[pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly

[G. Wade Johnson]

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Date: Sun,  4 Aug 2013 16:00:46 -0700
From: "Marsee Henon & Jon Johns" <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
To: gwadej at anomaly.org
Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly


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--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.

Data Science for Business 
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Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model
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JavaMail API
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It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special
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New Releases

802.11ac: A Survival Guide 
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Building Hybrid Android Apps with Java and JavaScript
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HTML5 Pocket Reference, 5th Edition
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Good Math  
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Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Designing and Architecting Solutions
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z90l4ik1qjror8t052t9s0jef8ksi30mvrfnsiv8

101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems
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O'Reilly Webcasts: Meet Experts Online For Free! 

From Strata + Hadoop World 2012
Presented by Ilya Grigorik
Thursday, August 8
5am PT, 8am ET

What Makes Developers Happy, Angry, and Everything in Between?

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Ilya will talk about importing the entire hundreds of thousands 
of daily events from GitHub into Google 
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Join us for this free hands-on webcast. You can enjoy this 
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Submit your talk to PyTexas (Aug 16-18 College Station, TX)

PyTexas 2013, the sixth annual Python programming extravaganza for
Texas and the surrounding region, will take place this year in College
Station at Texas A&M University August 16-18 (three whole days!) You
can still submit talks, and get registered on the PyTexas site.

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The Ever-Changing Landscape of Mobile Gaming

Jon Manning and Paris Buttfield-Addison talked with Rachel Roumeliotis
about where mobile gaming is going in the next 12 months. In this Video
interview that was recently talked about on Slashdot, they discuss:
Game-specific APIs and standardized gaming accessories in iOS 7;
Android needs to catch up; Are tablets putting handheld consoles from
Nintendo and Sony out of business; and much more. Read about the
interview and watch the video.

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MoDevTablet (Aug 15-17, Seattle, WA)

Are you tasked with developing and/or designing for Tablet devices?
MoDevTablet is happening August 15-17 in Seattle, featuring three days
of training and industry insights for you. They're also looking for
startups from the mobile space from Seattle, Portland, and Vancouver to
participate in our Cascadia Cup-inspired startup contest - Disruptathon
- with bragging rights for your city and $10,000 in prizes on the line.
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The O'Reilly Blogs
Have a look at what's trending on our blogs

Insights on speaking, writing, and working with MongoDB
An interview with Rick Copeland, the author of MongoDB Applied Design
Patterns
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z27q4er39gcfbrds6i44f2idkousfdrugc8thpco

Open Source convention considers situational awareness in cars, and more
A report from OSCon
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Podcast: quantum computing with Pete Worden and Bob Lee The director of 
NASA's Ames Research Center and the CTO of Square talk about Ames's new 
computing venture, fraud prevention, and dirigible hangars.	
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zbvbdqj9dno2fnjvlu5i17aefsaeb6hmvt9jj67o

A Great Summer Read Douglas Adams’ expeditions to find endangered
species
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The Business of Software (28-30 Oct, Boston, MA)

If you are building a software business, you might want to check out 
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