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Hi there—

viguy Hope your summer is off to a great start. I know mine is.

I had great fun at my first Tech*Ed in Orlando, FL. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to say hi. I would also like to thank all the hard working INETA leaders for putting on another successful User Group Leader Summit. I look forward to visiting more. Here's a photo of the Florida UG leaders.

INETA with the Help of Culminis organized all the Birds of a Feather sessions at Tech*Ed this year.

Thanks to everyone who attened Ignite Boston last month. The event was a blast and we hope to plan more. Here's a list of speakers and some Flickr photos.

Do you have a Code Camp or other special event coming up? Don't forget to ask me for books and catalogs for your attendees. Just send me the list of books, the shipping location, and give me enough time to get them there.

Travel alert:

If you are going to be in Portland, OR for OSCON or Ubuntu Live the week of July 22 let me know (if I already asked you, no need to tell me again.) It would be great to find a time to meet you.

Lastly, if you would prefer to receive this email in text instead of HTML, drop me a line.

Thanks for your help!

—Marsee

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Stephen Johnson conducts workshop in Ireland
Jun 20-30, 2007
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Join Stephen Johnson(Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) and Anthony Hobbs for an unforgettable journey along the rustic West Coast of Ireland. This workshop will include hotel stays in several towns along our route from County Clare towards Achill Island. Along the way, participants will explore western Ireland's landscape with its rugged coast, lush greens, rocky islands, lake-filled valleys and remote castles. Enrollment is limited to 12.

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Michele Leroux Bustamante at the SoCal Code Camp
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Michele Leroux Bustamante (Learning WCF) is offering two sessions "What is CardSpace and why should I care? " and "Building a Claims-Based Security Model with WCF" at this Southern California Code Camp

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UCE Birmingham Conservatoire
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Authors Bruce Tate (Ruby on Rails: Up and Running, Better, Faster, Lighter Java, and Beyond Java) and Justin Gehtland (Better, Faster, Lighter Java and Spring: A Developer's Notebook) will be presenting at the Enterprise Ruby Conference in Columbus, Ohio, a conference demonstrating Ruby?s place in the Enterprise.

Gordon Meyer at the Southeastern Wisconsin Windows User Group
Jul 18, 2007
Brookfield, Wisconsin
Author Gordon Meyer (Smart Home Hacks) makes an appearance at this month's meeting. Learn how to put your computer to work around the house.

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Open Source

HawkAn Introduction to Haskell, Part 1: Why Haskell
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Good and Bad PHP Code
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Creating MyTube with Flex and PHP
Flex is Adobe's answer to the problem of finding a multi-platform environment for rich browser applications. Jack Herrington highlights some of the power of Flex by showing how you can combine it with PHP to produce a quick and easy video blogging site.

Digital Media

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Deke McClelland Explains "With the release of its CS3 products, Adobe has once again ever so slightly shifted its official marketing and documentation language. The newest casualty? Palettes. Palettes no longer exist. The word 'palettes' has been struck from the Adobe lexicon. Those things that were palettes are now 'panels.'"

Joe Schorr on iPhoto to Aperture
Many photographers have scores of valuable images stored in iPhoto libraries. As Aperture becomes incorporated into the workflow, what's the best way to move those pictures to the Aperture environment? And what if you want to share your Raw files with both iPhoto and Aperture? In this podcast, Joe Schorr, senior product manager for Aperture, explains all of the inside tricks for working with both iPhoto and Aperture libraries.

Mac

IrishSetterWWDC Keynote: Oh Boy, Just What I Always Wanted
Learn about the new features announced in Leopard, Safari for Windows, and the way iPhone development is going to work. Daniel Steinberg reports from this year's WWDC keynote.

iPod Mic Shootout
Apple finally added "CD-quality" recording to the iPod. But how good is it really? Recording engineer Mark Nelson plugs in three leading add-on mics and records voice and guitar to find out.

Hit-and-Run: Launching AppleScripts with Keyboard Shortcuts
AppleScript automation is one of OS X's most useful features, and it can be made even better with the use of keyboard shortcuts. Jochen Wolters examines three ways to assign a keyboard shortcut to an AppleScript, and digs in to FastScripts and Quicksilver in this detailed tutorial.

Microsoft/.NET

TunaManaging Printing in Your .NET Application
The .NET Framework makes it easy to support printing. In this article, Wei-Meng Lee shows you the basics of printing in .NET 2.0, including how to configure page setup, print multiple pages, preview a document before it is printed, as well as let users select a printer to which to print.

Implementing and Understanding DHCP
Setting up DHCP on tens, hundreds, and even thousands of computers can be daunting. Here's how to do it easily with Windows Server 2003.

Java

FoxAgile Database Refactoring with Hibernate
Your data model was near perfect when your application was first written. Since then, it has...evolved. In this article, we will show readers how to upgrade their faulty schemas and data models without affecting existing applications or processes.

Using the Lucene Query Parser Without Lucene
This article shows how to use the Lucene Query Parser to build search capability into your application, adapting it onto a legacy database rather than using the entire Lucene package.

Web

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Breaking out of the Box with CSS
Paul explains how to test your web apps to ensure they can handle heavy user demand.

Until next time—
Marsee Henon
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