[pm-h] Fw: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--July22

B. Estrade estrabd at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 08:51:54 PDT 2012


Data Jujitsu looks like a really interesting read.

Brett

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 1:24 PM, G. Wade Johnson <gwadej at anomaly.org> wrote:
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> Data Jujitsu: The Art of Turning Data into Product
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> Photoshop CS6 Unlocked,
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> 2nd Edition Learning Rails 3
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