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

G. Wade Johnson gwadej at anomaly.org
Sun Aug 24 16:32:11 PDT 2014



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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 16:02:00 -0700
From: Marsee Henon and Jon Johns <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
To: gwadej at anomaly.org
Subject: Community News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly


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Our annual Back-to-school sale starts Monday, August 25th. This is 
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Available for Review

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Photoshop CC: The Missing Manual, 2nd
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Learning MCollective
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Make: Rockets  
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Getting Started with Impala 
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Salt Essentials  
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Hadoop Security 
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Designing Mobile Payment Experiences
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Introducing GitHub 
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Stories we're following at O'Reilly

Postmortems, sans finger-pointing: The O'Reilly Radar Podcast
In this episode, John Allspaw talks in-depth about blameless
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Not just the government's playbook
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Ten years of OpenStreetMap
OSM is moving out of its awkward adolescence and into its mature, young
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Does net neutrality really matter?
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Featured Training Video this week

Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL
3D Animation and Visualization for Web Pages
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OSCON 2014: Complete Video Compilation	
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"Usually I read and re-read a book until I wear holes in the pages. 
To me, this means that I have thoroughly read that book."
- anonymous author.

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2,000 startups, developers, investors, marketers, and anyone looking
for a little inspiration will converge at the Fox Theater in Redwood
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Northeast PHP Conference (Sept 6-7, Boston, MA)

Join up to 300 software developers, web technologists, and user
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Business of Innovation Summit (Sept 17-18, Providence, RI)

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The Lean Startup Conference (Dec 8-12, San Francisco, CA)

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of our experts will be speaking, including Tim O'Reilly, Laura Klein,
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