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Bradley J. Dinerman,
Director
Boston User Groups.Inc.
http://www.BostonUserGroups.com
Hello User Group
Contact:
Several O'Reilly authors--as well as Tim O'Reilly--will be
speaking in
the near future at Softpro Books in Burlington (details below).
If you
know of ways we could spread the word about these upcoming
events,
please let me know at marsee@oreilly.com.
Books will be
discounted during the event, and there will be door
prizes.
Open
Invitation to SIGS and User Groups: Softpro is happy to host your
group. They
have space to accomodate up to 30 people in Burlington and
up to 12 in
Marlborough.
Reserve a time by writing to
events@softpro.com.
Softpro Events:
Tim O'Reilly on Emerging Tech
Trends
Wednesday, March 13--6:30 PM
Tim will talk about emerging tech
trends that O'Reilly & Associates is
following, including bioinformatics,
community wireless, web services,
and the evolution of what he's calling "the
internet operating system."
For more information on Tim O'Reilly see:
http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/tim_bio.html
Jesse
Liberty on ASP v. ASP.NET
Wednesday, March 20--6:30 PM
The principal
difference between ASP.NET and ASP is that the new
programming model is more
object-oriented and more event-driven. This
will be illustrated by extracting
records from a database and filling a
DataGrid in a web form, coloring some
records based on their content,
and responding to the ItemDataBound event.
Along the way Jesse will
also explain how to create code-behind pages for web
forms, how to
retrieve data from a database and how to populate the DataGrid.
Jesse
Liberty is the author of "Programming ASP.NET" and "Programming
C#"
among others. To see more information on Jesse Liberty or the books
he
has written for O'Reilly,
visit:
http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/239?x-t=book.view
Erik
Ray on Perl and XML
Wednesday, April 3--6:30-8:00 PM.
Erik Ray is coauthor
of the upcoming book "Perl &
XML"
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlxml/).
XML is a text-based markup
language that has taken the programming world by
storm. More powerful
than HTML yet less demanding than SGML, XML has proven
itself to be
flexible and resilient. XML is the perfect tool for
formatting
documents with even the smallest bit of complexity, from Web pages
to
legal contracts to books. However, XML has also proven itself to
be
indispensable for organizing and conveying other sorts of data as
well,
thus its central role in web services like SOAP and XML-RPC. As
the
Perl programming language was tailor-made for manipulating text,
few
people have disputed the fact that Perl and XML are perfectly
suited
for one another. The only question has been what's the best way to
do
it.
Noel Rappin on Jython
Wednesday, April 24--6:30-8:00
PM.
Noel Rappin is coauthor of "Jython Essentials"
(http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jythoness/).
Jython is an
implementation of the Python programming language written in
Java,
allowing Python programs to integrate seamlessly with any Java
code.
The secret to Jython's popularity lies in the combination of
Java's
libraries and tools with Python's rapid development
capabilities.
"Jython Essentials" provides a solid introduction to the
language,
numerous examples of Jython/Java interaction, and valuable
reference
material on modules and libraries of use to Jython
programmers.
All events to take place at:
Softpro Books
112
Mall Road
Burlington MA 01803-5300
Phone: (781) 273-2919
http://www.softpro.com/events.html
--Marsee
Henon
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Henon
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