[CincyPG] FW: Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, March 7

[Maggie Longshore (home)]

>Hi--
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>Just in case you didn't catch it, here's Mark Frauenfelder, MAKE 
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>More on Mark's appearance can be found on the MAKE blog:
><http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/03/welcome_heros.html>
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>***HDR: An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Photography (PDF)
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>***MAKE: Technology on Your Time Volume 09
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>---------------------
>Open Source
>---------------------
>***How an Accident of Hardware Design Encouraged Open Source
>In the early 1970s, the designers at DEC made a technical decision about
>memory addressing that separated their computers from the mainframes of
>the day. That single decision led to porting woes throughout the
>1980s--and, so believes Mark Rosenthal, made free and open source
>software more possible and appealing.
><http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2007/02/22/open-formats-open-source.html>
>
>
>***How to Optimize Rank Data in MySQL
>Suppose you need to calculate constantly-changing information based on
>constantly-updated information in one or more tables. Are you stuck
>doing everything in multiple expensive queries? By no means. Baron
>Schwartz demonstrates how careful denormalization and query construction
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><http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/mysql/2007/03/01/optimize-mysql-rank-data.html>
>
>---------------------
>Digital Media
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>***Lightroom Getting Started: Organizing the Lightroom Workspace
>The Lightroom workspace is extremely malleable. You can easily enlarge
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>"Lightroom Aventure--Mastering Adobe's next-generation tool for digital
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><http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2007/02/22/lightroom-workspace.html>
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>
>---------------------
>Mac
>---------------------
>***Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
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>without Applescript. Learn the basics of rb-appscript usage, with
>example scripts, including a rewrite of the Ruby-AppleScript example
>from Matt's book "AppleScript: The Definitive Guide."
><http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/02/27/replacing-applescript-with-ruby.html>
>
>
>***Stream Live HDTV from Your Mac
>Erica Sadun shows how to stream HD EyeTV video from a Mac using VLC in
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>video streaming solution by accessing EyeTV's raw MPEG transport streams
>and using VLC to stream that MPEG and watch the video on another
>computer.
><http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/02/20/stream-live-hdtv-from-your-mac.html>
>
>---------------------
>Microsoft/.NET
>---------------------
>***Cleaning Up Your Disk Drives in Windows Vista
>Your PC's hard disk fills up fast with junk, gunk, and extraneous files.
>In this excerpt from "Windows Vista: The Definitive Guide," William R.
>Stanek and Paul Marquardt show you how to clean it up fast.
><http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/03/06/cleaning-up-your-disk-drives-in-windows-vista.html>
>
>
>***The Three Faces of ASP.NET AJAX
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>create custom controls or extenders, or dig deep into its innards and
>see how it all works.
><http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/02/27/the-three-faces-of-aspnet-ajax.html>
>
>
>***Analyzing Assemblies with Reflector
>In this excerpt from "Windows Developer Power Tools," James Avery and
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>assembly and find its dependencies and callers, or dive down and explore
>an entire assembly.
><http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2007/02/20/analyzing-assemblies-with-reflector.html>
>
>---------------------
>Java
>---------------------
>***Statement, Branch, and Path Coverage Testing in Java
>Even with unit tests approaching 100% coverage, critical logic errors
>could be hiding in your code. It is impossible to test every possible
>condition, but with a little analysis of the potential paths and a plan
>to test them, you can be much more confident in the quality of your
>tests.
><http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/03/02/statement-branch-and-path-coverage-testing-in-java.html>
>
>
>***An Introduction to Hibernate 3 Annotations
>Hibernate is just about the defacto standard for Java database
>persistence. With Hibernate 3, it has become even easier to specify how
>your Java objects are stored in a database. In this article, John Smart
>shows how Java 5 annotations are used by Hibernate to simplify your code
>and make persisting your data even easier.
><http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2007/02/08/an-introduction-to-hibernate-3-annotations.html>
>
>---------------------
>Web
>---------------------
>***Learn Ruby on Rails: the Ultimate Beginner's Tutorial
>In this action-packed adventure, Patrick provides rock-solid foundations
>in object oriented programming principles, and a detailed explanation of
>Ruby syntax. After this comprehensive tour, you'll plunge into the
>mysterious depths of the Rails framework.
><http://www.sitepoint.com/article/learn-ruby-on-rails>
>
>
>***Avoid Evil JavaScript
>What makes some JavaScript Evil, and can beginners learn to write Good
>JavaScript code from day one?
><http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/02/09/avoiding-evil-javascript/>
>
>
>***The Hard Facts about Heading Structure
>Because assistive technologies like screen readers allow users to
>navigate through a document by its heading structure, its important to
>ensure your site is up to scratch. Find out if your site passes the test.
><http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/01/26/the-hard-facts-about-heading-structure/>
>
>
>Until next time--
>
>Marsee Henon
>
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