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Due to the number of books to review, some of our reviewers are unable to cope with more than one book reviews at any one time. For that reason, one of our reviewers in London is looking to hand a C# book to anyone in London who is ready to read and keep the book. You only need to provide the book review. Please note that all the books we issue out to reviewers are for them to keep, yes to keep forever :-). All we ask of you is to provide well balanced reviews. The Book: C# for Java Developers by Allen Jones and Adam Freeman. If you think you can review this material, or would like to join the book review team, please get into with us. There are ways to keep tab on the news from the team.- Register to join the book review team.
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Latest Dispatched Books
Materials marked subscriber-only books are available to registered subscribers to the Book Review team. For information about subscribing to the Book Review team, click here. If you are already a subscriber and you wish to review a book listed on the newsletter, please contact us. Selected subscribers to the book review team have been assigned the following to review:Please ensure your postal address is correct. Andrew Troelsen: Pro C# 2008 and the .NET 3.5 Platform
Anthony T. Holdener, III: Ajax: The Definitive Guide
iPhone Open Application Development: Rough Cuts Version
Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari: C# 3.0 Pocket Reference, Second Edition
Enterprise Application Development with Flex
David Pogue, Derrick Story: iPhoto '08: The Missing Manual
David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto The Ruby Programming Language
William Steinmetz, Brian Ward: Wicked Cool PHP
Derek DeVries, Mike Naberezny: Rails for PHP Developers
Tommy Olssen, Paul O'Brien: The Ultimate CSS Reference (Hard Cover)
Ubuntu Live 2008
The second Ubuntu Live conference will be taking place July 21-22 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon.
Ubuntu Live is a vibrant and important gathering of IT professionals, government and business leaders, educators, community leaders, enterprise and business users. The conference brings together the people who deploy and manage Ubuntu in organizations, companies offering services and solutions based on Ubuntu, customers of those services, users of Ubuntu, and the folks who build Ubuntu and other key open source software. More...
QCon London 2008
Skills Matter is a proud sponsor of QCon London 2008! QCon London 2008 is an Enterprise Software Development Conference, providing a venue for learning, networking, and tracking innovation in Java, .Net, Ruby, SOA, Languages of tomorrow, Banking Architectures, Agile, Scrum and Software Architecture and Design. It is the ultimate conference for technical team leads, architects, project managers, and software generalists. The event will feature 2 tutorial days, March 10-11th, 2008, followed by three full conference days, March 12-14th, 2008, with multiple tracks and talks from over 70 industry experts and thought leaders in the enterprise software development community. More...
Auto-Magic Web Apps Built with AppThena
Join Richard Gemmell for JAVAWUG BOF 34 on the 12th of Febuary, where he will discuss Auto-Magic Web Applications - How to build a Web App in 1 minute with AppThena.
Web applications are now pretty well understood, so why do we still need to put so much effort into building them? Even the latest generation of tools such as Hibernate and Spring haven't cut the cost of development enough to make them affordable to small businesses. During this talk, Richard proposes that once we have a data model, much of the work that goes into a web application can be done auto-magically. This allows us to build applications in a very different way. Instead of gluing pieces together until we have a finished application, why not start with a complete but basic application and then add the unique behaviour that we need? If you build web applications and have ever had to explain to your boss or the customer that "these things take time" then you'll enjoy this talk.
Participation is free for those who register
Core JSF: JavaServer Faces in Action
Join Kito Mann for this Skills Matter, In-the-Brain Session on Ajax and JSF on Tuesday, 19th February at 18:30.
With the emergence of AJAX as a preferred way of building web user interfaces, JavaServer Faces (JSF) has proved itself to be a natural fit for integrating AJAX with Java sever-side logic. JSF allows you to build AJAX applications without worrying about the complexities of JavaScript and DHTML. However, many different approaches for using AJAX with JSF have emerged. This session looks at these different approaches, the pros and cons, and provides key insight into JSF's future as an AJAX web development platform.
ApacheCon Europe '08
The world of Apache commnunity is coming back to Europe, this time, its the beautiful Netherlands again.
ApacheCon is a week of open source goodness straight from the source of the Apache Software Foundation, featuring 15 intense training classes over two days followed by three days of more than 50 sessions by the creators of open source software such as the Apache webserver, Tomcat, Lucene, Wicket and more.
Don't get me wrong, there are times when I can positively recommend a book or resource based on the area or domain that you are interested in. For example, I'm currently reading the Definitive Guide to SQLite, to write my first database app, you might want to pick up wxPython in Action if you're going to start writing wxPython GUIs; or Python & XML if you're doing XML work; etc. The reason for this exception is to help you to narrow you search and effort to a domain-specific area. Apart from that, I will not recommend any book as we all learn differently.
