[oak perl] Fwd: Manning User Group Program Newsletter May/June 2006

George Woolley george at metaart.org
Wed May 24 11:34:06 PDT 2006


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Subject: Manning User Group Program Newsletter May/June 2006
Date: Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:51
From: "Helen Trimes" <hetr at manning.com>
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Manning User Group Program Newsletter -- For User Group Members
May/June 2006
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** Free books for review on Windows Forms, Ruby, IntelliJ IDEA, wxPython,
    POJOs, Ajax
** Connect with the experts at Manning's Author Online forums and Author
Blogs
** Special discounts for UG members on hot new Manning titles!
** Catch Manning authors at these events ...
 
 
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** Free books for review
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Want to learn the latest technology? Did you know you can request a free
book
to review for your group? Ask your group leader how to get one of these new
books to review:
* Ruby for Rails
* Windows Forms in Action
* wxPython in Action
* IntelliJ IDEA in Action
* POJOs in Action
* Ajax in Action
* RSS and Atom in Action (in June)
 
 
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** Connect with the experts at Manning's Author Online forums and Author
Blogs
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Drop in for a chat with our savvy author/experts at Manning's Author Online
forums
and learn all about: Ruby, Ajax, POJOs, IntelliJ IDEA, Windows Forms, and
more.
 
Keep up to date on the latest personal blogs from over 20 authors, such as
Eric's Weblog by Ajax in Action co-author Eric Pascarello or
Enterprise POJOs  by POJOs in Action author Chris Richardson.
More at http://www.manning.com/about/blogs.html RSS Feeds available!
 
 
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** Special discounts for UG members on hot new Manning titles!
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User Group members get $20 off on these hot new titles at Manning.com!
That's
40 to 45% off! And all printed book orders get the ebook immediately as a
free 
download!
 
* Ruby for Rails
* Windows Forms in Action
* wxPython in Action
* IntelliJ IDEA in Action
* POJOs in Action
* Ajax in Action
 
Hurry! These discount codes expire June 30th, 2006!
 
 
* Ruby for Rails
  Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers
 
If you want to dramatically improve your Rails applications, learning Ruby
is key.
With Ruby for Rails, you'll learn how Ruby and Rails work, separately and
together.
An extensive Ruby language tutorial and an exploration of the Rails
framework
source code are included in this book. The author, David A. Black is a Ruby
Central
leader, the chief developer of the Rails applications behind the Ruby FAQ, a
Ruby core
contributor, and a popular speaker at Ruby and Rails events.
 
Read free sample chapters and then use the discount code UGRUBYR506 to get
$20 off and the ebook free here: Ruby for Rails
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/black


 
* Windows Forms in Action
  A guide to Windows app development using C# and Visual Studio .NET
This second edition of Windows Forms Programming with C# expands and
updates the widely acclaimed first edition to cover the .NET 2.0 Framework,
extender providers, cryptographic classes, and application deployment. Like
the
first edition, Windows Forms in Action has an easy to follow step-by-step
format geared toward beginner and intermediate programmers.

Read free sample chapters and then use the discount code UGWINFO506 to get
$20 off and the ebook free here: Windows Forms in Action
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/eebrown2
 
 
 
* wxPython in Action
  The first published book on wxPython co-authored by wxPython's creator
wxPython in Action is an easy to use tutorial, a detailed guide to best
practices, and an extensive reference for wxPython's large widget library.
The book's direct, no-nonsense style makes for an easy introduction to the
concepts. It offers a complete discussion of when, why, and how to use the
many widgets in the toolkit and includes dozens of handy reference tables of

object properties, methods, and events.

Read free sample chapters and then use the discount code UGWXPYT506 to get
$20 off and the ebook free here:  wxPython in Action
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/rappin
 
 
 
* IntelliJ IDEA in Action
  The first and only published guide to IntelliJ IDEA - covers 5.0 
Many developers access only a fraction of everything IntelliJ IDEA has to
offer.
Written by two veteran software experts and the CTO of JetBrains, the
company that created IntelliJ® IDEAT, IntelliJ IDEA in Action will
thoroughly
teach you how to use IntelliJ IDEA to boost your productivity and automate
routine time-consuming manual development tasks. Throughout the book, the
authors demonstrate tricks and productivity-enhancing techniques that are
the
result of their combined years of experience.

Read free sample chapters and then use the discount code UGINTEL506 to get
$20 off and the ebook free here: IntelliJ IDEA in Action
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/fields3

 
 
* POJOs in Action Developing Enterprise Applications with Lightweight
Frameworks
  "A solid, valuable and easy-to-read work."-- JavaRanch
POJOs in Action describes the new, simpler, and faster ways to develop
enterprise Java applications using lightweight technologies such as
Hibernate,
Spring, JDO, iBATIS, and others, all of which allow developers to work
directly
with POJOs. The book shows you how to go about making key design decisions,
including how to organize and encapsulate the domain logic, access the
database,
manage transactions, and handle database concurrency. Learn how to build
lightweight applications that are easier to build, test, and maintain. This
is a
new-generation Java applications guide.

Read free sample chapters and then use the discount code UGPOJO506 to get
$20 off and the ebook free here: POJOs in Action
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/crichardson

 
 
* Ajax in Action
  "Magnificent." --- Slashdot
Suddenly very popular, Ajax is a web application technique that produces a
new,
much better user experience. It works with all server technologies - Java,
ASP.NET,
PHP, etc. This book shows how to design Ajax apps and teaches numerous Ajax
implementation techniques. Ajax in Action is the one of the best selling
Ajax books
available. It is a BIG, serious, no-fluff 680-page guide to Ajax. No other
book covers
Ajax as thoroughly.

View the screencast "What is Ajax?", read free sample chapters, and then use
the
discount code UGAJAX506 to get $20 off and the ebook free here: Ajax in
Action
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/crane
 
 
Hurry! These discount codes expire June 30th, 2006!
 
 
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** Catch Manning authors at these events ...
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MAY
 
* The Ajax Experience May 10-12 in San Francisco, CA. -- Eric Pascarello
(Ajax in Action)
and Patrick Lightbody (WebWork in Action) www.ajaxexperience.com
 
* JAX 2006 May 11 in Wiesbaden, Germany -- Dierk Koenig (Groovy in Action)
http://www.linuxworldexpo.com/linuxworldny/V40/index.cvn
 
* JavaOne 2006, May 16-19 in San Francisco, CA. -Chris Richardson (POJOs in
Action),
Kito Mann (JavaServer Faces in Action), Dave Johnson (RSS and Atom in
Action) Howard
Lewis Ship (Tapestry in Action), and Guillaume Laforge (Groovy in Action).
http://java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
 
 
JUNE
 
* SOA Web Services Edge Conference, June 5-6 in New York, NY -- Eric Pulier
(Understanding
Enterprise SOA) http://soaeosconference.sys-con.com/
 
* Philadelphia Area Computer Society, June 10 in Philadelphia, PA -- Eric
Pascarello (Ajax in
Action) http://www.pacsnet.org/
 
* North Virginia Java User Group June 13 in Dulles, VA -- Eric Pascarello
(Ajax in Action)
http://www.novajug.com/
 
* No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium, June 16-17 in Salt Lake City, UT -- Chris
Richardson (POJOs
in Action) http://www.nofluffjuststuff.com/show_view.jsp?showId=56
 
 
JULY
 
* Java Forum Stuttgart 2006, July 6 in Stuttgart, Germany -- Dierk Koenig
(Groovy in Action)
http://www.java-forum-stuttgart.de/
 
* Lone Star Software Symposium, July 7- 9 in Austin, TX -- Ramnivas Laddad
(AspectJ in
Action) and Neal Ford (Art of Java Web Development)
http://secure.manning.com/calendar/www.nofluffjuststuff.com/sh/2006-07-austi
n
 
 
* OSCON 2006, July 24-28 in Portland, OR -- Robin Dunn (wxPython in Action),
Neal Ford
(Art of Java Web Development), Howard Lewis Ship (Tapestry in Action), and
Damian
Conway (Object Oriented Perl) http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2006/
 
 
MORE 2006 EVENTS
See our Author Activities Calendar for more upcoming events.
http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?yhst-26845379110410+VBZY5q+http://www.m
anning.com/calendar

 
 
That's our news for user group members for now. Until next time, have a
great month!
 
Helen Trimes
Marketing Director
hetr at manning.com 
...
Manning Publications Co.
209 Bruce Park Avenue
Greenwich, CT 06830
http://www.manning.com/ugprogram
 
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