O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference: October 25 - 28, 2004

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Wireless Security and the Open1X Project  Open1X is an open-source project focusing on network security. The wireless adoption of this technology is referred to as 802.1X. In this interview, Matthew Gast travels to the University of Utah to talk to Chris Hessing and Terry Simmons, who are intent on bringing standards-based wireless security to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows clients.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design, Part 5  So far, Adam Behringer has covered an enterprise software architecture based on a flexible "hub" that stores and vends data to a number of cross-platform tools and apps using a standard XML "spoke." In this fifth installment, he shows you how to build (with Cocoa) a client module that will work with the XML data.   [MacDevCenter.com]

More Inside News on O'Reilly's Mac OS X Conference  We've added top-level Apple-employed speakers to the conference faculty. And yes, some have been approved to talk about Tiger. Here's the latest inside scoop on the upcoming Mac OS X event.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Acrobat to a Paperless Office  Adobe Acrobat is an excellent program for document distribution. Most users are familiar with the freely available Acrobat Reader, allowing anyone to view PDF documents. The full-blown version of Acrobat offers a range of tools to manage document distribution beyond just converting other formats to PDF. Julie Starr shows you how to use these tools to design the paperless office.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Mac OS X for the Traveler, Part 3  This is the third part of a series discussing how to travel safely with your Mac OS X laptop. Today's focus is software encryption and those pesky networks you have to deal with on the road.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Browsers that Aren't Browsers  These days, we no longer simply browse the Web as much as we mine it. You have your favorite browser for viewing pages, but Giles Turnbull thought you might enjoy learning about a few new-generation web tools, too. He illustrates in this article.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Keeping Up Developer Relations Worldwide  Paris is bustling with Mac users from all over Europe. The big news, of course, is the iMac G5. Julie Starr reports from the show floor.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Mac OS X for the Traveler, Part 2  This is the second part of a series that will run over the next few weeks discussing how to travel safely with your Mac OS X laptop. Now that you've made your travel preparations as described in part one, you can now think about getting all of your equipment on the plane safely.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Java Programming on the Mac
Java Programming on the Mac: A Rendezvous with Java  With Apple's release of the Java source code for Rendezvous, developers can create Rendezvous-enabled applications for other platforms, as well as Mac. Michael Brewer shows you how.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Mac OS X for the Traveler, Part 1  In this first part of an ongoing series about traveling safely with your PowerBook or iBook, you'll learn that preparation is one of the keys to peace of mind. F.J. helps you get your equipment in order.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Basics of Transparent Blitting, Part 2  In Part 1, Michael Norton explained pixel boundary rectangles. In Part 2 he shows how transparency pixel blitting is used in video-game animation. There's plenty of code in this one.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Programming With Cocoa
Programming With Cocoa: Easy Code Documentation with Xcode  As a developer, you must not only use documentation but also provide it for your own code if you want to make it usable to others. Providing up-to-date and easy-to-navigate API documentation is a big step toward making your code accessible and useful. If you are a Mac developer, you can leverage the power of Xcode so that it requires minimal effort to create good documentation. Adam Behringer shows you how.   [MacDevCenter.com]

An Advanced Guide to Enterprise Application Distribution  Tracking package installers can be a fairly simple task. However, how do you track and deploy applications that use third-party installation mechanisms? In this article, Philip Rinehart provides an overview to some of the commonly overlooked issues that enterprise administrators must deal with when deploying non-package installers.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Securing Key Chain Flash Drives  The current crop of key chain Flash drives have incredible storage capacity. They are perfect for keeping personal data with you at all times. But what if you lose your keys? Here are a couple of easy ways to protect yourself, and your data.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Systems Biology  The grand vision of systems biology is to integrate information from all of the resources we have today to explore the ever more complex aspects of life sciences. In this article, Robert Jones provides a snapshot of systems biology as it now stands, and where biologists hope to take it in the future.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Basics of Transparent Blitting, Part 1  In this follow-up tutorial to his article, Basic Offscreen Buffering, Michael J. Norton focuses on how to copy sprites to the buffer. He also covers the role of the transparency pixel when rendering sprites (blitting).   [MacDevCenter.com]

Developing for Mac OS X
Developing for Mac OS X: Further Your CS Development with Mac OS X  As the new school year approaches, Julie Starr has some ideas about what type of computer CS students should be considering. We'll give you a hint: It isn't a Windows box.   [MacDevCenter.com]

The Inside Scoop on the O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference  Sometimes, looking at a conference program grid is like looking at Edinburgh Castle. It's impressive, but you really don't know where all the bodies are buried unless you have a tour guide. Let me introduce myself: I'm the program chair, and I'd like to take you inside the upcoming Mac OS X Conference.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Making the Jump to Subversion  Subversion can run standalone or on a network as a repository server with multiple clients. The preferred client/server configuration uses Apache and WebDAV for network communication. It's a powerful alternative to CVS, and Adam Swift shows you the ins and outs in this tutorial.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Inside SSH, Part 4  In Part 3, François Joseph de Kermadec investigated more advanced SSH techniques, including editing configuration files. Now in this final installment, he shows you how to administer computers remotely, including running software updates, disk utilities, and more.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Mac OS X Innovators Contest Update  The Mac OS X Innovators Contest has been open for a month now, and Derrick Story is looking at some pretty good entries. If you haven't thrown your app in the ring yet, now is the time to do so -- the contest closes at the end of August.   [MacDevCenter.com -- Mac Innovators Contest]

Mo' Betta Indexes  Apache has had the same skin since around 1995. And while it's true that visitors interact with the pages of your site more than the HTTP daemon, the only real snapshot they'll receive is through your site's auto-indexes. So why not take some time to put some spit polish into them?   [MacDevCenter.com]

21.5 Things You Can Do with Office 2004  By now you've probably read about all the new features in Microsoft Office 2004. Good. Because we're not going to cover them here again. Instead, Giles Turnbull shows you 21-and-a-half things you can do in Office that you might not have previously realized.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Applying "Digital Hub" Concepts to Enterprise Software Design, Part 4  The "hub" of most enterprise software systems is a database. However, getting the information from the database to all of the applications that need it and then back again can be a challenge. Here in part four of his ongoing series, Adam Behringer shows you how.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Ruby/Tk Primer, Part 3  In Part 2 of this series, Chris Roach spent some time with the Tk library. Now in this final installment, he pulls together all of the pieces so you can finish your demo application.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Creating DVD/VCD Photo Slide Shows for Your Mac  Let's face it: you still have friends and family who've yet to enter the computer age. And yet you'd like to send them copies of your vacation photos (or your newborn, or your cat) taken with your digital camera. What to do? Wei-Meng Lee offers an alternative to using iPhoto for creating slide-show CDs -- Ulead's DVD PictureShow for Mac. He walks us through how to burn digital photos onto disc so anyone with a DVD/VCD player can view them.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Ruby/Tk Primer, Part 2  In part one of this series, Chris Roach introduced you to programming basics in Ruby, and in the process, created the back end for the GUI we're working on. Here, he spends some time with the Tk library.   [MacDevCenter.com]

OS 9, Mine, All Mine  What serious Mac fan in his or her right mind would consider booting anything other than OS X? Well, lots of them. Gile Turnbull interviews a handful of dedicated OS 9 users to find out why.   [O'Reilly Network]

How to Fall in Love with Your iSight, Again  Snaggy and Nitrozac are back to show you how to fall in love with your iSight, again, and provide a few chuckles along the way. Consider them your personal tech-therapists, willing to help bring you and your gorgeous hardware back together, with advice on apps and add-ons that will enhance your iSight relationship. If you like the way S and N weave humor and tech talk, check out their book, The Best of The Joy of Tech.   [MacDevCenter.com]

Inside SSH, Part 3  In Part 2 of this multipart series delving into the Secure Shell on Mac OS X, François Joseph de Kermadec showed you how to securely fire up the Secure Shell and start communicating. Now, in Part 3, he digs deeper, showing you more advanced techniques including editing configuration files.   [MacDevCenter.com]

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