Unlimited free books from amazon

If you can read parts of a book online, you can find it for free online. Sounds too good to be true? Well you just have to thank google’s overpowerful indexing service. Lets take one of my old time favorite “Code Complete” 2nd edition by Steven C. McConnell to show you how it’s done.

– Find the book on amazon
– Click to look inside the book and read the first pages
– Navigate to a random page that has text contents, like p24 for example
– Take a random phrase and write it down with quotes on each side. For ex “although this chapter lays the groundwork for successful software construction”
– Now just google it: “although this chapter lays the groundwork for successful software construction” filetype:pdf
– Click “repeat the search with the omitted results included”
tada! It was indexed at 10 places, people randomly uploading it somewhere private and safe so that everyone can get access to it.

Which reminds us to never underestimate the power of indexing robots…

Now if you don’t have the books please go purchase a hardcover copy to support the author. It will make you a better coder.

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Well here it is: another attempt to keep an updated blog… I’ve gone the minimalist way and this first post won’t be different.

Now let’s try and write one good post a day…