[vox] [fwd] Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--December

Tue Dec 22 12:38:53 PST 2009

And here's an ad from ORA.  Guess what, they publish Microsoft Press
titles now, apparently! ;)

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Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:06:50 -0800
From: Marsee Henon
Subject: Books and News from the O'Reilly User Group Program--December

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