The 17 Days of Giveaways ran each weekday July 9-31. We gave
our fans eBooks, Amazon gift cards, and more.
Thank you to our fans, old and new, for participating. We hope that you had
fun. Thanks for all the retweets, blog posts, and Facebook likes. We’re so sad
we couldn’t give everyone a prize! Please sign up for our newsletter to stay updated on
our latest news and product offerings, and maybe some upcoming contests with
more opportunities to win!
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This is it – Day 17 of the 17 Days of Giveaways. For our final giveaway, three winners will each receive a
System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) Unleashed eBook by Kerrie Meyler, Byron Holt, Marcus Oh, Jason Sandys, and Greg Ramsey. This team of experts offers step-by-step coverage of related topics in every feature area, organized to help IT professionals rapidly optimize Configuration Manager 2012 for their requirements, and then deploy and use it successfully. The authors begin by introducing Configuration Manager 2012 and its goals, and explaining how it fits into the broader System Center product suite. Next, they fully address planning, design, and implementation. Finally, they systematically cover each of Configuration Manager 2012's most important feature sets, addressing issues ranging from configuration management to software distribution. Readers will learn how to use Configuration Manager 2012's user-centric capabilities to provide anytime/anywhere services and software, and to strengthen both control and compliance. The first book on Configuration Manager 2012, System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Unleashed joins Sams' market-leading series of books on Microsoft's System Center product suite: books that have achieved go-to status amongst IT implementers and administrators worldwide.
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Welcome to InformIT’s Microsoft week. Today three winners
will receive an ASP.NET
Dynamic Data Unleashed eBook by Oleg
Sych and Randy
Patterson. Using Dynamic Data, ASP.NET developers can create powerful,
datadriven sites with amazing speed and efficiency, eliminating massive amounts
of manual coding. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Unleashed is the first complete,
practical guide to Dynamic Data for every experienced ASP.NET developer.
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We have reached the end of yet another week of InformIT giveaways. We're wrapping up Mobile Programming week with a $25 Amazon gift card, which three lucky winners will receive! For our winners who missed out on this week's other giveaways, you might want to use that gift card for:
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Sams Teach
Yourself Windows Phone 7 Application Development in 24 Hours by Scott
Dorman, Kevin
Wolf, Nikita
Polyakov, Joe
Healy is today’s eBook giveaway. With a straightforward, step-by-step
approach, the authors will teach you how to develop Windows Phone 7
Applications in 24 one-hour lessons. A quiz is included at the end of each
chapter as a checkpoint. There are also notes, tips, and cautions throughout
the book to optimize your quick learning experience. You’ll learn the
fundamentals of Windows Phone 7 app development, how to leverage Silverlight or
the XNA Framework, and how to get your apps into the Windows Marketplace. One
step at a time, you’ll master new features ranging from the new sensors to
using launchers and choosers. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already
learned, helping you get the job done fast—and get it done right!
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For the
twelfth day of giveaways, we are giving three winners an eBook copy of iOS
Prgramming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, 3E by Joe
Conway and Aaron
Hillegass. These two instructors from the Big Nerd Ranch lead you through
the essential concepts, tools, and techniques for developing iOS applications
in this version updated and expanded to cover iOS 5 and Xcode 4.3.
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We’ve reached the end of
another week of giveaways. Today InformIT is giving three winners each an eBook of Elemental
Design Patterns by Jason
McC. Smith. In this book Jason addresses the difficulty that even
experienced software professionals face in applying patterns. He helps
developers, designers, architects, and analysts bring substantial value to
their organizations by teaching to use patterns in a variety of languages,
environments, and domains. The book is rich with examples in addition to being
a helpful tutorial. He helps developers harness the true power of patterns, map
them to real software implementations more cleanly and directly, and achieve
far better results.
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The Day 9
giveaway will add a nice touch to your bookshelf. We’re giving away sets of “GEEK” bookends from Etsy seller Knob Creek
Metal Arts. They are perfect for keeping your software engineering books
together!
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For Day 3
of Software Engineering Week, we are giving three winners an eBook copy of Disciplined
Agile Delivery: A Practitioner’s Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the
Enterprise by Scott
W. Ambler and Mark
Lines. Mark (@Mark_Lines)
concentrates on speeding execution and increasing quality in IT organizations
by using agile and lean techniques in his career. Scott (@scottwambler) works as a software
process improvement consultant. Together they teach the reader to supplement
Scrum with agile and lean strategies for a competitive advantage over traditional
approaches to building software. The goal of this book is to be an
indispensable resource for every enterprise software leader and practitioner, whether
they are seeking to optimize their existing agile/Scrum process or improve the
agility of an iterative process.
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Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples Using OSGi by
Kirk Knoernschild is today’s eBook giveaway. Knoernschild brings a one-of-a-kind perspective to Java application architecture, focusing on the way modularity will change the development of Java applications.
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