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You can now subscribe to the digital editions of Microsoft MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb’s Journal for free. MSDN is primarily for programmers who are using Microsoft technologies while the Dr Dobb’s covers almost all languages and platforms.

Just login here using your Windows Live ID to subscribe to MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal Digital editions.

Read sample MSDN Magazine Sep 2007 issue here.

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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design.

This is a free version of the book which sells at Amazon for $32.00, it’s released by the author himself. Though the printed version contains more pages, soft copy has plenty of topics and examples too.

It is an intermediate-level book about interface and interaction design, structured as a pattern language. It features real-live examples from desktop applications, web sites, web applications, mobile devices, and everything in between.

Table of Contents

Overview
About the Book, Introduction, About Patterns

Organizing the Content
Two-Panel Selector, One-Window Drilldown, Wizard, Extras On Demand, Intriguing Branches

Getting Around
Clear Entry Points, Global Navigation, Color-Coded Sections, Animated Transition

Organizing the Page
Visual Framework, Center Stage, Titled Sections, Card Stack, Closable Panels, Movable Panels, Diagonal Balance, Responsive Disclosure, Responsive Enabling, Liquid Layout

Commands and Actions
Action Panel, Smart Menu Items, Progress Indicator, Multi-Level Undo, Command History

Showing Complex Data
Overview Plus Detail, Row Striping, Sortable Table, Jump to Item, Cascading Lists, Tree-Table

Getting Input From Users
Forgiving Format, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Input Hints, Input Prompt, Dropdown Chooser, Illustrated Choices, Good Defaults

Builders and Editors
Edit-in-Place, Smart Selection, Composite Selection, One-Off Mode, Constrained Resize

Making It Look Good
Deep Background, Few Hues Many Values, Corner Treatments

http://designinginterfaces.com/

This is one of those free books that are only free in their soft copy version. The hard copy costs $9.95.

Title: Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book – by Jeremy McAnally

It’s a book that will teach you Ruby programming. It has 144 pages. It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation.

It’s written in a conversational narrative rather than like a dry reference book, Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book is an easy to read, easy to follow guide to all things Ruby.

Table of contents

• 1 Welcome to Ruby

Basic Concepts of Ruby, Types in Ruby, Collections, Variables and the Like

• 2 Break it down now!

Methods, Blocks and Proc Objects, Modules, Files

• 3 Hustle and flow (control)

Conditionals, Loops, Exceptions

• 4 The System Beneath

Filesystem Interaction, Threads and Forks and Processes, Environment variables, command line, Win32 and Beyond

• 5 Looking Beyond Home

Networking and the Web, It’s Like Distributed or Something…, Data my base, please!

• 6 It’s a Library!

String Manipulation, Date/Time, Hashing and Cryptography, Unit testing

Appendix A Links and the Like
Appendix B High Performance Ruby with C/C++

Any programmers here? Or all are just online money making machines? ;)

Site: http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/ruby/
Download PDF: click here

Earlier Chitika organized an event called BlogBash – 30 days, 30 experts. In that event, they asked 30 expert bloggers to write posts on wide range of topics. And now after the event is complete, they have turned these 30 posts into free pdf eBook called: Deep secrets of successful blogging (learn from 30 experts).

One of the bloggers among them are Malaysia’s own LiewCF. He wrote a post titled: “Crossing the Chasm to going as a full time blogger“. Where he discusses how he quit his job and became a full-time blogger. Congrats to Liew on being a successful blogger.

Linux Kernel in a Nutshell was written by Greg Kroah-Hartman, published by O’Reilly. Greg the author of the book is giving away the PDF version of the book on his website for FREE (under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 license). That means that you are free to download and redistribute it.

The book is available for download in either PDF or DocBook format for the entire book, or by the individual chapter. The same book costs $23.09 at Amazon.

Download the book here: http://www.kroah.com/lkn/