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Microsoft has just released the latest version of their operating system, Windows 7. We have a variety of learning products — from books to eBooks to video learning — that will make your transition to Windows 7 seamless!

7 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 7
Thinking of upgrading your Windows XP or Vista machine to Microsoft Windows 7? Michael Miller gives you seven good reasons why you should upgrade to Windows 7, no matter which version of Windows you're currently running.

Getting to Know the New Windows 7 Taskbar
One of the best new things about Windows 7 is its revamped Taskbar. Michael Miller walks you through all the new Taskbar features and shows you why it will make you more productive.

Tweaking the Windows 7 Registry
The secret to Windows 7's prodigious memory is the Registry—the central repository used to store anything and everything that applies to the configuration of your system. It's all stored in one central location, and thanks to a handy tool called the Registry Editor, it's yours to play with (carefully!) as you see fit—Paul McFedries explains how.

Free Lisp books

Practical Common Lisp
Unlike many other Lisp books, this one doesn't just touch on a few of Lisp's greatest features and then leave you on your own to actually use them. It covers all the language features you'll need to write real programs, and to developing nontrivial software. pdf version

Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp
This free online book is written with the professional programmer in mind. Using a hands on approach it introduces the ANSI Common Lisp standard. Practical examples of working code provide an in depth view of Common Lisp programming paradigms.

Common LISP, Second Edition : The Language
This is the Lisp programmers' bible. If you need to know the official specification, every function defined in Common Lisp can be found in here somewhere. It is not an introduction to programming in Lisp Common Lisp: The Language only offers the language specification.

On Lisp
On Lisp is a comprehensive study of advanced Lisp techniques. It gives the first complete description of macros and macro applications.

Lisp Primer
This free online Lisp book covers topics: LISt Processing, Defining Lisp functions, Recursion and Iteration, Programming Techniques, Simple Data Structures in Lisp, Input and Output, Functions, Lambda Expressions, and Macros.

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Free Smalltalk books

Smalltalk by Example: The Developer's Guide
This free Smalltalk book covers the following topics: Handle errors using Smalltalk's handling mechanism, Change procedural code into object-oriented code, Write multithreaded applications with semaphores and mutexes, Use the Model View Controller paradigm to split applications into pieces that each focus on the domain problem and user interaction.

Smalltalk With Style
This free pdf book covers layout and structure, comments, code formatting, software reuse and overall program structure, reliability and portability, tips, tricks, and traps.

Inside Smalltalk (Volume One)
This free textbook provides an intro to the object-oriented programming language Smalltalk-80, with an emphasis on classes, subclassing, inheritance and message passing.

Inside Smalltalk (Volume Two)
This an exploration of the Smalltalk system as a powerful and efficient prototyping and development environment.

A Little Smalltalk
This is a wonderfull little book that not only introduces the reader to object-oriented programming, but also describes the implementaion of a SmallTalk-like language.

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Free Ruby books

Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book
It covers the base syntax of the language, including working with values, flow control, and object oriented programming, into some of the library functionality of Ruby, such as databases, web services, and string manipulation. Download the free Ruby book in pdf format.

Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
This is just a small Ruby book. It won't crush you. It's light as a feather. And there's a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.

Learn To Program
Chris Pine's book will teach you how to program using Ruby. You'll learn to use your computer better, to get it to do what you want it to do. Starting with small, simple one-line programs to calculate your age in seconds, you'll see how to advance to fully structured, real programs. You'll learn the same technology used to drive modern dynamic websites and large, professional applications.

Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
A guide to working with the object-oriented programming language, Ruby, which allows for programming without extra syntax or code. Shows how to easily mine the Ruby language, teaching the basics, plus how to write large programs, how to extend Ruby using C code, and more.

Ruby Cookbook (PLEAC-Ruby)
Following the Perl Cookbook spirit, the PLEAC Project aims to gather fans of programming, in order to implement the solutions in other programming languages. In this document, you'll find an implementation of the Solutions of the Perl Cookbook in the Ruby language.

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Free Project Management Books and Online Project Management Training

The Principles Of Project Management
Every project you manage will be unique. Scope, budgets, team dynamics, and timeframes will differ. As a project manager, the most important factor in achieving project success will be your understanding of 'The Principles Of Project Management'. This book will show you that project management isn't rocket science. (For visitors from USA, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom only.)

Fundamentals of Project Management

Clear and down-to-earth, this step-by-step guide explains how to effectively spearhead every stage of a project from developing the goals and objectives to managing the project team and make project management work in any company. This updated second edition includes: New material on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). Do's and don'ts of implementing scheduling software. Coverage of the PMP certification offered by the Project Management Institute. Updated information on developing problem statements and mission statements. Techniques for implementing today's project management technologies in any organization in any industry. You are required to sign in before you can download this free ebook. Registration is free.

Project Management and Programme Management

Free online project managment book by Simon Wallace. Topics covered: Project Definition, Benefit Tracking, Planning, Estimating, Resourcing and Mobilisation, Project Structure & Organisation, Control & Reporting, Documentation Control, Risk Management, Issue Management, Scope & Change Control, Configuration Management, Team Building, Collaboration & Communication, Quality Management, Quality Audit, Subcontractor and Contract Management, Automated Project Management Tools, Project Office, Procurement, Accounting and Financial Control, Organisational Change, Communication.

Project Management Book
Free online project managment book by Michael Harding Roberts. Topics covered: Introduction and Principles, Projects and Stages, Roles and Responsibilities, Project Definition, Risk Management, Estimating, Planning, Stage Agreement, Project Support, Tracking, Controlling and Reporting, Change and Issue Management, Quality Management, Stage and Project End, Project Management Routemap.

Project Management Guidebook
This free project management book provides a practical approach to what many consider a complex process: the management of projects. This Guidebook is designed to simplify the management processes required to manage a project successfully from end to end. It defines Project Management in simple terms and provides you with all of the documentation tools required to make your project a success.

A Project Management Primer
Free ebook A Project Management Primer or "a guide to making projects work (v2.0)" by Nick Jenkins. topics covered: Basic Principles, Scope, Planning, Execution and Implementation.

Free Hardware books

Upgrading and Repairing PCs 16th Edition

Upgrading and Repairing PCs (6th-16th editions) book is available in pdf format free of charge from informIT. Upgrading and Repairing PCs is the runaway best-selling PC hardware book of all time and one of the best-selling computer books ever! This 16th Edition is loaded with the most up-to-date hardware information anywhere. You need to register/login at informIT.com first before you can access this free resource.

The Secret Guide to Computers
Learn about all of the parts of your computer and what they do. Use the buyer's guide to discover how to buy a great computer cheaply. Find out what to look for in a system and compare different brands.

How To Build A Computer
This free ebook includes sections: Choosing the parts, Assembling the Computer, Choosing and installing the computer's software, Optimizing and Overclocking Your New Computer and Conclusion.

How To Buy The Perfect Computer
Get educated on how to make the right decision on your next computer purchase.

How It Works...The Computer
This book was published in 1971, and the revised edition was published in 1979.

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Free Security books

Intrusion Detection with SNORT
This free book explains and simplifies every aspect of deploying and managing Snort in your network. Includs custom scripts to integrate Snort with Apache, MySQL, PHP, and ACID so you can build and optimize a complete IDS solution in record time.

Open Source Security Tools
Free ebook Open-Source Security Tools is a practical, hands-on introduction to open-source security tools.

Firewalls and Internet Security
Firewalls and Internet Security: Repelling the Wily Hacker gives invaluable advice and practical tools for protecting our computers. You will learn how to plan and execute a security strategy that will thwart the most determined and sophisticated of hackers, while still allowing your company easy access to Internet services.

The Hacker Crackdown
The Hacker Crackdown is about far more than a series of police sting operations. It's a lively tour of three cyberspace subcultures--the hacker underworld, the realm of the cybercops, and the idealistic culture of the cybercivil libertarians.

Rethinking Public Key Infrastructures and Digital Certificates
Proposes the use of digital certificates to ensure the privacy of electronic communications. Offers many explanations why this would be a good system to use instead of traditional signatures paper methods, and gives potential applications for the technology such as electronic postage and health care information storage.

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Free JavaScript books

The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks
Free 158 Page eBook. The JavaScript Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks is a collection of over 100 thoroughly-tested, customizable and elegant solutions that will show you how to add usable and accessible interactivity to your site: from slick drop-down menus, to style sheet switchers, to AJAX applications, and much more. (For visitors from USA, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom only.)

Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours
This is a free JavaScript book from Sams Reference Library. Sams Teach Yourself JavaScript in 24 Hours serves as an easy-to-understand tutorial on both scripting basics and JavaScript itself.

Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide
Free JavaScript book The Core JavaScript 1.5 Guide provides information about the core JavaScript language and its objects.

Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference
Free online JavaScript book The Core JavaScript 1.5 Reference provides reference material for the core JavaScript language.

Client-Side JavaScript Guide
This free online book explains how to use core and client-side JavaScript for version 1.3. JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language for client and server applications.

JavaScript 1.5 Specification
The third, and most recent, revision of the ECMAScript standard; corresponds to JavaScript 1.5.

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Free Open Source books

Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Free online book Innovation Happens Elsewhere: Open Source as Business Strategy is intended for anyone considering using Open Source. It describes what open source is, discusses business reasons for using open source, and describes how an open source project works in a day-to-day manner.

Producing Open Source Software
Producing Open Source Software: How to Run a Successful Free Software Project is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing
Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing bridges the gap between the open source vision and the practical implications of its legal underpinnings. If open source and free software licenses interest you, this book will help you understand them. If you're an open source/free software developer, this book is an absolute necessity.

Free as in Freedom
Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software interweaves biographical snapshots of GNU project founder Richard Stallman with the political, social and economic history of the free software movement. It examines Stallman's unique personality and how that personality has been at turns a driving force and a drawback in terms of the movement's overall success.

Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a fascinating look at the raging debate that is its namesake. Filled with writings from the central players--from Linux creator Linus Torvalds to Perl creator Larry Wall--the book convinces the reader of the overwhelming merits of freeing up the many iterations of software's source code.

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Free PostgreSQL books

Practical PostgreSQL
Comprehensive new volume shows you how to compile PostgreSQL from source, create a database, and configure PostgreSQL to accept client-server connections. Discover quickly why this open source database is such a great open source alternative to proprietary products from Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft.

PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts
This free online PostgreSQL book assumes no background in databases at all, but still moves quickly, going beyond mechanics and into the applications of simple commands in working database applications. Highlights common pitfalls and offers time and trouble-saving tips.

PostgreSQL Manual
This PostgreSQL Manual can be downloaded in pdf and html formats. It is divided into following sections: Tutorial, The SQL Language, Server Administration, Client Interfaces, Server Programming, Reference, Internals and Appendixes.

PostgreSQL: Das offizielle Handbuch (PostgreSQL: The official manual)
PostgreSQL: Das offizielle Handbuch (PostgreSQL: The official manual) brings the official documentation of the PostgreSQL software as a book in German translation.

Free MySQL books

MySQL Reference Manual
The MySQL Reference Manual covers most of the areas of MySQL use. This manual is for both MySQL Community Edition and MySQL Network. Yo can download this free book in many file formats.

Free Software Engineering books

Essential Skills for Agile Development
This free book learns any developer how to apply the skills in Agile Development. Recommended reading for any software developer. This book covers the essential skills in: OO design, Test Driven Development (TDD), team development, planning, communication and pair programming.

Object-Oriented System Development
This free online book is intended to help the reader better understand the role of analysis and design in the object-oriented software development process.

Patterns for Effective Use Cases
This book is intended for anyone who deals with use cases and wishes to learn more about them. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of use cases, and have some experience writing them.

Software Engineering
This free software enineering online book includes the following chapters: Introduction, Software Specification, Software Design, Implementation, Software Verification, Documentation and Project Management.

Programming from Specifications
Programming from Specifications presents a rigorous treatment of most elementary program-development constructs, including iteration, recursion, procedures, parameters, modules and data refinement.

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Free Networking books

The TCP/IP Guide
This is the free online version of The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference. It is one of the best books to learn TCP/IP.

Internetworking Technologies
Designed as an advanced text on internetworking technologies for senior undergraduate/graduate students of computer science, this unique book provides an introduction to the key concepts related to front line areas of internetwork-specific research and development.

Understanding OSI
Understanding OSI by Professor John Larmouth is freely available online.

DNS for Rocket Scientists
This free book is about DNS and (mostly) BIND 9.x on Linux (REDHAT Versions 6.x and 7.x) and the BSD's (FreeBSD, OpenBSD and NetBSD).

The Network Book
The Network Book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to networking and distributed computing technologies. Unlike traditional textbooks, it pursues a top-down approach to the topic, starting with the application layer and then describing the transport and network layers, finally covering the physical layer.

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Free Revision Control books

Version Control with Subversion
Version Control with Subversion introduces the powerful new versioning tool designed to be the successor to CVS. An introduction to Subversion is followed by a guided tour of its capabilities.

Open Source Development with CVS
Open Source Development with CVS, Third Edition, is an updated edition of the best-selling guide to the most widely used version control software for open source developers.

Subversion Version Control
Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects is a practical, hands-on guide. Readers will learn how to use Subversion and how to effectively merge a version control system into their development process.

Version Control with SVK
Version Control with SVK, a free book about SVK, a new version control system designed to supplant everything else out there.

CVS Best Practices
This free online book explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects.

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Free Information Technology books

Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog is a textbook in informational research for students in higher education. Topics include Taking Charge, Databases, Information Fog, Periodical Maze, Internet Research, Other Resources, Case Studies, Learning to Read, Organizing Notes and Research Writing.

Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms is available free online. This book is divided into six parts as Data Compression, Noisy-Channel Coding, Further Topics in Information Theory, Probabilities and Inference, Neural networks, Sparse Graph Codes.

The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0
This is the online edition of The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0. It consists of PDF files, an online glossary, links to the charts, technical reports, and other files.

The Virtual Community
This is a free book about virtual communities on the Internet. Topics include Daily Life in Cyberspace, Visionaries and Convergences, Grassroots Groupminds, Multi-user Dungeons and Alternate Identities, Real-time Tribes, Japan and the Net, Telematique and Messageries Rose: A Tale of Two Virtual Communities, Electronic Frontiers and Online Activists and Disinformocracy.

Underground
Underground: Tales of hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier can be downloaded in variety of formats.

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