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How do you manage your programming books between home and work? Do you carry all your books between the two or do you exclusively make use of e-books at one of the locations?
Started by sduplooy on
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I usually buy a 'real' book if I'm going to read it cover from cover, but I can access it from anywhere been a while since I read a book....
But that's just personal preference
I find Safari Books a big help.
To use a physical book.
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If you are into books go to archive.org
internet archive: digital library of free books, movies, music
All I can say about this site is
Started by ronsworks on
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Is the quality? I have being spending all my time in the book section
But some of those old movie could.
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I am having a few issues with what is probably a reasonably simple SQL statement - unfortunately, my skills don't go as far as this and I can't get my head round it!
I have, for example, the following tables:
booking_record client Booking record may have...
Started by djfrear on
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Select c.title, c.initial, c.surname, c.labelno, c.email from client c where exists (select * from booking_record where labelno=c.labelno and bookingdate between @start1 and @end1) and not exists (select * from booking_record where labelno....
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The iPhone SDK 3.0 has been in beta for a few months, so I would think that by now there would be some good reference/tutorial material floating around in the form of e-books (it may be a little too early for print books).
So far, I only came across iPhone...
Started by Philippe Leybaert on
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Yes, there is a BETA book (and eBook) you can already the iPhone 3.0 update the NDA is officially....
Development community in the Phoenix area, and has been working hard on this book in addition to creating and updating apps for the AppStore.
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I'm interested in purchasing an e-book reader, mainly for reading programming related e-books.
Up until now, e-book readers seemed to have a pretty bad reputation. I wonder if this situation has changed and anyone had any good experience with any of them...
Started by Pop Catalin on
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Common netbook screen resolution of 1024 x 600 is good for comfortable reading for the same reason, and had... .
Instead look at any of the netbook type laptop PCs avaialable with dedicated e-book readers.
Don't buy a dedicated e-book reader.
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Suppose you have a book on a programming language and are trying to learn the language. You want to write the code that is given in the book in so you can learn by example while you read. But you hate holding the book on your lap and trying to type at...
Started by Joel Marcey on
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Once you buy a holder for a book and put it next to your monitor" and putting your arms on top of the pages....
I went does make a ton of difference...
Try a PDF edition of your books
An Amazon Kindle.
The web is the best book holder.
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Books, Books, Books I am a keen reader/collector of books, and i was wondering what do you all read?
I generally read across the spectrum, and have a bad habit of buying all the books of author's that i enjoy, from Asimov, to Clancy, to Raymond E. Feist...
Started by Nanfeishen on
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I hated reading on my 5th book in the past month....
Dont think i ever read a book at school.
Wanted to buy steve waugh's book when it was released, but never got around to it.
Just r.branson, d.trump type books.
I dont read much.
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I was wondering if the current generation of e-book readers (like the Kindle, or Sony's Reader) are big/high-res enough that you can comfortably use them for large paper-size PDFs, like most programming and other technical books? I've bought a few PDF...
Started by odd parity on
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The prs505 has a book mark feature harder than with a paper book)..
Is that you can't jump around as easily as you can in a paper book.
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I've bought "Programming Ruby" from Pragmatic Programmers (still in beta), but friends say that "The Ruby Way" is much better. Should I buy it or wait for Ruby 1.9 books?
Started by lucashungaro on
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Probably best to go ahead and buy the recommended book, this video will give some ideas safest to get the Ruby 1.8 book, learn the stable version of the environment, and if you find It's an excellent reference book for either version....
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New Ipad app for Interactive books. Enter code R3420 for FREE book! books-worth-reading
Started by Jenny Craig on
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