There used to be a time where I would spend nearly a thousand dollars a year buying technical books to help me with my programming skills. But no more.
Over the course of the last two years I’ve transitioned from buying that technical book from my local bookstore or even online at Amazon or Chapters to using O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online service. Before I get into the why I’ve changed my book buyin
g habit, first let me introduce Safari Books Online.
Safari bills itself as the “e-preference library for programmers and IT professionals”. O’Reily Media has brought together some 27 publishing companies including O’Reilly, Sams, Prentice Hall, Que, Addison-Wesley, Microsoft, Adobe etc. into Safari to provide their books to members who pay a monthly or yearly fee. (more…)
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Mashable is reporting that “Network Solutions and ICANN Named in Class Action Lawsuit”. It’s about time. My business partner and I were victims of this dubious practice by Network Solutions not too long ago. It cost us money. At this time as each domain we have left on Network Solutions comes up for renewal we’ve been transferring them to my Go Daddy reseller service Cheap Available Domains.
“Just a few days ago, according to reports from Ars Technica, a panel put Network Solutions up for questioning for allegations of domain frontrunning. Frontrunning is the practice in which users would look up a domain name via the registration-site WHOIS, and would appear available, but every other internet registrar would show the names as unavailable, and registered to Network Solutions, thus forcing the user to purchase the domain from them.”
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I just checked and it’s been nearly five and months since I posted on this blog other than one recent post which I removed as it’s not relevant to this blog. So starting today I’m going to try and make an effort to post more often and share my ideas and comment on some of my favourite topics. And as you can see I’ve updated the look of the blog, giving it a cleaner look.
So what’s kept me so busy that I’ve no time to blog?
As some of you know I spend most of time working on projects for the two companies and one organization I founded. So here’s a rundown of what I’ve been doing for each.
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