Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July
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From: Marsee Henon <mar...@oreilly.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:11
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July
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Jul 2009 Issue:
Welcome
O'Reilly Open Source Convention, July 20-24
Community Leadership Summit, July 18-19
InsideMobile Conference, July 26-27
Help Us Create a New Technical Certification Program
Webcasts
Reviewers Needed and Book Discount Code
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Upcoming Events
New Releases:
Architectural Photography
By Adrian Schulz
Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, Fourth Edition
By Kevin Yank
Complete Web Monitoring
By Alistair Croll, Sean Power
The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, Third Edition
By Rachel Andrew
Data Mashups in R
By Jeremy Leipzig, Xiao-Yi Li
Erlang Programming
By Francesco Cesarini, Simon Thompson
Even Faster Web Sites
By Steve Souders
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide
By Tom White
Head First PMP: Rough Cuts Version, Second Edition
By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
iPhone Game Development: Rough Cuts Version
By Paul Zirkle, Joe Hogue
Java Message Service, Second Edition
By Mark Richards, Richard Monson-Haefel, David A. Chappell
Land the Tech Job You Love
By Andy Lester
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
By Robin Nixon
Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
By Bryan O'Sullivan
Modular Java
By Craig Walls
My New iPhone
By Wallace Wang
The Myths of Security
By John Viega
Natural Language Processing with Python
By Steven Bird, Ewan Klein, Edward Loper
The New Community Rules
By Tamar Weinberg
Online Marketing Inside Out
By Brandon Eley, Shayne Tilley
Programming Cocoa with Ruby
By Brian Marick
Programming Scala
By Venkat Subramaniam
Programming the Semantic Web
By Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor
Ruby Best Practices
By Gregory Brown
Take Control of Safari 4
By Sharon Zardetto
VMware Cookbook: Rough Cuts Version
By Ryan Troy, Matthew Helmke
Windows 7: Up and Running: Rough Cuts Version
By Wei-Meng Lee
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Community Leadership Summit, July 18-19
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InsideMobile Conference, July 26-27
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Webcasts
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topics every week and you can always go back and watch the previous
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Upcoming webcasts include "iPhone Forensics: Live Recovery of an
iPhone 3G[s]" and "Hands-on: Step-by-step MySQL Clustering Setup,"
Past topics that are well worth a watch include "10 Ways to Wreck Your
Database," "Radical Career Success in a Down Economy," and "Around the
world in 32 minutes with The Geek Atlas."
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Upcoming Events
Christopher Schmitt at CSS Summit
When: Jul 18, 2009
Where: Online
CSS Summit is one-track, one day conference devoted to Cascading Style
Sheets. Christopher Schmitt (CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition) will be
covering the issues around CSS and Web Form Elements. A percent of the
proceeds from every Summit will go to the ChildrenÕs Organ Transplant
Association: http://www.cota.org/.
O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON)
When: Jul 20-24, 2009
Where: San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA
The OSCON 2009 Call for Participation is now open. If you're
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future, building communities, crafting beautiful code, designing for
users, or just getting things done, we invite you to answer the call
for innovation and submit a proposal now to lead conference sessions
and tutorials at OSCON 2009.
Bill Scott on "Designing Web Interfaces" at Silicon Valley IxDA
When: Jul 22, 2009
Where: Google Campus, Bldg 43 Mountain View, CA
Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns
for Rich Interaction) will be presenting "Designing with Patterns" at
the Google Campus, Bldg 43 in Mountain View, CA.
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benh~
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benh
Any others that any one is interested in ?
benh~
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Jeremy B
By Paul Zirkle, Joe Hogue
Jeremy Bueler
www.jbueler.com
benh
dev book [ http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596805265 ] is a roughcut
(ie still being edited, thus no print version yet) [
http://www.oreillynet.com/whatis/roughcuts.csp ]
So here's the list thus far, I'll send the list off on monday so if
any one wants to review any other books, get them to me by sunday
night. Ohh also note, you are not restricted to just this list, we can
ask for older books, if they still have promo copies then O'Reilly
will still send them out.
keith:
- "Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site Using PHP & MySQL, Fourth Edition"
jeremy:
- "iPhone Game Development: Rough Cuts Version" (online access only)
benh~
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