Win a Bronze Pass for OSCON Austin!

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OSCON Austin is fast approaching (May 16-19, 2016) and O'Reilly has an awesome bonus for DWB readers:  a 30% off discount code of PC30DWALSH.  Even better is that O'Reilly is allowing me to give away on free Bronze pass to their awesome conference!

Conference Highlights

  • 2-day Training courses: Immerse yourself in two days of in-depth education on critical topics including leadership skills, Kubernetes, Java 8, Go, Rust, Swift, and MEAN architecture. Each training takes place May 16-17 and is limited in size to maintain a high level of learning and instructor interaction.
  • Open Container Day: Hear from industry practitioners on the state of container-based solutions, infrastructure, cloud native computing, continuous delivery, DevOps, microservices, and more.
  • OSCON Contribute is a hacking event focused on welcoming new open source contributors to Free and Open Source (FOSS) projects of all sizes on Wednesday and Thursday.
  • OSCON Kids Day on Sunday, May 15
  • Events: Have fun while networking at the Community Leadership Summit, Ignite OSCON, evening receptions, Birds of a Feather gatherings, and much more
  • All the Bots: Join us on Tuesday for a one-day extravaganza devoted to the wild and wonderful world of bots

Win a Free Pass!

How can you enter to win this pass? In the comment section below, paste a link to your favorite O'Reilly book cover.  A winner will be chosen at the end of this week.  Good luck!

If you prefer to book your spot now at an awesome discount use code PC30DWALSH at this signup page!

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