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[EN] Neverending free-ebook-story (part1)

Last Saturday I wrote about Deal of the Day {LINK} and four free books – arround security -  from Apress. Yesterday editor on WSS.pl portal (biggest IT Pro Community Portal in Poland) accepted my very old publication (from 2012… yes, 2012 year). Strangely this book was about security too, and it’s still available on another publisher site – O’Reilly:

By Mitch Tulloch
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Ebook: March 2012
Last update: May 2013
Link: http://oreil.ly/1akV5j7

I back to this shop, looked for my account and downloaded this book again. Near this position on site I found another one interesting book – not connected with Microsoft stuff.

By Kathy Walrath, Seth Ladd
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Ebook: March 2012
Pages: 20
Link: http://oreil.ly/1m52aqa

 

But of course I cannot keep this information privatelly: Those publications are still free and here is the full list (booklets):

By Kraig Brockschmidt
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Ebook: November 2012
Pages: 833
Link: http://oreil.ly/1hmHF8q

By Jerry Honeycutt
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Ebook: November 2012
Link: http://oreil.ly/1j5vz6J

 

By Ross Mistry, Stacia Misner
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Ebook: March 2012
Pages: 250
Link: http://oreil.ly/1eGdt7N

Last one (Introducing Windows Server 2012) has been replaced with new Windows Server 2012 R2 version.

By Mitch Tulloch
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Released: October 2013
Pages: 242
Link: http://oreil.ly/L7jpwa

Go, Log In, Buy for free and use in ePUB, mobi, PDF and Daisy formats.

PS. next post about books on Thursday – stay tuned!

[EN] Deal of the Day Extended Edition

Last Friday I bought interesting book about security in very good price: three digital formats (epub, mobi, pdf) for 0.00 USD. Delivered from aPress store to my computer.

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An I was very happy. But just only for one hour. I twitted about my hapiness and got message from aPress {TWITTER} that this is not the and and I can extend my hapiness… buying more book and still spending 0.00 USD. I cannot keep this information just for my (it’s not under NDA) especially that book came form different sections of ICT world.

All books are a little connected with thin-security line, but topics are different. This series called ApressOpen and full list available here.

And finally I ordered those books:

TouchDevelop 3rd Edition
R. Nigel Horspool, Nikolai Tillmann
TouchDevelop CoverWith all the people in the world who have only access to a smartphone but not a PC or a keyboard, creating a programming environment for developing in that environment became a reality with TouchDevelop from Microsoft Research.  This book is meant to be a handy reference to this unique programming environment.

Managing Risk and Information Security
Malcolm Harkins
Managing Risk and Information Security CoverThis ApressOpen book describes the changing risk environment and why a fresh approach to information security is needed.The book discusses business risk from a broad perspective, including privacy and regulatory considerations. It describes the increasing number of threats and vulnerabilities, but also offers strategies for developing solutions.

Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools
Rezaur Rahman
Intel� Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools CoverIntelXeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools CoverIntel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools: The Guide for Application Developers provides developers a comprehensive introduction and in-depth look at the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor architecture and the corresponding parallel data structure tools and algorithms used in technical computing applications.

Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms
William Futral, James Greene
Intel� Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms CoverThis book explains Intel Trusted Execution Technology for Servers, its purpose, application, advantages, and limitations and guides the server administrator / datacenter manager in enabling the technology as well as establishing a launch control policy that can be used to customize the server’s boot process to fit the datacenter’s requirements.

Some informations about books:
Touch Develop:
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-6136-0 | 270 Full Color Pages
User Level: Beginner to Advanced | Publication Date: June 1, 2013

Managing Risk and Information Security
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-5113-2 | 152 Pages
User Level: Beginner to Advanced | Publication Date: December 25, 2012
Intel® Xeon Phi™ Coprocessor Architecture and Tools
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-5926-8 | 232 Pages
User Level: Intermediate to Advanced | Publication Date: September 14, 2013
Intel® Trusted Execution Technology for Server Platforms
ISBN13: 978-1-4302-6148-3 | 156 Pages
User Level: Beginner to Advanced | Publication Date: September 28, 2013

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