From daniel at coder.com  Sun May 12 16:55:10 2013
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel Allen)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 19:55:10 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] Fwd: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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After a string of O'Reilly User Group emails that didn't seem worth sending
to the list, they have review copies of a few javascript books I think
folks might be interested in. The rules, as always (though it's been quite
a while):

If you want any of the below books, let me know, I'll request it/them. You
can keep the book if you review it online (somewhere such as Amazon).


   - Appcelerator Titanium: Up and
Running<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zl86i0j8npfm9q5mtekp8be9ec9js7c6pq1ellf0>
   - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
   <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zmafremngjlv7cu5ekcrit0ofpmg1j0jteogr0h0>

Appcelerator Titanium seems to be a js framework to build native Android
and iOS apps.

The data visualization book is on "D3.js", a JS library to build
W3M-standard compliant interactive visual applications, based solely on
SVG, CSS, and JS. A quick google shows some pretty neat visualizations-
with very tidy source code: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery

And finally a video on yet another ("modern") functional language based on
Lisp... :)

   - Clojure Inside
Out<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zvqlr8pkmmk8784ab0mfujaruf52fji53994hnto>


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From daniel at coder.com  Sun May 12 17:15:47 2013
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel Allen)
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 20:15:47 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] May: meeting? not-meeting?
Message-ID: <CAFBAfSDy9asrqcPpasrdzBqFWTJyqUjW3RQiOHAnrwKVeuE_iw@mail.gmail.com>

The current meeting status is undefined. There haven't been many topics
proposed (OK, well, any). Which suggests either punting, or a bar meetup
for Thursday night. What say you?

Sort of related: I'm curious if anybody on the list had real-world
experience with DevOps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
This last week I attended a campus talk on it, and I've been reading up a
bit, curious whether it's a progression of Agile/lean developemnt, or a
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From daniel at coder.com  Mon May 13 10:03:07 2013
From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel Allen)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:03:07 -0400
Subject: [kw-pm] UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
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References: <1368313387.10676.0.954970@post.oreilly.com>
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We have a taker for the D3.js data visualization book.

If anybody else has any requests let me know by tomorrow morning so I can
tell Marsee.
(Also, I recall they will send along other books that aren't the ones
they're specifically asking to promote- if you look on O'Reilly and see any
newish books you want to review, give a shout.)


On Sun, May 12, 2013 at 7:55 PM, Daniel Allen <daniel at coder.com> wrote:

> After a string of O'Reilly User Group emails that didn't seem worth
> sending to the list, they have review copies of a few javascript books I
> think folks might be interested in. The rules, as always (though it's been
> quite a while):
>
> If you want any of the below books, let me know, I'll request it/them. You
> can keep the book if you review it online (somewhere such as Amazon).
>
>
>    - Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zl86i0j8npfm9q5mtekp8be9ec9js7c6pq1ellf0>
>    - Interactive Data Visualization for the Web
>    <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zmafremngjlv7cu5ekcrit0ofpmg1j0jteogr0h0>
>
> Appcelerator Titanium seems to be a js framework to build native Android
> and iOS apps.
>
> The data visualization book is on "D3.js", a JS library to build
> W3M-standard compliant interactive visual applications, based solely on
> SVG, CSS, and JS. A quick google shows some pretty neat visualizations-
> with very tidy source code: https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery
>
> And finally a video on yet another ("modern") functional language based on
> Lisp... :)
>
>    - Clojure Inside Out<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zvqlr8pkmmk8784ab0mfujaruf52fji53994hnto>
>
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> Date: Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:03 PM
> Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly
> To: daniel at coder.com
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