Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct are you using to contain a slide? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 05/03/2012 21:56 Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? --Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
In 4f54f245.9000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/05/2012 at 10:05 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs PC's with what operating system? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On 3/5/2012 7:11 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4f54f245.9000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/05/2012 at 10:05 AM, Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com said: * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs PC's with what operating system? Windows: Win XP SP2 or later, Vista, Win 7 If you're running Linux your best bet is probably the browser-based reader (the cloud reader); that supports: Firefox V6 or later on Mac/PC/Linux Chrome V11 or later on Mac/PC/Linux/Chromebook Safari V5 or later on Mac/PC Safari on iPad (iOS 4 or later) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On 3/6/2012 2:38 AM, Martin Packer wrote: Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct are you using to contain a slide? What do you mean by 'slide'? If you mean an image, I use an img element If you mean a page from a course, I build the page from a combination of ul and li elements, using 'pre' tags for code (usually wrapped in a div tag so I can set font information and draw a box around the code). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 05/03/2012 21:56 Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion ListIBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? --Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
The latter - a course page (which I had assumed would be a slide). Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 06/03/2012 13:59 Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 3/6/2012 2:38 AM, Martin Packer wrote: Given Kindle doesn't have much of a notion of a page which HTML construct are you using to contain a slide? What do you mean by 'slide'? If you mean an image, I use an img element If you mean a page from a course, I build the page from a combination of ul and li elements, using 'pre' tags for code (usually wrapped in a div tag so I can set font information and draw a box around the code). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 05/03/2012 21:56 Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion ListIBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? --Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
Calibre runs great on Linux for reading and managing e-books. Regards Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 06 March 2012 13:47 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! On 3/5/2012 7:11 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4f54f245.9000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/05/2012 at 10:05 AM, Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com said: * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs PC's with what operating system? Windows: Win XP SP2 or later, Vista, Win 7 If you're running Linux your best bet is probably the browser-based reader (the cloud reader); that supports: Firefox V6 or later on Mac/PC/Linux Chrome V11 or later on Mac/PC/Linux/Chromebook Safari V5 or later on Mac/PC Safari on iPad (iOS 4 or later) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ___ Atos and Atos Consulting are trading names used by the Atos group. The following trading entities are registered in England and Wales: Atos IT Services UK Limited (registered number 01245534), Atos Consulting Limited (registered number 04312380) and Atos IT Solutions and Services Limited (registered number 01203466) The registered office for each is at 4 Triton Square, Regents Place, London, NW1 3HG. The VAT No. for each is: GB232327983 This e-mail and the documents attached are confidential and intended solely for the addressee, and may contain confidential or privileged information. If you receive this e-mail in error, you are not authorised to copy, disclose, use or retain it. Please notify the sender immediately and delete this email from your systems. As emails may be intercepted, amended or lost, they are not secure. Atos therefore can accept no liability for any errors or their content. Although Atos endeavours to maintain a virus-free network, we do not warrant that this transmission is virus-free and can accept no liability for any damages resulting from any virus transmitted. The risks are deemed to be accepted by everyone who communicates with Atos by email. ___ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On 3/6/2012 7:34 AM, Beesley, Paul wrote: Calibre runs great on Linux for reading and managing e-books. Regards Paul It seems OK on Windows; but it does _not_ do a very good job of converting between formats as it advertises. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 06 March 2012 13:47 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! On 3/5/2012 7:11 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4f54f245.9000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/05/2012 at 10:05 AM, Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com said: * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs PC's with what operating system? Windows: Win XP SP2 or later, Vista, Win 7 If you're running Linux your best bet is probably the browser-based reader (the cloud reader); that supports: Firefox V6 or later on Mac/PC/Linux Chrome V11 or later on Mac/PC/Linux/Chromebook Safari V5 or later on Mac/PC Safari on iPad (iOS 4 or later) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
I'm not likely to be your customer but this sounds great. A question: What authoring mechanism are you using to create Kindle materials and in what format are they delivered? MOBI-derivative? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 05/03/2012 17:05 Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On 3/5/2012 10:31 AM, Martin Packer wrote: I'm not likely to be your customer but this sounds great. A question: What authoring mechanism are you using to create Kindle materials and in what format are they delivered? MOBI-derivative? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM All our materials are produced using Ventura Publisher. For creating Kindle works (remember, I've only done one so far), I use a Ventura option to extract just the text into a file. Then I use SPF/PC (any editor will work, of course) to convert that into HTML by copying in some small copy books I've built that re-create the bullet / sub-bullet structure we use (more or less; I'm still learning the ins and outs of formatting for Kindle). Then I add some packaging files (table of contents, manifest, ncx file) and any image files. Put all this into a single directory and zip it; upload the zip to KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) Before I actually send a file to KDP, I test it by using a command line book compiler available for free from KDP, and view the output in another free tool the Kindle Previewer. So far, the previewer seems to do a better job of rendering my doc than Kindle PC, so you could download that tool and use it to view any Kindle pubs you buy from Amazon. Kindle seems fine for novels and literature; it has a way to go for technical presentations, just due to the nature of bulleted notes. Still, it's an interesting process and improving all the time. +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu, Date: 05/03/2012 17:05 Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion ListIBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? --Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On 3/5/2012 2:19 PM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: Steve, Speaking strictly for myself, I like the idea of buying your material in Kindle format. However, I'm not an AJAX coder. What materials are next/soon in your push for this? --Phil Sevetson DB2 z/OS DBA Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're trying something new: looking at putting content on Amazon.com for reading in Kindle's. The details are below. But first, I want to point out right away: you don't need to own a Kindle to read our content (or any other eBook on Amazon, for that matter). * If you don't have a Kindle, you can download the Kindle app for PCs from Amazon; for free. There are also Kindle apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, Mac, and more. This is pretty cool in and of itself. I think this requires you to establish a Kindle account (also free). If you have an Amazon account you can piggyback on that. Go to: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=sa_menu_karl3?ie=UTF8docId=1000493771 Alternatively, you can use the Kindle cloud reader and read Kindle books in your browser. See: https://read.amazon.com/about So for right now, we're experimenting by putting some of our free papers into Kindle format: first we write a significant update to the paper, to add value; next we convert the new version to Kindle format and publish to Amazon in their eBook library. Our first foray into this brave new world is a major rewrite of the paper Coding AJAX Applications in z/OS: We've updated some content to reflect changes in the RFC, we've added two new examples, including one that uses POST and a php CGI to process the POSTed data; I also made some editorial changes. The Amazon price is about 1/3 the price of just purchasing the support files in our own Trainer's Friend store, and the Amazon price _includes_ free access to the support files, so you can download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars at http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating amongst ourselves about whether any courses we put out will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. Anything that can run on Turnkey Hercules MVS 3.8 or z390.org? Then follow up text only for later changes? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
