by Joey deVilla on May 16, 2011
It’s a work in progress, but it’s an important one: Manning Publications’ Natural User Interfaces in .NET, written by Joshua Blake. It’s a primer on creating natiral user interfaces — NUIs — using Microsoft technologies such as WPF 4, Surface 2 and Kinect.
Here’s an excerpt from the publisher’s description:
Natural User Interfaces in .NET is a hands-on guide that prepares you to create natural user interfaces (NUI) and great multi-touch experiences using the WPF and Silverlight multi-touch APIs. This book starts by introducing natural user interface (NUI) design concepts that everyone needs to know. It then quickly moves to the WPF Touch API and Surface Toolkit guiding the reader through a multitouch NUI application from concept to completion. Along the way, you’ll see where these concepts can be extended to Silverlight via its touch interface.
Today only — that’s May 16, 2011 — you can get the MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) preview PDFs, which are updated regularly and the final print edition of the book for a mere USD$25.00 (that’s $24.23 Canadian)! Just enter dotd0516 in the promotional code box when you check out at Manning’s site.
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by Joey deVilla on October 1, 2010
MEAP is short for “Manning Early Access Program”, a way for you to get an advance look at in-progress books by Manning Publications. Today only (Friday, October 1st), Manning’s .NET ebooks are going for half price! And yes, once the book is complete, you also get the final version of the book in ebook form.
Manning’s MEAP ebooks on .NET topics are:
- ASP.NET 4.0 in Practice
- Azure in Action
- C# in Depth, Second Edition
- Continuous Integration in .NET
- Dependency Injection in .NET
- Hello! Silverlight
- IronRuby in Action
- Microsoft Entity Framework in Action
- Multitouch on Windows
- SharePoint 2010 Site Owner’s Manual
- SharePoint 2010 Web Parts in Action
- SharePoint 2010 Workflows in Action
- SQL Server DMVs in Action
- Windows PowerShell in Action, Second Edition
All you have to do to get the discount is enter dotd1001 in the Promotion Code box when you check out. Now go get up to speed on some .NET topic and save money!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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by Joey deVilla on August 15, 2010
by Joey deVilla on August 11, 2010
Manning Publications’ deal of the day for today, Wednesday, August 11th, is 50% off the electronic and dead-tree versions of their Silverlight books:
Silverlight 4 in Action and Hello! Silverlight are “MEAP” books: that’s “Manning Early Access Program”, which gives you early access to preliminary versions of a book as it’s being written (and yes, the final version as well).
To get the discount, enter the discount code dotd0811 in the “Promotional Code” field when you check out.
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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by Joey deVilla on August 5, 2010
by Joey deVilla on December 21, 2009
I wanted to post this earlier, but a number of things, shopping included, conspired to keep me from blogging until just now.
If you’re reading this and it’s still December 21st, Manning Publications, publishers of fine books such as C# in Depth, Real-World Functional Programming, ASP.NET MVC in Action and The Art of Unit Testing and even a whole book on Dependency Injection (and yes, they have a lot of non-Microsoft books as well) is having a half-price off all ebooks sale – but only on Monday, December 21st, Use the discount code dotd1221 when you place your order and the books will be half price.
If it’s after December 21st but before the new year, Apress has a deal for you! If you order off their site and use the discount code APRESSHOLIDAYML, they’ll take 25% off your entire purchase.
If you’ve been holding off buying new geeks books and waiting for some deals, those deals are here!
This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.
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