Free Computer Books, Tutorials, Lecture Notes

Hi fellow programmers,
I found a great website where you can find HTML versions of some computer books.
http://freecomputerbooks.com
Hope it helps with studying.
–Anna.

The cranky user: What ever happened to Web engineering?

“Does it ever occur to you that today’s Web developers could learn a thing or two from traditional computer programming? The cranky user talks about the foundations of software engineering and asks where in the Web those best practices have disappeared to.”
- http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-cranky76/?ca=dgr-btw01BetterWebpages  (Thanks for the [...]

The Infamous OSI Model

Here is my little interpretation of the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model, with some relevant protocols associated with it. Hope you find it useful. Those pesky acronyms are linked to the relevant Wikipedia articles. (Wikipedia, like Google, is your friend.)
This comes with a money back guarantee. If you find a mistake, [...]

Picture: A Timeline of Web Browsers [1991 - Present]

Here’s a chart depicting the evolution of web browsers. A very interesting look at the past and how far we’ve come.

Advanced Search Operators in GMail

For those of us that use GMail, I found this help article on GMail pretty useful.. especially the “is:unread” operator, which allowed me to clean up a LOT of unread emails stretching back over a year.

2007 Fall Course Calendar Available

The 2007 fall course calendar is available on ACSIS, and I’ve made a Google Calendar (Links to iCal file so you can import it into your calendar application of choice) for those who have it (see the big button to the right).
Here’s some of the highlights:

We have Mondays OFF.  Three day weekends all semester!
Class on [...]

photoshop template to CSS layout tutorial

http://www.cssslicingguide.com/
here’s a simple, step by step guide to formatting a photoshop template with CSS. not too wild about the “next step” navigation system, but pretty good tutorial otherwise.

Sync Google Calendar and GMail Contacts On Your Desktop

I’ve been looking for a good way to synchronize Google Calendar (including the IAP Calendar..see right) to my desktop calendar application.
 Lifehacker has an article on how to accomplish just this, using a simple utility called  GCal Daemon.  All it takes is a quick and easy installation, and an editing of a text config file, and [...]

McDonald’s Coupons Released

It’s that time again; the time when we put aside our revulsion of McDonald’s food and snatch up as many coupon booklets as we can find in order to maximize our breakfast gluttony.  I’ve nabbed 3 so far from my building, so anyone who needs some, just ask.
We all know Summerhaye’s is great (and cheap), [...]

FREE COMPUTER BOOKS

gerry told me about this hidden library resource. LOADS of free computer books. Think you may have to go through extra steps to connect from home, but worth checking out. Anyone know how to download these? i can only figure out how to read them online.
http://proquest.safaribooksonline.com