Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

Nano2Sol is the online home of Marc Boucher an entrepreneur and application developer living in greater Vancouver, BC. I founded aTerra Technologies Corporation and Hyperix Search, Inc. and co-founded SpaceRef Interactive Inc. and the Mars Institute.

On this site I write about my various projects and share my thoughts on areas that interest me including, but not limited to, vertical search engines, cloud computing, social networking, Twitter, space exploration and the semantic web.

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Posts Tagged “O’Reilly Media”

Apr 21 2008

My Transition to Using O’Reilly Safari Online Books Service

Posted by: Marc Boucher in Random Thoughts

O’Reilly Logo 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 O’Reilly Safari Logo 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…)