Hacking for Christ: Free Mozilla (And Other) Books

May 6, 2009

Free Mozilla (And Other) Books

Own a piece of Mozilla history! The following books are available free to a good home, although their value is probably more nostalgic than technical now:

Mozilla Source Code Guide by Stanek (Netscape Press, 1999). "Your official guide to the open source version of Netscape Communicator." The bonus CD-ROM isn't there, but I may have it somewhere.
Creating Applications with Mozilla by Boswell, King, Oeschger, Collins and Murphy (O'Reilly, 2002). Autographed and dedicated by one of the authors.
Rapid Application Development with Mozilla by McFarlane (Prentice Hall, 2004). "A must-have read for anyone interested in learning to build sophisticated applications with the Mozilla application framework" - Mitchell Baker. ;-)

In the non-Mozilla pile, we have:

Java in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 1999)
GUI Bloopers - Do's and Don'ts for Software Developers and Web Designers (Morgan Kaufmann, 2000)
Building Wireless Community Networks (O'Reilly, 2002)
The Business and Economics of Linux and Open Source (Prentice Hall, 2003)
Linux Pocket Guide (O'Reilly, 2004)
Ubuntu Hacks (O'Reilly, 2006)
Eccentric Cubicle - Office Accessories from a Parallel Universe (O'Reilly, 2007)

All are in very good condition. I'm moving house reasonably soon, and I have to have less stuff, so I'm prioritizing books which I have some chance of reading in the future. If no-one wants them, I'm afraid it's the recycling bin. :-(

Posted by gerv at May 6, 2009 7:40 AM | TrackBack

Comments

I’ll take ‘GUI Bloopers - Do's and Don'ts for Software Developers and Web Designers’ and ‘Mozilla Source Code Guide’ if no one else gets there first…

Posted by: John Drinkwater at May 6, 2009 10:42 AM

If Ubuntu Hacks is in any way still relevant, I wouldn't mind taking it off your hands.

Posted by: Brian King at May 6, 2009 10:47 AM

If the "Linux Pocket Guide" is still available I could make good use of it.

Posted by: Nessie at May 6, 2009 11:42 AM

I'm sad that the shipping taxes would be too high for me.

Posted by: Asrail at May 6, 2009 12:54 PM

Those who have claimed books, please email me their addresses. By default, you'll get surface mail, so I hope you are patient :-) If you want air mail, you can donate the difference to MoFo and I'll do that instead. Let me know in the email if you want to go that route.

Asrail: are low value gifts really subject to shipping taxes in your country?

Posted by: Gerv at May 6, 2009 3:02 PM

As I am currently tasked with writing a term paper on the Mozilla Architecture, I think that I could use the second and third items on your list (I already have the NS/M Source Code Guide). Of course, I will gladly compensate you for the shipping expenses -- I'll send my postal address per e-mail right away.

Posted by: Michael K. at May 6, 2009 3:10 PM

The Mozilla Source Code guide would definitely help, as well as creating apps and rapid app development if they're going free?

Posted by: Howard at May 7, 2009 2:59 PM

Howard: Sorry, too late :-(

Posted by: Gerv at May 9, 2009 5:31 PM