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***The Art of RAW Conversion
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"The Art of RAW Conversion" shows how to work with the RAW files 
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***The Book of Visual Basic 2005
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593270747
"Book of Visual Basic 2005" is a comprehensive introduction to 
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.NET, the book is organized as a series of lightning tours and
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***Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1597492507
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***Creative Computer Crafts
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593270682
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***Enterprise Integration with Ruby
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different programming languages. This book shows you how to knit these
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***Enterprise SOA
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ISBN: 0596102380
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***Flash 8 Cookbook
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***HTML Utopia, Second Edition
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ISBN: 0975240277
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***JUNOS Cookbook
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596100140
"JUNOS Cookbook" is the first comprehensive book about JUNOS software
and it provides over 200 time-saving step-by-step techniques including
discussions about the processes and alternative ways to perform the 
same
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M-, T-, and J-series routers.
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***Keep it Simple with GarageBand
Publisher: PC Publishing
ISBN: 1870775163
Contains a series of easy music making projects for beginners and
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songwriting, constructing tunes, and pro-style audio production along
the way. Each project is preceded by on-topic, and background
information. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1870775163/>


***Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005
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ISBN: 0596102151
If you're new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, this step-by-step
introduction has everything you need to generate, manipulate, and
retrieve data using Microsoft's SQL Server 2005. Every topic, concept,
and idea in the book comes with examples of code and output, along with
exercises to help you gain proficiency. Plenty of texts explain 
database
theory. This book lets you apply the theory as you learn SQL. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnsqlsvr05/>


***Learning UML 2.0
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596009828
Engaging and accessible, this book shows you how to use UML to craft 
and
communicate your project's design. Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton have
written a pragmatic introduction to UML; based on hard earned practice,
not theory. Regardless of the software process or methodology you use,
this book is the one source you need to get up and running with UML 
2.0.
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnuml2/>


***Linux Annoyances for Geeks
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596008015
GNU/Linux is an immensely popular operating system that is extremely
stable and reliable. But it can also induce minor headaches at the most
inopportune times if you're not fully up to speed with its 
capabilities.
In keeping with the spirit of the Annoyances series, the book adopts a
sympathetic tone that will quickly win you over. Rather than blaming 
you
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you along for a fun-filled ride as you master the system together. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxannoygks/>


***Nagios
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593270704
"Nagios: System and Network Monitoring" shows how to configure and use
Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool. Nagios makes
it possible to continuously monitor network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP,
NNTP, PING, etc.), host resources (processor load, disk and memory
usage, running processes, log files, etc.), and environmental factors
(such as temperature). When Nagios detects a problem, it communicates
the information to the sys admin via email, pager, SMS, or other
user-defined method. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270704/index.html>


***PGP & GPG
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593270712
"PGP & GPG" is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for implementing
electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email
privacy field--commercial PGP and non-commercial GnuPG (GPG). The book
shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most
common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email
correspondence to both send and receive encrypted email. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270712/index.html>


***Pragmatic Ajax
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN: 0976694085
It used to be that you had to make a hard choice: the ease of 
deployment
of a web page, or the interactive features of a rich desktop
application. Now you can have it all. Ajax redefines the user 
experience
for web applications. Using existing standards, your application can
provide a compelling user interface--delivered plug-in free--using
modern web browsers. This book shows you how to work the Ajax magic
easily, exploring both the fundamental technologies and the emerging
frameworks that make it easy.
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0976694085/>


***Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596007663
Programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about
combining existing features to solve particular problems. With Visual
Basic for Applications (VBA), you can transform Excel into a
task-specific piece of software that will quickly and precisely serve
your needs. This single-source reference and how-to guide will teach 
you
to use the complete range of Excel programming tasks to solve problems.
Developers looking forward to .NET development will also find 
discussion
of how the Excel object model works with .NET tools including Visual
Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progexcel/>


***Programming PHP, Second Edition
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596006810
As the industry standard book on PHP, all of the essentials are covered
in a clear and concise manner. Language, syntax, and programming
techniques are coupled with numerous examples that illustrate both
correct usage and common idioms. With style tips and practical
programming advice, this book will help you become a good PHP
programmer. "Programming PHP, Second Edition" covers everything you 
need to know to create effective web applications with PHP. 
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progphp2/>


***RFID Security
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1597490474
Wal-Mart was the main force behind the widespread adoption of bar codes
in the 80s; they have now started the conversion from bar codes to RFID
tags and are requiring all of their suppliers to switch to RFID tags or
lose their business. RFID will become a mainstream technology whether 
we
like it or not and anyone using barcode technology will need to have
their RFID solution in place quickly. This book teaches readers about
the security implications of RFID.
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490474/>


***Scripting VMware Power Tools
Publisher: Syngress
ISBN: 1597490598
This book covers the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server.
It discusses in detail the different scripting API's and how they
can be leveraged to provide useful, practical and time saving
tools to manage a virtual infrastructure. From virtual server
provisioning to backups and everything in between, all are covered
in detail with real world examples that have been tested and will work
either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications for
specific environments.
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490598/index.html>


***SQL Pocket Guide
Publisher: O'Reilly
ISBN: 0596526881
Now available in an updated second edition, our very popular "SQL 
Pocket
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portable guide addresses the language's complexity head on and leads by
example. The information in this edition has been updated to reflect 
the
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sqlpg2/>


***Steal This Computer Book 4.0
Publisher: No Starch Press
ISBN: 1593271050
This offbeat, non-technical book examines what hackers do, how they do
it, and how readers can protect themselves. Informative, irreverent, 
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lock picking, exploiting P2P file sharing networks, and how people
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<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593271050/index.html>


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Photography") presents this one-day seminar.
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***Peter Morville at CHI 2006, Apr 22-27--Montreal, Canada
Author Peter Morville (Ambient Findability) is speaking at CHI 2006
"It's About the Information Stupid!"
<http://www.chi2006.org/>


***Collaborate 06, Apr 23-27--Nashville, TN	
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***Niel M. Bornstein at the Desktop Linux Summit 2006, Apr 24-25, 
 San Diego, CA
Author Niel M. Bornstein ("Mono: A Developer's Notebook")is speaking
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<http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm>


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Author Stephen Few ("Information Dashboard Design") conducts two
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and "Information Visualization for Discovery and Analysis."
<http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm>


***Dan Gillmor at Columbia University, Apr 27--New York, NY
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called "We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open Source
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<http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/hearst/>


***Peter Krogh at the Commercial Industrial Photographers of New
England, Apr 28--Boston, MA
Author Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for
Photographers") will be discussing DAM at CIPNE's annual membership
meeting.
<http://www.cipne.org/Programs/programs.html>


***Dan Gillmor at We Media Conference, May 4--London, England
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Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") is participating in a forum
discussing "Beyond Broadcasting.
<http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/>


***Dan Gillmor at Future in Review 2006 Conference, May 14--
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Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") will be discussing "From 
Blogs to RSS to...the Future of News Reporting."
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***Fire Your Boss! A Guide to Successful Freelancing From Home
Sick of the commute? Want to establish your own freelance consultancy?
Here's the kick-start you've been waiting for! Neil and Jarvis help you
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***Building a FreeBSD Build System 
Keeping a single BSD system up to date is relatively easy. Keeping a
whole business full of servers fresh with patches and new applications
and updates is more work--unless you take advantage of the ports 
system.
Bjorn Nelson walks through the design and implementation of a build
system usable to push fresh binaries to as many servers as you have.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html>


***The Software of Space Exploration 
Free software advocates often appeal to the open discovery, disclosure,
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information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
free and open source software continues to grow in popularity. David
Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and
usable by armchair scientists.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>

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***Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
(S)FTP has a special place in the hearts of web builders and
developers, and is still one of the most practical methods of getting
files from one place to another in a secure manner. In this article,
Giles Turnbull surveys six FTP clients for the Mac platform and shows
you the major characteristics of each.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/13/ftp.html>


***Macintosh Home Monitoring 
Want to learn a few simple home automation techniques to have your Mac
send you a message when your mail is delivered, your kids get home, or
your dog uses the pet door to go into the backyard? Gordon Meyer shows
you how.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/04/automation.html>

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***Programming Word from .NET 
Using .NET with Word can be a potent combination. Jesse Liberty shows
you how to take advantage of Word's formatting features and add the
power of .NET's programmability.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/18/programming-word-from-net.html>


***An Overview of UAC in Windows Vista 
Vista's User Account Control represents a big step forward for system
security. But it's not that easy to understand. Mitch Tulloch shows you
how it works, and offers tips for making it better.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/04/uac-in-windows-vista.html>

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Web
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***The Best Structure For Your Flash Site
Few developers know how to use Keyframes, ActionScript, and MovieClips,
and can control the Flash playhead to their advantage. Optimizing your
use of these elements can help you reduce file size, minimize download
times, and create efficiencies that make altering your work easy. 
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/structure-flash-site>


***Is AJAX Cross-Browser?
What does AJAX mean (if anything) for cross-browser compatibility? 
Kevin
Yank takes a look at both sides of the argument.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/24/is-ajax-cross-browser/>

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Java
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***Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
AJAX programmers who come from the Java world should be concerned with
JavaScript's non-support for safely managing data structures in a
concurrent fashion. If one thread is changing the DOM while another is
reading it, problems are likely. Java developers can attack this with
tools from the synchronized keyword and the old Object wait()/release()
to the modern java.util.concurrent package introduced in J2SE 5.0. 
Bruce
Wallace addresses the problem by introducing protection for critical
blocks of JavaScript code.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>


***Supporting Branch Office Environments 
Supporting the IT needs of branch offices that have limited or no IT
resources can be a challenge. What to do? Mitch Tulloch, author of
"Windows Server Hacks," interviews Richard Harrison, CISSP, principal
technologist for infrastructure and security at Content Master, who
offers his expertise on how to support branch offices using Windows.
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/11/supporting-branch-office-environments.html>

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Podcasts
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***Scaling Games Up 
This week we're talking about games. Big games. Amy Jo Kim talks about
taking the lessons from game playing and applying them to your
applications. Jane McGonigal talks about scaling up intimate two player
games so that thousands of people can thumb wrestle. (DTF 04-18-2006: 
27
minutes 49 seconds)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/04/18/distributing-the-future.html>


***Patterns for Communication, Moderation, and Information Processing
We're finding patterns everywhere. Clay Shirky talks about patterns of
moderation strategy, Jon Udell makes recommendations for those of us
seeking attention, and George Dyson helps us understand the present by
looking back at Von Neumann. (DTF 04-03-2006: 31 minutes 05 seconds)
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/04/03/distributing-the-future.html>

For more podcasts, go to:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/podcasts/>

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Digital Media
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***Aperture 1.1--Apple Listens 
With Aperture's new features, bug fixes, and universal compatibility
with PowerMacs and Intel Macs, it's now a serious contender for top
digital photo software. Scott Bourne reviews Version 1.1.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/18/aperture.html>


***Digital "Not Hot" at Sundance 2006
Digital cinema is no longer new or novel, but it is clearly and
inevitably, the wave of the future. Susan Boyer attended this year's
Sundance film festival and gives us a glimpse at how the cinematic 
landscape is
changing.
http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/04/05/digital-not-hot-at-sundance-2006.html

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MAKE
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***Maker Faire, San Mateo County Fairgrounds, San Mateo, CA--April 
22-23
Join the creators of MAKE magazine, the MythBusters, and thousands of
tech DIY enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, 
science
clubs, students, and authors at MAKE's first ever Maker Faire!

People and attractions we'll have at the Faire includes: a flying 
Pterosaur
replica, a flock of whale blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID
implants, model rocketry, breadboarding, trailer glass blowing, The
Crucible's welding workshops off the back of a fire truck, pinhole
photography, soldering, spud gun building, bubble machines and a bubble
guy that appeared on Johnny Carson in the seventies, Bunnie Huang, Joe 
Grand,
William Gurstelle and his Backyard Ballistics, The Exploratorium, Zeum,
The Lunar Society (rocket builders), Graffiti Research Lab, Squid Labs,
biodiesel making, electric cars, a Linux supercomputer cluster running
on veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending, VJs, slide rules, pinball
restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope and much more. Quite 
an eclectic collection, not to mention Diana Eng of Bravo's Project 
Runway and the 50 craft booths in Bizarre Bazaar and the 
Swap-o-Rama-Rama.

CNN, NPR's Science Friday's Ira Flatow, KPIX TV, Discover Magazine, CBS
News, The Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Kevin Rose of Digg and
digg.com Films, and CNET will be covering the event. But hey why wait
to read it in a blog or see it on TV when you can be there in person?

If you haven't purchased your ticket yet, visit:
<http://www.makezine.com/faire/>


***MAKE Video Podcast
The making of a Warbot and death of a RAZR phone.
<http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/make_video_podcast_the_making.html>

***Try a Sample Project from MAKE:
<http://makezine.com/samples/>


Until next time--

Marsee Henon

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