[pm-h] Fw: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly

[G. Wade Johnson]

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Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 16:00:36 -0700
From: "Marsee Henon & Jon Johns" <usergroups at post.oreilly.com>
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Subject: UG News: Get Your Free Books + More from O'Reilly


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Hello,

We're looking for reviewers for the Travis Lowdermilk book,
User-Centered Design. If you'd like to post your review on Amazon,
O'Reilly, Slashdot, Reddit, or your own blog, let us know and we'll
send you a review copy. You can also learn more about Travis's work in
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--Marsee Henon and Jon Johns

Available for Review

The UG team is looking for reviewers for the following books& videos.
Consider posting your reviews on Amazon, Slashdot, oreilly.com, and/or
your blog.

User-Centered Design
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Software Testing Bibliography 
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Linux System Programming, 2nd Edition 
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New Releases

Developing Backbone.js Applications
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MongoDB: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition 
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Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition    
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Asterisk: The Definitive Guide, 4th Edition
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Make: Analog Synthesizers
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Relational Theory for Computer Professionals
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Microinteraction Book Tour details

Author Dan Saffer (Microinteractions) is hitting the road for his
latest book. Locations include the SF Bay Area, Portugal, Los Angeles,
Portland, Seattle, NYC, Chicago, Melbourne, and Boston.
Microinteractions are contained product moments that revolve around a
single use case—they have one main task. Every time you change a
setting, sync your data or devices, set an alarm, pick a password, log
in, set a status message, or favorite or “like” something, you are
engaging with a microinteraction. Find out when Dan will be near you.

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Drinks and Data : Hadoop Happy Hour! (May 20)

The Big Data SF Bay Area Linkedin Group is hosting the Hadoop Happy
Hour on Monday, May 20 from 6:30pm - 9:00pm. Paco Nathan, Chief
Scientist of Concurrent, Hadoop Summit speaker, and author of the
upcoming O'Reilly book, Enterprise Data Workflows, will be there, along
with Marsee Henon from O'Reilly Media. There will also be a raffle for
a Strata Conference + Hadoop World NYC pass. Join the Linkedin Group
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PyData Boston Looking for Speakers (July 27-28)

PyData Boston's initial call-for-speakers is open until May 31st.  The 
event is July 27-28, and hosts both a beginners and advanced track with 
the format being speaker presentations (30-40 min) and hands-on 
tutorials (60-90 min). The event will bring together software
developers, data analysts, scientists, and everyone from the Python and
Data Science communities to discuss new techniques and tools for
management, analytics and visualization of data. If you are interested
in presenting a talk or leading a tutorial session, then please email a
short description of your idea to boston_proposals at pydata.org.

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Strata - Stay on top of the Big Data deluge
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User Centered Design Podcast

Travis Lowdermilk is a software developer, UX Designer for Visual
Studio, Microsoft, and host of the Windows Developer Show. He talks
with Mary Treseler about the concepts behind his book User-Centered
Design: A Developer's Guide to Building User-Friendly Applications.

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Technology Agility and DevOps Between Silos   

Presented by: Mandi Walls

Duration: Approx. 60 min.

Cost: Free

Wednesday, May 22, 2013, 10AM PT, San Francisco

This webcast will look at some of the hurdles faced by technology teams
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