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Communications Conference. In this Photoshop power hour, you'll glean
time saving tips for creating super tough selections. Learn fast and
non-destructive ways to create today's most popular photo effects,
including silhouettes, partial color, duotones, gorgeous grayscales,
creative vector photo frames, filtered edges, selective blur effects,
vignettes and more. You'll also discover how to retouch people like a
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teaches "Graphic Secrets for Presenters"--learn how to turn the images
you have into the imagery you need.
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Smart (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Power Tools</b></a>). The bootcamp is an intense 4-day hands-on
workshop covering some of the best open source tools for Java
development on the market. The course takes you on a in-depth guided
tour of some of the best open source Java tools, showing how you can
use them individually and together to write code better and faster, and
have fun while you're doing it!
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Security Tools</a>) presents "Security Implications of Emerging
Technologies: Social Networking, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing"
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Sep 25, 2008
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San Francisco, CA
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href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596514549/index.html">Oracle
Essentials</a></b> and <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Application Server 10g Essentials</b></a>) will be leading a session
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Data Warehouse-Enabled Enterprise" at Oracle OpenWorld. This session is
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<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Smart at the Victorian Java User Group</a>
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href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527938/index.html">Java Power
Tools</a></b>) will be giving a talk on Behavior Driven Development
(BDD) in Java with easyb, a new and very hip behavior driven
development framework for Java.
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Development, and look at how it builds on and differs from
"traditional" Test-Driven Development. It then moves on to look at
easyb, a very cool DSL-based behavior driven development framework for
Java that uses Groovy to let you pretty much write tests that document
themselves.
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event. Lesa covers "How to Shoot Like a Pro" and "The Skinny on
Photoshop Elements 6" and Derrick will be teaching "Ten Things You Need
to Know About iPhoto" and "Aperture or Lightroom...Which One Is Best
for Me?" Stop by the O'Reilly booth to meet the authors and purchase
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September 16-17, 2008<br>
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