ETech 2006 CFP
Now Open -- O'Reilly's Emerging Technology
Conference 2006 is scheduled for March 6-9 in San Diego. We invite
technologists, strategists, CTOs, chief scientists, researchers,
programmers, hackers, standards workers, business developers, and
entrepreneurs to lead sessions and tutorials at ETech. This year's
challenge focuses on the amazing amount of digital data in our worlds:
how do we visualize the data, filter it, remix it, and access it in
meaningful ways? Proposals are due by September 19th.
Learning Lab August Special
-- In our practice-based, self-paced courses, you can
build your online portfolio with plenty of instructor feedback and a
free O'Reilly book for reference. For a limited time, use the discount
passcode "tigercub" to save an extra 15% off any of our
courses--including all University of Illinois Certificate Series. Take
advantage of this great deal and register today!
The Virtual Referral: Mitigating Risk by Hiring
Open Source Developers -- Hiring a new employee is
almost always a risk, and hiring the wrong employee can prove a costly
mistake for managers. Brian Fitzpatrick suggests you hire an open
source programmer. Find out why doing so mitigates the risks involved
in hiring. Brian will be leading a Subversion tutorial and a session on
switching from CVS to Subversion at this year's O'Reilly Open Source
Convention (OSCON), August 1-5 in Portland, Oregon.
EuroOSCON -- Join developers, systems and network administrators,
and IT managers at the very first O'Reilly European Open Source
Convention in Amsterdam on October 17-20. EuroOSCON will explore the
best and newest open source technologies, particularly for companies,
governments, and nonprofits. EuroOSCON showcases the diversity in open
source while maintaining a practical edge. To receive up-to-date
conference news and information, sign up for
the OSCON newsletter.
OSCON 2005 Is
Around the Corner -- O'Reilly's Open Source
Convention, August 1-5 in Portland, Oregon, is the crossroads of all
things open source. Join us at this essential gathering of open source
leaders and practitioners of every persuasion to exchange ideas and
push the boundaries of vital open source technologies. Don't wait to
live vicariously through friends who attend, and register today.
History
of Programming Languages -- For 50 years, computer
programmers have been writing code, and now, there are more than 2,500
documented programming languages. O'Reilly has produced a poster called
History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50
programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. The
poster is available online in PDF format, but while supplies last, U.S.
residents can also get a hard copy of the poster free when purchasing
two books through oreilly.com.
