A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Anna Debbenham – creator of styleguides.io – wrote a book on … Style Guides: Designers and developers have taken different approaches to putting together their own web-based style guides. This book highlights the various techniques and the projects that have used them. It’s packed with practical tips, whether you’re starting from scratch or assembling one …
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Jeremy Keith wrote a book, “Resilient Web Design”, on how to build a web that lasts: With a title like Resilient Web Design, you might think that this is a handbook for designing robust websites. This is not a handbook. It’s more like a history book. […] You won’t find any code in here to …
PHP is experiencing a renaissance, though it may be difficult to tell with all of the outdated PHP tutorials online. With this practical guide, you’ll learn how PHP has become a full-featured, mature language with object-orientation, namespaces, and a growing collection of reusable component libraries. Author Josh Lockhart—creator of PHP The Right Way, a popular …
Are you reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time? Have you heard that volumes four and five – A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons – cover the same time period but split up the characters, so that most of the people who appear in Feast don’t show up …
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Administering ArcGIS for Server teaches you the mechanics of ArcGIS for Server, equipping you with the skills to not only install and configure Server, but to do it efficiently to achieve effective results. You will also learn how to plan, analyze, design, and finally publish and consume GIS services from various platforms including mobile and …
Last November I was lead technical reviewer for a book titled Google Maps JavaScript API Cookbook. On December 26th – my birthday, of all days – the book was released on Packt Publishing. It’s a very practical book with lots of code (hence it being a cookbook) touching basic map interactions, custom layers, drawing stuff …
This is really cool: take the whole oevre of one author and build a sentence using Markov Chains based on two starting words. The picture above is a visualisation of the choices made. The whole forest had been anesthetised, her temples wired, her senses stimulated, her eyes were not on Eva, not on Eva, not …