Posted by admin on July 19th, 2009 |
0 commentsAbout 4-5 years ago I picked up this book, Deliver First Class Web Sites: 101 Essential Checklists by Melbourne-based SitePoint, billed as a check-list of things a website should have to be successful. Well it was a lot of lists, a lot of the material was useful, unfortunately the book itself looked like it had been typeset in Word and then printed off on a photocopier.
Fortunately I think they realized this too and in the last few years they’ve really improved to the point where the look of their books matches the technical material. In the Canada and the U.S. they have been distributed by O’Reilly publishing since 2004 and I wonder if that had some influence on their more inviting look.?
If you’re interested in web design I’d suggest having a look though some of their recent titles.
Links to Reviews:
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/principles-beautiful-web-design
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/sexy-web-design
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/everything-you-know-about-css-is-wrong
books . design . sitepoint
Posted by admin on November 28th, 2008 |
0 commentsIt’s the story about a young teenager in the West Island of Montreal who hacked website like Yahoo, CNN, eBay, Dell and others in year 2000. The book follows Michael Calce’s involvement in hacking, from his early adventures on AOL, launching the attacks on Yahoo, CNN and eBay in 1999 to the resulting investigation, trial and sentencing that followed. The second part of the book covers a bit of his life afterwards but is mostly on how hacking has changed since his Mafiaboy days and ways for users to protect themselves online.
http://yyztech.ca/reviews/book/mafiaboy-how-cracked-internet-why-still-broken
Posted by admin on June 10th, 2008 |
0 commentsSitePoint’s got a 200 page book that covers the mysterious world of Project Management. Written by GeekManager blogger Meri Williams this covers what PM is, isn’t and why it’s good to know.
Like many of the new SitePoint books this book explains a complex topic with a few illustrations and a clean layout…For a topic I was quite unfamilir with when I started, I’d recommend this book as a good overview to the topic.
read more | digg story
Posted by admin on May 23rd, 2008 |
0 commentsBesides that hack there’s a whole lot more on gMail and rest of the Google eco-system (Blogger, YouTube, etc.)
One of the new style O’Rielly Hack books, this one looks at how to use Google’s applications through a series of short examples (aka hacks) covering, not just the office applications, but many other applications under the Google banner. For web designers, there’s a lot of material here too on how to integrate Google’s services into your own website.
read more | digg story
