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Hello,

We're in Los Angeles today attending the Eleventh Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE11x). This conference is not just about Linux, since many communities get together and have special events onsite as well. You'll find Puppet Camp LA, Los Angeles PostgreSQL Day, DevOps Day LA, MySQL community Day, UbuCon, and the Weakest Geek.
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Marsee Henon and Jon Johns

P.S. We've got a great PHP Ebook deal this week, if you'd like to pass it along.
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Available for Review

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Programming PHP, 3rd Edition
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Programming with the Kinect for Windows Software Development Kit
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Python Cookbook
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Agile Data
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Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3
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Sencha Touch 2 Up and Running
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Outsource It!
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Harper's Magazine features "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress"

We're excited to have Harper's Magazine [Readings] feature Peter Tyson's "Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress:Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made" Here's an excerpt from the article available on harpers.org: "When a 'strange mood' strikes, a dwarf will stop whatever they are doing and rush to a workshop, their heads filled with an idea for a legendary artifact that they would like to construct. If the dwarf is able to successfully complete the artifact, they will often become legendary in the associated skill, gain a happy thought, and your fortress will have a valuable artifact to use and admire."
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Big data comes to the big screen--Using data science to predict the Oscars

Sophisticated algorithms are not going to write the perfect script or crawl YouTube to find the next Justin Beiber (that last one I think we can all be thankful for!). But a model can predict the probability of a nominee winning the Oscar, and recently our model has Argo overtaking Lincoln as the likely winner of Best Picture. Every day on FarsiteForecast.com we've been describing applications of data science for the media and entertainment industry, illustrating how our models work, and updating the likely winners based on the outcomes of the Awards Season leading up to the Oscars.
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Strata 2013 is Sold Out--Keynote Livestream Available

Strata 2013 is sold out. For those who can't join us in person, we will livestream all keynote presentations (pending speaker consent) taking place in Mission City Ballroom on Wednesday and Thursday, as well as select breakout sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The Livestream player will be on the Strata Home page and a separate streaming page, strataconf.com/live. We'll add a schedule to that page soon. The player is freely embeddable, so please feel free to share this excellent content.
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Lean UX: Agility through cross-functional collaboration
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Presented by: Jeff Gothelf 
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013  10AM PT, San Francisco
Join Jeff Gothelf for a hands-on webcast to learn how "Lean UX" aims to open up the user experience design process with a collaborative approach that involves the entire team. It's a hypothesis-based design approach that tests design ideas early and often and, along the way, builds a shared understanding with team mates that eliminates the dependencies on heavy documentation and challenging communications.

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