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My Learn Microservices book is now finished and available widely: As ebook on Amazon US , Barnes & Noble , iBooks , Scribd , Leanpub , 24symbols , Playster, Tolino, OverDrive or your local Amazon: Germany , UK , Canada , Japan , Italy , France , Spain , Nederlands , Mexico , Brazil , India , Australia . As paperback on Amazon US , Lulu , Barnes & Noble , or your local Amazon:  Germany , UK , Canada , Japan , Italy , France , Spain , Mexico , Brazil , India , Australia . About the book: "You're a developer who knows nothing to Microservices. Which is fine, except that you need to start coding your next Microservices-based application using ASP.NET Core and Docker. Don't worry: I have you covered. I've been training hundreds of developers like you during 16 years, and converted my experience into this book. I know from experience teaching what takes more time to learn in Microservices, and will spend time only where appropriate. Plus this book is...

I just published chapter 11 for my Learn Microservices book: "Publishing images to Docker registries". Here's an extract: The book is now content-complete and being reviewed. Please don't hesitate to tell me about any inacurracy or typo you spot, now is time! Those who bought the ebook can download the updated version right away at no charge. In case you didn't buy the ebook, you can still get it for half the price on LeanPub or pre-order it from Amazon . In case you would prefer the paper version, the prototype version can be ordered here .

I just published chapter 10 for my Learn Microservices book: "Publishing images to Docker registries". Here's an extract: Those who bought the ebook can download the updated version right away at no charge. In case you didn't buy the ebook, you can still get it for half the price .

I just published chapter 9 for my Learn Microservices book: "Creating and running Docker images". Here's an extract: Those who bought the ebook can download the updated version right away at no charge. In case you didn't buy the ebook, you can still get it for half the price .

TL;DR: get the discounted book now using the coupon , then get the full version for free. I'm in the process of writing my my 5th book. Learn Microservices - ASP.NET Core and Docker teaches you how to quickly get coding and publishing Microservices using ASP.NET Core and Docker. Just as I did previously, I'm publishing the book before it is even finished. Would you like to read it? You can get it for half the price: 50% off the book using that coupon (limited to the first 100 readers and up to september 1st 2018): http://leanpub.com/micro/c/3qoFtVoZbzWf About 76% of the book is already written, yet it is already available for download as an ebook: PDF, EPUB, MOBI: you choose your format. Over the next days I'll be writing the rest of the book, and publishing updates often. The final book will be ready by september 1st. Buy it now and you get several benefits: you can read the ebook right away you get the updates and final version of the ebook f...

Thanks to Acorn Publishing the Korean edition of Learn WPF MVVM has just been released. It's available at many online stores listed on the publisher's site : YES24 Kyobobook Wowbook Aladin INTERPARK I just love the quality of the Korean edition: it's been translated by an expert , the printing and cover are gorgeous, and editing is great. That's great professional work. Just look at that: Learn WPF MVVM has received top ratings on Amazon . It is available both as ebook and print edition in English, plus a gorgeous print edition in Korean .

With all the hype that do-it-yourself IoT is getting today, we're seing solderless boards connected to computers. That brings back good old memories to me. At the back of my books you can read that I controlled my electric train using an Atari ST. It was HO scale and I used the computer's parallel port connected to some relays. That was circa 1990. Well I don't have pictures of that but then I moved on to controlling a tinier train with a Psion Series 3 circa 1992. Same solderless boards and relays. I don't have pictures from that time either but I do still have the hardware, thanks to my parents: Unfortunately it's disconnected now, but wouldn't require much to get connected again. Between the parallel port and relays there where (one for each output) a transistor and a resistor. 8 relays, 8 resistors, 8 transistors: I managed to control 8 independent outputs. Which allowed me in turn to control the train's movement (forward, backwards), plus rail...