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viguy Recently, Near-Time and O’Reilly Media announced a collaborative development experiment for our new title "Software Craftsmanship". Now you can comment on this book as it's being written. Help authors Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye turn this into a bestseller. Read the blog post "Comment often. Watch book grow. Have fun."

The O'Reilly School of Technology just announced a new PHP/SQL Certificate. Don't forget UG members get a 30% discount with the promotion code "ORALL1".

And we are now offering video tutorials from our Tools of Change conference on DVD . Topics include Digitizing Your Backlist, SEO for Book Publishers: Beyond Book Search, XML for Publishers, and Making Mobile Work.

Travel news: Are you going to Mix 08 in Las Vegas? Let me know and I'll put you in touch with our editors attending the show. They will be showing off our brand new Essential Silverlight Up-To-Date book making it's debut at the show. And don't forget I'll be at SD West March 5-6 in Santa Clara and then off to Chicago for PyCon March 12-15.

Marsee


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February 22, 2008


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Upcoming Events

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Webcast: Putting a New Spin on Lidar Imaging
Date TBA

Our apologies, this webcast has been postponed to another date, to be determined.

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Velodyne's Lidar sensor approaches Lidar imaging in a whole new way, using 64 lasers instead of the traditional one to provide a rich, 360 degree 3-D point cloud. The sensor is used for autonomous navigation, 3-D mapping, scene capture, and other applications. The sensor was used on 5 of the top 6 teams in the DARPA Urban Challenge race for autonomous vehicles, and to capture the outdoor scenes in the Radiohead video "House of Cards." This session gives a brief background of Velodyne and shows its new sensor, called the HDL-64E, in action.

This session will benefit anyone with an interest in laser, video, or other types of scene capture technology.

About Bruce Hall

Bruce Hall was named president of Velodyne in July 2003 to provide strategic leadership and to drive Velodyne's growth. He is responsible for running the day-to-day operations of the company, in particular spearheading the company's development of new products. Prior to joining Velodyne, Bruce held positions as a Gartner Group Research Analyst, Senior Director of Product Management for Xevo Corporation and Vice President of Marketing at InCert Software and Trigent Software. In these positions, he was responsible for defining the companies' products and services, as well as defining and implementing marketing strategies including positioning, business development and partner enablement. Along with his brother Dave, Mr. Hall participated in the first two DARPA Grand Challenges as Team D.A.D., and brought to market the HDL-64E LIDAR sensor that was in use by all the top teams in the subsequent DARPA Urban Challenge.

In the course of his career, Hall has testified before Congress, been interviewed by television news sources including "Nightline", and been quoted in countless publications. Hall earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business from Boston University. He is married and the father of two daughters and a son.



Northwest Oracle Users Group Winter Conference
Feb 3-4, 2003
Meydenbauer Center
Bellevue, WA
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.

O'Reilly Bioinformatics Technology Conference
Feb 3-6, 2003
Westin Horton Plaza
San Diego, CA


VSLive! Visual Studio Developer Conference
Feb 9-14, 2003
San Francisco, CA
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.

St. Louis Java Users Group
Feb 13, 2003
St. Louis, MO
Author Brian M. Coyner (Java Extreme Programming Cookbook, forthcoming in March) presents "How to Test Everything" at the February St. Louis Java Users Group.

Linux in Boise Club
Feb 18-18, 2003
ExecuTrain of Boise
Boise, ID
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..

New York PHP Users Group
Feb 25, 2003
New York, NY
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.

XML Web Services One Conference
Mar 3-6, 2003
Santa Clara Marriott
Santa Clara, CA
Drop by our booth to peruse our latest titles.

Heartland Users Group Author Event
Mar 5, 2003
Vatterott College
Kansas City, MO
Author Chuck Cavaness (Programming Jakarta Struts) is the featured speaker at this users group meeting, which begins at 6:30 p.m.

South by Southwest
Mar 7-11, 2003
Austin Convention Center
Austin, TX
Setting your conference compass to South by Southwest? Be sure to visit the O'Reilly booth and view our wares while you're there.

Open Source for National and Local eGovernment Programs in the U.S. and E.U.
Mar 17-19, 2003
Washington, D.C.
Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) discusses PHP issues.

Web Services Edge 2003 East Conference & Expo
Mar 18-20, 2003
Hynes Convention Center
Boston, MA
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.

NCMUG Field Trip to O'Reilly
Mar 22, 2003
1005 Gravenstein Highway North
Sebastopol, CA
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.

Flash Forward 2003
Mar 26-29, 2003
San Francisco, USA
Author Colin Moock (ActionScript for Flash MX: The Definitive Guide) leads an ActionScript Workshop and a session on "Multiuser Flash with Unity 2."

Software Legends Night at Softpro
Mar 26, 2003
Burlington, MA
Spend an evening filled with tips, tricks, best practices, and fun with author Chris Sells (Mastering Visual Studio .NET).

Northern Virginia Software Symposium
Mar 28-30, 2003
Reston, VA
This J2EE/Core Java/XML/Web Services/Open Source symposium for developers, architects, and project managers features author Jason Hunter (Java Servlet Programming).

Spring VON
Apr 2, 2003
San Jose Convention Center
San Jose, CA
Authors Cullen Jennings and David G. Kelly (Practical VoIP Using VOCAL) are speaking at Voices on the 'Net Tradeshow & Expo.

San Diego Technical Books Author Event
Apr 5, 2003
4240 Kearny Mesa Road
San Diego, CA
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!"

Western Pennsylvania Linux Users Group Author Event
Apr 6, 2003
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
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.

FOSE
Apr 8-10, 2003
Washington, D.C. Convention Center
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.

Sonoma County Web SIG
Apr 8, 2003
Volunteer Center
Santa Rosa, CA
"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.

ScreenSaver Author Feature
Apr 9-10, 2003
Author Rael Dornfest (Google Hacks, Mac OS X Hacks, and Essential Blogging) chats about Google hacks.

MySQL Users Conference
Apr 10-12, 2003
Doubletree Hotel, Booth #113
San Jose, CA
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).

Java Freedom Software Symposium
Apr 11-13, 2003
Philadelphia, PA
Author James Duncan Davidson (Learning Cocoa with Objective-C ) is a featured speaker.

JavaRanch Online Author Forum
Apr 15-18, 2003
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.

San Francisco PC User's Group Author Event
Apr 15, 2003
Community College District Office
33 Gough Street, San Francisco, CA
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.

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Apr 22-25, 2003
Westin Santa Clara
Santa Clara, CA
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.

Amazon Web Services Workshop
Apr 22, 2003
Westin Santa Clara
Santa Clara, CA
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.

PHPCon East 2003
Apr 23-25, 2003
Park Central Hotel
New York, NY
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."

Linuxfest Northwest 2003
Apr 26, 2003
Bellingham Technical College
Bellingham, WA
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.)

Directory Experts Conference
Apr 28-May 1, 2003
Scottsdale Mountain Shadows Marriott Resort & Golf Club
Scottsdale, AZ
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.

Real World Linux 2003
Apr 28-30, 2003
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Toronto, ON, Canada
Author David G. Kelly (Practical VoIP Using VOCAL) makes a presentation at the conference on April 30.

Networld+Interop
Apr 28-May 1, 2003
Las Vegas, NV
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.

JavaRanch Online Author Forum
Apr 29-May 2, 2003
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.

Spring International PHP Conference
May 8-9, 2003
Amsterdam
Author David Sklar (PHP Cookbook) makes two presentations at this event: "Avoiding Common Web Application Security Vulnerabilities" and "myphp: embedding PHP in MySQL."

Orange County Java User Group Author Presentation
May 8-8, 2003
UC Irvine
Irvine, CA
Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) is a featured speaker at an OCJUG meeting.

JavaRanch Online Author Forum
May 13-16, 2003
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.

Bay.NET User Group Software Legends Event
May 14-14, 2003
39210 Fremont Hub
Fremont, CA
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.

Dallas Metro Metro Java Users Group Author Presentation
May 14, 2003
Dallas, TX
Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO)gives an NIO presentation to members of the Dallas Metro Java Users group.

Utah Java Users Group Author Event
May 15, 2003
Salt Lake City
Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) returns to his hometown to make an NIO presentation to the local Java users group.

San Diego Java Users Group Author Event
May 20, 2003
San Diego
Author Ron Hitchens (Java NIO) gives an NIO presentation at a meeting of the SDJUG.

BookExpo America
May 28-Jun 1, 2003
Los Angeles, CA
Visit our table in the International Rights Center.

Perl Whirl Geek Cruise
Jun 1-8, 2003
Hawaii
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!

Mac Mania II Geek Cruise
Jun 1-8, 2003
Hawaii
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).

Microsoft Tech Ed 2003
Jun 1-6, 2003
Dallas, TX
Drop by our booth, say howdy, and look over our latest publications.

JavaOne
Jun 10-13, 2003
Moscone Center
San Francisco, CA
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.

Author Event at Powell's Technical Bookstore
Jun 11, 2003
33 NW Park Avenue
Portland, OR
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.

Portland Perl Mongers Author Event
Jun 11, 2003
House of Louie
Portland, OR
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.

MetroMac Author Event: David Pogue
Jun 12, 2003
Apple Store Soho
New York, NY
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.

Wisconsin Java Software Symposium
Jun 13-15, 2003
Marriott West
Milwaukee, WI
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".

Conference News

O'Reilly Web 2.0 Conference Web 2.0 Expo
September 16-19, 2008 in New York, NY
The Call for Participation is now open. Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists. O'Reilly and CMP are seeking the best and brightest in the Web 2.0 universe to show the world how the next Internet Revolution is being designed and delivered.
To submit a proposal to speak at Web 2.0 Expo, click here.

O'Reilly GSP West Conference O'Reilly GSP West Conference
March 3-4, 2008 in San Diego, CA
This two-day conference presents a behind-the-scenes look at the business and technology of social networking platforms. With MySpace, Facebook, and Flickr attracting millions of visitors each day, the implications for business, marketing, and software developers are enormous.
Use code "gspw08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly ETech Conference Registration for ETech Open
March 3-6, 2008 in San Diego, CA
Body hacking. DIY spectrum. Crowd visualization. Sensor games. ETech 2008 will explore the tech that's influencing how we're seen as individuals and what affects our perception of the world around us.
Use code "et08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo Registration is Open 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo Registration is Open
April 14-17, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA
The largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide, the event reflects MySQL's wide-ranging appeal and capabilities. The open atmosphere of the MySQL Conference & Expo helps IT professionals and community members to create the best database applications, tools, and software through expert instruction, hands-on tutorials, readily available MySQL developers, and guru business advice.
Use code "mys08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. Early registration discount deadline ends February 26. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly Web Expo SF Conference Web Expo SF Registration is Open
April 22-25, 2008 in San Francisco, CA
A companion event to the Web 2.0 Summit, Web 2.0 Expo is an expanded, inclusive gathering for the technology and business communities through a combined conference and trade show.
Use code "websf08ug" when you register, and receive 15% off the early registration price. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly Where 2.0 2008 is Open Where 2.0 2008 is Open
May 12-14, 2008 in Burlingame, CA
At the O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference, we expose the tools pushing the boundaries of the location frontier, track the emergence of new business models and services, and spend time examining new sources of data and the platforms for collecting them.
Use code "whr08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. Early registration discount deadline ends March 23. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly Registration for RailsConf 2008 is Open Registration for RailsConf 2008 is Open
May 29-June 1, 2008 in Portland, OR
Co-produced by Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media, RailsConf is "the" event for the growing Rails Community--the largest official gathering dedicatedto everything Rails. If you're passionate about Rails and what it helps you achieve--or if you're curious about how Rails can help you create web applications better and faster--this conference is the place to be.
Use code "rc08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price. Click here to register for the conference.

O'Reilly School of Technology

OST O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive a 30% Discount
O'Reilly School of Technology has opened its virtual doors with educational offerings and certification for IT students looking to further their careers or to launch one. As an O'Reilly User Group member, you save on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series:

To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1" good for a 30% discount, in Step #2 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee. Register online.

News from O'Reilly & Beyond

UG News

Toronto Asterisk Users' Group at IT360.ca
The Toronto Asterisk Users' Group has been working closely with IT360.ca conference organizers in Toronto and have put together an excellent Asterisk track. Speakers this year include "Asterisk: The Future of Telephony" authors Jim Van Meggelen, Leif Madsen, and Jared Smith.

New York Times Spotlights Myths of Innovation
"Epiphany has little to do with either creativity or innovation. Instead, innovation is a slow process of accretion, building small insight upon interesting fact upon tried-and-true process" writes Janet Rae-Dupree in her Sunday New York Times column featuring Scott Berkun's "The Myths of Innovation."

How to Prevent Windows Vista's 'Green Ribbon of Death'
Here's an excerpt from "Windows Vista Annoyances" at Computerworld.

Installfest for Schools, Four Locations in the SF Bay Area, March 1
Signup and join an installfest in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Mateo, or Novato, CA and help the local schools at this open source community event.

Leo Leporte's Interview with O'Reilly author Mikkel Aaland

Editor Andy Oram posted several blogs exploring online technical information and its relation to professional computer books:

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Articles

A Look Back at 10 Years of OSI
It's been 10 years since the Open Source Initiative was launched, and what a 10 years it has been. Open Source has gone from an obscure and radical concept to a vibrant sector of the software landscape. For the 10th Anniversary, our faithful newshound Federico Biancuzzi talked to some of the early pioneers of the OSI (such as Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond) about where it came from and how it is relevant today.

Aperture 2.0 with Joe Schorr
Aperture 2.0 is faster, easier to use, and produces better images, says Joe Schorr, Apple Senior Product Manager. In this interview with Derrick Story, Joe explains how Aperture 2.0 meets those lofty claims. This chat covers a lot of new ground.

Using Xenn for High Availability Clusters
Virtualization is one approach that you can take to implementing clusters. But you still have to arrange to handle failures in a high-availability environment. Here's one solution, using Xen.

Developing RESTful Web Services in Perl
REST has become a widely used alternative to protocols such as SOAP, providing a simpler way to tell your server what you want to do without all that messy WSDL stuff. In this article, you'll see how to create a RESTful web service, using Perl.

Music Technology at NAMM 2008
Part 1: America's biggest musical instrument show debuted more high-tech wonders than ever this year. O'Reilly Digital Media prowled NAMM's five massive, noisy halls to bring back these high-tech hits.

Part 2: We're back from NAMM 2008 with even more intriguing new gadgets and gear. Once again, the throbbing halls of America's biggest musical instrument trade show introduced a torrent of high-tech goodness. From a $99 Steinway to a truly killer guitar, from audible notation to singing keys, here's what you'll be playing this year.

Katrin Eismann's Digital Darkroom Magic
Katrin Eismann, coauthor of The Creative Digital Darkroom, sat down with Derrick Story at PhotoPlus Expo in New York for a chat about how the darkroom has evolved from chemical-based to digital, and how that evolution has influenced her approach to image making. Katrin touches on many interesting topics, including her explanation on 3-step sharpening.

For more articles, go to: http://www.oreillynet.com/

Blogs

Community Pricing for Books
Ruby Turns 15 and Other Important Stuff
10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Facebook
Mac FFOSS (Freeware/Free & Open Source Software)
Where Did the Courier & Helvetica Fonts Go?
O'Reilly Books and the Cuban Internet
Learning Flex From Scratch: Meet the Authors, Meet Flex
Sonar for your Home

For more blogs, go to: http://www.oreillynet.com/blogs/

Until next time—
Marsee Henon
Spreading the knowledge of innovators.O'Reilly.com