17 Tuesday Feb 2015
26 Monday Jan 2015
Posted in Books, Oracle, Technology
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ebook, enterprise, free, mobile, Oracle
Oracle a free Ebook about enterprise Mobility – it can be downloaded from https://blogs.oracle.com/imc/entry/free_oracle_special_edition_ebook1 The book focuses on the following areas:
23 Tuesday Dec 2014
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computer crime, computer networks, ebook, network, network security, Network Security For Dummies, Security
I came across the following promotion via LinkedIn. The book isn’t that new, but looking at Amazon reviews suggests that there maybe some value still:
“Network Security For Dummies — eBook (usually $22.99) FREE until January 1st!“
Get quick, easy, low-cost solutions to all your network security concerns.
CNN is reporting that a vicious new virus is wreaking havoc on the world’s computer networks. Somebody’s hacked one of your favorite Web sites and stolen thousands of credit card numbers. The FBI just released a new report on computer crime that’s got you shaking in your boots. The experts will tell you that keeping your network safe from the cyber-wolves howling after your assets is complicated, expensive, and best left to them. But the truth is, anybody with a working knowledge of networks and computers can do just about everything necessary to defend their network against most security threats.
Whether your network consists of one computer with a high-speed Internet connection or hundreds of workstations distributed across dozens of locations, you’ll find what you need to confidently:
- Identify your network’s security weaknesses
- Install an intrusion detection system
- Use simple, economical techniques to secure your data
- Defend against viruses
- Keep hackers at bay
- Plug security holes in individual applications
- Build a secure network from scratch
– Download from: http://opensourceuniverse.tradepub.com/free/w_wile145/?p=w_wile145#sthash.i4fHNQgA.dpuf
19 Friday Dec 2014
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Oracle Press Celebrates 20 Years of Support for the Global Oracle Workforce
Happy 20th Birthday, Oracle Press! Since 1994, McGraw-Hill Education has partnered with Oracle Corporation to help Oracle professionals develop the skills they need to be successful with Oracle’s products and technologies.
What started out as one book on Oracle’s groundbreaking database, Oracle: The Complete Reference, has grown to 120 titles covering the entire Oracle ecosystem-databases, middleware, applications, servers, and certification. Oracle Press titles have sold more than 3 million books in print around the world, with thousands of eBooks accessed via devices and platforms, including Safari, Books 24X7, and McGraw-Hill Education’s own McGraw-Hill Education eBookLibrary.
Working closely with Oracle’s internal product development teams, Oracle Press has developed rigorous best practices for producing the highest quality content on the topics most critical to our readers.
More than half of Oracle Press’s authors are Oracle employees–the technologists driving Oracle’s products forward. And we’re always looking for new book ideas, authors and technical advisors.
18 Thursday Dec 2014
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So you may have guessed Packt are running the Christmas promotion again – ebooks for $5 (or £3.60 to us Brits). The promotion runs until Jan 6th.
As you can see through my blog, Packt have some great books – https://mp3muncher.wordpress.com/tag/packt/ some of which I have helped with during their development (a little shameless self promotion).
So head over to http://bit.ly/1C4FAaQ
30 Monday Jun 2014
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Packt are celebrating 10 years as a publisher of books on Open Source. giving the chance for a number of Rock Star developers to become famous authors (well almost). In that time it has published over 2000 titles and helped projects become household names, awarding over $400,000 through its Open Source Project Royalty Scheme.
To celebrate this huge milestone, from June 26th Packt is offering all of its eBooks and Videos at just $10 each for 10 days – this promotion covers every title and customers can stock up on as many copies as they like until July 5th follow this link to get you deals …. : http://bit.ly/1iSnR1c
For Java developers I’d recommend checking out the videos by David Heffelfinger (@ensode).
If you’re heading over via Twitter etc then http://bit.ly/1q8vtgN
14 Saturday Jun 2014
Oracle press are offering another free book Simplified User Experience Design Patterns for the Oracle Applications Cloud Service in addition to the previously mentioned
Just need to go to http://eservice.mhprofessional.com/vm.asp?i=57A08X3D95X5 and register.
06 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Books, General, Oracle, Technology
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ebook, free, free eBook, NoSQL, Oracle, Oracle NoSQL Database, Oracle Press
Oracle Press are currently offering a free eBook copy of Getting Started with Oracle NoSQL Database, all you need do is register at http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/ebookdownloads/NoSQL/ to get the book. I don’t know how long the offer will last, so I’d suggest getting it quickly.
23 Thursday Sep 2010
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Now we have been equipped with a device that will work as a very good ebook reader I started to look at buying books that way. However, I was shocked at the prices compared to paperback equivalent. For example Iain M Banks Consider Phlebas in word format is £5.10 add Amazon, the ebook equivalent (Kindle) is £4.84. A total discount of £0.26 – the price of a second class stamp!
This seems ridiculous to me, to sell the paper copy you have to pay shipping (assuming you use Amazon’s Super Saver Delivery), plus all the staff costs for picking and packaging the book. Not to mention the costs of running a warehouse, all of which must cost more than 26p. Then for the publishers, they have no printing and distribution costs – crazy when you think about the fact that the manuscript these days is even given to the publisher in electronic form.
Then for me, well if I buy the paper copy no one is going to try accuse me of abusing copyright if I give my paper copy of the book to a friend. There is no DRM on paper so I can read it at work, at home, on the train. The only downside – it uses up a bit of space.
So for me, I’ll only entertain technical or freeboots, purely because it is helpful for me to have a technical pocket library that I can search, or because the book hasn’t cost me anything anyway.
02 Wednesday Sep 2009
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I came across this – eBook Library Organizes and Indexes Your Books [Downloads] which looks interesting. I have a growing collection of eBooks and PDF based articles – as most engineers do. The problem is quickly searching them for the information that is needed. so We’ll be giving this tool a try.
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