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O'Reilly Open Source Convention

Powell's Technical Books is proud to be the official bookstore of both Ubuntu Live — the first official event for the global Ubuntu community — and the 9th annual O'Reilly Open Source Convention. Both will be held this year in Portland, Oregon, at the Oregon Convention CenterUbuntu Live July 22 - 24, and OSCON July 23 - 27.

Join over 2500 open source developers, gurus, experts, and users for OSCON 2007. This year's convention will include 40 tutorials that go deep into the technology behind open source innovations and over 400 sessions focusing on Administration, Business, Databases, Emerging Topics, Java, Linux, People, Perl, PHP, Programming, Python, Ruby, Security, Web Applications, and much more. OSCON 2007 will also feature the latest edition of the O'Reilly Radar: The Executive Briefing, hosted by Tim O'Reilly, an opportunity to meet with the most influential minds guiding the business of open source.

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Ubuntu Live is being launched to provide a meeting place for Ubuntu users, contributors, and partners — and the Ubuntu-curious. Learn how Ubuntu can make a critical difference in your business or project and engage with the global open source community at the largest Ubuntu gathering yet.

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Related author events at Powell's Technical Books:

Tuesday, July 24 — 6pm
Make magazine senior editor and blogger Phil Torrone will take a break from OSCON to show off his hobbyist skills at Powell's Technical Books. Torrone will demonstrate how to make open source hardware. Don't miss this DIY event!

Wednesday, July 25 — 7:30pm
OSCON week is crazy here in Portland, but don't miss your chance to see a panel of A-list programmers discuss problems and challenges in software development. They will discuss Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think. The all-star panel features Andy Oram, chromatic, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Karl Fogel, and Simon Peyton Jones. Ward Cunningham will moderate this lively discussion.

Thursday, July 26 — 6pm
Bestselling author Scott Berkun asks timeless, important questions in his latest book, The Myths of Innovation. How do you know whether a new technology will succeed or fail? Where will the next big idea come from? We think we know what innovation is, but Berkun dispels the myths in this thoughtful, important little book.
 

 

Speakers at OSCON include:
  • Larry Wall, writer, author and creator of Perl
  • Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • Guido van Rossum, creator of Python
  • Rasmus Lerdorf, Yahoo!
  • Chris DiBona, Google, Inc.
  • Dave Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC
  • see the full list here
Speakers at Ubuntu Live include:
  • Ben Collins, Canonical Ltd
  • Daniel Holbach, Ubuntu
  • Tom Marble, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
  • Pauwl Lunow, Getronics
  • Bradley M. Kuhn, Software Freedom
    Law Center
  • James Reinders, Intel Corporation
  • see the full list here

Related Reading:

Programming Perl, 3rd Edition Programming Perl, 3rd Edition
by Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen and Jon Orwant
Perl is a powerful interpreted programming language thathas matured steadily since it first appeared in 1988.The first edition of this book, "Programming Perl, hit the shelves in 1990, and was quickly adopted as theundisputed Bible of the language. Since...(read more)
Your Price $25.00
Used - Trade Paper

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks) Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux (Hacks)
by Jonathan Oxer
Ubuntu Linux--the most popular Linux distribution on the planet--preserves the spirit embodied in the ancient African word ubuntu, which means both "humanity to others" and "I am what I am because of who we all are." Ubuntu won the Linux Journal Reader's...(read more)
Your Price $20.00
Used - Trade Paper

An Introduction to Python An Introduction to Python
by Guido Van Rossum
This manual provides an introduction to Python, an easy to learn object-oriented programming language. Python combines power with clear syntax. It has modules, classes, exceptions, very high level data types, and dynamic typing. Python can link directly...(read more)
Your Price $19.95
New - Trade Paper

Programming PHP, 2nd Edition Programming PHP, 2nd Edition
by Rasmus Lerdorf and Kevin Tatroe and Peter MacIntyre
Programming PHP, 2nd Edition, is the authoritative guide to PHP 5 and is filled with the unique knowledge of the creator of PHP (Rasmus Lerdorf) and other PHP experts. When it comes to creating websites, the PHP scripting language is truly a red-hot...(read more)
Your Price $39.99
New - Trade Paper

Programming Ruby the Pragmatic Programmers 2ND Edition Programming Ruby the Pragmatic Programmers 2ND Edition
by Dave Thomas
Ruby is an increasingly popular, fully object-oriented dynamic programming language, hailed by many practitioners as the finest and most useful language available today. When Ruby first burst onto the scene in the Western world, the Pragmatic Programmers...(read more)
Your Price $25.00
Used - Trade Paper

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