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Subject: 	Newsletter from O'Reilly UG Program, February 4
Date: 	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:22:38 -0800
From: 	Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
To: 	timc+pppm+oreilly at divide.net



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O'Reilly.com <http://www.oreilly.com>UG Program Newsletter

Hi there---

viguy

We've been running some really great book excerpts on oreilly.com and 
will be featuring more. New ones include "Installing the iPhone SDK 
<http://fyi.oreilly.com/2009/01/installing-the-iphone-sdk.html>," 
"Choosing an Appropriate Performance Testing Tool 
<http://fyi.oreilly.com/2009/01/choosing-an-appropriate-perfor.html>," 
"Applying Lean to Software Development 
<http://fyi.oreilly.com/2009/01/chapter-2-applying-lean-to.html>," and 
"The Relational Model Is Much Misunderstood 
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.NET <http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596519209/index.html>, and 
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In this issue:

    * O'Reilly UG Program News---Just for User Group Leaders <#ugprogram>
    * New Releases <#newreleases>
    * Upcoming Events <#upcoming>
    * Conferences and Special Events News <#conferencenews>
    * School of Technology <#school>
    * News from O'Reilly & Beyond <#news>

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first in a series of short interviews with Gregory as the book progresses.

craftzine.com 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-internet-president.html>*What 
Does It Mean To Be An Internet President?* 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-internet-president.html>
FDR was our radio president, JFK was our television president and Barack 
Obama will be our Internet President. Quietly at noon yesterday, as the 
world was fixated on the televised inauguration of Barack Obama, some 
obscure IT managers flipped a switch (metaphorically) and transferred 
Change.gov to Whitehouse.gov...

*Everyblock's Dilemma: How Do You Open Source Your Entire Site and 
Survive?* 
<http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/01/everyblocks-dilemna-how-do-you.html>
Adrian Holovaty announced that he will be open sourcing Everyblock. 
Everyblock is a site that crawls local data sources, aggregates the 
data, and then surfaces them geographically.

*Wikipedia: The Missing Manual Migrates to Wikipedia!* 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikipedia:_The_Missing_Manual>
The entire contents of Wikipedia: The Missing Manual by John Broughton 
is available for free online for editing and updating just like any 
other Wikipedia entry. Broughton, a registered editor at Wikipedia since 
2005 with more than 20,000 edits under his belt, says he's looking 
forward to seeing what changes and improvements his fellow Wikipedians 
will make to his book. The book resides in the site's Help area.

*O'Reilly's 2009 Missing Manual Catalog is available in PDF form* 
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