Archive for the ‘tech books’ Category

A Small Announcement

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I'm writing a book. Hurray! That is all.

Writing Rails - BoF

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Monday was the first (well, sort of) day at Railsconf Europe, and as such saw the first set of Birds of a Feather sessions. I attended one originally suggested by Jeremy McAnally (though he was unable to make it, unfortunately) on writing for Rails - documentation, blogging, books, and training, ...

Add another one to the to-be-read stack

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Darn it, every time I turn around there seems to be another book out that I need to buy. Now, it's Dan Cederholm's (of SimpleBits) Web Standards Solutions: The Markup and Style Handbook. It sounds a bit like the Cookbooks that O'Reilly publishes, in that it's written in problem-solution style.... ...

Reading

Friday, February 27th, 2004

I've been reading a fair amount so far this year (I've completed 32 books so far, according to my handy-dandy tracking database) - just about half of 'em have been work-related in one form or another, so I thought it might be useful to post a quick rundown of at ...

Hrm

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Couple of things went on this weekend - I started working seriously on the codebase for the new Prydain Guide and Atlas systems, I finished Chris Crawford's The Art of Interactive Design, and I spent way too much time in a bit of a funk. Of these, the only one I'll ...