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There are a million good reasons to take out a subscription to Safari Books Online, but here’s one …
… Imagine, hypothetically, you are on a hacking weekend run by a Major British Public Broadcasting Corporation in a particularly cavernous Alexander Palace-shaped building in the wilds of North London. You have nothing but your laptop, wifi and your own natural resources to utilise to win an especially covetable piece of technology and the clock is ticking. You know that if you could only read up on the vagaries of RSS or Dojo libraries or GIS then you are in with a shout of converting a midi-controlled glockenspiel into a remotely-controlled blogject that will simultaneously feed the homeless, give horse racing tips, record re-reuns of Lovejoy and protect you should lightning strike (again!), but all your reference materials are at home, and besides, you don’t have anything on your bookshelves about routing digital audio over Bluetooth into a kettle. Google has kicked up a couple of pieces, but it’s a bit dodgy and you don’t want to spend your whole weekend led by the advice of someone who could be making it all up, (especially when you have a suspicion that this piece you're reading might be that spoof article you wrote laughing after a few drinks last December). And you think to yourself, drat, if only I’d asked my Aunty Marjorie for a Safari Books Online subscription for Christmas, I would be off and running right now …
Safari is a fantastic service with a critical mass of the finest technical publishers all in one location, accessible online from any place on earth. All the major computing publishers are there – Pragmatic Programmers, Sitepoint, Syngress, Manning, NoStarch, Addison Wesley, Que, Sams, Peachpit, Wiley, Microsoft Press and a host of others all rubbing shoulders with the People’s Publisher, O’Reilly. There are a mixture of 6500+ books, videos and learning materials, to be mixed and matched at chapter level in order to get you through whatever technological impasse that befalls you. And as time moves on and your needs change, then your library can change, too, as new material is introduced about emerging technologies and Rough Cuts arrive to alleviate your information pain before it really starts to hurt. All in all, it’s a marvellous way to get all the knowledge you need without leaving the building and risking missing out on the pizza.
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For more information on Safari, go to http://safari.oreilly.com
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