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community. In this presentation from Dux Raymond Sy (<a
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for Project Management</strong></a>), you will acquire the practical
knowledge of improving SharePoint usability to increase user adoption
in leveraging SharePoint for collaboration
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Apr 21, 2009
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<td>Allison Randal (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Parrot Essentials</strong></a>) is chief architect and lead developer
of the open source project Parrot. She also works for O'Reilly Media,
planning the program for their Open Source Convention (OSCON).
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Apr 24-25, 2009
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Arlington, VA
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hspace="8" vspace="8">Meet industry experts and learn how to use
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applications. Author Chris Anderson (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596158163/index.html"><strong>Couchdb:
The Definitive Guide Rough Cuts Version</strong></a>) will walk
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moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529956/"><strong>Introduction
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Presents "Algorithms Unleashed: A Practical Approach to Programming
Algorithms"</a>
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May 9, 2009
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Cambridge, MA, USA
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href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596516246/index.html"><strong>Algorithms
in a Nutshell</strong></a>. This seminar is designed for software
practitioners, programmers, and designers. Here you will find
algorithmic templates to solve common problems that arise in many types
of software systems. You will learn how to evaluate trade-offs between
algorithms and how to test whether the algorithm is working correctly
in your system.
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