From pppm at timchambersusa.com Sat Jun 1 16:12:27 2013 From: pppm at timchambersusa.com (Tim Chambers) Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 17:12:27 -0600 Subject: [Pikes-peak-pm] Fwd: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly In-Reply-To: <1370127687.20224.0.398110@post.oreilly.com> References: <1370127687.20224.0.398110@post.oreilly.com> Message-ID: Sorry for the gap. I lost my plussed user email addressing, and O'Reillly just updated my address. In other news, our group was finally suspended many months ago after years of inactivity. This list is all that's left. I'm working in Python but keep my Perl chops in shape by creating command line snippets ? some less than 80 characters, others over 1,000. How are you all doing? ? Tim ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Marsee Henon & Jon Johns* Date: Saturday, June 1, 2013 Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly To: pppm at timchambersusa.com ** View in browser. Forward this announcement to a friend [image: Header] Hello, This past week in San Francisco we held the Fluent Conference. All the keynotes, and some other select videos are available on our Youtube channel. Cheers, ?Marsee Henon and Jon Johns ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Rapid Android Development] The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Rapid Android Development - Bootstrap - Understanding Computation It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. Don't forget to include your deadline and shipping address. Prefer ebooks? 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[image: Beer Geeks] O'Reilly Media and Microsoft Press will both be well represented at TechEd in New Orleansnext week (June 3-6). And here's the list of authors who'll be signng books: Troy Lanphier, Penelope Coventry, Joli Ballew, Andrew Bettany, Brian Desmond, Ed Wilson, Jeff Conrad, Ivan Sanders, Stacia Misner, Alberto Ferrari, Marco Russo, Brian Svidergol, Rowan Miller, Julie Lerman, Matt Masson, Mark Russinovich, Shannon Bray, Patrick Curran, Chris Givens, and CA Callahan. ------------------------------ Golden Gate RubyConf Call For Proposals is open [image: Powell's Books] The Call For Proposals for Golden Gate Ruby Conf 2013is open! The conference is September 20-21, and you have until June 13 to propose a talk. Last year, some of their best talks were from first-time speakers - don't hesitate to gather your slides, and submit your expertise to the event. ------------------------------ Write/Speak/Code (June 20-22) [image: Community Leadership Summit] Write/Speak/Code, a 3-day conference in New York City will feature different tracks on each day including: Write to change the world day; Speak to change the world day; and Code to Change the World day. This professional development conference for women developers by women developers to become thought leaders, conference speakers, and open source contributors. ------------------------------ Strata Online Conference: Mobility, Data, and Analytics [image: Alistair Croll] *Presented by:* Alistair Croll *Duration:* Approx. 60 min. *Cost:* Free [image: Learn More] Wednesday, June 5, 2013 9AM PT, San Francisco In this Strata Online event, we'll look at some of the ways the rise of the always-on world is feeding the hungry engines of Big Data. 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Forward this announcement to a friend [image: O'Reilly User Group Newsletter] Hello, We're getting ready for the Velocity Conferencejust a week from now, so we've chosen some books that might help you with Web Performance and Operations. We'll be hosting many of our authors in the O'Reilly booth for you to meet, and get books signed (just stop by the booth for the schedule). Cheers, ?Marsee Henon and Jon Johns ------------------------------ Available for Review [image: Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone] The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books & videos. Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or your blog. - Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone - Maintainable JavaScript - Testable JavaScript It's easy for you to get books for your meeting or special events?just email usergroups at oreilly.com and include the words "book request" in the subject line. 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Join us for a *free hands-on webcast* presented by Elijah Manor ( @elijahmanor) as Angry Birds uncover concepts of modern JavaScript development. Each bird represents an area of JavaScript along with its strengths. The goal is to defeat the pigs and by doing so produce highly tested quality JavaScript code. Don't miss this informative hands-on presentation from the comfort of your computer chair! To see more upcoming events and *meet experts online* visit http://oreilly.com/webcasts/index.html. ------------------------------ O'Reilly Velocity Conference (June 18-20) [image: Velocity Conf] The O'Reilly Velocity Conference- Web Performance and Operations - is only a week away, in Santa Clara, CA. If you're going to be there don't miss out on some of the events planned. 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Not So Fast!Why "flow" and "context" are more important than screen size by Laura Klein - Practice Makes ProgrammersA few iterations make even functional programming digestible by Simon St. Laurent - Using Iframes to Address Third-Party Script Issues and Boost PerformanceSOASTA chief architect Philip Tellis talks about ways developers and third-party script authors can use iframes. by Jenn Webb ------------------------------ A Cautionary Tale of Unicode [image: unicode] We have all grown to understand that we live in a UTF-8 world, but sometimes being overly flexible when accepting input from the Web can lead to disaster. This storyof Unicode Gone Bad is a good reminder that input sanitizing is an evolving field. ------------------------------ Strata Conference + Hadoop World (Oct 28-30, NYC) [image: Strata Conf + Hadoop World] The Strata Conference + Hadoop Worldis October 28-30 in New York City. Everyone's talking about big data, but who's actually doing it right?and how? 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