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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
The global leader in educational and professional publishing, Pearson Education is home to such respected brands as Addison-Wesley Professional, Cisco Press, Exam Cram, IBM Press, Prentice Hall Professional, Que, and Sams Publishing, which have as their online publishing arm InformIT () - The Trusted Technology Learning Source. In addition, Berkeley-based Peachpit (), the publishing partner...
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... Books Online Library, a digital library of technical books from the likes of O'Reilly, Apress, and Addison-Wesley. We were absolutely amazed by the entries. There are some incredible bits of code in there. But we had to pick one, so we did. Or rather Joel Johnson did, because this whole thing was his idea to begin with. So we are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Boing...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... Books Online Library, a digital library of technical books from the likes of O'Reilly, Apress, and Addison-Wesley. We were absolutely amazed by the entries. There are some incredible bits of code in there. But we had to pick one, so we did. Or rather Joel Johnson did, because this whole thing was his idea to begin with. So we are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Boing...
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... Books Online Library, a digital library of technical books from the likes of O’Reilly, Apress, and Addison-Wesley.We were absolutely amazed by the entries. There are some incredible bits of code in there. But we had to pick one, so we did. Or rather Joel Johnson did, because this whole thing was his idea to begin with. So we are pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Boing...
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CREATT Interactive Group (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
As we posted a couple weeks ago, one of our newest sponsors is Safari Books Online, the outfit that offers a digital library of tech books from publishers like O’Reilly, Apress, and Addison-Wesley. As part of Safari’s sponsorship, they offered BB readers one month free online access to any of the following books: JavaScript: The [...]
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Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 12/11/2008
As we posted a couple weeks ago, one of our newest sponsors is Safari Books Online, the outfit that offers a digital library of tech books from publishers like O'Reilly, Apress, and Addison-Wesley. As part of Safari's sponsorship, they offered BB readers one month free online access to any of the following books: JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Learning Perl, and Head First HTML with CSS &...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
A few days ago I announced that I was going to give away a free ticket for the first Professional Ruby Conference, organized by Obie Fernandez and Addison-Wesley, to one of my readers. Each person who took the survey, received a discount code for the conference valued at $200. More excitingly, every eligible participant in the [...]
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Addison Wesley will hold their first Professional Ruby Xonference in Boston, Massachusetts between November 17 and 20, 2008. This conference, for which Obie Fernandez is the Technical Chair, is highly educational and boasts some of the best speakers from the Ruby and Rails communities. The organizers were kind enough to invite me, offering me a complimentary [...]
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Enterprise Mac (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
You'll find two kinds of software on Apple's iPhone App Store: That which should be given away regardless of its price tag, and commercial-grade applications worth paying for. Any developer that aims to produce the latter should consider Erica Sadun's "The iPhone Developer's Cookbook, Building Applications with the iPhone SDK" (Addison-Wesley) required reading. The book's prerequisites are few,...
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God Plays Dice (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
A citation reproduced verbatim from Benoit Mandelbrot 's The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1983): Knuth, D. 1968-. The art of computer programming. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. The "1968-" is not Knuth's birth date, of course, but the date at which he started writing the work in question, which was fifteen years in the making when Mandelbrot wrote. It's still not done. Incidentally, Mandelbrot's...
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Brad Abrams (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
We created a very cool poster that shows off the new stuff in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and .NET Framework 4. Thanks to Kit George for running this effort to get a very cool view of .NET Framework 4 and for the great folks at Addison Wesley for helping with the creative end and the printing costs! And of course, here is the DeepZoom version ! (use your mouse wheel or click and control-click to...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Safari Books Online (), founded in 2001 as a joint venture between pre-eminent technology publishers O'Reilly Media, Inc., and Pearson Education, is an on-demand digital library delivering expert content from the leading authors in technology and business. Safari Books Online offers the combined collections of Prentice Hall Professional, O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley Professional, Microsoft...
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Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
It's hard to believe, but the US presidential election is only 14 days away, which means that the Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby conference is coming up in less than 4 weeks. Continuing my series about the conference, I'm going to blog...
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Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
I just got an IM from my Addison Wesley editor pointing me to stating that the conference has been postponed. The statement reads, "We're sorry to announce that we've made the difficult business decision to postpone the O'Reilly iPhoneLive conference, which was to take place November 18 in San Jose. We are grateful for the support of those who had agreed to participate in the event, particularly...
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The Valve (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
JSTOR for books on 10/23/08 at 11:55 AMBoingBoing to a Safari Books Online special offer: pick a free book for a month , plus 10% off a subscription to the full version of the service. Looks good. In the basic package, Safari gives you generous (not total, unless you pay more) access to a truly vast range of titles from “O’Reilly Media, John Wiley & Sons, Addison-Wesley, Peachpit Press, Adobe...
