[PLUG] Fwd: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 26

[David Mandel]

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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
Date: Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:59 PM
Subject: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, August 26
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Hi there—

Speakers, UG leaders, or anyone else interested in improving your
presentations, let me send you our new book "slide:ology". Garr
Reynolds (Presentation Zen) just wrote on his blog "Nancy Duarte, the
Principle of Duarte Design (the firm behind the creation of Al Gore's
Oscar-winning presentations), has published a presentation book for
the rest of us. It's called 'slide:ology: The Art and Science of
Creating Great Presentations.' 'slide:ology' is practical, it's highly
visual, and it's beautiful. I love this book."

Watch the book trailer.

Gabrielle Roth and Selena Deckelmann presented "Running a Successful
User Group" at OSCON 2008 in Portland this year. Here's their slide
show. They also put together a flyer with suggestions on every aspect
of running a user group.

Need a pass for Photoshop World in Las Vegas on Friday, September 5th
and Saturday, September 6th? I've got one I can send you.

We've got some great books coming out and we're looking for Amazon,
Slashdot, and oreilly.com reviews. If you're interested, new titles
include "Head First Ajax," "Head First Statistics," "Intellectual
Property and Open Source," "The Productive Programmer," "Website
Optimization," and "Programming .NET 3.5."

If you haven't had a chance to check them out, Deke McClelland's
dekePod videos are worth a watch or two. Subjects include 101
Photoshop Tips, Metadata Forensics, the Virgin Histogram, Lab Mode,
and Stretching Photos in Illustrator. We've got plenty more on the way
so think about subscribing in iTunes by searching for dekePod or
bookmarking our dekePod page.

And thanks to everyone who stopped by the O'Reilly booth at OSCON. We
had a great time. Here are our photos from our T-shirt contest and the
conference.

Don't forget we're willing to send books to giveaway at your meetings
anytime. Although we love reviews, we don't expect them for every book
we send. You can also request books for special events or your group
library.

Marsee

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In this issue:

O'Reilly UG Program News—Just for User Group Leaders
New Releases
Upcoming Events
Conferences and Special Events News
School of Technology
News from O'Reilly & Beyond

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O'Reilly UG Program News—Just for User Group Leaders
August 26, 2008

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O'Reilly News for User Group Members
August 26, 2008

New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts

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New Releases: Books, Short Cuts, and Rough Cuts:

Automotive SPICE in Practice (Rocky Nook)
Building Embedded Linux Systems, Second Edition
Canon EOS 40D (Rocky Nook)
Computer Orchestration Tips and Tricks (PC Publishing)
Digital Infrared Photography (Hard Cover) (Rocky Nook)
FBML Essentials
FIRST LEGO League (No Starch)
Head First Ajax
Head First Statistics
Intellectual Property and Open Source
iPhone Forensics: Rough Cuts Version
iPhone: The Missing Manual, Second Edition
JavaScript: The Missing Manual
Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition
Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh Edition
Programming .NET 3.5
Propellerhead Reason 4 Tips and Tricks, Fourth Edition (PC Publishing)
Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
Refactoring SQL Applications
Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
slide:ology
Statistics in a Nutshell
Take Your Best Shot
The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
The IDA Pro Book (No Starch)
The Productive Programmer
Website Optimization

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Upcoming Events

For more events, please see: events.oreilly.com


Jesse Liberty Presents a Webcast: Creating Skinnable Custom Controls
in Silverlight
Aug 27, 2008
In this live presentation Silverlight Geek Jesse Liberty (Programming
Silverlight--to be released in November 2008) will demonstrate various
aspects of Silverlight 2. Keep an eye on the website for more details
in the future.

FlexCamp London 2008
Aug 28-28, 2008
Conway Hall - 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
London, UK
Flex Camp London 08 is a FREE, community-run event for everyone
interested in Adobe Flex. Author Marco Casario (AIR Cookbooks) will
present "SQLite in AIR with Flex"

Rick Sammon Presents at Photoshop World 2008
Sep 3-6, 2008
Las Vegas, NV
Join Rick Sammon (Face to Face) at Photoshop World 2008 as he gives
various presentations on digital photography.

Lesa Snider King at Photoshop World
Sep 4-6, 2008
Las Vegas, NV
Lesa Snider King teaches two classes: "Express Photo Effects" (free on
the expo show floor) and "Graphic Secrets for Creative Pros: Photoshop
CS3 and beyond!" (in the paid productivity track). In this second
session you'll learn many timesaving tips for creating really tough
selections and fast ways to create today's most popular photo effects
like silhouettes, creative photo frames, edges, and more. We'll also
take a look at the four secrets of great graphic design that will
ensure your layouts always look their very best.

O'Reilly at PhotoShop World Las Vegas 2008
Sep 4-6, 2008
Mandalay Bay Convention Center
Las Vegas, NV
Come join the revolution with a FREE Expo Pass! Stop by the O'Reilly
booth (# 442) to meet our editors and authors, and to check out our
newest titles!

John Papa at VSLive! New York
Sep 7-10, 2008
NY Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York City, New York
John Papa (Data Services with Silverlight) is speaking at VSLive! New
York on the following topics: Building Effective Data Bound
Applications with WPF and Silverlight and ASP.NET Data Binding.

Brian Peek at VSLive! New York
Sep 7-10, 2008
NY Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York City, New York
Brian Peek (Coding4Fun: 10 .NET Programming Projects for Wiimote,
YouTube, World of Warcraft, and More) will be speaking at VSLive! New
York on the following topics: Creating a Simple 2D Game Using XNA Game
Studio to Run on a PC, Xbox 360 or Microsoft Zune and Interfacing
External Hardware Using Managed Code.

Harold Davis Hosts a Weekend Workshop on Night Photography
Sep 12-14, 2008
Point Reyes, CA
Author Harold Davis (Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital
Photographers) will be hosting a weekend workshop on night photography
in Point Reyes, CA. Keep checking the Point Reyes Field Seminars
website for registration information.

John Smart at the Java Emerging Technologies Conference 2008
Sep 17, 2008
AUT Conference Centre
Auckland, New Zealand
John Smart (Java Power Tools) will be talking about easyb at the Java
Emerging Technologies Conference 2008 discussing the basic principles
of Behavior Driven Development, and look at how it builds on and
differs from "traditional" Test-Driven Development. It then moves on
to look at easyb, a very cool DSL-based behavior driven development
framework for Java that uses Groovy to let you pretty much write tests
that document themselves.

Lesa Snider King at MinistryCOM
Sep 19-20, 2008
Oklahoma City, OK
Lesa Snider King talks about "Graphic Secrets for Creative Pros" at
the National Church Communications Conference. In this Photoshop power
hour, you'll glean time saving tips for creating super tough
selections. Learn fast and non-destructive ways to create today's most
popular photo effects, including silhouettes, partial color, duotones,
gorgeous grayscales, creative vector photo frames, filtered edges,
selective blur effects, vignettes and more. You'll also discover how
to retouch people like a pro!

Sean Duggan Presents a Weekend Seminar: "Creative Camera Raw Workflow"
Sep 20-21, 2008
Berkeley, CA
Sean Duggan's (The Creative Digital Darkroom) weekend seminar will be
a combination of exploring a clear workflow for digital asset
management (DAM) and an in-depth exploration of Adobe Camera Raw 4.2
in Photoshop CS3. Adobe Bridge CS3, Photoshop Lightroom and iView
Media Pro will also be discussed in these explorations.

Rick Sammon on the Island of Bonaire
Sep 21-27, 2008
Bonaire
Join Rick Sammon (Face to Face) on the island of Bonaire for "Love Our
Planet Week" as he gives underwater photo workshops.

Lesa Snider King at the PowerPoint Live User Conference
Sep 21, 2008
San Diego, CA
Lesa Snider King teaches "Graphic Secrets for Presenters"--learn how
to turn the images you have into the imagery you need.

Java Power Tools Bootcamp in Melbourne
Sep 23-26, 2008
Melbourne, Australia
The Java Power Tools bootcamp is taught by John Ferguson Smart (Java
Power Tools). The bootcamp is an intense 4-day hands-on workshop
covering some of the best open source tools for Java development on
the market. The course takes you on a in-depth guided tour of some of
the best open source Java tools, showing how you can use them
individually and together to write code better and faster, and have
fun while you're doing it!

Nitesh Dhanjani at Florida Government Technology Conference
Sep 24, 2008
Leon County Civic Center
Tallahassee, FL
Author Nitesh Dhanjani (Network Security Tools) presents "Security
Implications of Emerging Technologies: Social Networking,
Virtualization, and Cloud Computing"

Robert Stackowiak Leads Session at Oracle OpenWorld
Sep 25, 2008
Marriott Salon 09
San Francisco, CA
Robert Stackowiak (Oracle Essentials and Oracle Application Server 10g
Essentials) will be leading a session entitled "Session Title: Oracle
Business Intelligence Strategy for the Data Warehouse-Enabled
Enterprise" at Oracle OpenWorld. This session is for the Enterprise
Performance Management/Business Intelligence Track.

John Smart at the Victorian Java User Group
Sep 25, 2008
Sun, McKillop/Dunlop Room, Level 7, 476 St. Kilda Road
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Fresh from the Java Emerging Technologies Conference 2008 (JET 2008),
John Smart (Java Power Tools) will be giving a talk on Behavior Driven
Development (BDD) in Java with easyb, a new and very hip behavior
driven development framework for Java. This talk will go through the
basic principles of Behavior Driven Development, and look at how it
builds on and differs from "traditional" Test-Driven Development. It
then moves on to look at easyb, a very cool DSL-based behavior driven
development framework for Java that uses Groovy to let you pretty much
write tests that document themselves.

Lesa Snider King and Derrick Story at the Macintosh Computer Expo
Sep 27, 2008
Santa Rosa, CA
Join Lesa Snider King and Derrick Story for the return of MCE, NCMUG's
annual fundraising event. Lesa covers "How to Shoot Like a Pro" and
"The Skinny on Photoshop Elements 6" and Derrick will be teaching "Ten
Things You Need to Know About iPhoto" and "Aperture or
Lightroom...Which One Is Best for Me?" Stop by the O'Reilly booth to
meet the authors and purchase our latest Mac and digital media titles.
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Conference News

Learn How to Obtain iPhone Forensic Data--September 16-17, 2008
September 16-17, 2008
Happening in Burlington, MA, this valuable workshop led by Jonathan
Zdziarski, the original iPhone hacker, will guide you through a highly
specialized forensic examination of the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod
Touch. Register now to learn how to recover, process and remove
sensitive data stored on these devices.

Register for RailsConf Europe 2008
September 2-4, 2008 in Berlin, Germany
The European developer community showed itself to be deeply interested
in Rails at RailsConf Europe 2007, and the co-presenters of that
event, Ruby Central and O'Reilly Media, are coming back to do it
again. RailsConf Europe 2008, happening September 2-4 2008 in Berlin,
will feature presentations, keynotes, and tutorials by experts from
the full spectrum of Rails techniques and practices. Seasoned Rails
practitioners and newcomers alike will find a program honed to their
particular interests and needs.
Use code "re08usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the
registration price. Click here to register for the conference.

The Call for Proposal phase is open for ETech 2009
March 9-12, 2009 in San Jose, CA
The theme for ETech 2009 is Living, Reinvented: The Tech of Abundance
and Constraints. We want to hear from inventors, entrepreneurs,
visionaries, sustainability designers, technologists, municipal rock
stars, resource strategists, coders and hackers who are reinventing
how we can live more sustainably every day. Proposals are being
accepted through September 17.

Tickets on Sale for Maker Faire Austin
October 18th and 19th, 2008 in Austin, TX
Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the
Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful people of
all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.
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News from O'Reilly & Beyond

UG News

Expert Help - A Video Training Guide on Java Featured on Safari
Learn from the leading training experts with Safari's extensive
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Tim O'Reilly featured on Sky Radio coming to an Airlines near you
Tim discusses how Safari Books Online is helping thousands of
technologists every day. The interview will run for the month of
September.

O'Reilly is hosting another fun, free Ignite Boston event
The fourth Ignite Boston will be on Thursday, September 11, from 6 to
10pm at the Hooley House, one block from Faneuil Hall in Boston, MA.
Other Ignite events coming up include Ignite Denver on September 10
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David Pogue's Hot iPhone Tips
David Pogue returns with a thoroughly updated edition of "iPhone: The
Missing Manual." And here David reveals his best, up-to-the-nanosecond
iPhone tricks. "The beauty of the new iPhone 3G is that you don't need
one," explains David. "Almost all of the juicy stuff actually comes
with the iPhone 2.0 software and the online App Store, both of which
run perfectly well on the old iPhone as well."

Vincent Versace on Photography and Creativity
Vincent Versace, noted photographer, author, and photography
instructor, sits down with Derrick Story to discuss the some of the
larger philosophical questions that inform the photographic creative
process during this video interview from Photoshop World Orlando.

Forbes Puts the Spotlight on Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly
"If the do-it-yourself trend is a revolution, then Dale Dougherty and
Tim O'Reilly are its Tom Paines," writes reporter Elizabeth Corcoran
in a recent Forbes.com story, Making Future Headlines.

Announcing the Adobe AIR Cookbook Cook-off (US Only)
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What developers should know about IP
Author Van Lindberg is both software engineer and practicing attorney.
His new book, "Intellectual Property and Open Source" tackles the
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explains why intellectual property law is so important to
developers any developers and shares his most important
tips for developers starting out in the world of open source.

How to Write Your Own Facebook Applications
Mary Rotman recently had a chance to ask Jesse Stay, author of "FBML
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News, Interviews, and Articles

Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Rails Culture, Scaling
Basecamp, and Building Successful Companies
Derrick Story in Beijing for the Olympics
Head First Ajax Sample chapter: Manipulating the DOM
Head First Statistics Sample Chapter: Calculating Probabilities
The Road to Programming is Sometimes Paved with Web Pages
Why We're Failing in Math and Science
Why Corporates Hate Perl
The Mind of Damian Conway: Science, Computer Science, the Future of
Perl 6, and Advice for Today's Aspiring Programmers
Audio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for Everyone
Doug Marschke Talks about his new book titled "JUNOS Enterprise
Routing: A Practical Guide to JUNOS Software and Enterprise
Certification."
Mac vs PC: Does it matter anymore?

Until next time—
Marsee Henon
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