[Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--Apr23

Tim Chambers timc+perl at divide.net
Mon Apr 23 22:32:58 PDT 2012


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From: *Marsee Henon & Jon Johns*
Date: Monday, April 23, 2012
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--Apr23


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The UG team is looking for book reviewers for the following books. Consider
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   - Illustrated Guide to Home Biology
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   - Enabling Programmable Self with
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   - Android Cookbook<http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ze8dchb3b2skebr5gac2373kse7ubhijk9m5a6qo>

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We are once again hosting a Nonprofit Pavilion at OSCON as part of the Expo
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