Blog
Friday, April 13, 2007
ACM
A few months back, I blogged about ACM's deal with Safari and Books 24x7, where ACM members can access a subset of these online libraries. At the time, the book selection on both sites seemed to be a bit out of date. Well, they've updated the selection on both sites today, and there's definitely more useful stuff up there now. They've (finally) got some ASP.NET 2.0 stuff, including the "ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference" book by Dino Esposito, which is pretty useful. They even have some stuff on WCF and WPF.
The printing capabilities on Safari have gotten a bit more useful, too. I don't remember exactly how it used to work, but it's definitely easier to print a big chunk of text than it used to be.
I'm not sure that much has changed on the Books 24x7 site, though. I think there's more .Net 2.0 stuff than there used to be, but I did a search on "Vista" and found nothing at all, initially. That's not good. (I later found two Vista books that inexplicably did not show up when I searched for "vista".) The Safari site has about four Vista books, which is OK, but not great.
The printing capabilities on Safari have gotten a bit more useful, too. I don't remember exactly how it used to work, but it's definitely easier to print a big chunk of text than it used to be.
I'm not sure that much has changed on the Books 24x7 site, though. I think there's more .Net 2.0 stuff than there used to be, but I did a search on "Vista" and found nothing at all, initially. That's not good. (I later found two Vista books that inexplicably did not show up when I searched for "vista".) The Safari site has about four Vista books, which is OK, but not great.
Labels: books, programming
Comments:
Post a Comment
© 2011 Andrew Huey
