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Entries Tagged as 'Books'
SitePoint Books: The Bushfire Relief Sale
February 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Books
Tags: bushfire·Sitepoint·Victoria·Web Design
Learn Objective–C on the Mac eBook for $10
January 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Books, Objective-C
For those interested in joining the IPhone development craze then this book might be the one for you.
You can get the eBook version from the Apress daily deal site for only $10 for the next 24 hours.
Tags: IPhone·Mac·Objective-C
The Secret to a Successful Website
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Books
Got an email today from Manning with the new sets of books due next year.
One of them was of particular interest, the Website Owner’s manual.
I’ve been a web developer for a number of years but mainly focusing on backend technologies.
So it goes without saying that I do not have much experience in managing a site.
The [...]
Beginning Groovy and Grails eBook for $10
August 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Books, Java
As always, I’m very pleased to announce an excellent offering from the Apress daily deal site.
Beginning Groovy and Grails
I’ve been entertaining the thought of trying out either Wicket or Grails for my next web project.
The release of this discounted book answers my question of which framework to try out first.
Will this finally be [...]
Effective Java, Second Edition
May 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
Joshua Bloch of Google is coming up with his second installment of the famous Effective Java book.
Effective Java (2nd Ed)
InfoQ has an interesting article about the upcoming book and provides a sample chapter on Generics free for download.
Other books from Bloch include:
Java Puzzlers
Effective Java (1st Ed)
Java Concurrency in Practice (co-authored)
I’ve benefited a lot [...]
Email/IM Notification with Log4J
May 14th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
For years, Log4J has been the de facto logging framework for Java. I’m not sure if most developers are already aware of this but there are a lot of other neat things you can do with Log4J aside from writing debug lines to plain text files.
Among them are sending notifications through email, IM or even [...]
Collective Intelligence in Action
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
Finally, I won a book from JavaRanch!
Praise God!
The book is entitled:
Collective Intelligence in Action
Unlike other books in Collective Intelligence, the methods and examples presented in CIA are based in Java.
I’ve already joined many other book promos in the Ranch (Head First PMP, Rock Star Programmers, JQuery In Action), but this is the first [...]
Get TWO Chances at Getting Sun Certified For the Price of One
April 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Books, Java
This post is out of date.
Please visit http://javacertification.info/ for details regarding other Java/Sun Certification promotions.
Taken directly from Sun’s email:
500,000 Have Done it and You Can Too!
Dear READER:
More than 500,000 IT Professionals are now Sun Certified. Are You Next?
With the purchase of any certification exam voucher through June 30, 2008, you will receive a second [...]
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Books, Flex
This book has been released under Creative Commons License and is available for download…
Yes, for FREE!
Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide
You can checkout Mike Chamber’s blog for more details.
Tags: Adobe AIR·Adobe Flex·e-books·Flex
Win a Free Ebook
April 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Books
We (Manning) will hold a random drawing every day from April 17 to April 30. Two winners will be chosen each day. Winners can choose from any ebook available on Manning.com. We will contact you by email if you are one of the lucky winners. No purchase is necessary and you only need to enter [...]
