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-Robbie Allen, ("DNS on Windows Server 2003," "Active Directory"), 
Directory Experts Conference--March 21-24
-Dave Taylor ("Wicked Cool Shell Scripts," "Learning Unix for Mac OS X
Panther"), TriState Oracle Users Group Author Event, 
Amarillo, TX--March 23
-CJ Rayhill, O'Reilly CIO, CATS Conference 2004, 
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-End of Shutter Lag? The Contax SL300R T* Might Be the Sign of Good 
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-New Titles on Safari
-Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks
-Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development?
-Homemade Embedded BSD Systems
-Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts
-Tell Us What You Think: The 2nd Mac DevCenter Survey
-Setting Up a Virtual Private Network
-BlackMamba: A Swing Case Study
-Job Scheduling in Java
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***Robbie Allen, ("DNS on Windows Server 2003," "Active Directory"), 
Directory Experts Conference--March 21-24
Robbie is a featured speaker at NetPro's spring event. 
Hyatt Regency, Reston, VA. 
http://netpro.com/events/decadspring04/index.cfm


***Dave Taylor ("Wicked Cool Shell Scripts," "Learning Unix for Mac OS 
X
Panther"), TriState Oracle Users Group Author Event, 
Amarillo, TX--March 23 
The TriState Oracle Users Group welcomes author Dave Taylor of 
Intuitive
Systems. Dave has promised a fun and entertaining talk and will bring
several of his top-selling books. This event is open to the public; 
please
RSVP to April Wells at AWells@csedge.com.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TSOUG/


***CJ Rayhill, O'Reilly CIO, CATS Conference 2004, 
San Luis Obispo, CA--March 24-26
Besides being O'Reilly's CIO, CJ is also the General Manager of our new
Education Division. She will be discussing the connection between the 
open
source movement and education at the seventh annual Community of 
Academic
Technology Staff Conference. 
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
http://cats.cdl.edu/conf2004/


***Adam Trachtenberg ("PHP Cookbook"), PHP Quebec Conference--March 
25-26
Adam presents a session on "Web Services in PHP" at this bilingual 
event.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
http://conf.phpquebec.org/main.php/en/conf2004/main


***Mac User Group Day at O'Reilly in Sebastopol, CA--April 24
Join O'Reilly and NCMUG for a special Mac User Group Day in Sebastopol,
California on Saturday, April 24 from 2-6pm.

Speakers include Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Pocket Guide,
2nd Edition," "iPhoto 2: The Missing Manual"), Chris Stone
("Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"), Tom Negrino & Dori Smith
("Mac OS X Unwired"), and Scott Fullam ("Hardware Hacking Projects
for Geeks").

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***End of Shutter Lag? The Contax SL300R T* Might Be the Sign of Good
Things to Come 
Kyocera's RTUNE technology provides amazing performance in a digital
camera that fits easily in your shirt pocket. Is this the beginning of 
the
end for shutter lag? Derrick Story examines the Contax SL300R T* and 
shows
you how the bar has been raised for pocket digicams.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/09/contax.html


***New Titles on Safari
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"Security Warrior"; "Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook"; and ".NET Windows 
Forms
in a Nutshell." If you haven't gone on Safari yet, get a free trial.
https://secure.safaribooksonline.com/promo.asp?code=ORA14&portal=oreilly&CMP=BAC-TP2974244892


***Next-Generation File Sharing with Social Networks 
At the recent O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, CA,
Robert Kaye lead a talk on "Next-Generation File Sharing with Social
Software." For those who were able to attend, this essay builds upon 
that
session. And if you missed the talk altogether, you can now get up to
speed.
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2004/03/05/file_share.html

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***Will Mono Become the Preferred Platform for Linux Development? 
Miguel de Icaza recently led a two-day meeting that brought together
developers and early adopters of the Mono project, an open source 
effort
to create a free implementation of the .NET Development Framework. Edd
Dumbill attended the gathering and reports on how Mono could become the
first-choice platform for Linux software development.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/11/mono.html


***Homemade Embedded BSD Systems 
BSD runs nicely on older PCs, but they can be noisy and time-consuming 
to
set up. Worse yet, the hardware may be at the end of its life. Is there 
a
better alternative to dedicated (and closed) hardware devices? Michael
Lucas demonstrates using BSD on a low-power, low-fuss Soekris box.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/03/11/Big_Scary_Daemons.html

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***Tapping RSS with Shell Scripts 
Here's how to write a shell script that watches the news from
Slashdot.org. After applying the code in this article by Dave Taylor,
coauthor of "Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther," all you'll have to do 
is
launch the Terminal to see the latest Slash headlines.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/12/rss_scripting.html


***Tell Us What You Think: The 2nd Mac DevCenter Survey 
We're asking Mac DevCenter readers to participate in our second online
survey. We've sweetened the pot with a chance to win books.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/03/09/survey.html

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***Setting Up a Virtual Private Network 
What to do if you want to securely access your network when you're out 
of
the office? The quickest and safest way is to set up a VPN. Wei-Meng 
Lee
shows you how.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/09/vpn_connection.html


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***BlackMamba: A Swing Case Study 
It's one thing to learn the bits and pieces of a Swing GUI--how to 
create
a model and wire it up to a JTable or JTree. It's quite another to 
think
through and develop a full-blown application. Ashwin Jayaprakash uses 
an
email client, BlackMamba, to show how the pieces of a Swing application
fit together.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/10/blackmamba.html


***Job Scheduling in Java 
Scheduling recurring execution of a piece of code is a common task for
Java developers. The Timer class has its place, but as Dejan Bosanac
explains, developers with more sophisticated requirements might want to
check out the Quartz API.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/03/10/quartz.html


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***Check out the new O'Reilly User Group Wiki for the latest news
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Until next time--

Marsee