[sf-perl] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--December

Fred Moyer fred at redhotpenguin.com
Thu Dec 17 11:22:55 PST 2009


And a reminder, our December social is next Tuesday.

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From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--December
To: fred at redhotpenguin.com



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