Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is CSS3 Solutions "CSS3 contains a broad set of new additions and changes to the core CSS language across a range of modules, which means lots of new things to learn, and lots of new things that can go wrong. This book provides solutions to all of the most common CSS3 problems." ......
At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off a number of e-books on mastering CSS3 to 05:00 PT on Oct 28 "CSS3—the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today—is loaded with capabilities that once would have required JavaScript or third-party plugins, such as animation, pseudo-classes, and media queries. Use CSS3 to transform markup into stunning, richly ......
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition "Windows 8 App Projects - XAML and C# Edition takes you through the process of building your own apps for Windows 8 in a project oriented, example driven way. The book is aimed at developers looking to build Windows 8 apps in a variety of contexts." ......
Tod\y's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Software Projects Secrets Why Projects Fail "Software Project Secrets: Why Software Projects Fail airs dirty laundry about the software industry—how putting project management's priorities above all else is the root cause of problems in software development projects. This book offers solutions to integrate project management with agile methodologies that really work for software development." ......
Visual Studio 2013 is now available for download! I will attach the beginning of their web page announcement. You should note that web projects may now be readily a combination of Web Forms, MVC and Web API.We are excited to announce that Visual Studio 2013 is now available to you as an MSDN subscriber! For developers and development teams, Visual Studio 2013 easily delivers applications across all Microsoft devices, cloud, desktop, server and game console platforms by providing a consistent development ......
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development "Pro SharePoint 2013 Branding and Responsive Web Development is a complete guide to planning, designing, and developing modern, responsive websites and applications using SharePoint 2013 and open standards like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript" ......
At http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... Microsoft have made available a free e-book - Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 "As more software projects adopt a continuous delivery cycle, testing threatens to be the bottleneck in the process. Agile development frequently revisits each part of the source code, but every change requires a re-test of the product. While the skills of the manual tester are vital, purely manual testing can't keep up. Visual Studio 2012 ......
At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off a large number of E-Books until 05:00 PT on 16/Oct/2013. This is in honour of Ada Lovelace day. Here are some of my picks from the list: ......
At
http://www.packtpub.com/javamag, Packt are offering a free E-book on Hadoop
Please note this is "register-ware".
At
http://www.packtpub.com/, Packt publishing are offering 50% off all their E-Books and Videos until Thursday 17/Oct
At http://www.microsoftvirtual... there is a free course on HTML5 & CSS3 FundamentalsThis is not a course for pretty web design but for writing good standards compliant HTML. Please note that to get the work files for the course you need to go to http://channel9.msdn.com/Se... as the Microsoft Academy downloads do not seem to work!The ......
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition "Beginning Windows 8 Application Development – XAML Edition shows you how to start building rich, immersive applications that connect people, applications, and devices with Windows 8." ......
VLC media player 2.1.0 is now available from
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/It is available for Windows, Mac, 11 different Linuxes and 9 other system types!
Recently I was approached by two UK Internet Service Providers to upgrade to a fibre connection. In each case I asked two questions:Can you provide me with a fixed IP Address?Is the equipment to be provided compatible with IPv6?None of the question was satisfactorily answered. One of the persons answering even suggested that granting a fixed IP Address would be a breach of security!I find it very disturbing that two companies that present themselves as innovative should still not be preparing for ......
Today, 11/October/2013, O'Reilly on behalf of Microsoft Press are offering 50% off F# for C# developers. Just remember to use the code MSDEAL when you check out. "Extend your C# skills to F#—and create data-rich computational and parallel software components faster and more efficiently. Focusing on F# 3.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2012, you’ll learn how to exploit F# features to solve both computationally-complex problems as well as everyday programming tasks" ......
At http://shop.oreilly.com/cat... O'Reilly are offering 50% off a number of e-books on mastering CSS3 "CSS3—the technology behind most of the eye-catching visuals on the Web today—is loaded with capabilities that once would have required JavaScript or third-party plugins, such as animation, pseudo-classes, and media queries. Use CSS3 to transform markup into stunning, richly detailed web pages that ......
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro Silverlight 5 in C# "Extensive graphics and screenshots throughout make Pro Silverlight 5 in C# an invaluable reference for professional developers who wish to discover the new features of Silverlight." ......
At https://tabledemo.codeplex.... I have released version 0.9.2 of TableDemo. This MVC application now also allows you to produce CSS to style lists. Version 0.9.2 will allow interactive production of lists. The default list is the nested list:The colour scheme can be changed, the font size changed and voila!Here is the rollover style list.Please the cursor over an option and....The last type is the horizontal menu.So now you can design your table and list styling interactively. ......
Yesterday was "Patch Tuesday", so today, there are some two dozen (25 for my PC) important updates to apply. This includes an update for Internet Explorer which should be applied as soon as possible.
At
http://www.ie6countdown.com, the IE6 countdown continues to be logged. Countries that have gone below 1% since I last blogged about this include:
- Thailand
- South Africa
- France
However a special note must be made about Norway - IE6 usage has declined to 0.0%! So the my Norweigan readers, I say "Godt gjort Norge!" (Well done Norway!)
To check that Firefox and Chrome are up to date, in each of them go to Help, About. If there is a new version, it will be downloaded and then you will be prompted to re-start.
Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/97814... is Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012"Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012 is written to help ASP.NET developers make the leap to the inevitable and exciting world of HTML5." I have read this book and worked through the exercises. I commend it to all Dot Net Web developers ......
At https://tabledemo.codeplex.... I have created a new open-source project of an MVC form to produce by selection from drop-down lists, the CSS to style a table and a demonstration table. Here is a rather garish example of what can be achieved.Here is a more tasteful table achieved again by just simple selection of properties. This will be the 0.9.1 version that I will shortly load up to CodePlex ......
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