pragmatic programmers have new payment options.

Posted in Programming, Prototype, Rails, Web Development on August 8th, 2008 by Shaun

Anyone involved in software development would have, at some time, heard of the pragmatic programmers series of books.

The books have a superb approach learning that makes it very easy indeed to grasp the concepts they are imparting.

Their website contains their entire print catalogue ready for order and as well as the paper version of the book you can download PDF versions that are specially crafted just for you, imprinted with your own personal monogram (OK it’s your name) by a team of gerbils no less…

You can also buy beta versions of books giving you the chance to read them as they are being written. With regular updates you can get ahead of the game on the very latest versions of your chosen tipple. there are lots of Ruby books as well and some very good career development titles.

Payment choices are Credit card and now they also have PayPal as a choice if you don’t have a credit card or just prefer to handle your purchases through Paypal.

Prices are very reasonable and you get a discount if you buy the paper plus PDF version of a book so you can have a handy reference version in your pocket as well as a copy to read on the train… cool!

so pop on over and take a look at what they have got.

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Free Extracts From Mastering Dojo.

Posted in Ajax, Interesting and Entertaining, Web Development on May 12th, 2008 by Shaun

ajaxian have managed to get hold of some free chapters from a new book being produced by the Pragmatic Programmers. There are two chapters to download and they are pretty good. The first chapter hits on the DOM API’s and uses a specific challenge to walk through and expose us to dojo.query and class addition, the second chapter is Ajax the Dojo way which exposes us to dojo.data and dojo.grid.

The book is in Beta and as with all the Pragmatic programmers books you can buy the beta and get updates all the way up to the final publication.

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