Javascript 24-Hour Trainer by Jeremy McPeak $25.88 on Amazon Although I do a lot of HTML and CSS, I’ve never really had much interest in JavaScript. That changed a few months ago when web programming was added to my list of job responsibilities, so I picked up a couple of books to get me started [...]
Fitness for Geeks by Bruce W. Perry $22.85 from Amazon I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this book, but I was in the mood for something different after all the web programming books I’ve been reading lately. As I start feeling the aches and pains of old age (I turned 32 this year), [...]
Murach’s HTML5 and CSS3 by Zak Ruvalcaba and Anne Boehm $54.50 from Mike Murach & Associates By this point, I had no intention of reading, let alone reviewing, another HTML book; I’ve seen too many of them in the last year. However, I’ve been a fan of the Murach books since I picked up Murach’s [...]
Designing for the iPad: Building Applications that Sell by Chris Stevens $24.34 from Amazon My wife and I are in the process of designing our first iPad game; while we have plenty of books on coding the app (some of which will be reviewed here), we were looking for something on how to design good [...]
HTML & CSS by Jon Duckett $16.49 from Amazon I’ve reviewed a number of HTML and CSS books before, but this one is fairly unique. Most of the programming books I read are aimed at programmers, and they tend to have a similar look (aside from the facing-page layout in the Murach books, anyway). This [...]
This past summer, I decided I wanted to get into app programming. I have an ipod touch and a first generation ipad, my wife had just gotten an iphone, and – much as I dislike Apple – I had to admit that all these gadgets were pretty nifty! I just had three main problems: I [...]
Murach’s C# 2010 by Joel Murach$54.50 from Murach & Associates Recently I needed to pick up C# programming; it was shortly after I read (and was impressed by) Murach’s SQL Server 2008, so I decided to see if they had a C# book (Murach is a small publisher that puts out limited number of titles). [...]
HTML5 Step by Step $34.99 from Microsoft Press I’ve reviewed several books lately that introduce the new elements in HTML5; each of them assumes that you already have a working knowledge of html and css and simply want to know about the changes. But what if you’re brand new to web programming and want a [...]
HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow’s Standards Today by Brian Hogan $33 from Pragmatic Bookshelf The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston $34.99 from no starch press There’s really no reason why HTML5 and CSS3 have to be grouped together; they’re two completely different things. The first is the latest code for marking up the [...]
Microsoft SQL Sever 2008- Implementation and Maintenance by Mike Hotek $69.99 from Microsoft Press Until recently, I’ve never done much with databases, but since my job now involves dealing with SQL databases I thought it was high time I learned! For this, I used three very different books: The Manga Guide to Databases for a [...]
