Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure"Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure, 2nd Edition introduces you to Microsoft's cloud-based delivery of its enterprise-caliber, SQL Server database management system—showing you how to program and administer it in a variety of cloud computing scenarios." ......
Jetbrains have just released |ReSharper 8.0 Beta on their Early Access |Programme at http://www.jetbrains.com/re... 8.0 comes with the following new features:Support for Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Yes, ReSharper is known to work well with the fresh preview of Visual Studio 2013, and if you have already started digging into it, ReSharper 8.0 Beta is ready for the challenge.Faster ......
At http://www.microsoft.com/vi... Microsoft have made available Visual Studio 2013 Preview available as a free download. Four versions plus TFS server are available. The versions are:Ultimate PremiumProfessionalTest ProfessionalInstalling them will install the Dot Net Framework 4.5.1. Somesgar blogged about this at http://blogs.msdn.com/b/som... new features that VS2013 brings in are:Round-tipping projects with VS2012 ......
Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Windows Phone App Development"Pro Windows Phone 7 Development helps you unlock the potential of Microsoft's newest mobile platform and updates—NoDo and Mango—to develop visually rich, highly functional applications for the Windows Phone Marketplace." ......
Until July 3rd 05:00 PT, O'Reilly are offering 50% off all the Early Release e-books. When you buy an Early Release E-Book, you get the current release plus all updates up to the release version and any subsequent revision ......
Until July 3rd 05:00 PT, O'Reilly are offering 50% off all the Early Release e-books. When you buy an Early Release E-Book, you get the current release plus all updates up to the release version and any subsequent revision ......
At http://www.red-gate.com/pro... Redgate are offering a free eBook - TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook - Oracle Edition "Download your free copy of TortoiseSVN and Subversion Cookbook - Oracle Edition and use these recipes to work better, faster, and do things you never knew you ......
At http://www.syncfusion.com/r... Syncfusion are a free E-book "TypeScript Succinctly""The extensive adoption of JavaScript for application development, and the ability to use HTML and JavaScript to create Windows Store apps, led Microsoft to develop TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript. Though the messiness of JavaScript causes many .NET developers to avoid the language, Microsoft's additions extend many familiar features of .NET programming to JavaScript. With ......
At http://www.syncfusion.com/r... Syncfusion are offering a free E-Book "Ignore ASP.NET MVC at Your Own Peril: Lessons Learned from the Trenches"Using code examples and a side-by-side comparison with Web Forms, this white paper details:Separation of concerns: UI code and business logicAJAX and the server–side lifecycleJQuery & client-side scriptingPerformance issues and the impact on end–usersBrowser compatibility issuesI will in due course be doing a review ......
The New Horizons space craft as of 13:00 hrs UTC yesterday is now within 6 AU of its next target - Pluto. While this is still a long way yet from Pluto, it is the closest spacecraft to Pluto. Closest approach is now some 752 days away on 14 July 2015.There are very interesting articles on the investigation work the New Horizons team has done to plan the path of New Horizons through the Plutonian system:http://pluto.jhuapl.... ......
At http://www.microsoft.com/en... Microsoft provide a free download of TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012. The documentation site is at http://www.typescriptlang.o... is described as TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development.TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript.Any browser. Any host. Any OS. Open Source.TypeScript starts from the syntax and semantics that millions of JavaScript developers know today.TypeScript ......
Let me make it absolutely clear - the following is:merely collated by your Geek from http://www.codeproject.com/... very very funny so you read it in the presence of others at your own riskso here is the list - you have been warned!C You shoot yourself in the foot. C++ You accidently create a dozen instances of yourself and shoot them all in the foot. Providing emergency medical assistance is impossible since you can't tell which are bitwise copies and which are ......
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HTML5 Mastery covers the new features, abilities, and best practices of HTML5."
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Beginning CSS3 shows how to create attractive and flexible web pages using Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)—the language of web design."
In recent days both APress and O'Reilly have radically improved the way they display items registered against your account with them.APress now show only one line per e-book and the multitude of formats is handled by a drop-down list. The result is that the list of APress books I have bought now requires less paging through. The only things that the APress lacks are:The ability to show all on the page (currently options for 10,20 and 50 per page)The ability to sort on title or date bought or date ......
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers"HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers teaches you to harness the power and flexibility of HTML5 in your ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications. Focusing on the programmable features of HTML5 that will be most useful to you as an ASP.NET developer, this book will take you straight to the heart of what you can get out of this new technology." (well the price was $10 ......