[tpm] Fwd: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--January

Mike Stok mike at stok.ca
Tue Jan 26 12:37:42 PST 2010


As part of the O'Reilly User Group Program I will forward the monthly user group news letter to the list.

Mike

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> Jan 2010 Issue:
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> Welcome
> Register Now -- Free Upcoming Webcasts
> Authors looking for Speaking Opportunites
> Conference User Group Discounts and Call for Participation
> 35-45% book discount and Slashdot and Book Reviews needed
> The Call for Makers is Now Open for the 5th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area 2010
> Discount offers from Safari Books Online & The O'Reilly School of Technolgy
> UG leaders only -- Put Up a Banner, Get a Free Book
> Upcoming Events
> New Releases:
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> Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
> By Jonathan Stark
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> Building the Realtime User Experience: Rough Cuts Version
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> CSS Cookbook, Third Edition
> By Christopher Schmitt
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> Domain-Driven Design Using Naked Objects
> By Dan Haywood
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> HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, Fourth Edition
> By Jennifer Niederst Robbins
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> Java: The Good Parts: Rough Cuts Version
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> jQuery: Novice to Ninja
> By Earl Castledine
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> Language Implementation Patterns
> By Terence Parr
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> Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 21
> By Mark Frauenfelder
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> Mastering the Nikon D5000
> By Darrell Young
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> Microsoft(R) Forefront(TM) Threat Management Gateway (TMG) Administrator
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> The New How
> By Nilofer Merchant
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> Open Government
> By Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma
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> Practical Digital Photomicrography
> By Brian Matsumoto
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> Programming Entity Framework Rough Cut, Second Edition
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> Programming WCF Services: Rough Cuts Version, Third Edition
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> R in a Nutshell
> By Joseph Adler
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> Security on Rails
> By Ben Poweski, David Raphael
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> Take Control of Easy Mac Backups
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> Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac
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> Three Songs, No Flash!
> By Loe Beerens
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> Should I upgrade my router?
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> Welcome
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> Hi there,
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> Even though it is storming in Sebastopol, CA this week--it's easy to see spring is coming. Community events and conferences are coming up everywhere such as Macworld, Microsoft Mix, PYCon, SCALE, RailsConf, MySQL Conference & Expo, DevConnections, FOSDEM, MountainWest RubyConf, and much more. If you're involved in a community event please make sure we send some books to give away. We can provide print or ebook versions.
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> Don't forget we now offer 45% off our ebooks onoreilly.com. That includes Microsoft Press as well as O'Reilly Media titles. Just use the code DSUG when you check out. This same code give you 35% off print books too. Feel free to post this discount on your website, mailing list, twitter account, or other places where your members gather. We've also got a spiffy new PowerPoint or KeyNote slide with this information I can send you.
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> I recently posted a question on O'Reilly Answers to ask for suggestions on reaching out to new members. Make sure you add your opinion and let me know when you post so I can give you a user group leader badge for your profile.
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> We're looking for a few user groups interested in having a booth at Railsconf this year in Baltimore, MD. If you're interested, please drop me a line. We've got a limited number of tables.
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> If you're thinking about learning a new technology, you should check out the new Great Series of videos from O'Reilly. They have friendly presentation style and the hands-on exercises let you learn as if you're sitting next to a good friend, sharing programmer to programmer. Let me know if you'd like to check it out.
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> Travel Alert: I'll be attending Macworld 2010February 10 & 11. Please let me know if you're going to be in town. I'd like to say hi.
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> I'm also headed to the O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York February 21 -24 and I'm looking for evening activities. Do you have a meeting or just want to get together?
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> Please pass along any part of this newsletter to your group via email or your website and include the discount codes. We offer both a text and an HTML version.
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> Thanks,
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> --Marsee Henon
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> P.S. Hope you've noticed our new $9.99 Ebook Deal of the Day on oreilly.com and our twitter account attwitter.com/oreillymedia.
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> Register Now -- Free Upcoming Webcasts
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> What people are saying about our webcasts: "Content superb of course. But I also loved its "personality" - friendly, casual, expert, geeky: perfect!"-- Heather Young
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> Our upcoming webcasts include:
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> Tour the Top 10 Treats in Entity Framework 4
> The Science of Social Media Marketing
> Check out our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more upcoming live events!
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> Authors looking for Speaking Opportunites
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> Please send me an email if you're interested in any of the following speakers and I'll forward it along:
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> Joseph Adler, author of R in a Nutshell is available in Southern California or the San Francisco Bay Area.
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> Ed Wilson, author of Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices and Microsoft Scripting Guy is available as a speaker in the Charlotte, NC region. He is also available virtually for any user group world-wide. For more information contact Ed directly at edwils (at) microsoft.com
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> Joan Preppernau, author of Windows 7 Step by Step is looking for speaking opportunities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area (FlowerMound) of Texas and in the Northport, Alabama area. Topics include Microsoft Office, Windows, certification, upgrading, and computing for children and young people, particularly girls.
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> Conference User Group Discounts and Call for Participation
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> O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference
> Be Part of the Publishing Evolution
> February 22-24, 2010
> New York, NY
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> If you're interesting in attending, use code "toc10usrg" when you register, and receive 15% off the registration price.
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> O'Reilly Where 2.0 Conference 
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> March 30 - April 1, 2010
> San Jose, CA
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> O'Reilly MySQL Conference & Expo
> Information Unleashed
> April 12-15, 2010
> Santa Clara, CA
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> If you're interesting in attending, use code "mys10usrg" when you register, and receive 20% off the registration price.
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> Last Chance--The Call for Participation is Now Open for OSCON! Share how you're innovating with the Open Source Community. OSCON takes place July 19-23, 2010 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. Join over 2,500 experts, visionaries, and hackers in the trenches to explore all that open source has to offer. Be a part of it all and Submit your Proposal today! CFP ends February 1 and early registration opens April 2010.
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> RailsConf 2010 Call for Participation is now open!
> Join us in Baltimore, MD on June 7-10, 2010 for largest official conference dedicated to everything Rails. We're keeping the Call for Participation open until March 17 to leave room for even more up-to-the minute Rails topics to come through. Bring us your hardcore technical know-how and submit your proposal today.
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> 35-45% book discount and Slashdot and Book Reviews needed
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> We're always looking for book reviewers, especially on our new releases. Titles we're excited about include Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, The New How, Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices, and R in a Nutshell. If you'd like to write a review of any of these books for Amazon, Slashdot, your favorite book community site such as GoodReads, LibraryThing or Shelfari, or your blog, please send an email to your user group leader with the book title and where you'll review it.
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> Get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books and 45% off ebooksyou purchase directly from O'Reilly. Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938.
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> The Call for Makers is Now Open for the 5th Annual Maker Faire Bay Area 2010
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> Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It's for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. So much to see, you will need 2 days to see it all!
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> We are now accepting entries for Maker Faire Bay Area, May 22nd and 23rd, 2010 at the San Mateo County Event Center. This year's focus is on Young Makers. Join your fellow Makers for the most innovative, inspired and best Maker Faire yet!
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> Discount offers from Safari Books Online & The O'Reilly School of Technolgy
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> 15% off Safari Books Online for 12 months for UG members
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> Safari Books Online provides online access to more than 8,500 books and videos from the world's leading technology publishers, plus time- saving tools that make it easy to find and organize the information you need, when you need it, all for one low monthly price. Search the full content of books and videos from O'Reilly Media, Addison- Wesley, Cisco Press, Apress, Manning, John Wiley and Sons, Microsoft Press and dozens of others, together on one easy-to-use online platform. Be the first to learn about cutting-edge technologies with pre-published manuscripts. Create your own digital library with favorites, saved searches, bookmarks, highlights, notes, tags and more.
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> We're offering User Group members an exclusive 15% discount on monthly subscriptions to Safari Books Online for 12 months. Subscriptions must be purchased before March 31, 2010.
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> O'Reilly School of Technology Courses: UG Members Receive a 30% Discount
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> OST's full-price tuitions are already lower than comparable continuing education or community college courses. However, as an O'Reilly User Group member, you save an additional 30% on all the courses in the following University of Illinois Certificate Series:
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> Database Administration Certificate
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> To redeem, use Promotion Code "ORALL1" good for a 30% discount, in Step #2 of the enrollment process. Each course comes with a free O'Reilly book and a 7-day money-back guarantee.
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> UG leaders only -- Put Up a Banner, Get a Free Book
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> We're looking for user groups to display our discount banners on their web sites. If you send me your group's site with one or more banners posted, I'll send you the O'Reilly book(s) of your choice. Choose from the following list:
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> The New How
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> Upcoming Events
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> Tour the Top 10 Treats in Entity Framework 4
> When: Jan 27, 2010
> Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 bring us a new version of ADO.NET Entity Framework, called Entity Framework 4. From the designer, to the APIs to entire new feature sets to support agile development, even former EF skeptics are getting excited about this version. There is a lot to see. In this one hour webcast, Julie Lerman, who is currently working on the 2nd edition of Programming Entity Framework, will highlight the ten most significant changes to the Entity Framework.
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> The Science of Social Media Marketing
> When: Jan 28, 2010
> More and more people are using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to talk about companies and products with their friends and colleagues. Learn what drives people to share information and opinions online and learn scientifically proven best practices for spreading your content virally through social media. You'll have plenty of time for Q&A with Dan Zarrella, social media and viral marketing scientist and author of "The Social Media Marketing Book."
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> Dux Raymond Sy presents "How to Effectively Utilize MS Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010" at SharePoint Saturday NYC
> When: Jan 30, 2010
> Where: Microsoft Office NYC New York
> Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) will show you how Microsoft Project 2010 can be utilized for project planning and tracking. In addition, you'll also see ShaePoint 2010 complements it by enabling collaborative capabilities.
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> More Upcoming Events >>
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