[BBLISA] Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--Feb

Fri Feb 18 14:11:55 EST 2011

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Hi there,

The conference season is upon us. This week O'Reilly wrapped up our
sold-out Tools of Change for Publishing Conference. Highlights include
author Margaret Atwood's keynote. See what the publishing industry is
doing.
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Are you a Maker? We're now accepting entries for the 6th Annual Maker
Faire Bay Area, May 21 and 22, 2011, at the San Mateo Event Center in
California.
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We're also getting ready for Web 2.0 Expo, OSCON, TechEd, Mix,
Railsconf, Where, Velocity, and more. Tell us what conferences you're
excited about and let us know if there's a way we can help.

Follow the daily deals from Microsoft Press, O'Reilly Media,
and Make Magazine. Find them on twitter at @oreillymedia or
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Make Magazine 
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O'Reilly webcasts happening soon: 

SproutCore: Writing Code for a Multi-Device World, 
Presented by Yehuda Katz 
February 22, 2011  10am PT 
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Essential Troubleshooting Tips for Windows 7, Presented by Mike Halsey
February 24, 2011, 10am PT 
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Here's our Webcast page for on-demand videos of past webcasts and more
upcoming live events. 
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Thanks,

-- Marsee Henon and Jon Johns

P.S. Want to hang out? Here are the places we'll be. If you're attending
or live in the area and have time to get together, please let us know.

-Feb 25-27, Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE), Los Angeles, CA
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-Mar 7-9, Best Practices Conference--SharePoint, La Jolla, CA
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-Mar 28-31, Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, CA 
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-Apr 12-14, Microsoft Mix, Las Vegas, NV 
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RailsConf--The official event of the Ruby on Rails Community 
May 16-19, 2011 Baltimore, MD 
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2011 Santa Clara, CA 
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Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0: 
Learn Programming Now! (Microsoft Press) 
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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 
Step by Step (Microsoft Press) 
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Droid 2: The Missing Manual 
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Exploring North American Landscapes (Rocky Nook) 
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The Panasonic Lumix DMC-G2 (Rocky Nook) 
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McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git 
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Integrating Services with Flex 4 Apps 
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Great Bash 
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Event-Driven Applications with Flex 4 
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Building Flex Applications with Spark Components 
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Skinning Spark Components in Flex Applications 
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MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-511):
Windows Application Development with 
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Tapworthy iPhone Design and User Experience 
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Rails Test Prescriptions (Pragmatic Bookshelf) 
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Serial Photography (Rocky Nook) 
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Until next time--

Marsee Henon & Jon Johns

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