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Hello, The Call for Papers for Velocity NY Ignite, and Strata Conference 2014 are both open. Submit your papers today, and don't miss your chance to get in on best pricing for Velocity NY (ends August 22) and Velocity EU (ends August 29.) Cheers, —Marsee Henon and Jon Johns Available for Review The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, goodreads.com, and/or your blog. Building Hybrid Android Apps with Java and JavaScript Software Requirements 3, 3rd Edition Java EE 7 Essentials It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events—just email userg...@oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? We can send you a free ebook certificate to print out for raffles or book reviewers. New Releases O'Reilly Webcasts: Meet Experts Online For Free! Modern Server Application Design with Erlang. Presented by Fred Hebert. Tuesday, September 3 10am PT, 1pm ET Erlang programmers have boasted about high concurrency, fault tolerance, and high scalability. However, using the language alone for this isn't enough to guarantee any of these properties: you have to use it right and play to the platform's strengths. In this presentation, we will explore some common application design patterns, tools, libraries, and optimizations used by Erlang developers for production systems. Join us for this free hands-on webcast. You can enjoy this informative presentation from the comfort of your computer chair! To see more upcoming events and meet experts online visit http://oreilly.com/webcasts/index.html. Two free reports for building teams If you're charged with changing to a DevOps culture, or building a data science team, these two reports should help you get started with some good ideas. DJ Patil explains the skills, perspectives, tools and processes that position data science teams for success and Mandi Walls outlines strategies for building a DevOps culture, including aligning incentives, defining meaningful and achievable goals, and creating a supportive team environment. Get a free copy of Building Data Science Teams and Building a DevOps Culture. Healthcare Data Series, Free Webcasts Sign up for any of our upcoming Healthcare Data Series free webcasts leading up to StrataRX in Boston, Sep 25-27. Aug 20, 2013 Community Clouds for Cancer Genomics: Lessons Learned from Bionimbus Presented by Robert Grossman Aug 22, 2013 Creating Visualizations to Tell a Story: From Macro Data to Micro Story Presented by Ida Jooste Sep 4, 2013 Why Facebook and Google Missed the Boat on Healthcare Presented by Sreedhar Potarazu This weeks O'Reilly blog posts On this weeks O'Reilly blogs, Simon talks a very short history of programming; Rachel interviews Ray about Infrastructure; and Ben talks about IT Operations. Register for NCDevCon (Sep 21-22 Raleigh, NC) North Carolina's Premier Web & Mobile Conference, NCDevCon, is on the Centennial Campus of NC State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, September 21-22, 2013. The conference will cover a wide variety of web development and design topics including HTML5, Mobile, JavaScript, ColdFusion and CSS. Put Up a Banner & Get a Free Book—UG Leaders Only We're looking for groups to display our discount banners on their websites. If you send us your group's site with one or more banners posted, we'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. Choose from the following list of banners: Strata Conference + Hadoop World Banners UG Program Banners UG Discount Banners Buy 1 Ebook, Get 1 Free with your user group discount code: DSUG2 Looking for more? Visit oreilly.com.

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