Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

Although a lot of pathnames match across US-UK, I don't think they've fully harmonised all the IDs or have any efficient way to tell which ones actually match. So apparently they're just playing safe by redirecting to homepage.

I'm not surprised as even those geo-targeted "Continue shopping" messages are fairly recent. I once wrote a Teleporter script to switch between Amazons (http://softwareas.com/domain-teleporter-greasemonkey-script) and if they're redirecting to homepage, it's still useful!

josephlord• 14 years ago

But the offer is there:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Effective-Programming-More-Writing-e...

encoderer• 14 years ago

UK developers are already far too effective?

gulbrandr• 14 years ago

FR link: http://www.amazon.fr/dp/B008HUMTO0

jonaphin2• 14 years ago

Just in time for the long weekend! :)

Gamefoo• 14 years ago

Haha, I'm with you there, big thanks!

jonaphin2• 14 years ago

Oh my, did I not say thank you!?

Thank you for the link! I love Jeff Atwood! CodingHorror.com's RSS is one of my favorite Google Reader Feeds

ynh• 14 years ago

Great Book

jbigelow76• 14 years ago

No such love for us Nook users. I checked Atwood's site for maybe a posting pointing to a free epub version, no go there either. Sad panda.

lisper• 14 years ago

https://read.amazon.com/about

zubiaur• 14 years ago

You still can buy it for the kindle pc app. Then, with Calibre, you can remove the DRM and convert it to epub or whatever format is suitable for the nook.

adfadf• 14 years ago

> Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited

There is no DRM on this book, luckily enough.

jiggy2011• 14 years ago

This seems to basically be a bunch of Jeff's blog posts in book form. Some of it is interesting to facilitate discussions but how much more "effective" a programmer it will make you seems pretty dubious.

I would recommend reading the book "code complete" for more specific tips about thinking about the code you write.

menacingly• 14 years ago

I second the recommendation for Code Complete. If you're looking for tactical construction advice, better to take it from someone with an established history of having constructed software.

matheusalmeida• 14 years ago

There's no doubt that it's a very extensive book on software development and a very good one but I personally don't recommend it. If one really wants to know about software development, I find that it's much better to join an open source project and discuss the development of the project with other people than just reading about software development. It's almost the same thing as learning everything about an internal combustion engine but having no idea how to fix one.

In hindsight perhaps I shouldn't have bought the kindle edition of the book (Code Complete) because it's a very large book and it's not those kinds of books where we must read from cover to cover and I don't think it's very practical to read those books in a kindle but perhaps it's just me. Just my 2 cents.

dmcg• 14 years ago

StackOverflow is constructed software. I don't agree with much of Geoff's writings, but I do admire his output.

ralph• 14 years ago

I too would favour Steve McConnell's _Code Complete_ over Jeff's blog-post collection but having read the book when it came out, i.e. not recently, I wasn't too keen overall, perhaps it was McConnell's Microsoft background.

My preference is Kernighan and Pike's _The Practice of Programming_, TPoP, that's Kernighan as in the `k' in awk and K&R, and Pike as in Blit, sam, and now #golang. The book's home page has a sample chapter and a war story that didn't make it into the book. http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020161586X/mqq-20 http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/

pbiggar• 14 years ago

I could be wrong, but doesn't the author make no money from these "deals" and have no say in whether they happen? I'm not sure that's something I'd like to do to an author I like.

Evbn• 14 years ago

The publisher gets a minimum royalty/commission per sale, regardless of how Amazon discounts promotion, except in the case where the publisher joins the Free X of the Day rotation.

ta121212• 14 years ago

You mean the guy who thinks you should email yourself your passwords to store them safely?

yuhong• 14 years ago

The funny thing is that many sites does password reset via email anyway.

xsmasher• 14 years ago

Most passwords resets do not mail you the password; they usually mail you a unique URL which you can use to reset the password, which often generates a second mail telling you the password was changed.

That prevents anyone from "sneaking" into your account, even if the can snoop your mail / copy your inbox. You'll see the intrusion, and you'll be unable to log into the service after the password is changed.

Storing the password in plain-text in your inbox has none of that protection.

markburns2• 14 years ago

Do you have a reference for that? Was quite shocked by that and searching his site found a couple of sensible articles about security, but nothing about emailing yourself your passwords. May just be that my google-fu isn't good enough.

ta121212• 14 years ago

Second to last paragraph: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/04/make-your-email-hac...

mkhalil• 14 years ago

I have never picked up a software dev book and used it to learn development, mostly just learned by doing. I was curious though, how do most of you read these things? Do you practice while reading, or can I take my iPad to a secluded area and just read my way through it? Any response would be appreciate, thanks!

why-el2• 14 years ago

The method that works for me:

1. Give the book a quick read. Essentially just to know what it covered and how the book approaches/covers the topics you are interested in.

2. Now that you know what the book covers and have a fuzzy idea about it, go straight to the section that concerns you most as the need arrises.

fts89• 14 years ago

US: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?... UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_qf_s... DE: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a... FR: http://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a... ES: http://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a... IT: http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a...

jongalloway2• 14 years ago

100% of Jeff's posts are must reads. You'll agree with some, disagree with others, but all of them make you think. Worth twice the $0 cost!!!

arunoda• 14 years ago

Yeah. This should be awesome. twice the $0 also means $0 too.

amitdugar2• 14 years ago

Is there some way to get alerted about other such $0 offers from Kindle?

Miademora• 14 years ago

Due to copyright restrictions, the Kindle title you're trying to purchase is not available in your country: Germany.

tluyben2• 14 years ago

Yep. How incredibly lame again :(

Derbasti• 14 years ago

Unless, of course, you were to look at amazon.de, where the book is just as freely available as at amazon.co.uk or amazon.com.

At least it was a few hours ago. Now it is back to its normal price.

webmanoffesto• 14 years ago

It says $6.60 when I check the page. Because I'm browsing from outside the US? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008HUMTO0/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

amitdugar2• 14 years ago

I think the offer is closed. I was able to download the free copy from outside US. Maybe just a 24 hour offer.

soitgoes2• 14 years ago

Looks like the offer has now ended. I'm seeing the US version for $4.79 and the UK version is £3.02.

feefie• 14 years ago

True. It was $0 for me yesterday but not today. This reinforces my unhealthy belief that I must check my news feeds constantly throughout the day, everyday, nonstop, lest I miss out on... saving $5. :)

laacz• 14 years ago

I think, that this kind of post ir misleading. During past month there has been several of those "Kindle edition for free", which does not represent actual price (at least for people not from USA). Same here - edition I see (from Latvia) is priced at $7.59.

mykhal• 14 years ago

http://xkcd.com/1098/

grimborg• 14 years ago

Not in Europe.

Kindle edition of Effective Programming by Jeff Atwood (Coding Horror) for $0.00

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