Cyber Monday

This weekend is known as Black Friday weekend over in the States (it's when a lot of retailers who've been going slowly into the red all year start making money in the run up to Christmas and go into the black), which means they usually have sales on. This includes eBook publishers, notably InformIT(Pearsons), who publish the K and R Book (The C Programming Language) and Effective Java by Joshua Bloch:

http://www.informit.com/promotions/promotion.aspx?promo=139061

O'Reilly's, which do Microsoft as well (they're calling it "Cyber Monday"):

http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/cyber-monday.do

And Pragmatic:

http://pragprog.com/news/black-friday-cyber-monday-40-off-sale

And Apress also have a similar deal on Monday:

http://www.apress.com/

C Test - Part 2

...and I got 49.5.

Out of 52, which makes it 95.something percent, the highest mark I've ever got for anything, ever! So the SCJP wasn't a complete waste of time.

As an aside, the Pragmatic Programmer has been published, after a few years in eBook development hell:

A minor classic, I'm currently enjoying reading it.