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Free Web Ops & DevOps Ebooks from O'Reilly

IT Publisher O'Reilly is offering a large bunch of ebooks free with sign up for their email list.  Featuring 20 titles in Operations and 11 in Culture / DevOps and scroll down to the bottom of the page for even more categories.

http://www.oreilly.com/webops/free/?cmp=tw-webops-free-lp-vlca17_free_report_ac

Introducing Windows 8 - Free EBook from Microsoft Press

Microsoft Press is offering a free ebook preview to "Introducing Windows 8: An Overview for IT Professionals."  This is the first 11 chapters of the book available as a .pdf file.

Free Inbox and To Do Management Guide (Kindle Ebook)

Free Kindle book on email and To Do list management: "Bit Literacy: Productivity in the Age of Information" by Mark Hurst. 

This has over 130 reviews giving an average of 4 1/2 stars.

 

Free Book - What's New in Java 7

Here is a small freebie from O'Reilly that gives an overview of new features in Java 7.  Here is the blurb from the publisher:

Java 7 has a number of features that will please developers. Madhusudhan Konda provides an overview of these, including strings in switch statements, multi-catch exception handling, try-with-resource statements, the new File System API, extensions of the JVM, support for dynamically-typed languages, and the fork and join framework for task parallelism.

 

Free HTML 5 ebook from O'Reilly

Publisher O'Reilly is giving away this tech book on HTML5 by Brett McLaughlin.  It's normally a 99 cent title so I expect it is a short book.

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Free Linux eBook Ubuntu Apps

I found this goody on Slickdeals.net - a free eBook on Ubuntu Linux.  According to the site the eBook is about the best applications for Ubuntu, and also has a lot of general tips.  The print version of the book is also available from Amazon.

A free Linux application & tip book for Ubuntu. (PDF)

http://www.ubuntuapps.org