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New Podcasts on InformIT

Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk
Addison-Wesley authors Paul Duvall and Andrew Glover discuss their book Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk and other aspects of integration in this two-part video series.

>> Part 1: Duvall and Glover illustrate how to transform integration from a necessary evil into an everyday part of the development process.

>> Part 2: The authors describe how Continuous Integration leads to rapid software development, produces deployable software at every step in the development lifecycle, and reduces the time between defect introduction and detection, saving time and lowering costs.

User Groups of the Month

Virginia: Hampton Roads Adobe Users Group is a forum of support for webmasters, developers, and designers using Macromedia technologies and software. The group is open to members of all skill levels and meetings are intended to merge technological expertise with news on existing and upcoming Adobe products. For more information, visit http://www.hraug.org/.

Colorado/Wyoming: Rocky Mountain Cisco Users Group brings Cisco-oriented network professionals to study advanced technologies and emerging trends in voice, video and data networking. The group's goal is to ensure that the RMCUG community is the most educated, informed, certified and successful user group in the country. For more information, visit http://www.rmcug.org/.

In the Store

	CCNA Network Simulator By Cisco Press
	CCNA Security Exam Cram By Eric Stewart
	CCNA Wireless Official Exam Certification Guide By Brandon Carroll
	Concurrent Programming on Windows By Joe Duffy
	Craigslist 4 Everyone By Jenna Lloyd
	Framework Design Guidelines By Krzysztof Cwalina, Brad Abrams
	More Effective C# By Bill Wagner
	My iPhone, 2nd Edition By Brad Miser
	MySQL, 4th Edition By Paul DuBois
	Office 2008 for the Mac On Demand By Steve Johnson/Perspection, Inc.
	PHP & MySQL (LiveLessons Video Training) By Marc Wandschneider
	Python Web Development with Django By Jeff Forcier, Paul Bissex & Wally Chun
	The C# Programming Language By Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth & Peter Golde
	The Complete Home Music Recording Starter Kit By Buster Fayte

Authors and Events: October

October 29—RSA Europe
Cisco Press author Eric Vynke, of LAN Switch Security: What Hackers Know About Your Switches, will present "Don't Be Blind, Use Network Telemetry and Flow Analysis to Detect Attacks" at Europe's most comprehensive forum in information security. For more information, visit http://www.rsaconference.com/2008/Europe.

October 29—Software Development (SD) Best Practices
Addison-Wesley authors Herb Sutter and Bjarne Stroustrup to lead a day-long seminar in Boston highlighting programming information you can use today, but also what's coming in the next version of the C++ Standard, C++0x and related efforts. Visit http://tinyurl.com/6x4omp for more information.

October 30—eMA Marketing Association Conference
Simms Jenkins, author of The Truth About Email Marketing, will speak at the eMA Marketing Association conference in Atlanta, GA in a session called "The Truth (and Lies) about Email Marketing." Early bird registration rate ends October 15!

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User Group Offers
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SAVE $200! Voices That Matter: Professional Ruby Conference
Join leading Addison-Wesley authors November 17-20 in Boston for exciting keynotes, stimulating conference sessions and case studies, with lots of time built in for informational discussions, networking and code sharing. Meet Obie Fernandez, Blaine Cook, Pat Maddox, Hal Fulton and Giles Bowkett – don't miss out on the conversation!

Use our Priority Code PRHUSER when you register to save $200 off the current price of any package including the core conference. Please feel free to share this code directly with all your members. Also, if you haven't already been offered a free conference pass to raffle at your next meeting, please contact Ruby User Group Liaison Heather Fox.

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Exclusive UG access to Rough Cuts—30 days only!
Curious about our Rough Cuts digital products? Want access to evolving, pre-published manuscripts on hot technology topics? Check out three current titles – no stings attached! Exclusive access has been granted for User Group Program members only at the following links:

• SOA Principles of Service Design
• Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins, 3rd Ed.
• Programming in Python 3: A Complete Introduction to the Python Language

Pass this information on to everyone in your group. Remember, these links will only be active until October 31!

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