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APress Deal of the Day 2/June/2013 - HTML5 Programming for ASP.NET Developers

2013-06-02T09:10:0801:00:00

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430247197 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 this morning, but has now gone to the full price of $31.99 and back to $10!)

APress Deal of the Day 24/May/2013 - A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0

2013-05-24T08:50:1201:00:00

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430245933 is "A Programmer's Guide to C# 5.0"

"A Programmer’s Guide to C# takes you deep into the C# language, showing you the details of how the language works and explaining why it works the way it does."

APress Deal of the Day 22May/2013 - Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework

2013-05-22T06:22:0601:00:00

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430242338 is Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Framework

"This new edition of Pro C# 5.0 and the .NET 4.5 Platform has been completely revised and rewritten to reflect the latest changes to the C# language specification and new advances in the .NET Framework. You'll find new chapters covering the important new features that make .NET 4.5 the most comprehensive release yet."

APress Deal of the Day 21/May/2013 - Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012

2013-05-21T19:03:4901:00:00

Today's $10 Deal of the Day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430243441 is Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012

"Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012 focuses on the most powerful application lifecycle management tool available for the Microsoft .NET Framework: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server."

APress Deal of the Day 17/May/2013 - Pro HTML5 with Visual Studio 2012

2013-05-17T08:40:3301:00:00

Today's $10 deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430246381 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. "

APress Deal of the Day 25/Apr/2013 - The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

2013-04-25T15:05:2601:00:00

Today's $10 Deal of the day from APress at http://www.apress.com/9781430231356 is The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7

"The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7 is the most comprehensive book for getting sites done using the powerful and extensible Drupal content management system. It offers everything you need to know about Drupal in one book."

Check your browser plug-ins!

2013-04-22T18:32:2901:00:00

We should be used to:

Keeping Anti-Virus signatures up to date
Running Windows Update
Keeping other programs up to date

However you should also keep your browser plug-ins up to date. For Firefox, see https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

Is your browser HTML5 compatible!

2013-04-22T15:41:5801:00:00

Well the HTML5 specification is not finalised yet, but for the moving target that is what has been agreed, here are the results of some testing I did today using http://html5test.com/.

In fourth place was the Safari browser with 278 (+2 bonus) points out of 500. This surprised me!

In third place was Internet Explorer 10 with 320 (+ 6 bonus) points out of 500. Well good try Microsoft and keep up the good work.

In second place was Firefox with 394 (+10 bonus) out of 500.

In top place was Chrome with 468 (+13 bonus) points out of 500!

O'Reilly Deal of the Day to 23:59 PT April 19 2013 - Reader Favorites from Microsoft Press

2013-04-19T15:41:3401:00:00

At http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/msp-readers-favorites.do?code=WKMSFAV Microsoft Press are offering a 50% off deal on the top 25 E-Books until 23:59 PT April 19

Here are some the many excellent books on the list:

Review of Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

2013-04-19T15:21:5901:00:00

I wish this book had been available to me years ago when I was learning CSS. It is an excellent book for getting an initial grounding in the use of CSS. I would therefore recommend it to all starting out with HTML/CSS.

It is not a complete manual of CSS but it does provide the essential initial understanding. Any IT team wishing to retrain people into web applications, should use this book as a first step in the training process. By following the exercises, any developer should get the initial experience in the use of CSS to style HTML.

There are some typographic errors acknowledged in the errata and the published would be well advised to produce a corrected edition.

For further details about this book and to buy a copy, please see http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596101978.do