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***Hackers & Painters
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006624
"Hackers & Painters" examines issues such as the importance of beauty 
in
software design, the programming language renaissance, spam filtering, 
the
Open Source Movement, and Internet startups. Each essay moves beyond
widely held beliefs about the way programmers work and tells important
stories about the kinds of people behind technological innovations,
revealing distinctions about their characters and their craft. Hackers 
who
read this book will surely recognize themselves within these pages, and
programmers will have new thoughts percolating the minute they put it
down.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hackpaint/

Chapter 2, "Hackers and Painters," is available free online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hackpaint/chapter/index.html


****Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Ed.
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596005431
"Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL, 2nd Edition" has been
updated and redesigned around the rich offerings of PEAR. Several of 
these
offerings, including the Template package and the database-independent
query API, have been integrated into examples and thoroughly described.
Using a complex sample application, all the important techniques of
dynamic content are introduced with an emphasis on good design. The 
book
also introduces PHP 5 and MySQL 4.1 features, while providing 
techniques
that can be used on older versions of the software.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webdbapps2/

Chapter 11, "Authentication and Security," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/webdbapps2/chapter/index.html


***Stealing the Network
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1931836051
A fictional continent is emerging as a major new economic, political, 
and
military force on the world stage. However, its rapid growth has left
little in the way of time and money to shore up its Internet backbone; 
now
it's vulnerable to a potentially catastrophic attack. Who are the bad
guys? What do they want? How will it end? Find out in this 
cyber-thriller,
written by some of the most accomplished cyber-security specialists in 
the
world. We could tell you their real names, but then we'd have to kill
you.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1931836051/


***Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006969
"Hibernate: A Developer's Notebook" shows you how to use Hibernate to
automate persistence: you write natural Java objects and some simple
configuration files, and Hibernate automates all the interaction 
between
your objects and the database. You don't even need to know the database 
is
there, and you can change from one database to another simply by 
changing
a few statements in a configuration file. If you've needed to add a
database back-end to your application, don't put it off. It's much more
fun than it used to be.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0596006969/

Chapter 3, "Harnessing Hibernate," is available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0596006969/chapter/index.html


***Digital Photography Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006667
Going beyond the standard fare of most digital photography books, 
"Digital
Photography Hacks"
shares the knowledge that professional photographers have learned 
through
thousands of shots' worth of experience and years of experimentation. 
With
exquisite, full-color photos throughout, the book presents 100 proven
techniques in the areas of daytime and nighttime photo secrets, flash
magic, digital camera attachments, fun photo projects, camera phone
tricks, and more. This book is your passport to taking the kind of 
digital
photos you've always aspired to.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotohks/

Ten Sample Hacks are available online:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/digphotohks/chapter/index.html


***.NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide
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ISBN: ISBN: 0596007574
".NET Compact Framework Pocket Guide" teaches you what you need to know 
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pocket guide is a handy reference that provides a quick tour of the 
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/compactframeworkpg/

A sample excerpt, "Project A: Currency Converter," is available online:
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***Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 0974514004
Version control systems don't have to be complicated, or 
time-consuming.
This book is a recipe-based approach to using the CVS Version Control
system that will get you up and running quickly--and correctly. Half of
all project teams in the U.S. don't use any version control at all, and
many others experience problems.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0974514004/

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Rob will be one of the featured presenters at this event. 
Josephine County Fairgrounds Art Building
Grants Pass, OR
http://www.jomacs.org/news_article.php?article_id=39

***Derrick Story ("Digital Photography Hacks"), North Coast Mac Users
Group, Rohnert Park, CA--June 15
Derrick, author and O'Reilly Network editor, presents "Movie Making 
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Rohnert Park Senior Center
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***Mac OS X Conference Call for Participation--Ends June 11
If you're pushing the Mac envelope, we want you to speak at our third
annual Mac OS X Conference this October. We're looking for proposals 
from
developers building new apps, admins tapping the open source toolbox,
small business owners powering their bottom lines, and digital 
musicians
leveraging X's muscle--but we're open to surprises, too. 
The deadline for proposals is June 11.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/macosx2004/create/e_sess


***O'Reilly Open Source Convention Early Bird Discount--Ends June 18
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O'Reilly Open Source Convention
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July 26-30, 2004
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***O'Reilly Distributes Pragmatic Bookshelf 
Books by developers, for developers: that's the pragmatic way, and it's
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***Dave Chappell: Inside the Enterprise Service Bus
Integration Developer News spoke with Dave Chappell to gain insights on
how ESBs work, and more importantly, how they may change the way Java
developers look at XML, XPath, messaging, and transaction-driven
integration projects. Dave is the author of O'Reilly's upcoming
"Enterprise Service Bus."
http://www.idevnews.com/CaseStudies.asp?ID=124

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***Inside the Homebrew Atari 2600 Scene 
Despite console-company protestations to the contrary, emulators aren't
only tools for copyright infringers. If it weren't for emulators, would
the Atari 2600 homebrew scene be where it is today? "Wait, there's an
Atari 2600 homebrew scene?" you ask. As Howard Wen explains, it exists,
and new-school programmers are making some impressive games in the
old-school style.
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/05/20/atari_2600_homebrew.html


***Top Ten Ethereal Tips and Tricks
Ethereal rivals commercial sniffers with its abundance of features and
hundreds of protocol dissectors. And best of all, it's free. Here's a 
top
ten list of Ethereal tips and tricks from Angela D. Orebaugh, a 
coauthor
of Syngress' "Ethereal Packet Sniffing."
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/security/2004/05/13/etherealtips.html


***FreeBSD Networking Basics 
Networking is integral to many functions of a modern FreeBSD system. 
When
it's working, it works wonderfully. When it's not working--or before
you've configured things--it can frustrate new users. Dru Lavigne, 
author
of O'Reilly's "BSD Hacks," explains how to verify, configure, and 
optimize
FreeBSD networking.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/05/13/FreeBSD_Basics.html

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***LDAP in Mac OS X Server
Typical network services problems, such as enabling all of your 
computers
to use the same login information to authenticate users, can be solved
with directory services. Panther has the built-in tools, but they're 
still
less than elegant. Tony Williams shows you how to piece them together.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/25/ldap.html


***The Fight Against Spam
Fighting spam is a battle that all Internet users must fight. Francois
Joseph de Kermadec shows you practical techniques, many of which you 
might
have overlooked, to take back control of your email.

Part One:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/14/spam_pt1.html

Part Two:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/18/spam_pt2.html

Part Three:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/05/21/spam_pt3.html

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***Top 12 Ways to Degunk Your PC 
Your PC, with its 80GB hard drive and 512MB of RAM, runs way too slow.
Why? It's gunked up with pictures, movies, music, and attachments 
you've
saved; you've saved stuff to the wrong places; and you have apps 
installed
that you don't use. If you want to clean up your PC, and get it running 
as
fast as it should, follow Joli Ballew and Jeff Duntemann's 12-step 
program
for degunking your PC. Joli and Jeff are the authors of "Degunking
Windows" from Paraglyph Press.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/25/degunkwindows.html


***Windows Server Hacks: Configuring Universal Group Caching 
Universal groups offer big benefits for system administrators, but can
have downsides as well. Mitch Tulloch, author of O'Reilly's "Windows
Server Hacks," shows you how to get the most out of them, and how to 
avoid
the pitfalls.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/05/18/ug_caching.html

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***SSS (Small, Simple, Safe) 
Teaching Java is complicated both by the language's syntax and the huge
number of classes in its standard libraries. According to Alper Coskun,
one solution might be "Small Simple Safe" (SSS), which tries to 
alleviate
this by giving the user an opportunity to create and relate objects in 
a
very simple GUI.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/05/26/sss.html


***Documenting Projects with Apache Forrest 
Apache Forrest helps you develop the documentation to accompany your
application, automatically providing a number of neat features such as
menus, links, cross-references, and breadcrumb navigation. Kyle Downey
provides an introduction.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/05/26/forrest.html

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***C# Generics 
The single most anticipated (and dreaded?) feature of Visual C# 2.0 is 
the
addition of Generics. Jesse Liberty shows you what problems Generics
solve, how to use them to improve your code, and why you need not fear
them.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/05/17/liberty.html

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