Sample of O'Reilly's Evangelist Newsletter

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News From The Edge
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Welcome to the Jungle!
Until recently, O'Reilly's Java books were adorned with teapots, toys,
and other objects instead of the usual O'Reilly animals. But loyal
readers kept nagging us with, "Where are the animals?" So we decided,
if you want animals, we'll give you animals. Here's a preview of the
beasts to rule the Java jungle.
http://java.oreilly.com/news/covers_0501.html

Tim challenges Andrew Leonards' gloomy comment on Salon about the
demise of Eazel.
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/weblog/view/wlg/342

Getting Photoshop and Outlook to Tango -- author Bruce W. Perry
demonstrates how we can become human again by using AppleScript to
automate repetitive computing tasks in Photoshop and Outlook.
http://mac.oreilly.com/news/apscript_0501.html

Long Live the Camel! -- The June 2001 issue of Fast Company calls Perl
one of the "best-of-the-best innovations" on the list of technologies
that set the business agenda. It's up there along with the bar code,
the lab mouse, the catalytic converter and - yes - the Hertz #1 Club
Gold program.
http://www.fastcompany.com/online/47/agendaitems.html

And to prove that Fast Company chose wisely, here's Mark-Jason Dominus
with his "Perl Program Repair Shop."
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/05/18/perl_redflags.html

Cynthia Gibas and Per Jambeck discuss the latest issues in
bioinformatics, including privacy, peer-to-peer computing, and open
source software. They are the coauthors of O'Reilly's recently released
"Developing Bioinformatics Computer Skills."
http://www.oreilly.com/news/bioint_0501.html.

They will also be presenting sessions on bioinformatics at the Open
Source Convention, July 23-27, 2001 in sunny San Diego.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2001/pub/w/os2001/sessions_open.html

Dave Winer, being one of the original developers of the XML-RPC
specification, has written the foreword to O'Reilly's upcoming
"Programming Web Services with XML-RPC." In it, he defines XML-RPC and
outlines its history and what's next. If you're not afraid of his
opinions, you can read it here:
http://www.xmlrpc.com/stories/storyReader$1726


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Books Hot Off The Press
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Cocoa is more than just a yummy ingredient in your chocolate easter
bunny. It's also a principal application environment for Mac OS X.
If you haven't gotten your copy of O'Reilly's "Learning Cocoa" at this
week's WWDC yet, get it from me now. You know you'll need it sooner or
later.
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa/
Sample Chapter "Essential Cocoa Paradigms"
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learncocoa/chapter/ch06.html

Just can't seem to memorize those CSS pseudo-classes? Yeah, me
neither. Luckily, there's the nifty CSS Pocket Reference now - the
perfect companion to your copy of "Cascading Style Sheets: The
Definitive Guide".
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/csspr/


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Spreading The Word
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Want a copy of "SQL in a Nutshell" and don't dare to ask me? (for
whatever reason ;) Then you can win one at the delphi3000.com site.
Thanks to Evangelist Bernhard for putting up the raffle.
http://www.delphi3000.com/

Or get a freebie trial subscription for the outstanding MacJournals,
and discover all the nice things Matt Deatherage had to say about
O'Reilly's "Office 2001: The Missing Manual" in his detailed writeup on
the trials and tribulations of using Microsoft's Office Suite on the
Mac.
http://www.macjournals.com/pages/mdj/mdj_free_trial.epl


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Intelligent Surveys
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On the topic of Newsgroups:

1> Do you use them?
2> If yes, for what purposes?
3> And which ones do you frequent?
4> If no, where else do you go for immediate and real-life answers
to your technical problems?
5> Not to open a can of spam ... eh, worms - but where do you draw the
line between useful postings and well, spam?

The findings (if any) shall be published in the next newsletter.


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Please let me know if you want to get a copy of any of the above books
for review or your reading pleasure, and I would be grateful if you
could pass on the articles and sample chapters to your peers.

And I'm still working on the online archive for my newsletter.
Patience, grasshoppers.


:-)
Simone


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Simone Paddock // Online Evangelist
O'Reilly & Associates // 707-829-0515 x. 330
simone@oreilly.com // www.oreilly.com // evangelists.oreilly.com