edition (PC Publishing)
- The Software Test Engineer's Handbook (Rocky Nook)
- Statistics in a Nutshell
- Take Control of .Mac (TidBITS)
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- Take Your Best Shot
- Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, Third Edition (No Starch)
- Website Optimization
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Upcoming Events
For more events, please see: events.oreilly.com
| Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference |
| Feb 3-4, 2003 |
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Meydenbauer Center Bellevue, WA |
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Author Steven Feuerstein (Learning Oracle PL/SQL, Oracle Built-in Packages, Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, Oracle PL/SQL Programming, Oracle PL/SQL Programming Guide to Oracle8i Features, and more) is one of the Special Speakers at the Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference.
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| O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference |
| Feb 3-6, 2003 |
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Westin Horton Plaza San Diego, CA |
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| VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference |
| Feb 9-14, 2003 |
| San Francisco, CA |
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Join O'Reilly authors G. Andrew Duthie (ASP.NET in a Nutshell), Ken Getz (Access Cookbook), Juval Lowy (COM and .NET Component Services), and Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET) at the tenth annual VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference.
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| St. Louis Java Users Group |
| Feb 13, 2003 |
| St. Louis, MO |
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Author Brian M. Coyner (Java Extreme Programming Cookbook, forthcoming in March) presents "How to Test Everything" at the February St. Louis Java Users Group.
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| Linux in Boise Club |
| Feb 18-18, 2003 |
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ExecuTrain of Boise Boise, ID |
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chromatic, technical editor at O'Reilly Network and coauthor of Running Weblogs with Slash, holds forth on "Perl and the Pyramids of Giza" at a meeting of the Linux in Boise Club, starting at 7:00 p.m..
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| New York PHP Users Group |
| Feb 25, 2003 |
| New York, NY |
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Coauthors Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) are both featured speakers at
the next NYPHP meeting, addressing the topics of "Implementing Web Services" and "Web
Application Security Vulnerabilities," beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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| XML Web Services One Conference |
| Mar 3-6, 2003 |
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Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, CA |
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Drop by our booth to peruse our latest titles.
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| Heartland Users Group Author Event |
| Mar 5, 2003 |
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Vatterott College Kansas City, MO |
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Author Chuck Cavaness (Programming Jakarta Struts) is the featured speaker at this users group meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m.
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| South by Southwest |
| Mar 7-11, 2003 |
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Austin Convention Center Austin, TX |
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Setting your conference compass to South by Southwest? Be sure to visit the O'Reilly booth and view our wares while you're there.
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| Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and E.U. |
| Mar 17-19, 2003 |
| Washington, D.C. |
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Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) discusses PHP issues.
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| Web Services Edge 2003 East Conference & Expo |
| Mar 18-20, 2003 |
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Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA |
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Author Jesse Liberty (Programming C#, Learning C#, Learning Visual Basic .NET and Programming ASP.NET) is the keynote speaker at Web Services Edge 2003 East Conference & Expo.
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| NCMUG Field Trip to O'Reilly |
| Mar 22, 2003 |
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1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA |
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Join author Derrick Story (iPhoto: The Missing Manual and Digital Photography Pocket Guide) as he shows you how to take advantage of the latest version of the iLife application suite. Take a special "behind the scenes" tour
of the O'Reilly Campus in Sebastopol.
Derrick will hang around after his talk to answer questions and sign books. The O'Reilly bookstore will be open for this event.
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| Flash Forward 2003 |
| Mar 26-29, 2003 |
| San Francisco, USA |
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Author Colin Moock (ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide) leads an ActionScript Workshop and a session on "Multiuser Flash with Unity 2."
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| Software Legends Night at Softpro |
| Mar 26, 2003 |
| Burlington, MA |
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Spend an evening filled with tips, tricks, best practices, and fun with author Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET).
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| Northern Virginia Software Symposium |
| Mar 28-30, 2003 |
| Reston, VA |
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This J2EE/Core Java/XML/Web Services/Open Source symposium for developers, architects, and project managers features author Jason Hunter (Java Servlet
Programming).
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| Spring VON |
| Apr 2, 2003 |
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San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA |
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Authors Cullen Jennings and David G. Kelly (Practical VoIP Using VOCAL) are speaking at Voices on the 'Net Tradeshow & Expo.
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| San Diego Technical Books Author Event |
| Apr 5, 2003 |
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4240 Kearny Mesa Road San Diego, CA |
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Authors Darryl Leon and Scott Markel (Sequence Analysis in a Nutshell: A Guide to Common Tools and Databases) visit the store at noon to sign copies of their book and talk shop about bioinformatics. SD Tech Books will be giving away a few O'Reilly books and t-shirts to lucky people in attendance. Drop by for an informative and mind-expanding afternoon, and as they say at San Diego Tech Books, "Bring your Brain!"
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| Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group Author Event |
| Apr 6, 2003 |
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Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA |
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Author David N. Blank-Edelman (Perl for System Administration) is giving a Perl tutorial for System administrators with at least advanced-beginner
to intermediate experience with Perl.
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| FOSE |
| Apr 8-10, 2003 |
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Washington, D.C. Convention Center |
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Check out the display of our newest titles as well as our classics at our booth. Friends of O'Reilly & Associates can attend for free by filling out this form.
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| Sonoma County Web SIG |
| Apr 8, 2003 |
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Volunteer Center Santa Rosa, CA |
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"Web Technology: State of the County,"
is the topic discussed by a panel of professionals, including O'Reilly COO CJ Rayhill and Nancy Abila, Director of Online Publishing. Doors open 6:30 p.m., and the program runs from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m.
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| ScreenSaver Author Feature |
| Apr 9-10, 2003 |
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Author Rael Dornfest (Google Hacks, Mac OS X Hacks, and Essential Blogging) chats about Google hacks.
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| MySQL Users Conference |
| Apr 10-12, 2003 |
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Doubletree Hotel, Booth #113 San Jose, CA |
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We're exhibiting at the MySQL Conference--be sure to visit our booth if you're going. In addition, check out MySQL and Ruby presentations by author Paul DuBois (MySQL Cookbook and Software Portability with imake).
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| Java Freedom Software Symposium |
| Apr 11-13, 2003 |
| Philadelphia, PA |
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Author James Duncan Davidson (Learning Cocoa with
Objective-C ) is a featured speaker.
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| JavaRanch Online Author Forum |
| Apr 15-18, 2003 |
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Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) moseys up to the JavaRanch for four days, answering questions and responding to Forum topics. On the last day, four winners will be randomly selected from all Forum participants to win a copy of the book.
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| San Francisco PC User's Group Author Event |
| Apr 15, 2003 |
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Community College District Office 33 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA |
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Author Brian McConnell (Beyond Contact)
talks about the present status of SETI programs and his research, which focuses primarily on message composition, at this SFPCUG meeting, which begins at 7:00 p.m.
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| O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference |
| Apr 22-25, 2003 |
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Westin Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA |
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Unlike some of our other topic-specific conferences, this one is really aimed at showcasing whatever the "alpha geeks" are playing with now.
Take part in evaluating emerging and disruptive technologies and connect with the cadre of hackers, pundits, super users, and investors deeply interested in the future of new technology.
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| Amazon Web Services Workshop |
| Apr 22, 2003 |
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Westin Santa Clara Santa Clara, CA |
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Amazon.com employees and third party developers share case studies and
demonstrations during this free full-day workshop that examines the
Amazon platform in depth, with a specific focus on Web Services APIs.
Space is limited. Register no later than April 7, 2003 by sending an
email to Linda Holder with the following information: name, title, company, mailing address, phone
number, and email address.
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| PHPCon East 2003 |
| Apr 23-25, 2003 |
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Park Central Hotel New York, NY |
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Join O'Reilly author and PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf (PHP Pocket Reference) at PHPCon for his opening keynote and session on "PHP Tips and Tricks." Also, don't miss PHP Cookbook authors Adam Trachtenberg and David Sklar for their session, "Taming Large-Scale PHP Projects."
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| Linuxfest Northwest 2003 |
| Apr 26, 2003 |
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Bellingham Technical College Bellingham, WA |
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Authors Brian Aker (Running Weblogs with
Slash) and
Randal Schwartz (Learning Perl and
Learning Perl on Win32
Systems)are featured speakers at this regional exposition for computer users interested
in the Linux operating system and other open source software. (Admission to the event is free.)
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| Directory Experts Conference |
| Apr 28-May 1, 2003 |
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Scottsdale Mountain Shadows Marriott Resort & Golf Club Scottsdale, AZ |
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Authors Robbie Allen (Active Directory, 2nd Edition and Active Directory Cookbook, both coming in summer 2003) and Cricket Liu (DNS and BIND, DNS on Windows NT, and DNS on Windows 2000) are featured keynote speakers.
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| Real World Linux 2003 |
| Apr 28-30, 2003 |
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Metro Toronto Convention Centre Toronto, ON, Canada |
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Author David G. Kelly (Practical VoIP Using VOCAL) makes a presentation at the conference on April 30.
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| Networld+Interop |
| Apr 28-May 1, 2003 |
| Las Vegas, NV |
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Author Matthew Gast (802.11 Wireless
Networks: The Definitive Guide, Network
Printing, and T1: A
Survival Guide) is instructing the iLabs wireless LAN security class at Networld+Interop. The class is open to anyone, not just registered conference attendees.
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| JavaRanch Online Author Forum |
| Apr 29-May 2, 2003 |
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Author Jack Shirazi (Java Performance Tuning) rides into the JavaRanch for four days, answering questions and responding to Forum topics. On the last day, four winners will be randomly selected from all Forum participants to win a copy of the book.
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| Spring International PHP Conference |
| May 8-9, 2003 |
| Amsterdam |
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Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) makes two presentations at this event: "Avoiding Common Web Application Security Vulnerabilities" and
"myphp: embedding PHP in MySQL."
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| Orange County Java User Group Author Presentation |
| May 8-8, 2003 |
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UC Irvine Irvine, CA |
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Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) is a featured speaker at an OCJUG meeting.
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| JavaRanch Online Author Forum |
| May 13-16, 2003 |
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Authors Eric M. Burke and Brian M. Coyner (Java Extreme Programming Cookbook) mosey into the JavaRanch for four days, answering questions and responding to Forum topics. On the last day, four winners will be randomly selected from all Forum participants to win a copy of the book.
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| Bay.NET User Group Software Legends Event |
| May 14-14, 2003 |
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39210 Fremont Hub Fremont, CA |
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Come to Borders from 7:00-9:00 p.m. for a highly interactive evening of fun and learning. Glean tips, tricks, and best practices from best-selling author Juval Lowy (COM and .NET Component Services and Programming .NET Components)and David Chappell. You've read their books. You've learned from them. Now come meet them! No PowerPoint presentations - just answers to your questions and valuable programming tips.
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| Dallas Metro Metro Java Users Group Author Presentation |
| May 14, 2003 |
| Dallas, TX |
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Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO)gives an NIO presentation to members of the Dallas Metro Java Users group.
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| Utah Java Users Group Author Event |
| May 15, 2003 |
| Salt Lake City |
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Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) returns to his hometown to make an NIO presentation to the local Java users group.
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| San Diego Java Users Group Author Event |
| May 20, 2003 |
| San Diego |
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Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) gives an NIO presentation at a meeting of the SDJUG.
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| BookExpo America |
| May 28-Jun 1, 2003 |
| Los Angeles, CA |
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Visit our table in the International Rights Center.
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| Perl Whirl Geek Cruise |
| Jun 1-8, 2003 |
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Hawaii |
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Take a Perl Whirl Geek Cruise with authors Tim Bunce (Programming the Perl DBI), Randal Schwartz (Learning Perl and Learning Perl on Win32 Systems), Nathan Torkington (Perl Cookbook), and Larry Wall (Programming Perl, 3rd Edition). Aloha!
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| Mac Mania II Geek Cruise |
| Jun 1-8, 2003 |
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Hawaii |
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Have fun in the tropical sun on the Mac Mania II Geek Cruise with authors James Duncan Davidson (Learning Cocoa with Objective-C) and David Pogue (Missing Manual Series).
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| Microsoft Tech Ed 2003 |
| Jun 1-6, 2003 |
| Dallas, TX |
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Drop by our booth, say howdy, and look over our latest publications.
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| JavaOne |
| Jun 10-13, 2003 |
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Moscone Center San Francisco, CA |
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Drop by our booth to check out our latest Java offerings. Also, authors David Jordan and Craig Russell (Java Data Objects) are making the sole JDO presentation at JavaOne.
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| Author Event at Powell's Technical Bookstore |
| Jun 11, 2003 |
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33 NW Park Avenue Portland, OR |
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Starting at 7:00 p.m., Rael Dornfest and Rob Flickenger, authors of O'Reilly's best-selling Hacks series (Google Hacks, Linux Server Hacks, and Mac OS X Hacks), drop by Powell's to talk about their top-rated tomes, answer questions, and reveal a few of the private hacks that didn't make the series. Powell's will be giving away a Hacks book with any O'Reilly book (excluding
Pocket References) purchased all day June 11.
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| Portland Perl Mongers Author Event |
| Jun 11, 2003 |
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House of Louie Portland, OR |
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chromatic, O'Reilly Network technical editor, meets up with the local Perl Monger tribe to discuss "Mail::SimpleList" over post-Powell's pu-pu platters at House of Louie, starting at about 9:00 p.m.
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| MetroMac Author Event: David Pogue |
| Jun 12, 2003 |
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Apple Store Soho New York, NY |
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Come to the MetroMac General Meeting for a special event featuring prolific Mac author and New York Times technology columnist David Pogue, who will unveil the "Secrets of iPhoto 2." Pogue's new book, iPhoto2: The Missing Manual, has just been published. iMovie 3 and iDVD: The Missing Manual is another new addition to his Missing Manual series.
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| Wisconsin Java Software Symposium |
| Jun 13-15, 2003 |
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Marriott West Milwaukee, WI |
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A three day limited attendance J2EE/Core Java/XML/Web Services/Open Source symposium for Java developers, Java Architects and Technical Project Managers with 44 technical sessions to select from and featuring James Duncan Davidson, creator of Apache Tomcat & Apache Ant, Bruce Tate, author of "Bitter Java", Robert Martin, author of “Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns and Practices and Ted Neward, author of the soon to be released, "Effective Enterprise Java".
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| Barnes & Noble Author Event: David Jordan |
| Jun 16, 2003 |
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760 SE Maynard Cary, NC |
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Author David Jordan (Java Data Objects) visits B&N beginning at 7:30 p.m. to sign books.
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Conference News
MySQL Conference and Expo
Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and MySQL AB
April 23-26, 2007
Santa Clara, CA
RailsConf 2007Co-presented by O'Reilly Media and Ruby Central
May 17-20, 2007
Portland, OR
RailsConf 2007 is now sold out!
Get On the Waiting List Now If you were not able to register for RailsConf 2007 before it sold out, please add your name to our waiting list and we will notify you if more space becomes available. If space does open up, registration is on a first come, first served basis. http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/rails2007/create/inv
Where 2.0 Conference 2007May 29-30, 2007
San Jose, CA
Use code "whr07dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price.
O'Reilly TOC ConferenceJune 18-20, 2007
San Jose, CA
Use code "toc07dsug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price.
Ubuntu LiveJuly 22-24, 2007
Portland, Oregon
For complete conference information, go to: http://conferences.oreilly.com/
News from O'Reilly & Beyond
General News
David Pogue to visit NYPC March 20
David Pogue ("Missing Manual series") will
be the featured presenter at the New York Personal Computer User Group
on March 20. The Doors open at 6pm and the presentation starts at 7pm.
David will be talking about Windows Vista and his latest book, "Windows
Vista: The Missing Manual." David will also sing and play the piano
to entertain the crowds. NYPC General meetings are Free and Open to All
Call For Makers: Maker Faire Bay Area 2007--Deadline Extended to March 18
Maker Faire Bay Area will take place May 19-20, 2007 at the San Mateo
Fairgrounds, CA. Here's some new ideas for projects that we're
looking for:
Halloween projects (props, costumes, interactive displays, music),
Recycled things, Ham Radio, Weather stations, Cars (hot rods, custom
vans, especially with a tech flavor), Airplanes and Aeronautics (models,
etc), History of Science & Engineering, Biology/Biotech, Chemistry, Cool
RC Toys & Mods, Video Games (retro, arcade and more), Trains, Looms
(historical or unusual), Sewing demonstrations, Kites, Boats, Old Farm
or Garden Equipment (Tractors, etc.), Temporary Structures (Tents,
Domes, etc.), Unusual Tools or Machines, How to Fix Things or Take them
Apart (Vacuums, Clocks, Washing Machines, etc.).
QOOP + O'Reilly: Create Your Own Shirt or Mug
In three easy steps you can create your own O'Reilly shirt or mug.
New Course Featuring AJAX--O'Reilly/University of Illinois
Certificate Series
O'Reilly Learning is proud to announce their new Client-Side Web
Programming Certificate Series. These courses provide a complete
understanding of front-end web development, from HTML and CSS, to
JavaScript DOM and AJAX.
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
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Open Source
How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source
In the early 1970s, the designers at DEC made a technical decision about memory addressing that separated their computers from the mainframes of the day. That single decision led to porting woes throughout the 1980s--and, so believes Mark Rosenthal, made free and open source software more possible and appealing.
How to Optimize Rank Data in MySQL
Suppose you need to calculate constantly-changing information based on
constantly-updated information in one or more tables. Are you stuck
doing everything in multiple expensive queries? By no means. Baron
Schwartz demonstrates how careful denormalization and query construction
can lower your database load and simplify your code.
Digital Media
Lightroom Getting Started: Organizing the Lightroom Workspace
The Lightroom workspace is extremely malleable. You can easily enlarge
or shrink the various windows to suit your viewing and working
preferences, whether you are on a laptop in the field or your cinema
display in the studio. In this downloadable PDF excerpt from Photoshop
“Lightroom Aventure--Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital photographers,“ Mikkel Aaland takes you on a short Lightroom tour of the workspace.
Joe Schorr on Color Management in Aperture
Joe Schorr, Apple Senior Product Manager for Aperture, covers color
management in Aperture 1.5.2. Derrick Story interviews Joe in this
exclusive O'Reilly Media podcast.
Mac
Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Matt Neuberg describes how to use rb-appscript to manage Apple events
without Applescript. Learn the basics of rb-appscript usage, with
example scripts, including a rewrite of the Ruby-AppleScript example
from Matt's book “AppleScript: The Definitive Guide.“
Stream Live HDTV from Your Mac
Erica Sadun shows how to stream HD EyeTV video from a Mac using VLC in
five easy steps, even as it records. Learn how to build this remote
video streaming solution by accessing EyeTV's raw MPEG transport streams and using VLC to stream that MPEG and watch the video on another computer.
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