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-3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima
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***Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 059600737X
"Perl 6 and Parrot Essentials, 2nd Edition" provides an insider's look 
at
what's coming in the widely anticipated Perl 6. It uncovers 
groundbreaking
new developments in Parrot, and the most revolutionary change in the
language itself, Apocalypse 12 on objects. The book also expands 
coverage
of Apocalypse 5 (regular expressions) and Apocalypse 6 (subroutines). 
This
is the only book to reveal all the ingenious developments that will 
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Perl 6 more powerful and easier to use.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/059600737X/index.html

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***Mastering Oracle SQL, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006322
Updated to cover Oracle 10g, this new edition has a stronger focus on
practical, expert best practices and on Oracle-specific SQL techniques
than any other book on the market. The book covers Oracle's library of
built-in functions, query-writing features, regular expression support,
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0596006322/

Chapter 7, "Set Operations," is available online:
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***Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006063
"Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition" offers a thorough 
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its user interface. It familiarizes readers with the Finder and the 
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file management, system configuration, network administration issues, 
and
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and
option painstakingly tested and checked against Panther.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/macpantherian/

Chapter 13, "Security Basics," is available online:
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***Just a Geek
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 059600768X
Wil Wheaton has never been one to take the conventional path to 
success.
Despite early stardom through his childhood role in the motion picture
"Stand By Me," and growing up on television as Wesley Crusher on "Star
Trek: The Next Generation," Wil left Hollywood in pursuit of happiness,
purpose, and a viable means of paying the bills. In this, his newest 
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jag/

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***Version Control with Subversion
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596004486
 "Version Control with Subversion" introduces the powerful new 
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0596004486/

Chapter 2, "Basic Concepts," is available online:
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***3D Game-Based Filmmaking: The Art of Machinima 
Publisher: Paraglyph Press
ISBN: 1932111859
Machinima will revolutionize the computer animation industry, and this
book will serve as the industry bible for emerging filmmakers. It 
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covers the latest technology in filmmaking, the history of Machinima, 
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major players, and where the Machinima movement is going. The book 
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932111859/


***Eclipse Cookbook
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596007108
"Eclipse Cookbook" demystifies Eclipse with practical recipes for more
than 800 situations you may encounter--from deploying a web application
automatically to reverse engineering compiled code and from renaming 
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references to a class across multiple packages to initializing the SWT 
JNI
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Eclipse in their daily work.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/eclipseckbk/

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***Flash Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006454
This collection of 100 Flash tips and tricks covers optimization, 
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***The Spam Letters
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593270321
From the man behind TheSpamLetters.com comes a collection of brilliant 
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270321/


***Online Investing Hacks
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006772
For the geek who's an investor, and the investor who's a geek, we 
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100 industrial-strength, bleeding-edge tips, tools, and techniques for
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***Chuck Toporek ("Inside .Mac" &  "Mac OS X Panther in a Nutshell"),  
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***O'Reilly Open Source Convention, Portland, OR--July 26-30
Mark your calendar to join us for the sixth annual O'Reilly Open Source
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program barbie, including keynote addresses by two of 2003's most 
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Portland Marriott Downtown, Portland, OR
http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/


***Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") and Paul Graham ("Hackers & Painters"), 
Powell's Books, Portland OR--July 28
Powell's hosts a special double-header with two authors in town for 
OSCON.
Powell's Technical Books, Portland, OR
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html


***Tim O'Reilly Speaks at the Portland Area .NET User Group Meeting
Portland, OR--July 29
"An Evening With Tim O'Reilly--Tim discusses what is on the 
O'Reilly Radar."
The meeting starts at 6:30pm
Portland Community College Auditorium,
Room 104, 1626 SE Water Ave., Portland, OR
http://www.padnug.org


***Alex Martelli ("Python in a Nutshell"), Powell's Books, 
Portland, OR--July 29
Alex stops in for an appearance at Portland's favorite bookstore.
Powell's Technical Books, Portland, OR
http://www.powells.com/calendar.html

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July 26-30, 2004
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***O'Reilly Releases Spanish-Language Titles
O'Reilly has been helping English speakers tame and control their
computers for over 25 years, and we're now offering eight of our most 
popular titles in Spanish: four books from the Hacks series, three 
pocket
guides,  and the bestseller, "PC Annoyances."
http://press.oreilly.com/pub/pr/1188


***History of Programming Languages
O'Reilly has produced a poster on the history of programming languages
that plots over 50 languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline,
based on a diagram created by Eric Levenez. Download the poster in PDF
format. You can also find full-size copies at Team O'Reilly bookstores,
and at O'Reilly conferences, such as this July's Open Source 
Convention.
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/news/languageposter_0504.html


***Stealing the Network: A Prequel 
Ryan Russell, one of the coauthors of "Stealing the Network: How to Own 
a
Continent" (from Syngress), has written a "prequel" that depicts a
'70s-era security hack, set at a tech company back East. If you've been
curious about "Stealing the Network," this short bit of fiction 
provides a
real sense of the concept behind the book. And be sure to respond to 
the
talkback at the end of this tale -- we'd like to hear your theory.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/security/2004/07/01/stealthenetwork.html

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*** How to Write a Basic Gtk# Program with Mono
Gtk#, the Mono API for the GTK+ UI toolkit, is the open source 
alternative
to Windows.Forms. This article shows how to install Mono on Windows, 
how
Gtk# works, and how to write a simple Gtk# program. This kind of
mini-project is just the sort you'll find in O'Reilly's upcoming "Mono: 
A
Developer's Notebook."
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/excerpt/MonoTDN_chap1/index.html


***Unix Printing Basics 
For some reason, consumer-level printing has never been easy on any OS,
including Unix. Unless you're in the know, it seems like a mess of
spoolers, filters, and drivers. Fortunately, new versions of 
Ghostscript
and foomatic make configuring printing easier. Dru Lavigne explains the
basics of Unix printer installation and configuration.
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/07/08/FreeBSD_Basics.html

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***Announcing the 2004 Mac OS X Innovators Contest 
The second Mac OS X Innovators contest is open and ready for your 
entry.
Here are the links and info you need to shine a light on your great 
idea.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/developer/2004/07/06/innovators.html


***Hacking Mac OS X Panther 
Rael Dornfest, coauthor of "Mac OS X Panther Hacks," has selected three
hacks from the book for your sampling pleasure. The first two detail 
how
to find anyone in your Address Book who has an Amazon Wish List, and 
how
to build a GUI to your Unix scripts with some Perl or Python glue code;
the third is just for fun.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/excerpt/pantherhacks/index.html


***Steve Jobs Introduces Tiger at WWDC 2004 
So many things to talk about at WWDC. So many things that can't be 
said.
Here's an overview of what can be disclosed, including hardware
announcements and a preview of Tiger, Apple's next version of Mac OS X.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/01/wwdc.html

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***Top Three Windows RSS Readers 
Which are the best RSS readers out there? Wei-Meng Lee picks his 
favorites
and gives you guided tours of them all.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/07/06/rss_readers.html


***Surf the Web Anonymously 
When you surf the Web, your life is an open book, open to anyone who 
wants
to look. J.W. Olsen looks at two anonymous surfing programs that 
promise
to fix the problem.
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/06/29/Anonymity.html

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***Spring in Action 
In this excerpt from "Better, Faster, Lighter Java," authors Bruce Tate
and Justin Gehtland provide an example of Spring (their counter-example 
to
the J2EE Pet Store application) in action, to show why you too will 
come
to appreciate this simple framework as elegant and important. 
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/excerpt/BFLJava_chap8/index.html


***Inside Class Loaders: Debugging 
Andreas Schaefer continues his examination of class loading in Java 
with a
look at what can cause problems in advance class-loading scenarios and 
how
to patch class loaders to help debug the problem.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/06/30/classloader2.html

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***Refactoring in Whidbey 
Code refactoring means restructuring your code so that the original
intention of the code is preserved. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee walks
you through Whidbey's new support for code refactoring.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2004/06/28/whidbey_refactoring.html

Until next time--

Marsee