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October 18, 2007


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Upcoming Events

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New Dynamic Learning Seminars from O'Reilly Authors AGI
Boston; Houston; Austin; New York; Philadelphia; Seattle; Washington;
Portland; Atlanta; London
Lizard Throughout the late summer and early fall, Aquent Graphics Institute (AGI) will be presenting its Adobe Creative Suite 3 seminar series in more than 20 cities in North America, Europe, and Australia. Creative professionals will have a unique 3-day opportunity to learn from expert trainers with world-class skills in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and InDesign. Register for a single day or all 3 days. Along with the hands-on classroom session, attendees will also receive a free Dynamic Learning book appropriate to their session and a DVD with videos and lesson files.

The Grails eXchange 2007
Oct 17-19, 2007
Barbican Centre, London
UK
The First International Grails eXchange 2007 is promising to be a great event any self-respecting Java web developer cannot afford to miss. Packed with presentations on Grails, Groovy, Ajax & Web 2.0 and JEE and the core technologies that support the Grails technology stack such as JEE, Spring, Hibernate, SiteMesh, Dojo and Quartz. Drop at our booth and browse our latest publications.

Web 2.0 Summit
Oct 17-19, 2007
San Francisco, CA
An invite only event, the Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet economy now and in the near future.

Eddie Tapp at Maryland PPA
Oct 17, 2007
Columbia, MD
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups & Practical Color Management) is presenting a Photoshop seminar.

  


O'Reilly at PhotoPlus Expo
Oct 18-20, 2007
Jacob Javits Convention Center
New York, NY
This year's conference will offer over 100 in-depth photography and design seminars, including several hands-on workshops, taught by world-renowned experts. You'll find information-packed, idea-generating sessions at the only conference in the country that's 100% focused on photography, design & imaging. While you're there, stop by the O'Reilly booth (# 1448) to say hi, and pick up some great new books.

Eddie Tapp at Photo East
Oct 18-20, 2007
New York, NY
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color Management) is presenting a Workflow Seminar.

Maker Faire 2007--Austin
Oct 20-21, 2007
Travis County Fairgrounds
Austin, TX
Join us for MAKE magazine's Austin Maker Faire--a hands-on event featuring Makers whose science and technology projects will amaze you and ignite your imagination. Meet Expert Makers and MAKE contributors, hear from O'Reilly's Hacks author, attend DIY Tutorials, explore DIY projects and demonstrations, and see the Ultimate Workshop.



James Shore Speaks to the Houston Agile Developer Group
Oct 22, 2007
Houston, TX
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will give a presentation entitled "Agile Engineering: No Debt, No Defects" to the Houston Agile Developer Group. Agile methods place high demands on developers: every iteration--as often as every week--the team must deliver working, tested software to their customers. Every iteration, the team may be asked to change direction and work on an entirely new set of requirements. To meet this challenge, agile engineering practices are a must. Join James for a discussion of how Extreme Programming's engineering practices mesh together to allow teams to approach the ideal of software with no defects and no technical debt. Practices discussed include pair programming, ten-minute builds, continuous integration, incremental and evolutionary design, test-driven development, and more.

Elliotte Rusty Harold at NYPHP Conference 2007
Oct 23, 2007
IBM, 590 Madison Avenue, Room 1219 (12th Floor)
New York City, NY
Author Elliotte Rusty Harold (XML in a Nutshell) will be speaking about a plethora of XML related topics at New York PHP Conference 2007. If you're working in publishing, including web publishing, you owe it to yourself to take a serious look at the available XML databases. This high-level talk explains what XML databases are good for and when you might choose one over a more traditional solution. You'll learn about the different options in both open and closed source XML databases including pure XML, hybrid relational-XML, and other models.

Tenni Theurer at The Ajax Experience, Boston
Oct 24-26, 2007
Seaport Hotel
Boston, MA
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, will be speaking together at The Ajax Experience in Boston October 24-26. Through a series of research studies, Yahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. Tenni will go in-depth on these best practices detailed in Steve Souders new book High Performance Web Sites, and also demonstrate a recently released tool called YSlow, which was developed as an extension to Firebug and analyzes web pages according to the performance best practices.

James Shore Speaks to the Portland XP User Group
Oct 24, 2007
Portland, OR
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will give a presentation entitled "Testers and Agile Engineering: Bridging the Gap" to the Portland XP User Group. In this presentation, James will share lessons learned from several years of helping testers integrate into agile teams. Learn how to use testers' specialized skills to prevent defects, not just find them. Topics include requirements collaboration with Fit, customer reviews, exploratory testing, and working with developers who are using test-driven development.

Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up Tour
Oct 27, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so register early!

Tenni Theurer at CSDN-Dr.Dobbs Software Development 2.0 Conference
Oct 29-30, 2007
Jiuhua Resort
Changping District, Beijing
Tenni Theurer, manager of the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, will be speaking at CSDN-Dr.Dobbs Software Development 2.0 Conference in Beijing November 29-30. Her talk will highlight the latest research results and performance breakthroughs detailed in Steve Souders new book High Performance Web Sites, and explore case studies to demonstrate how these solutions have accelerated the user experience on Yahoo!'s most prominent Web pages.

James Shore Participates in the JavaRanch Book Forums
Oct 30-Nov 2, 2007
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be be participating in the online JavaRanch "Agile and Other Processes" forum Tuesday through Thursday, answering questions and raisin' a ruckus. On Friday, four copies of the book will be given to forum participants.

Web 2.0 Expo Berlin
Nov 5-8, 2007
Berlin, Germany
Web 2.0 Expo Berlin is the conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.

Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up Tour
Nov 5, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so register early!

Jesse Liberty at TechEd Barcelona
Nov 5-9, 2007
Barcelona, Spain
Author Jesse Liberty (Programming C# 3.0 and Programming ASP.NET) will be delivering a talk on Microsoft Silverlight.

Robert Hoekman, Jr. Speaks at Future of Web Design 2007
Nov 7-8, 2007
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
New York, New York
Author Robert Hoekman, Jr. (Flash 8: Project for Learning Animation and Interactivity and Flash Out of the Box) will be presenting a workshop on "Improving Interface Design" at the Future of Web Design 2007 conference in New York City, November 7-8.

O'Reilly authors speaking at the 2007 DC PHP Conference
Nov 7-9, 2007
The George Washington University - Cafritz Conference Center
Washington, DC
O'Reilly is a proud sponsor of the 2007 DC PHP Conference. This years conference is focussed on Creating Enterprise Level Web Applications with PHP. Tracks include PHP Security, Scalability, and the Art of PHP. O'Reilly authors Rasmus Lerdorf, Chris Shiflett, David Sklar, and Adam Trachtenberg are speaking. For O'Reilly readers only this conference is being offered for the discounted rate of $225 for both session days and the Friday Tutorials! Click here to take advantage of this offer. For details, see http://dcphpconference.com/?q=node/171

James Shore Will Be Participating in the Portland QA Special Interest Group's Roundtable Discussion
Nov 8, 2007
Portland, OR
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be be participating in the Portland QA Special Interest Group's Roundtable Discussion on Nov. 8th.

James Shore Will Be Speaking at the Seattle XP User Group
Nov 8, 2007
Seattle, WA
Author James Shore (The Art of Agile Development) will be speaking at the Seattle XP User Group. His presentation, entitled "Agile Engineering: No Debt, No Defects," will address how Extreme Programming's engineering practices mesh together to allow teams to approach the ideal of software with no defects and no technical debt. Practices discussed include pair programming, ten-minute builds, continuous integration, incremental and evolutionary design, test-driven development, and more.

Mikkel Aaland speaking at 6Sight Conference
Nov 8-9, 2007
Monterey Conference Center and the Portola Plaza Hotel
Monterey, CA
The top imaging minds in the world return to Monterey, Calif. for the seventh successive year to participate in the 6Sight® Future of Imaging conference, eager to explore the opportunities and challenges the future of imaging holds in store for their businesses. Mikkel Aaland, author of Photoshop Lightroom Adventure, is a featured speaker.


Author Steve Feuerstein Gives Seminar on Oracle and PL/SQL Best Practices
Nov 11-15, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Author Steve Feuerstein (Oracle PL/SQL Language Pocket Reference, 4th Ed. and Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices, 2nd Ed.) will give three separate presentations regarding Oracle and PL/SQL Practices during this major annual conference sponsored by the Oracle Corporation.

Tom Limoncelli at LISA'07
Nov 11, 2007
Dallas, TX
Author Tom Limoncelli (Time Management for System Administrators) discusses techniques he's developed over the last 15 years including how to find time to get projects done, the best way to manage interruptions from users, open source tools for tracking requests, and how to turn chaos into free time.

Adobe Presents Colin Moock's ActionScript 3.0 From the Ground Up Tour
Nov 12, 2007
New York, New York
Join author Colin Moock (Essential ActionScript 3.0) for a packed day of free ActionScript 3.0 training. Presented by Adobe, this training will leave attendees with new understanding, tips and tricks, pamphlets and information to take home, and a discount coupon to purchase Essential ActionScript 3.0. This free event is sure to fill up quickly, so register early!

Eddie Tapp at Samy's Camera
Nov 14, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color Management) is presenting a seminar called "Print Master."

Web 2.0 Expo Tokyo
Nov 15-16, 2007
Tokyo, Japan
Web 2.0 EXPO Tokyo is designed to be the major annual Japanese gathering of the technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web.

Eddie Tapp at Chicago Area Camera Club
Nov 18, 2007
Chicago, IL
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color Management) is presenting a Photoshop Seminar.

Eddie Tapp at the Software-Cinema Training Camps
Nov 18, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Author Eddie Tapp (Photoshop Workflow Setups and Practical Color Management) is a presenter.

Conference News

O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference Call for Participation is Open for the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo
April 15-18, 2008 in Santa Clara, CA
Take an active role in shaping the future of MySQL and related open source technologies by leading sessions and tutorials at the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo. Visit the Proposals page for more details and to submit your ideas. Proposals are due no later than October 30, 2007.

O'Reilly Where 2.0 2008 Conference Where 2.0 2008 Call for Participation
May 12-14, 2008 in Burlingame, CA
O’Reilly Media invites technologists and strategists, CTOs and CIOs, technology evangelists and scouts, researchers, programmers, geographers, researchers and academics, artists and activists, business developers, and entrepreneurs to lead conference sessions and tutorials at Where 2.0 2008. Where 2.0 will be held May 12-14, 2008 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott in Burlingame, California, US. Proposals are due no later than November 26, 2007.

Graphing Social Patterns Conference Graphing Social Patterns conference
March 3-4 in 2008 in San Diego, California
GSP explores the components of building and distributing apps for Facebook and other social networking platforms. The event is for both business executives and technical developers who want to learn more about the Facebook environment, and how to reach online communities using social networking platforms and applications.

O'Reilly Money:Tech ConferenceO'Reilly's inaugural Money:Tech Conference has been announced
The dates are February 6-7, 2008 in New York City. That's right, in the heart of the financial universe, New York, NY, Money:Tech will raise the level of conversation around technology advances in the investment industry, and bring together innovators with established players to increase adoption and awareness and push the technology forward. Learn more about Money:Tech

O'Reilly School of Technology

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 #3 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

Perl Foundation Board of Directors election, New people, New Positions
The Perl Foundation is pleased to announce new appointments to several board positions: Bill Odom, previously President, becomes Chairman; Richard Dice becomes President; and Jim Brandt becomes Vice President. The board elected these new members in an August 2007 vote by the board members as mandated by the charter. Kurt DeMaagd will continue to serve as Treasurer, and Nat Torkington and Allison Randal will continue to serve as directors.

Day of .NET in Ann Arbor
This is a one-day conference on all things .NET organized by Great Lakes Area .NET User Group , Ann Arbor .NET Developer Group, Northwest Ohio .NET User Group, Greater Lansing User Group .NET, and West Michigan .NET Users Group. This event is being offered at no cost to anyone interested in .NET development, and will take place on October 20, 2007 at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, MI.

Win a free book at JavaRanch
JavaRanch invites authors of books to visit their forums, answer questions, and share their knowledge. The promotions always start on Tuesday and end on Friday. Some time during the day on Friday, the promotion will end and the forum will be combed for qualifying messages since the promotion began. From these, four winners will be randomly selected. Be sure to check the list of winners which will be posted in the forum on Friday. Upcoming books include "Head First SQL" and "The Art of Agile Development."

The 2008 Annual Convention of the APCUG
The 2008 Annual Convention of the Association of Personal Computer User Groups (APCUG) will be late Thursday afternoon, January 3rd to late Sunday morning, January 6th. Come to the annual convention to learn the latest in UG management. Activities include Roundtable/Educational Sessions, opportunities to meet vendors, Newsletter, Website, and photo contest awards, and more.

Macworld 2008: Apple User Group Wine and Cheese Reception
Apple user group leaders and friends from around the world are invited to the Apple User Group Wine and Cheese Reception on January 14, from 4-7 p.m. at The Westin San Francisco Market Street (formerly The Argent). The Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB) is proud to bring you a user group event at Macworld for the 10th consecutive year. This exciting new event will offer vendor interaction, raffles, entertainment and some surprise guests. User group members qualify for a 50 percent discount by using a special user group member URL available from your group's ambassador. Hosted by the Apple User Group Advisory Board (UGAB) and UGAB Support Services, this worldwide offer is limited to the first 300 registrants.

Articles

Maker Faire Austin--Adventures in Time Video
Baron Von PT and the Brebot travel forward in time to gander the FUTURE and the future is Maker Faire Austin-October 20-21, 2007 where brains collide!

Maker Faire Austin--Adventures in Time Video

Maker Faire's Sherry Huss and Dale Dougherty on Austin's NPR KUT-FM
Hear the latest on what will be happening this weekend in Austin.

Jim Shore (Art of Agile Development) Coming Soon to a Town Near You
Jim's got many UG events lined up in Seattle, Portland, Houston, and the SF Bay Area. Check out his web site for more info.

FileMaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual ScreenCasts
When reading isn't enough, try a screencast narrated by the authors themselves.The latest batch is from Geoff Coffey, author of "Filemaker Pro 9: The Missing Manual."

The Worldwide Lexicon: Adding Collaborative Translation to Your Site
The Worldwide Lexicon is an open source project that has recently published a suite of collaborative translation tools that enable readers to create, edit and share translations to and from almost any human language. This article explains how you can use WWL to make your site or content accessible in many languages.

Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our 2nd annual ghoulishly fun Halloween contests!
Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere, can enter all or just some of the contests. Entering is easy: just upload your photos to the DIY HALLOWEEN Flickr photo pool and tag them "DIYHALLOWEEN." Or email them to make.magazine@gmail.com, or put them on Instructables in the MAKE group with a tag "DIYHALLOWEEN"--and we'll upload them to the Flickr pool. The lists of contests includes Hack-o'-Lantern, Costume, Decorations, Haunted house and gadgets, Food, and Trick-or-Treat. Have your entries in before Sunday, November 4, 2007, at 1:59 pm EST.

Sitepoint's Ruby on Rails book is now free to Download
For the next 60 days, Patrick Lenz's Ruby on Rails beginners' book is available to download.

Learn to Love Complaining Clients
Who loves client complaints? You should! In this groundbreaking article, Brendon explains the true value of client complaints and, with his step-by-step guide to complaint resolution, shows you how to make complaining clients a part of your competitive edge.

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

Blogs

Facebook, the Quant Fund Meltdown, and the Techmeme Leaderboard
Head First Labs: More voices==better books
7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
YAPC::Europe 2007 Organization Post-Mortem
On the Road to Leopard
Windows Mobile Weekly Roundup
Color Me Accurate
A Logical Editing Process
Does your bad Java code need help? (from Rules and Flow)
After Struts what?

Until next time—
Marsee Henon
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