Looking for a sale on computer programming books? Gotcha covered!

Packt Publishing is having their end of year sale, all of their ebooks and apparently their video courses are $5! I just purchased a CCNA course for $20, which was three ebooks and a complete video course, normal cost would be around $260! I formerly was CCNA certified and have been thinking about doing a refresher and maybe reacquiring that cert. I know they expanded the knowledge required to include firewall configuration, so it should be interesting, plus now everything is GUI-based for router/firewall configuration compared to all of the command-line stuff that I had to know. Plus my knowledge of IPv6 is really dated as back when I was certified it was REALLY early v6, I have no idea how they're doing routing of it these days. Should be interesting.

Sale should be running until about the end of the year if past trends are any indication. Their books are typically in PDF, Epub, or Kindle format, all DRM-free. Some time in January they'll go back to having one book a day available for free: I've acquired approx 500 ebooks and many zip files of code samples this way over the years. Many topics that I have no personal interest in currently, but you never know when interests might change and you need to bone up on something.

https://www.packtpub.com/

Three dog night

It's pretty much automatic that when my wife goes to bed, as seen hidden behind the laptop, that Charlie, the black poodle, will follow. What was not expected was that Rupert, the hound, would join them. Normally Dante's place, the white poodle, is on my pillow, but somehow he's been usurped.

I was going to start on my cooking to take to the observatory, and made the major rookie blunder of trying to clean the glass window on my oven. Now my kitchen smells, and I drove my wife and dogs to the bedroom. But I got a photo out of it. They won't be in that state when I come to bed, whenever that would be, but at least two would be displaced if they were.




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