Locate Press published an updated edition of "Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools" written by the creator of Quantum GIS.
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Interview: Jesper Schmidt Hansen, author of GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide
This week’s FLOSS4Science interview is with Jesper Schmidt Hansen, nanofluidics scientist and author of the GNU Octave Beginner’s Guide, one of the few books on GNU Octave besides the official GNU Octave manuals.
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The Architecture of Open Source Applications
In new free book the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why. What are each program's major components? How do they interact? And what did their builders learn during their development? In answering these questions, the contributors to this book provide unique insights into how they think.
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Primitive Data Types, Arrays, Loops, and Conditions in JavaScript
The tutorial walks you through the primitive data types in JavaScript, such as strings and numbers. Moreover, it takes you through the common operators, and explains the flow control statements, such as loops and if-else conditions.
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Unix and Linux Workplace Sadomasochism: Possibly As Bad As It Sounds.
Not for the faint of heart, or testes ;) Work is like a box of...
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User Friendly Comic Strip: More Linux And Unix Humor
This online comic's been going since at least 1998!
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Helpful Tips from Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
I recently finished the book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt, co-author of the seminal book The Pragmatic Programmer. In this book Hunt discusses how people (specifically software developers) learn and offers tips on how we can set out to learn more effectively. Here are some useful tips I stumbled upon while reading Pragmatic Thinking and Learning:
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Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference
Available immediately, Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference (ISBN: 978-1440478291) is a uniquely compact guide to the world's favorite Linux. Written by award-winning Ubuntu author Keir Thomas, the book is available from Amazon.com for $9.94 (USD) and, in a ground-breaking move, as a free-of-charge PDF Edition that can be downloaded from http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com.
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