[Thamesvalley-pm] [Fwd: O'Reilly UG Newsletter - Issue 05-08]

Thu Jul 31 15:00:20 PDT 2008

TVPM'ers,

* Some discounts mentioned.

* I'm tempted to be kindled.

* Will put up one of their banners (+ fix the twiki)

Your estranged founder,

Raf

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Subject: O'Reilly UG Newsletter - Issue 05-08
From:    Josette Garcia <josette at oreilly.co.uk>
Date:    Wed, July 23, 2008 12:26 pm
To:      Rafiq Ismail Gemmail <tvpm at dreamthought.com>
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  O'Reilly UK User Group Programme
NEWSLETTER
Issue 05-08   PDF available for download -
http://www.richplum.co.uk/oreilly/0508.pdf  
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    Sorry I'm late with this newsletter, but as usual around here, we've
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***Gordon Mohr Takes Us Inside the Internet Archives Gordon Mohr is the
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developers in the audience...      ****Getting Started with the Google App
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to deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In
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***Freelance coder Gregory Brown gives you the latest on Prawn, a PDF
writing library for Ruby.    ***code_swarm: Animated Visualization of the
Development of some High Profile Open Source Projects    ****Catching up,
Fighting distractions, Polyglotting    ****Head First Ajax Sneak Preview  
 ****How Hackerteen Helps... By a White-Hat Hacker    ****Cooking with
Flex    ****Are you up-to-date?    ***What Should iPhone Applications
Cost?    ***Thinking in Wikis      For more blogs, go to:    Until next
time--    Josette ### Josette Garcia O'Reilly UK Limited