Packt Publishing: 5th Annual Open Source CMS Awards

maarten — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:54:00 GMT

As I am reading Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 I visited the Packt Publishing site to get some background information. On the Packt site I noticed that you can now nominate your favorite Open Source CMS and get them some prices. Nominations are however closing on September 17 so you can’t wait too long if you’d like to give them your support and nomination!

“The Open Source Awards is an annual online event held by Packt Publishing to distinguish excellence among Open Source projects”

Here you can read all about it and click on the link to vote:
http://www.packtpub.com/open-source-awards-home

Nomination categories:

Hall of Fame CMS
Most Promising Open Source Project
Open Source E-Commerce Applications
Open Source JavaScript Libraries
Open Source Graphics Software

Previous year winners:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/open-source-cms-award-previous-winners

Where are we now, the dates:

Nominations Open – August 9, 2010
Nominations Close – September 17, 2010
Voting Begins – September 27, 2010
Voting Ends – November 5, 2010
Winners Announced – November 15, 2010

A great initiative and there are prices to win for the open source projects so if you are a fan of one or more nominated projects to support them with your vote!

Packt: Sample Chapter “Refactoring with MS VS2010”

maarten — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:20:00 GMT

Right now I am reading the book “Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010” by Peter Ritchie published by Packt Publishing.

The book appears to cover a wide range of refactoring techniques added with a lot of pointers to patterns and practices to support the provided technologies.

If you are interested in already getting an impression of the book you can read this sample chapter that Packt provided as “try before you buy” option:

Sample Chapter title
Improving Class Quality <- Click to open (PDF)

Of the book
Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

The book is available at several book providers such as Amazon or directly from the Packt Publishing site.

Amazon:
Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Packt site (Packt is also offering some combi deals that you can check out):
Refactoring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010

Maarten van Stam - Soft As In Software :-) : Packt Publishing

Packt Publishing: 5th Annual Open Source CMS Awards

Packt: Sample Chapter “Refactoring with MS VS2010”