[SJUG] O'Reilly users group news letter
Charles Anderson
cander at dev.java.net
Thu Aug 28 10:08:06 PDT 2008
As I've mentioned, SJUG is affiliated with O'Reilly's user group program.
Here is the current newsletter. If you're interested in reviewing a book,
email me, and I can hook you up. I just finished reviewing a book on
SQLAlchemy<http://western-skies.blogspot.com/2008/08/book-essential-sqlalchemy.html>,
which is like Hibernate for Python. So, even though we're a Java users
group, you can get and review non-Java books.
Charles.
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UG leaders, or anyone else interested in improving your presentations, let
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"slide:ology<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596522346/index.html>".
Garr Reynolds (Presentation Zen) just wrote on his
blog<http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/slideology-my-favorite-presentation-book-of-all-time.html>"Nancy
Duarte, the Principle of Duarte Design (the firm behind the creation
of Al Gore's Oscar-winning presentations), has published a presentation book
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Watch the book trailer <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UI439bKA1Q>.
Gabrielle Roth and Selena Deckelmann presented "Running a Successful User
Group" at OSCON 2008 in Portland this year. Here's their slide
show<http://www.baconandtech.com/?p=16>.
They also put together a flyer with suggestions on every aspect of running a
user group<http://www.baconandtech.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/ug-printed-material-v2.pdf>.
Need a pass for Photoshop World in Las Vegas on Friday, September 5th and
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And thanks to everyone who stopped by the O'Reilly booth at OSCON. We had a
great time. Here are our photos from our T-shirt contest and the
conference<http://flickr.com/photos/oreillyugprogram/sets/72157606322136449/>.
Don't forget we're willing to send books to giveaway at your meetings
anytime. Although we love reviews, we don't expect them for every book we
send. You can also request books for special events or your group library.
Marsee <http://www.oreillynet.com/fyi/blog/marsee_henon/>
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In this issue:
- O'Reilly UG Program News—Just for User Group
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- New Releases <#11c0099ce62d0a13_newreleases>
- Upcoming Events <#11c0099ce62d0a13_upcoming>
- Conferences and Special Events News <#11c0099ce62d0a13_conferencenews>
- School of Technology <#11c0099ce62d0a13_school>
- News from O'Reilly & Beyond <#11c0099ce62d0a13_news>
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O'Reilly UG Program News—Just for User Group Leaders
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Interview with David Heinemeier Hansson: Rails Culture, Scaling Basecamp,
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Companies<http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/interview-with-david-heinemeie.html>
Derrick Story in Beijing for the
Olympics<http://blogs.oreilly.com/digitalmedia/2008/08/a-week-of-images-from-beijing.html>
<http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596515782/> Head First Ajax Sample chapter:
Manipulating the
DOM<http://www.headfirstlabs.com/books/hfajax/hfaj_ch7_sample.pdf>
Head First Statistics Sample Chapter: Calculating
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The Road to Programming is Sometimes Paved with Web
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Why We're Failing in Math and
Science<http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/why-were-failing-in-math-and-science.html>
Why Corporates Hate
Perl<http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2008/08/why_corporates_hate_perl.html>
The Mind of Damian Conway: Science, Computer Science, the Future of Perl 6,
and Advice for Today's Aspiring
Programmers<http://fyi.oreilly.com/2008/08/the-mind-of-damian-conway-scie.html>
Audio: Lawrence Lessig on Congressional Reform and Internet for
Everyone<http://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/lessig-changecongressorg-and-i.html>
Doug Marschke Talks about his new book titled "JUNOS Enterprise Routing: A
Practical Guide to JUNOS Software and Enterprise
Certification."<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihKWw7q4VlU>
Mac vs PC: Does it matter
anymore?<http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/08/mac-vs-pc-does-it-matter-anymo.html>
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