If you're currently sitting looking out of the office window over the rain-washed car park of a red-brick technology park in the home counties wondering what to do this weekend now that the company softball match has been cancelled, why not use the time to brush up on your Java skills?

Reg associate IT-minds.com is offering 30 per cent off The Sun Java Series which, we are reliably informed, is supported, endorsed, and authored by the creators of the Java technology at Sun Microsystems, Inc. It is the official place to go for complete, expert, and definitive information on Java technology. The books in this Series provide the inside information you need to build effective, robust and portable applications and applets. The Series is an indispensable resource for anyone targeting the Java 2 Platform.

Hot stuff. The books on offer at a 30 per cent discount include:

• A Programmer's Guide to Java Certification
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• The Java Programming Language
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• Effective Java Programming Language
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• Java Web Services Tutorial
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• Concurrent Programming in Java
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• Java Look & Feel
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• The J2EE Tutorial
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• Java Developer's Almanac
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• Designing Enterprise Applications with J2EE
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• J2EE Connector Architecture &Ent App Integration
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• Applying Enterprise Java Beans
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• XML & Java
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• Design Patterns Java Workbook
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• Dev Enterprise Java Applications with J2EE & UML
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• Java Rules

So, make hay while the sun does not shine! Offer expires Friday 19th July 2002.

Don't forget, if you can't find the book you want in our specials list you can still get any other book from IT-minds.com at a 20 per cent discount. ®

Bootnote

If the reader who sent a very angry email objecting to our It-minds advertorial content would like to forward a cheque for $50,000, we'd be happy to take it down for a couple of weeks ;-)