August 2007 - Posts

• Pearson Education User Group Program (Addison-Wesley, other publishers)

  Dear User Group Leader/Member: Welcome to the Pearson Education User Group Program! Please pass along to your collegues/ UG members and share the news and promotions! The new program provides qualified user groups with product news, discounted prices on products, free review copies in exchange for reviews, marketing materials, and promotional giveaways. Housed on InformIT.com, the program represents Pearson Education imprints and well-known technology brands of Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall, Que Publishing, and Sams Publishing. If you are receiving this initial email then your group has been qualified and registered in our program. Please ensure that your group's information is accurate on your page of the site: www.informit.com/usergroups select "Find a User Group" and your state, and group name. News & AnnouncementsNew site launch - check out www.informit.com  -  representing Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall, Que Publishing, and Sams Publishing and hear from Publisher Paul Boger directly.  Discounts and Bulk OrdersAll active groups will receive a discount membership code, a link on our user group site, a link to a welcome page that lists program benefits and downloadable materials, opportunities to provide feedback through surveys and become bloggers, and more! Groups with face-to-face meetings will also obtain a spot on a topical "review copy" mailing list; group leaders can use review copies to help boost meeting attendance. A link with the discount code and additional information is coming soon! Tell us what you think - Review A Pearson ProductRead a Pearson product lately and have something to say about it? Besides posting the review on places like Amazon.com, BN.com and Bookpool.com, we'd love to hear your feedback in order to create the best possible products! Email the review to reviews@informit.com with the subject "Book Review" and the product name in the subject line. Subscribe to Technology Topic Focus Newsletters Visit our newsletter page to subscribe to the topical or publishing imprint newsletters and learn about new products, articles, and promotions! This will be your monthly message regarding new products. Encourage your members to do the same. Sign Up for This Quarterly NewsletterOur new program will have a quarterly newsletter that leaders and members can subscribe to exclusively! Look for more information about the newsletter in the future! This Month's Exclusive UG Contest  - visit www.informit.com/usergroup to enter to win during the  rest of the month of August!The Pearson Education User Group Program offers a monthly contest to all current user group members. Each month a different prize pack on a specific technology topic will be available! Simply complete the registration form below to enter; one entry per person please  (duplicates are discarded).   Bookmark www.informit.com/usergroups and come back each month for your chance to win!  In August, two people will win a suite of new Security titles.• Exploiting Online Games • Fuzzing: Brute Force Vulnerability Discovery • Secure Programming with Static Analysis • Virtual HoneypotsQuestions: Please direct inquiries to usergroups@informit.com and in the subject please include your group name - topic area - and type of inqury. Example: Southern California Cisco Users Group - Networking - Question  Thank you for reading - Pearson Education User Group Program Team(Jamie Adams, Heather Fox, Andrea Bledsoe, and Lisa Jacobson-Brown)   Posted Aug 17 2007, 03:54 PM by JimHolmes with 1 comment(s)

• Free Web Hosting Offer for Group Members

  Verio has partnered with INETA to offer .NET User Group members free web hosting.  The attachment lists details on the offering, but it boils down to getting 120MB of space, .NET 3.0 support, and a number of other nifty features – and did I mention that it’s /free/?   To sign up for the service you’ll need to attend the August 22nd meeting of the group. Posted Aug 15 2007, 02:44 AM by JimHolmes with no comments

• O'Reilly Announces Beautiful Code Site

  O'Reilly's created a brand new website devoted to the topics in our new book "Beautiful Code" at http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com.   We give you the opportunity to discuss the book's projects and to contribute information about other projects that illustrate coding artistry.   The lead programmer for the Beautiful Code website is Michael Feathers, a popular author and expert in Agile Programming who contributed the chapter "Framework for Integrated Test: Beauty through Fragility."   In a recent post, Feathers writes: "When I was a younger programmer, I felt guilty about being a neat-freak. It was a selective obsession. There I was, sitting in my office with stacks of papers and books covering every available space, but I was oblivious to it. As long as my code looked great, I could shut out the chaos around me: the towering stacks of dead tree that could've toppled and crushed me if I had sneezed."   Feathers continues, "I don't know why I felt bad about being that way, but in retrospect, I think that I felt that I was wasting time caring about neatness in code. It took me a couple of years to figure out that the ergonomics of code matter, and that the time you spend decluttering your code can declutter your thoughts as well."   Got a site that fits the spirit of Beautiful Code? Then send us a link so we can blog about it: http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/suggest_site.php    For more information on "Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think" Edited by Andy Oram, Greg Wilson, go to: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510046    Don't forget that as a UG member you get 35% off from O'Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin books you purchase directly from O'Reilly.   Just use code DSUG when ordering online or by phone 800-998-9938. <http://www.oreilly.com/store/>    ================================================================ O'Reilly 1005 Gravenstein Highway North Sebastopol, CA   95472 http://ug.oreilly.com/  http://ug.oreilly.com/creativemedia/ ================================================================ Posted Aug 15 2007, 02:43 AM by JimHolmes with no comments