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December, 2008
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Sunday, December 14th, 2008Cheap books
Thursday, December 11th, 2008There’s a cheap bookshop at the end of the Devonshire tunnel near Central station. They seem to specialise in books that are close to end of life (i.e. the book covers the previous version of … or the title just didn’t sell well). A couple of guys from work went there at lunch to get some books. The store rarely has books I’m after so I decided to skip the trip. After seeing what they returned with and how much paid I stopped in on the way home and picked up the following Apress titles:
- Beginning Java SE 6 Platform
- Pro Apache Struts with Ajax
- The Definitive Guide to Grails
- Begining EJB 3 Application Development
- Begining JBoss Seam
- Begining J2ME Platform
Total cost: < $40
I’m still trying to decide exactly which Java framework I’m going to use but at these prices I thought I’d pick up the books for all the frameworks they had. It’s a shame they didn’t have anything about Spring and that Theo got the last one about Hibernate.
Perl 6 & testing Perl on Windows
Friday, December 5th, 2008I’ve been at the Open Source Developers Conference for the last couple of days. Late this afternoon Adam Kennedy made two major announcements about Perl:
- The first Perl 6 distribution (it’s still Beta) was created at 5am this morning. A CD with the distribution burnt on it was presented to Larry Wall who was the keynote speaker on Thursday. Just prior to the announcement he said the beta would be publicly available later this month with the final Perl 6 expected at Christmas 2009.
- Microsoft is providing hosted access to all supported versions of Windows for everyone with an @cpan.org address so they can test their modules.
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