O’Reilly Fluent Conference: Discount Code and Free Pass!
Alright conference-lovers: I've got something awesome for you. O'Reilly's Fluent Conference 2014 is coming up on March 11th-13th in San Francisco, CA, USA and if you can go, you probably should. Check out the list of speakers you'll see over those few days:
- Brendan Eich - Creator of JavaScript, CTO of Mozilla
- Paul Irish - jQuery Legend, Chrome Developer Tools
- Lara Swanson - Etsy Developer Boss
- Paul Bakaus - jQuery UI Legend
- Elijah Manor - jQuery Legend
- Lea Verou - CSS, JavaScript, Front-End Legend
- ...loads more!
You can check out the agenda but you probably don't need to look a lot further than the speaker line-up to know that it's going to be an awesome event.
Conference Pass Giveaway!
O'Reilly has been nice enough to provide me one free pass to the conference! Want to attend Fluent Conference for free? Submit a comment to this post containing your favorite O'Reilly book cover image and you'll be entered into the drawing (your name and email information does not go to O'Reilly -- it's for me to get in contact with you). Have at it!
20% Conference Discount Code: WALSH20
If you don't end up winning or want to get your registration in early, you can use the WALSH20 discount code to get 20% off of your registration fee. That's a good amount to put toward travel, food, drinks, or bribing one of the speakers to get you a job!
Good luck everyone! O'Reilly's Fluent Conference should be epic!
I’ve always enjoyed this weird ferret thing on the JQuery Cookbook:
* http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596159788/lrg.jpg
There used to be one I liked more, one of the littler format books. But currently I would say the “AngularJS” book with the fish. :)
I like js the good parts: http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Good-Parts-Douglas-Crockford/dp/0596517742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1390495325&sr=8-1&keywords=javascript+the+good+parts
The bird on the O’Reilly c# 4.0 book always reminded me of the bird from Up!
http://images.appshopper.com/screenshots/351/701766.jpg
I’ll stick with the classic – Javascript: The Definitive Guide:
That’d be: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/91xorHXzWbL._SL1500_.jpg
I like the the regular Expressions one
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The animal on the cover of HTML5 Canvas is the New Zealand kaka (Nestor meridionalis), a parrot endemic to that country. The kaka’s name comes from the Maori word for parrot (a duplication of the word ka, Maori for “to screech”). It is part of the Strigopidae family, which diverged from other parrots 80–100 million years ago when the landmass that is now New Zealand broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana. A defining characteristic of this family of parrots is the bristles on their tongues, which are used to collect nectar.
A medium-sized parrot about 18 inches in length, the kaka is stocky and has a short, square tail. Its feathers are primarily olive-brown, with brighter splashes of crimson on the underwings and rump. It also has yellow-brown spots on its cheeks and a gray crown. It possesses the sharp curved beak common to many parrot species, which it uses to pry seeds loose from cones and dig up insects. The kaka also eats fruit, berries, nectar, and flowers.
These birds are primarily arboreal, living in the canopies of New Zealand forests. Very social creatures, kakas live in large flocks that sometimes include other local parrot species as well. In winter, breeding pairs build nests in hollow trees, and lay a clutch of two to four eggs. Both parents help feed their young.
The kaka is currently endangered due to deforestation, predators, and competition for food with non-native species. The closely related kea and kakapo parrots are facing similar challenges—and in fact, two species within the Nestor genus have already gone extinct (most recently in 1851).
Love me some hippo action (with some javascript thrown in):
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i like the dog from HTML5 Filesystem API :)
So Testable JavaScript is a great book. https://covers.oreillystatic.com/images/0636920024699/bkt.gif.
While Interactive Data Visualization https://covers.oreillystatic.com/images/0636920026938/bkt.gif is good dive into D3
I enjoy the irony of the horned lizard on the Ant guide. They eat ants like I eat M&Ms.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596001841.do
Owls are the best – http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802806.do (High Performance Javascript).
Here is the big owl – http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596802806/lrg.jpg
Stopping Spam! lol
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SQL Cookbook:
http://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Anthony-Molinaro-ebook/dp/B0026OR3KI
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HTML and CSS The Good Parts — What is it? I don’t know, but I like it. Loved their Head First Design Patterns book. Got me my job!
goood ole rhino http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596805531/lrg.jpg
Developing Backbone.js applications:
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920025344/cat.gif
Dart Up and Running
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025719/ViewLarger.do?sortby=publicationDate
Ferret:
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596527853/cat.gif
I always loved the “Twitter-ish” bird on the “HTML5 Graphics with SVG & CSS3”
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920019831/cat.gif
It’s the most Web 3.0 buzzword compliant O’Reilly book cover I’ve seen and looks so much cooler than the Perl, Sed & Awk books I’ve got!
Friedl’s owls: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596528126.do
I think I’m most partial to the Greek tortoise featured on the cover of Zakas’s “Maintainable JavaScript”.
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920025245/lrg.jpg
Understanding Computation. Reading it now.
http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920025481/lrg.jpg
‘Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS’ has my favorite O’Reilly cover. It features sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps) looking cute and inquisitive.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023487.do
Learning vi: http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781565924260/cat.gif
JavaScript: the Good Parts – i like the simplicity of the cover combined with the beautiful butterfly with its complex natural patterns.
http://cdn.tutsplus.com/net/uploads/legacy/252_fridayFreebie/theGoodParts.jpg
Just because it’s the most-used resource in my arsenal, the sparrow hawk from High Performance MySQL: http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/9780596003067/cat.gif
JavaScript Enlightenment – http://akamaicovers.oreilly.com/images/0636920027713/lrg.jpg
I always liked how they used the Surinam Toad for Windows XP Annoyances (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596004163.do) to show how disgusting XP can be.
I like the Camel (I code Perl), but I think the Surinam Toad is the best connection between image and subject.
I’ll say the eider duck (Somateria mollissima) on Functional JavaScript. An epic-looking animal on a epic (probably timeless) book by Michael Fogus , with even an epic foreword by Jeremy Ashkenas.
What more can you ask for?
Did I mention it was published by the always awesome folks at O’Reilly? :)
I am from the island of Borneo and the proboscis monkey is endemic to Borneo.
This is the reason why I like the cover of Oreilly’s Perl for website management.
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9781565926479.do?sortby=publicationDate
Easily: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026938/ViewLarger.do?sortby=publicationDate
Had to learn a lot of WP
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Had to learn a lot of WP
Microinteractions ~ In Color!
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Designing Interfaces
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I like the book regular expression and HTML5 syntax
Squirrels on the cover of Learning PHP, MySQL, Javascript and CSS by Robin Nixon. : )
This is by far my favorite:
http://i.imgur.com/SZPjHwz.jpg
True. Story.