Events

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Below you will find a list of upcoming events where O'Reilly authors, editors, or staff will be presenting, exhibiting or otherwise participating.
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Date   Event Location Jul 6, 2009 Permalink Lesa Snider King at the Danbury Area Computer Society Lesa Snider King (Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual) presents "Tips and Tricks from Photoshop CS4" to the Danbury Area Computer Society. Danbury Hospital Auditorium Danbury, CT Jul 7, 2009 Permalink Webcast - Managing & Growing Open Source in the Enterprise: Advice from the Trenches In this webcast, Carol Rizzo, past CTO of Kaiser Permanente, AIG and CitiGroup, and Rod Cope, the founder and CTO of OpenLogic share their experiences and insights about using open source in the enterprise. Jul 8, 2009 Permalink Webcast: YQL: select * from internet The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, applications run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. With YQL, developers can access and shape data across the Internet through one simple language, eliminating the need to learn how to call different APIs. This webcast will cover YQL and delve into some exciting recently released capabilities. Jul 9-12, 2009 Permalink Rich Shupe at Pacific New Media Hawaii Four Day Flash Intensive Workshop Author Rich Shupe (Learning ActionScript 3.0, Learning Flash CS4 Professional and ActionScript 3.0: The Quick Reference Guide) will be presenting a four-day intensive Flash Workshop at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. It's a great venue and an inexpensive course, so you can easily combine learning with fun! Pacific New Media: University of Hawaii Honolulu, Hawaii, USA Jul 9, 2009 Permalink Webcast - Cloud Computing: The Next Frontier for Open Source The current financial crisis has raised enterprise interest in two technology trends: open source and cloud computing. In this presentation, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus will discuss how the two trends reinforce one another, and why cloud computing is a significant driver of enterprise open source adoption. Jul 10, 2009 Permalink Webcast: 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design techniques will set you on the road to downtime perdition and maintenance hell. Jul 15, 2009 Permalink Webcast: Security Monitoring How well does your enterprise stand up against today's sophisticated security threats? In this webcast, security experts from Cisco Systems demonstrate how to detect damaging security incidents on your global network--first by teaching you which assets you need to monitor closely, and then by helping you develop targeted strategies and pragmatic techniques to protect them. Jul 18, 2009 Permalink Christopher Schmitt at CSS Summit CSS Summit is one-track, one day conference devoted to Cascading Style Sheets. Christopher Schmitt (CSS Cookbook, 2nd Edition) will be covering the issues around CSS and Web Form Elements. A percent of the proceeds from every Summit will go to the Children’s Organ Transplant Association: http://www.cota.org/. Online http://www.environmentsforhumans.com/ Jul 20-24, 2009 Permalink O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) The OSCON 2009 Call for Participation is now open. If you're passionate about open source, the open technologies shaping our future, building communities, crafting beautiful code, designing for users, or just getting things done, we invite you to answer the call for innovation and submit a proposal now to lead conference sessions and tutorials at OSCON 2009. San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA Jul 22, 2009 Permalink Bill Scott on "Designing Web Interfaces" at Silicon Valley IxDA Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction) will be presenting "Designing with Patterns" at the Google Campus, Bldg 43 in Mountain View, CA. Google Campus, Bldg 43 Mountain View, CA Jul 26-Aug 1, 2009 Permalink Stephen Johnson -- The Icelandic Landscape Join Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) and many other well-known photographers for a digital photography field workshop in Iceland. Stephen will be giving a workshop entitled "The Mastery of Landscape." Iceland Jul 26-27, 2009 Permalink Mobile Conference: InsideMobile Learn what it takes to build applications using the top mobile platforms, including iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Android, Palm webOS, and Symbian in this focused event. You'll discover the strengths and quirks of each platform, and get a chance to network with established mobile developers. eBay Conference Center San Jose, CA Aug 1-2, 2009 Permalink Dave Cross "Introducing Perl" at YAPC::Europe Dave Cross (co-author of Perl Template Toolkit) presents a two-day introduction to Perl as a precursor to this year's YAPC::Europe conference in Lisbon. This course will take people with no experience of Perl and get them to the stage where they will be able to enjoy the rest of the conference. Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon Lisbon, Portugal Aug 4, 2009 Permalink Webcast - Hands-on: Step-by-step MySQL Clustering Setup MySQL's Clustering solution provides some pretty sophisticated functionality. In this webcast we'll take you through getting it up and running on your laptop or single node server, building a sandbox where you can play with the dials and levers and get familiar with all the moving parts. Aug 6-29, 2009 Permalink Tuscan Photo Adventure Author Ben Long (The Canon Rebel XSi Companion, The Nikon D90 Companion, Complete Digital Photography,, Getting Stated with Camera Raw) will be leading a three-week photo workshop in Florence, Italy from August 6th through the 29th, 2009. Covering shooting to printing, you'll go deep into every aspect of digital photographic process from finding and visualizing images, to understanding the exposure theory required to capture them, to in-depth post-production… Santa Reparata International School of Art Florence, Italy Aug 9-20, 2009 Permalink Stephen Johnson -- the Southwest Journey Join Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) for a digital photography field workshop in southern Utah and northern Arizona. You'll explore Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Zion National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Betatakin, Monument Valley and end up at Canyon de Chelly National Monument. Enrollment is limited to 12 people. southern Utah & northern Arizona Aug 13-16, 2009 Permalink Mikkel Aaland at the 18th Annual Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Photographer and O'Reilly author Mikkel Aaland (Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure) will lead training workshops on digital photography at the Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference in Marin, California. The conference has an extraordinary reputation among publishers, editors, and writers. There is no finer travel writing and photography conference anywhere in the world. Book Passage Bookstore Corte Madera, California Aug 18, 2009 Permalink Lesa Snider at NCMUG Author Lesa Snider (Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual) presents "From Snapshot to Art with Photoshop CS4! " 6800 Hunter Drive, Suite A Rohnert Park, CA Sep 8-12, 2009 Permalink Mela Eckenfels Presents "Unix System Administation 101" at Informatica Feminale Furtwangen Author Mela Eckenfels (Geek Cookbook) presents the 1 week workshop "Unix System Administration 101" at this year's woman's IT summer studies. (Sommerstudium für Frauen in der Informatik) Note: Workshop language is German. Furtwangen University of Applied Sciences Furtwangen, BW, Germany Sep 8-8, 2009 Permalink Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase Gov 2.0 Expo Showcase is a one-day event that previews the larger Gov 2.0 Expo scheduled for May 2010. Innovators will highlight the projects that are driving transparency, participation, and collaboration, and reducing costs while increasing value, inside and outside government. Washington, DC Sep 9-10, 2009 Permalink Gov 2.0 Summit Gov 2.0 Summit is a non-partisan forum for influential policy-makers, elected officials, upper management in city, state, and federal agencies, technology leaders in all levels of government, and private-sector internet business leaders to frame the important questions for reinventing government. Gov 2.0 Summit will feature best practices and case studies to highlight the work of those who are already using new technology in government, as well as projects outside the… Grand Hyatt Washington Washington, DC Sep 14-16, 2009 Permalink Bill Scott at Ajax Experience Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction) will be speaking on "Prototyping with DHTML". Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel Boston, MA Sep 17, 2009 Permalink Bill Scott on Designing Web Interfaces at O'Reilly Author's Master Series Workshop Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction), will be providing a day-long workshop on his book's topic. TBD Boston, MA Sep 20-23, 2009 Permalink Rich Shupe at Flash on the Beach Author Rich Shupe (Learning ActionScript 3.0 and Learning Flash CS4 Professional), presents at Flash on the Beach 2009 in Brighton, UK. The Dome Brighton, UK Sep 22-23, 2009 Permalink Bill Scott at Ajax World West 2009 in San Francisco Author Bill Scott (Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction), will be presenting on "Designing with Patterns". TBD San Francisco, CA Sep 23-25, 2009 Permalink John Graham-Cumming at Virus Bulletin 2009 Author John Graham-Cumming (The Geek Atlas) is speaking about browser security in a talk entitled "JavaScript security: the elephant running in your browser". Crowne Plaza Geneva, Switzerland Sep 25, 2009 Permalink Steven Pritchard at OLFU Steven Pritchard (LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition) will teach a full day cram class for LPIC-1 (Linux Professional Institute Certification Level 1) at this year's Ohio LinuxFest as part of the OLFU program. Hyatt Regency Columbus Columbus, OH Oct 3-4, 2009 Permalink Douglas Crockfored at Silicon Valley Code Camp Author Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts), will be presenting on "JavaScript: The Good Parts", to expose the goodness in JavaScript. He'll also lead a "JavaScript Town Meeting", to talk about JavaScript in all of its aspects, including news about The Fifth Edition. Foothill College Los Altos, CA Oct 10-13, 2009 Permalink Stephen Johnson -- Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierra Join Stephen Johnson (Stephen Johnson on Digital Photography) for a digital photography field workshop in the area of Mono Lake and the Eastern Sierras of California. Mono Lake, CA Oct 20-22, 2009 Permalink Web 2.0 Summit An invite only event, the Web 2.0 Summit brings the intelligence, innovation, and leadership of the Internet industry together to discuss and debate the most critical issues and strategies driving the Internet economy now and in the near future. San Francisco, CA Oct 28-29, 2009 Permalink Dux Raymond Sy presents "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success" at Richmond SUG Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management) presents how SharePoint can address common project management challenges such as inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices, and undefined project collaboration standards that can compromise project success. Richmond, VA Nov 16-19, 2009 Permalink Web 2.0 Expo New York Co-produced by O'Reilly Media and TechWeb, Web 2.0 Expo is returning to New York after last year's huge success. Join us as we celebrate the size, power, and innovation of the East Coast web industry. New York, NY Feb 22-24, 2010 Permalink O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference Save the Date! Connect with Publishing Innovation at TOC 2010. Call for Proposals will open in July and registration will open in November. Marriott Marquis Times Square New York, NY Apr 12-15, 2010 Permalink MySQL Conference & Expo Join us in 2010 for the 8th annual MySQL Conference & Expo. Mark your calendars for the largest gathering of MySQL developers, users, and DBAs worldwide. Santa Clara, CA May 3-6, 2010 Permalink Web 2.0 Expo SF The 4th edition of Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco is scheduled for 2010 - Web 2.0 Expo will return to Moscone West May 3-6, 2010. Make sure to save the date! Moscone West San Francisco, CA