Mission Manuals
Technical ebooks across four series: Liftoff for legacy stack starters, Porting for legacy-to-modern migrations, Mad Science for from-scratch builds (LLMs, RAG, programming languages), and Modern Stack for current frameworks and APIs.
From $9 per ebook · Bundles available
Four Series
Each manual is a self-contained, code-first ebook with worked examples, project repos, and exercises. Every title follows a six-chapter structure: Mission Brief, Flight Checks, Coordinator, Specialist, Commander, Debrief.
Liftoff
Get up and running with a legacy stack you've inherited. Access, Assembly, CICS, Classic ASP, COBOL z/OS, COM/ActiveX, Delphi, EJB2, JAX-WS SOAP, JCL, .NET Framework, PowerBuilder, Struts, VB6, VBA, Visual FoxPro, WCF, WebForms.
Porting
Step-by-step migrations: VB6 → WinForms / WinUI 3 / WPF. COBOL → .NET Core or Java Spring. EJB → Spring Boot. Struts → Spring Boot. JAX-WS SOAP → REST. WCF → gRPC/REST. WebForms → modern .NET. ASP Classic → ASP.NET Core. Access → SQL Server + EF Core. VBA → Office.js + TypeScript. WinForms → WPF. .NET FX → .NET 9.
Mad Science
Build core systems from scratch to understand them: a GPT, an LLM, the math fundamentals behind LLMs, an AI agent, a RAG system, a database engine, a programming language, a microfrontends platform, a C++ game engine, a Web3D engine.
Modern Stack
Current frameworks, one manual each: Angular, Astro, Blazor WASM, Next.js, Nuxt, React, Remix, SvelteKit, Vue, plus HTML fundamentals. Full-stack ASP.NET + Angular and ASP.NET + React. Backend APIs in .NET, Express, FastAPI, Go Gin, Rust Axum, Spring Boot. MCP servers and RAG systems.
Pick a manual, ship the project.
Each ebook is a complete project tour: code, examples, exercises, and a working repo at the end.
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