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Engineering Software For Accessibility

Admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:39:21 +0000

Free eBook “Engineering Software For Accessibility” from Microsoft Press. You can download it in pdf or doc formats. It descibes how to engineer your software for accessibility, including a detailed explaination on designing the Windows Automation API. Understand the basics of accessibility, UI Automation, and how it applies to your product, Create your specifications to ensure that you are meeting common accessibility requirements, Determine when to utilize common controls and platform resources and how to make custom controls accessible.
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Free Windows 7 eBook: Windows 7: A Beginner’s Guide

Admin — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:36:11 +0000

Free eBook “Windows 7: A Beginner’s Guide” from The Windows Club. Topics: A Brief History, Choosing the right version, Installation & Upgrade, Understanding the new style, Management & Networking, Security & Maintenance, MultiMedia & Gaming, Windows Live & Microsoft Security Essentials.
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Free eBook: Practical symfony

Admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:31:35 +0000

The “Practical symfony” book shows you all it takes to build up a complete and effective application from scratch. Definitely the best way to learn symfony. This book is based on the Jobeet tutorial. This free ebook contains 24 tutorials of 1 hour each, that’s all it takes to build up a complete and effective application from scratch. Definitely the best way to become a good symfony developer!.
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The symfony Reference Guide

Admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:17:14 +0000

Download “The symfony Reference Guide” for free in pdf format or read it online. The Symfony Reference Guide is a book where you can easily find answers to your questions at your fingertips. This is a book you will keep with you whenever you develop with symfony. This is a book you will keep with you whenever you develop with symfony. This book is the fastest way to find every available configuration thanks to a very detailed table of contents, an index of terms, cross-references inside the chapters, tables, and much more. Despite being the lead developer of symfony, I still use this book from time to time to look for a particular configuration setting, or just browse the book to re-discover some great tips.
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Doctrine ORM for PHP

Admin — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:55:45 +0000

Free eBook “Doctrine ORM for PHP”. The Guide to Doctrine for PHP is the main source of documentation for the project. It is a reference book that can be read from start to finish and provides dozens of practice exercises that can be executed by the user.
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Free eBook: Introduction to Information Retrieval

Admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:16:39 +0000

Free book “Introduction to Information Retrieval” by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze. Class-tested and coherent, this groundbreaking new textbook teaches web-era information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text classification and text clustering from basic concepts. Written from a computer science perspective by three leading experts in the field, it gives an up-to-date treatment of all aspects of the design and implementation of systems for gathering, indexing, and searching documents; methods for evaluating systems; and an introduction to the use of machine learning methods on text collections. All the important ideas are explained using examples and figures, making it perfect for introductory courses in information retrieval for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science.
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Free online book: Thinking Networks

Admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:10:03 +0000

Free online book “Thinking Networks - the Large and Small of it: Autonomic and Reasoning Processes for Information Networks” by Kieran Greer. This book describes different aspects of knowledge-based networks and is both important and timely for future Internet/mobile-based information networks. This book combines Artificial Intelligence, service-based systems and distributed knowledge management. It hopes to give a broad overview and introduction to various aspects of related networks, describing existing mechanisms for representing and using such systems. After reading this book the reader should have a good idea of the sort of systems and algorithms that can be used to organise and use knowledge in today’s world and where we might be going to in the future.
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Free SitePoint eBook: Build Your Own Firefox Extension

Admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:55:50 +0000

Free eBook “Build Your Own Firefox Extension” from SitePoint. One of the main reasons for the explosive and continued popularity of Firefox is its framework for custom extensions. What many web developers don’t realise is that they’re so easy to create and implement — anyone with a minimal understanding of JavaScript and XML can build a Firefox extension. After reading Build Your Own Firefox Extension, you’ll be able create simple Firefox extensions with extremely powerful functionality.
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Free eBook: The Art of Community

Admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:54:38 +0000

Free eBook “The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation” By Jono Bacon from O’Reilly. In The Art of Community you’ll experience the broad range of talents required to recruit members, motivate them, manage them, and make them happy to be part of your community. Bacon takes you through the different stages of community and covers the information you’ll need, ranging from software tools to conflict resolution skills. Topics include: Sustainable processes for management, Tools and infrastructure, Building buzz, Measuring aspects of community success, Conflict management, Handling live events and Scaling the community.
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Free Online Book: My Digital Footprint

Admin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:50:28 +0000

Free online book “My Digital Footprint: a two-sided digital business model where your privacy is someone else’s business!” By Tony Fish. This is a book about footprints – digital footprints to be precise. For the most part, unlike footprints in the sand, digital footprints are largely invisible and are about where we have been, for how long, how often and the inter-relationships. Digital footprints are a capture of memories and moments and are built from your interactions with mobile, web and TV. Digital footprints are not about your identity, your passport or bank account.
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