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***Steve Souders at The 2007 Rich Web Experience, Sep 6-8--
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***Dynamic Learning Series Authors & the AGI Creative
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***Derrick Story and Mikkel Aaland at the Sonoma County Book
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Authors Mikkel Aaland (Photoshop Lightroom Adventure and
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Photography Pocket Guide, 3rd Ed.) discuss "Photography
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***RailsConf Europe, Sep 17-19--Berlin, Germany
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***Dynamic Learning Series Authors & the AGI Creative
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***Dynamic Learning Series Authors & the AGI Creative
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***Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene at PMI Mass Bay,
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Head First PMP authors Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene
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***Dynamic Learning Series Authors & the AGI Creative
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hard-to-find tips
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<http://www.agitraining.com/cs3/cs3seminar/index.html>
***Dynamic Learning Series Authors & the AGI Creative
Team Host
"Mastering the Adobe Creative Suite 3",
Sep 25-27--Toronto
Learn from the team of authors and instructors that created
many of
Adobe's official training titles and have now combined their
talents to
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and training
videos. Come discover the new features and understand
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<http://www.agitraining.com/cs3/cs3seminar/index.html>
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***Registration is Open for RailsConf Europe,
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***Ignite Boston 2! September 6
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We've picked a
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everyone to
hear what's going on. And we are planning to mix-up the
format a little.
There will be some short "launches," followed by
lightening talks, and a
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<http://www
.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog/>
***What is O'Reilly Editor Andy Oram Up to These Days?
Andy continues his research into the free documentation
written by users.
Recent articles on the topic include "Why Do People
Write Free
Documentation?"
(http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlam
p/2007/06/14/why-do-people-write-free-documentation-res
ults-of-a-survey.html)
which analyzes the results of an O'Reilly survey answered
by
over 350 respondents, and "How to Help Mailing Lists
Help Readers"
(http://praxagora.com/andyo/professional/mailing_l
ist_follow_up/) which
finds interesting results concerning how many questions get
answered on
mailing lists and how long the list members spend on
questions. Andy
presented his results at the July 2007 Open Source
convention in
Portland, OR. For more information or to read Andy's
articles, go to:
<htt
p://praxagora.com/community_documentation/>
***The Watering Hole
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<http://www.oreillynet.com/l
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***Cookin' with Ruby on Rails
Bill Walton, well known for his "Rolling with Ruby on
Rails Revisited"
tutorials, is back with a new series that takes Rails to the
next level.
<http://w
ww.oreillynet.com/topic/ruby.csp>
***Introduction to Flex Using PHP
Flex is Adobe's next-generation platform of deploying
browser-based
applications. Jack Herrington provides us with an
introduction to Flex,
by showing us how to integrate it with a PHP-based backend.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a
/onlamp/2007/07/19/introduction-to-flex-using-php.html>
***Mono: A Progress Report
Mono has always been a bit of an outsider. Open source folks
distrust it
because it helps people use Microsoft technologies on
non-Microsoft
platforms. Microsoft people don't see the need for it. But
this social
outcast has been making steady progress and can offer a lot
if you take
the time to check it out. Edd Dumbill gives us an update on
the state of
Mono.
<http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/
2007/08/09/mono-a-progress-report.html>
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***iLife '08 for Aperture Users with Joe Schorr
Apple recently released iLife '08 with a truckload of
goodies for
Aperture users. In this podcast, Joe Schorr tells you how to
use some of
these new tools and discusses the latest Aperture update
(1.5.4).
<http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2
007/08/16/ilife-08-for-aperture-users.html>
***Thinking Camera, Lens, Lightroom before taking the
shot--George Mann's Blog
When I saw this scene in front of me, I realized that it was
going to be
very difficult to get what I was seeing. For one it was very
dark and I
was standing on a very narrow and slippery ledge between the
lichen
encrusted ruins of Banteay Kdei (Angkor, Cambodia) and the
jungle. I
didn't have a tripod with me but it was doubtful that I
could have
gotten the angle I was after even if I had one anyway (where
is that
Gitzo ladder tripod when you really need one).
<http://www.oreillynet
.com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/08/thinking_camera_lens_lightroo
m.html>
***Highlight and Shadow Recovery in Harsh Light--Derrick
Story's Blog
Nothing like a midday August wedding to strike fear into the
heart of
this digital photographer. Harsh sun, sparse shade, black
suits, white
gowns, black skin, white skin — often all in the same shot.
This is a
situation where you have to shoot Raw and thank goodness for
the
Highlight and Shadow recovery sliders in Aperture. I have
lots of tricks
for dealing with bad lighting (find shade whenever possible,
fill flash,
reflectors, etc.), but as you know, sometimes clients say,
"We don't
have time to walk over there; let's just take the shot
here." Horror.
"Not here!" I think. "This is the last place
on the planet I want to
take this shot."
<http://www.oreillynet.
com/digitalmedia/blog/2007/08/highlight_and_shadow_recovery.
html>
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***The Good Easy on OS X
Giles Turnbull examines Mark Hurst's "Good Easy"
productivity tools and
methods for Macs. Giles spoke with the author of "Bit
Literacy" about
his philosophy and choices for simplifying computing.
<http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a
/mac/2007/07/25/the-good-easy-on-os-x.html>
***Understanding Exceptions and Handlers in Cocoa
Learn how to use Cocoa to build an exception handling
system. This
article shows the classes and keywords needed, how to
prepare and raise
a Cocoa exception, as well as how to intercept and process
the
exception.
<http://w
ww.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2007/07/31/understanding-excep
tions-and-handlers-in-cocoa.html>
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Microsoft/.NET
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***Build Dynamic Database Applications in .NET with Project
Codename
"Jasper"
Instead of moving to Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET developers might
consider
Project Codename "Jasper" and the growing number
of .NET dynamic
languages. In this article, you'll learn how to use Jasper.
<http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub
/a/windows/2007/07/31/build-dynamic-database-applications-in
-net-with-project-codename-jasper.html>
***Introduction to JavaFX Script
In this article, Anghel Leonard give us a walkthrough of
JavaFX Script,
the syntax, several examples, and usage within Eclipse and
NetBeans.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/
onjava/2007/07/27/introduction-to-javafx-script.html>
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Head First
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***Big Head Photo Contest Ends this month
Brain packed full of Head First learning? Show us! Send in a
photo of
yourself in the Head First "Big Head" style (like
on the covers of our
books). At the end of August, we'll pick our favorite one
and send the
winner a free Head First T-Shirt and their pick of $200 in
O'Reilly
books. We might put the picture inside our next Head First
book. If it's
cool enough, we might even use it on the cover.
<http://www.headfirstlabs.com/bighead.php?CMP=NLC-July
07>
***New Forums for Head First SQL
Head First SQL is at the Printers. And now you can chat with
the author
and other SQL readers at our new forums.
<http://headfirstlabs.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12>
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Web
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***Inside Adobe's onAIR Summer Bus Tour
FOOs and O'Reilly Folk Hit the Road. Read our blog posts,
tips, photos, dates, and more.
<http://www.oreilly.com/store/series/adl_onair.csp>
***Nifty Navigation Using CSS
Navigation is the key to surfing the Web, and in this
collection of
ready-made solutions Rachel steps us through horizontal and
vertical
menus, drop-down, fly-out, and tabbed navigation systems.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/navigation-using-css&g
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***Microformats: More Meaning from your Markup
Hidden on many pages of the Web are tiny packets of
information --
people, places, events, and more. You and I can read them,
but they're
invisible to machines. Imagine the possibilities if that
information
became visible to other sites and applications! In this
article, Brian
shows how the addition of microformats to your web site
markup can open
up a whole new raft of possibilities.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/article/microformats-me
aning-markup>
***OSCON 2007 Coverage: High Performance Web Pages
Matthew Eernisse covers O'Reilly author Steve Souders (High
Performance Web Sites)
session at OSCON in Portland this year.
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blog
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Until next time--
Marsee Henon
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