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Packt Publishing $10 e-book sale

So Packt Publishing is celebrating its 10th birthday, and in honor of the event, they are making every one of their e-books and videos available for $10. In 10 years, they’ve published 2,000 books – which is absolutely amazing, and you can get as many e-books as you want for $10 until July 5th, 2014.

So if you need to stock up on some good technical reading, now’s the time!

What are you waiting for? Go Get!

Note: If you don’t see the $10 price, make sure you go through the link directly above and scroll down to the categories.

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PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot Giveaway

PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development HotShot

I am pleased to announce that I have teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a giveaway especially for you. All you need to do is just comment below the post to have a chance of winning a free e-copy of PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot. Two lucky winners stand a chance to win an e-copy of the book. Keep reading to find out how you could win!

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Writing a Technical Book

This is part 1 of a series regarding technical writing. See other related posts.

As you may or may not know, I’ve now written two pretty large technical books (one was the second edition of the first). If you want to know more about those books, you can see all my books here. This post is more about the process of writing technical books, and later posts will go into more detail about my experiences with Packt Publishing (the publisher).

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PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot Released

I’m so proud to announce that my new book, PhoneGap 3.x Mobile Application Development Hotshot is now available for purchase. It’s an update to my earlier book, and it has been modernized and updated for Cordova 3.x. Although the title includes “PhoneGap” in the name, it generally uses the Cordova Command Line Interface (“PhoneGap” is more recognizable in the market).

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Welcome to the new site!

So, it’s 2014, and this site has been due for a redesign. As such, we’ve completely redone the look and feel of the site and made it even more responsive. We also started using Jekyll to generate the site rather than use a single page design as the prior design used.

While we’ve tested in several browsers and on many different devices, if you do find something that is broken, let us know.

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