Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites
Free online book “Web Style Guide, 3rd edition: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites”. Consistently praised in earlier editions as the best volume on classic elements of web site design, Web Style Guide, now in its Third Edition, continues its tradition of emphasis on fundamentals. Focusing on the needs of web site designers in corporations, government, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions, the book explains established design principles and how they apply in web design projects in which information design, interface design, and efficient search and navigation are of primary concern.
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Free Online Book: Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
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The Best of SQLServerCentral.com Vol. 7
Free 376 page eBook “The Best of SQLServerCentral.com Vol. 7″ from Red Gate Software. SQLServerCentral.com brings you a variety of articles on all aspects of SQL Server from administration to XML and everything in between. Our articles are written by real DBAs and developers, based on the articles and scripts they use in their daily work. And this book is a collection of the best articles we’ve seen from the past year from over 50 authors.
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97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
These 97 contributions will be picked from the Edited Contributions and published in O’Reilly’s 97 Things series. Get 97 short and extremely useful tips from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry, including Uncle Bob Martin, Scott Meyers, Dan North, Linda Rising, Udi Dahan, Neal Ford, and many more. They encourage you to stretch yourself by learning new languages, looking at problems in new ways, following specific practices, taking responsibility for your work, and becoming as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.
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The Definitive Guide to Pylons
Free online book “The Definitive Guide to Pylons” by James Gardner. It brings you a comprehensive introduction to Pylons, the web framework that uses the best of Ruby, Python, and Perl and the emerging WSGI standard to provide structure and flexibility. With expert guidance from the author, you’ll learn how to create your own Pylons–driven web site using SQLAlchemy and FormEncode and attain the mastery of advanced Pylons features, such as internationalization and localization, packaging and deployment.
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Free Online Book: Let Over Lambda
Free online book “Let Over Lambda” is one of the most hardcore computer programming books out there. Starting with the fundamentals, it describes the most advanced features of the most advanced language: Common Lisp. The point of this book is to expose you to ideas you might otherwise never be exposed to.
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Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
You can download “Beej’s Guide to Network Programming” by Brian Hall in pdf and html formats. Beej’s Guide to Network Programming has been one of the top socket programming guides on the Internet for the last 15 years, and it’s now for the first time available as a lovingly bound paperback book! The Guide is designed to irreverently ease your first steps into Internet Sockets programming in C. Starting from the ground up, it provides complete examples of simple clients and servers supporting both IPv6 and IPv4.
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Service Oriented Architecture - Getting It Right
Free eBook “Service Oriented Architecture - Getting It Right” in pdf format. This book is a treatment of the practical issues an implementor would face when implementing a SOA. There are other very fine books on standards and basic education about SOA and web services. In fact, if you are not familiar with the web service standards, you might find some of this other material very useful as preparatory reading prior to digging into the implementation issues described herein.
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Microsoft Windows Server System Deployment Guide for Midsize Businesses
Free 343 page book in pdf format from Microsoft Press. “The Windows Server System Deployment Guide for Midsize Businesses” was written with the needs of midsize business network administrators in mind for organizations with 50-250 PCs. The goal of this book is provide step-by-step deployment instructions for the Microsoft server products that are most relevant to a midsize business, in one easy-to-read format. These best practices come directly from the Windows Server System team, based on extensive lab testing in environments like your own.
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