Packt’s celebrates 10 years with a special $10 offer

This month marks 10 years since we embarked on our mission to deliver effective learning and information services to IT professionals. To celebrate this huge milestone, we are offering ALL of our eBooks and Videos at just $10 each for 10 days – this promotion covers every title and you can stock up on as many copies as you like until July 5th. More information about the deal can be found below in a press release from Packt. To skip right to the deals, click here : http://bit.ly/ashjswl10

Some of the categories you can choose the books from:

• Application Development
• Big Data and Business Intelligence
• Business Skills
• CMS and eCommerce
• Enterprise Products and Platforms
• Game Development
• Instant
• Mobile Application Development
• Networking and Servers
• Video
• Virtualization and Cloud
• Web Development

Anyway, just a few day’s left to get some of the 2000 good books for a low price.

Review for Managing Windows Servers with Chef

I was recommended ManagingWindows Servers with Chef by a marketing professional at Packt. Would like to share my thoughts on this.

This book has practical examples that will help you to deploy software with ease. After going through the examples you can develop and test recipes for multiple platforms and will also let you manage Windows hosts. This book treated me with great introduction of how to use Chef which helped me understand how to take advantage of it when I am managing my infrastructure.

I recommend it to all system administrators with some exposure to Chef and who are familiar with programming or scripting languages. It will be helpful if you are interested in managing Windows-based systems using Chef. 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 High Availability: Review

A very well structured good. It shows readers the importance of high availability and resilience. The book is packed with diagrams and scenarios that will help readers use the monitoring features of Exchange 2013.

http://www.packtpub.com/microsoft-exchange-2013-high-availability/book

The book covers basic aspects such as roles, components, and features, as well as advanced aspects such as load balancing, site resilience, and public folders.

The book explains core concepts of MS Exchange in a very intuitive way. Great book to have if you want to understand basic administrative and configuring tasks involving MS Exchange server earn to successfully design, configure, and maintain a highly available Exchange 2013 environment by going through different examples and real-world scenarios.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone.

Review for Getting Started with CreateJS

This is a definitive guide for anyone who is planning to use the prolific CreateJS suite to develop compelling web applications.

It is a for one planning to use the CreateJS to develop web applications. The book contains many screenshots that are highly useful for a web developer. Really helpful for how to create your first working web application which visually impressive. Afshin has a great way to explain how to think about CreateJS.

The book creates a fictitious application that helps its readers implement the features. I'm one of those guys who likes work with the book, so that boosted my understanding big time.

Worth Buying it: http://www.packtpub.com/getting-started-with-createjs/book

Packt celebrates International Day Against DRM

Packt Publishing firmly believes that you should be able to read and interact with your content when you want, where you want, and how you want – to that end they have been advocates of DRM-free content since their very first eBook was published back in 2004.

To show their continuing support for Day AgainstDRM, Packt Publishing is offering all its DRM-free content at $10 for 24 hours only on May 6^th – that’s all 2000+ eBooks and Videos at www.packtpub.com. 

“Our top priority at Packt has always been to meet the evolving needs of developers in the most practical way possible, while at the same time protecting the hard work of our authors. DRM-free content continues to be instrumental in making that happen, providing the flexibility and freedom that is essential for an efficient and enhanced learning experience. That’s why we’ve been DRM-free from the beginning – we’ll never put limits on the innovation of our users.”  

– Dave Maclean, Managing Director

Advocates of Day Against DRM are invited to spread the word and celebrate on May 6^th by exploring the full range of DRM-free content at www.packtpub.com, where all eBooks and Videos will be $10 for 24 hours.

Review for ''Learning Geospatial Analysis with Python''

I recommend this book to all those interested in getting a startup with background in understanding Geospatial Analysis.There are few simple Python examples also that says how Python can be used.I think this is a tutorial-style book that helps you how to use Python in geospatial analysis, from a basic start to a quite advanced and complicated level.

read more here : http://www.packtpub.com/learning-geospatial-analysis-with-python/book

Packt's Celebrates Their 2000th Title With an Exclusive Offer

Packt Publishing celebrates their 2000th title with an exclusive offer - We've got IT covered!

Known for their extensive range of pragmatic IT ebooks, Packt Publishing are celebrating their 2000th book title `Learning Dart’– they want their customers to celebrate too.

To mark this milestone Packt Publishing will launch a ‘Buy One Get One Free’ offer across all eBooks on March 18th – for a limited period only. 

`Learning Dart’ was selected as a title and published by Packt earlier this year. As a project that aims to revolutionise a language as crucial as JavaScript, Dart is a great example of an emerging technology which aims to support the community and their requirement for constant improvement. The content itself explains how to develop apps using Dart and HTML5 in a model-driven and fast-paced approach, enabling developers to build more complex and high-performing web apps.

David Maclean, Managing Director explains `It’s not by chance that this book is our 2000th title. Our customers and community drive demand and it is our job to ensure that whatever they’re working on, Packt provides practical help and support.

At Packt we understand that sometimes our customers want to learn a new programming language pretty much from scratch, with little knowledge of similar language concepts. Other times our customers know a related language fairly well and therefore want a fast-paced primer that brings them up to a competent professional level quickly.

That’s what makes Packt different: all our books are specifically commissioned by category experts, based on intensive research of the technology and the key tasks.’

Since 2004, Packt Publishing has been providing practical IT-related information that enables everyone to learn and develop their IT knowledge, from novice to expert.  

Packt is one of the most prolific and fast-growing tech book publishers in the world. Originally focused on open source software, Packt contributes back into the community paying a royalty on relevant books directly to open source projects. These projects have received over $400,000 as part of Packt’s Open Source Royalty Scheme to date.

Their books focus on practicality, recognising that readers are ultimately concerned with getting the job done. Packt’s digitally-focused business model allows them to quickly publish up-to-date books in very specific areas across a range of key categories – web development, game development, big data, application development, and more. Their commitment to providing a comprehensive range of titles has seen Packt publish 1054% more titles in 2013 than in 2006.

Erol Staveley, Publisher, says `Recent research shows that 88% of our customers are very satisfied with the service knowing that we offer a wide breadth of titles in a timely manner, and owing to the quality of service that they receive 94% of customers are willing to recommend Packt to friends and family. It’s great that we’ve hit such a significant milestone, and we want to continue delivering this fantastic content to our customers.’

Here are some of the best titles across Packt's main categories - but Buy One, Get One Free will apply across all 2000 titles:

·         Web Development

·         Big Data & Cloud

·         Game Development

·         App Development