{"id":25,"date":"2008-01-18T21:49:57","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T19:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jsiegmund.wordpress.com\/2008\/01\/18\/free-stuff-from-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2013-04-18T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:54:33","slug":"free-stuff-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/2008\/01\/free-stuff-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Free stuff from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing around the web I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/geekswithblogs.net\/Mohamed\/archive\/2007\/12\/19\/microsoft-feast-gift-3-free-ms-press-books-linq-asp.net.aspx\">this blogpost<\/a> from Mohamed Ahmed Meligy writing about free stuff from MS. I thought this would be somekind of action I missed out on and was already too late to sign up for. But no! I tried and <a href=\"http:\/\/csna01.libredigital.com\/\">this link<\/a>\u00a0still takes you to a Microsoft site which requires you to enter your live ID and enter\u00a0all the profile stuff you&#8217;ve probably entered 1000 times already. But after you do that, there are three e-books, one of which is complete, downloadable for free. They&#8217;re:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Introducing Linq<br \/>\n&#8211; Introducing ASP.NET AJAX<br \/>\n&#8211; Introducing Silverlight 1.0<\/p>\n<p>The Linq one is free in it&#8217;s entirety, so no need to buy it anymore. Thanks Microsoft and thanks Mohamed for putting it out there!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surfing around the web I stumbled upon this blogpost from Mohamed Ahmed Meligy writing about free stuff from MS. I thought this would be somekind of action I missed out on and was already too late to sign up for. But no! I tried and this link\u00a0still takes you to a Microsoft site which requires<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3KFR1-p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.repsaj.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}