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Book: Coders at Work
If you are thinking about being a programmer, pick any interview from this book and read it. If, after reading it, you aren’t excited about programming, then just stop. This is the best book I’ve ever read that gets inside the mind of a ...
Book: Here Comes Everybody
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky My review rating: 5 of 5 stars This is the best book I’ve ever read on the intersection of anthropology and the internet. Shirky has tremendous powers of o...
Book: Don’t Make Me Think
Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug My review rating: 5 of 5 starsThis is my absolute favorite book on designing websites with the user in mind. Far too often websites are designed from the perspect...
Book: Road Player–The Danny Diliberto Story
Road Player by Jerry Forsyth My review rating: 4 of 5 stars Boy, this book gets right to it. Danny Diliberto is a gambler and a pool hustler whose sensational stories fill each of the 231 pages of this volume. Adhering somewhat to chronology, ...
Book: The Audacity of Hope
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream by Barack Obama My review rating: 5 of 5 stars I had high hopes for this book, as Mr. Obama has since become the POTUS. It did not let me down. Obama has a fabulous way of writing ...
Running the Table
Running the Table: The Legend of Kid Delicious, the Last Great American Pool Hustler by L. Jon Wertheim My review rating: 4 of 5 starsI have had the good fortune to meet Danny Basavich at the Ocean State 9-Ball Championship in Providence, RI ab...
Strolling Down Wall Street
Random Walk Down Wall Street The Time Tested Strategy for Successful Investing Rev, A by Burton G. Malkiel My review rating: 5 of 5 starsThis is a great read that explains all of the core concepts related to Wall Street and financial investment...
Geeks: How I Finally Read This Book, 8 Years Later
Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho by Jon Katz My review rating: 4 of 5 starsGreat look at the world of geeks circa 1999. At a time when internet access was mainly for academics and geek culture, Slashdot.org just coming in...
Kids These Days, With Their Wikipedias And Their YouTubes
The Cult of the Amateur: How today’s Internet is killing our culture by Andrew Keen rating: 4 of 5 starsI went into reading this book having already viewed a Google talk video where the author discussed it and took Q&A. I found that the ...
CSS: The Definitive Guide
I have been programming for over a decade now, but mainly focused on back end technologies. Thus, I have never really taken the time to learn Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). CSS, as it turns out, was the last core web technology in widespread use that ...
Always look on the bright side of life, or Learning Python
The 3rd edition of Learning Python, by Mark Lutz, covers the Python programming language as of Python v2.5. With O’Reilly books, the Learning series is generally less sophisticated than the Programming series (ex/ Learning Perl is easier than P...
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Make a Big Difference
I know, I know, *everyone* has read this book already. But I hadn’t. Now I have. The Tipping Point is a really great book that discusses the phenomena surrounding “social epidemics”. The “Tipping Point” describes that ...
Gettin’ My Surowiecki On
I know, I know, everyone has read this book already. I’m still going to write about it. The Wisdom of Crowds takes a scientific look at the theory that given the right composition and the right problems to solve, a group can collectively be s...
