[Texas] Choice of 12 O'Reilly books

Jason Galyon jtgalyon at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 14:33:55 CEST 2010


Nothing yet, but they are very responsive thus I expect to hear in a few
hours.

I will add the appropriate info when confirmed ;)

Jason

On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:53 -0500, Brad Allen wrote:
> Jason, do we have any news on which O'Reilly books are arriving, and
> where and when they are being shipped?
> 
> I've started a wiki page listing the prize giveaways :
> http://pytexas.org/PrizeGiveaways2010
> 
> Please add the O'Reilly books to that page.
> 
> The sponsor page was updated today so that sponsor logos are at the
> top, and the link to prize giveaways are linked under the Special
> Thanks section.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Jason Galyon <jtgalyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Awesome guys... keep em coming :)
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jason
> >
> > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 01:10 -0500, Chris Austin wrote:
> >> Cookbook(I am a big fan of this one )
> >> Beautiful Code
> >> Beautiful Data
> >> Cloud Application Architectures
> >> Learning Python 4th Ed.
> >>
> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Brad Allen <bradallen137 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>         Here are the books I'd vote for:
> >>
> >>         Python Cookbook
> >>         Python in a Nutshell (dated but still great)
> >>         Learning Python 4th Ed. (I liked the fourth edition better
> >>         than
> >>         previous editions, and it covers Python 3)
> >>         Beautiful Code
> >>         Beautiful Architecture
> >>         Practical Python Programming: Callbacks  by Alex Martelli
> >>         (Video)
> >>         Masterminds of Programming
> >>         Bioinformatics Programming Using Python (for the SciPy
> >>         attendees)
> >>         97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
> >>         Cloud Application Architectures
> >>         The Art of Agile Development
> >>         Beautiful Data
> >>
> >>
> >>         On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Jason Galyon
> >>         <jtgalyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>         > Howdy, O'Reilly is going to send 12 print books or ebooks to
> >>         us.
> >>         >
> >>         > Please sound off with what you folks would like.  Here are
> >>         some of my
> >>         > ideas in my personal library that I recommend:
> >>         >  * Python Cookbook
> >>         >  * Beautiful Code
> >>         >  * Restful Web Services
> >>         >
> >>         > the rest are out on loan and I can't find my sheet of them,
> >>         but here are
> >>         > some off the top of my head I want to see myself:
> >>         >  * Beautiful Data
> >>         >  * Beautiful Architecture
> >>         >  * Beautiful Testing
> >>         >
> >>         > A good place for viewing available books is
> >>         > http://oreilly.com/python/index.html
> >>         >
> >>         > I will pick the 12 most popular print books and send an
> >>         email Thursday
> >>         > afternoon.  Please sound off in the mean time.
> >>         >
> >>         > Pythonically yours,
> >>         > Jason
> >>         >
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