Issue 20—September 2009

Pearson Education User Group Program Newsletter
 

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News & Announcements

Head "Back to School" for an IT Certification
Hit the books to take the next step in your career—enter to win one of three certification study prize packs from the Pearson Education User Group Program! Also check out new learning tools and products from Pearson.
 

Green Data Center Titles Released From Pearson
Cisco Press and Prentice Hall recently announced the release of two new Green Data Center titles—Grow a Greener Data Center, by Douglas Alger, and Foundations of Green IT, by Marty Poniatowski—focusing on energy efficiency, eco-friendliness and the necessary improvements to maximize savings in the IT industry.

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User Groups of the Month

Florida: Tampa Bay Area ASP.NET MVC Developers is a monthly developer group in Tampa, Florida focusing on building skill and confidence at developing web applications using the ASP.NET MVC Framework. Learn more at www.tampadev.org.

 
Ohio: North East Ohio Cisco Users Group is comprised of technicians, experts, network administrators and engineers in the greater Cleveland, Ohio area. Members have a passion for learning and executing technologies based around the Cisco principles of networking, IP telephony, Telepresence, firewalls, switches, and routers. Learn more at neociscoug.blogspot.com/.


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Early Bird Pricing Ends Sept. 12 for VTM: iPhone Developers Conference
Use the special User Group Priority Code PHNABCD to save $100 off the Early Bird Conference Price
   Early Bird Price until Sept. 12: $495
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Mark your calendar now for October 17–18 in Boston! Learn more about featured speakers.

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Essential Silverlight 3
Essential Silverlight 3
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I/O Consolidation in the Data Center
I/O Consolidation in the Data Center
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Authors and Events: September

September 19—Atlanta LinuxFest

September 21–23—LinuxCon Portland 2009

September 24—Safari Books Online: Grow a Greener Data Center Webcast
Cisco Press author Doug Alger makes the business case for greening data centers, and presents technologies, design strategies and operational approaches to help any company improve the energy efficiency and "eco-friendliness" of their IT facilities.

September 25–27—Ohio LinuxFest 2009

September 25–27—Virtual Worlds at Sun Microsystems Author Chat
Join The Facebook Era author Clara Shih in the Sun Second Life Theatre to discuss the radical business transformation taking place and what sales, marketers, and professionals must do to thrive in social media.

September 26—Houston TechFest
Sponsored by the Microsoft .NET Development Series.

Looking Ahead:

October 4–9—JAOO 2009
Calling all European User Groups: Meet the Rock Stars of software development at this year's JAOO 2009! Rub elbows with Pearson authors speaking on the world's hottest Java, Ruby, .NET, Object-Oriented topics. Check out the all-star lineup.

What is JAOO? It's a Developer's event held every year in Aarhus, Denmark. JAOO originally stood for "Java and Object-Oriented" and focused on Java-based technologies. Today it has evolved into a more in-depth conference with a wider set of content such as .NET and Ruby-based technologies along with a focus on the softer side of software development: process improvement, patterns, and enterprise architecture.

Have a User Group event in your area? Let us know!
E-mail any event details to usergroups@informit.com for consideration in next month's newsletter. Please include "User Group Event" in the subject line.


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