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This Month's Free Book Giveaways

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Book Group
This Tuesday, 6/28, The Urban Readers book group meets to discuss Bernice McFadden's "This Bitter Earth." 7 p.m. 106 Court St. (718) 246-4996. Free....
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Free Download: "Jakarta Struts Live" E-Book
TheServerSide.com and SourceBeat Publications have made the book 'Jakarta-Struts Live', by Rick Hightower, available for free download in PDF format. The book covers the Struts MVC architecture, how to build each of the Struts components and shows you how to...
http://www.brokenrobot.org/archives/000860.html

Book Baton

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Chandler 0.5 Released
We've released Chandler 0.5. It focuses on building out some of the core calendaring functionality for supporting basic individual and collaborative calendaring tasks. Feel free to play with it, but PEASE NOTE IT'S NOT READY FOR REGULAR USE YET. NOT READY YET. NOT. (Am I afraid of this point...
http://blogs.osafoundation.org/mitch/000894.html

Win Free Airline Tickets on Priceline
Now through August 27th, when you book a flight on priceline, y'oull be eligible to win free airline tickets and a Grand Prize Cancun Vacation! 24 Lucky Travelers will win a pair of Free Airline Tickets, but only 1 will...
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'Last don' ends career on a low note

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Airtight
It occurs to me that Moebius' most excellent comic book Le garage hermétique [from which my workstation's hostname comes] has been canonically translated into English as the Airtight Garage, thus removing the implicit but probably evident reference to Hermes Trismegistus.

I also note the interesting fact that this picture appeared on my defunct blog some years ago, and comes probably from there :)

The Rails BetaBook is Ready
We’ve had an incredible response to the idea of releasing the Rails book early in beta form, so we’ve decided to go for it. Here’s the scoop.

You can now buy the book as either a PDF or as a PDF/Paper book combo. We’ll ship your PDF (in beta form) when we get your order. When the final book is available (currently aiming for the first week in August) we’ll automatically ship you the final copy of the PDF. If you ordered the Book+PDF combo pack, we’ll also ship you the paper book at that time. The price you pay now is the same as the price will be when the book is available, so by buying now you basically get early access to the book and then get the final version, all for the same price as you’d otherwise pay for just the final version.

The book is currently pretty much complete. It’s missing an index, and a couple of small sections on things that are still pending in Rails. Visually, it’s a mess. There are bad page breaks, over-long lines, and all sorts of other ugly things. We’ll get all that sorted out over the coming weeks.

Here are the links:

• Purchase the book+PDF combo pack (.75 plus shipping)
• Purchase the PDF (.50)
• The Beta Book FAQ (free :)

Enjoy!

New & Noteworthy - Book Auction

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