Spring: A
Developer's Notebook-- This no-nonsense book
quickly gets you up to speed on the new Spring open source framework.
Favoring examples and practical application over theory, Spring: A
Developer's Notebook features ten code-intensive labs that will
force you to hone your skills by working through multiple instructional
examples. In the end, you'll understand how to produce simple, clean,
and effective applications. Sample Chapter 6, Services and AOP (PDF) is
available free online.
The O'Reilly Open Source Convention is the community gathering for open source advocates, strategists, programmers, developers, and technical staff. This year's convention took place July 26-30 in Portland, Oregon. If you weren't able to attend or if you want to touch up your notes from the conference, presentation files from some of the sessions and tutorials are available online. And don't miss O'Reilly Network's conference coverage, including news, weblogs, and photos from the show floor.
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Tiger: Third-Party Updates MacInTouch -- These products have all been recently updated for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, either to fix bugs, improve compatibility, or add enhancements. Most updates also include other changes and fixes, beyond those for Tiger. (Good comprehensive list here!)
How to Build a Nonprofit for Your Community-- Many open source projects have already created
nonprofit organizations that support their communities, while other
projects are considering ways to establish nonprofits. David Boswell
details how mozdev.org built a nonprofit organization and shows you how
to do the same for your community. He covers fundraising, obtaining
legal advice, staffing, and more. David is the coauthor of Creating Applications
with Mozilla.
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Using your web browser and Useractive's Learning Sandbox technology,
the Learning Lab gives you hands-on, online training in a creative
environment (and a Certificate from the University of Illinois College
of Extended Education upon course completion). Until May 20th, receive
a $200 instant rebate
when you enroll in any Certificate Series.
Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy-- Advocacy is critical to the spread of open source and
free software. Good advocates build trust in their audiences,
explaining how, and if, F/OSS can help them solve their problems. Jono
Bacon explains how to build trust and avoid overzealous advocacy. Jono
is the author of Linux Desktop
Hacks.
O'Reilly Launches CodeZoo
Site-- CodeZoo exists to help you find
high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past
the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest of your projects. The
CodeZoo community, through component ratings, tips, download tracking,
and more, makes it easy to sort out the good code from the rest. Check
out the site and then read Marc Hedlund's
blog for the inside scoop.
MySQL Sessions in iCal-- The third annual MySQL Users Conference, presented by O'Reilly and MySQL AB, will be held April 18-21, 2005, in Santa Clara, California. This conference hosts leading industry keynote speakers, the latest MySQL open source technologies, in-depth sessions and tutorials, and an extensive exhibit hall. And now, you can subscribe to conference information via iCal.
