Tag: Bookreview
Review of the jQuery UI 1.6 Book
jQuery is a modern Javascript framework. It helps you, the web developer, to write client-side interactive code without worrying about cross-browser issues and a lot of the boring elements of DOM manipulation and animation. The jQuery UI library is a collection of small UI elements and widgets for building richer interactive interfaces. This book aims to help you learn the latter – but does it hit the mark…?
Review of the Learning jQuery 1.3 Book
jQuery is a modern Javascript framework and this book promises to be an introduction to the framework, it’s concepts and how to use it. It covers the latest version of jQuery (at the time I write this), but does it deliver on it’s promise and is it worth buying…?
Review of the Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects Book
You may be familiar with Sau Sheong Chang's blog at blog.saush.com and if not I'd recommend checking it out (after reading this blog post of course). Sau Sheong is an expert at describing how to create common web systems with very minimal Ruby code - see his blog posts on Clone TinyURL in 40 lines of Ruby code and Write an Internet search engine with 200 lines of Ruby code for more examples of what I'm talking about.
I actually found his book Ruby on Rails Web Mashup Projects on Amazon after reading his blog and snapped it up immediately, hoping it was just as good as his blog.
Book Review: The Explanation of Taekwondo Poomsae
I've just received a new book from the States about Kukki-Taekwondo (WTF-style) Poomsae and after giving it a quick once over thought I'd put my opinion on 'paper' (so to speak).
Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence
For Christmas I got an excellent book about basically mining and predicting information. It has sections on how search engines work, bayes-based spam filtering and optimizing solutions (amongst other things).