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White Knight Chronicles Signature Series Strategy Guide Review

March 9th, 2010 No comments
White Knight Chronicles Signature Series Strategy Guide (Signature Series Guide)

The guide itself is nice looking and well made.It does good on talking about the items and general help info.But the maps *the part you will DEFINITELY want to be good* aren’t that great.They show you where save points are and where you can enter/exit that area.But they don’t show you where you can harvest [...]

Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites Review

March 9th, 2010 No comments
Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)

Here is my background: Java, Cold Fusion, ASP.net, C#, Rails; sys admin for Windows and Unix boxes.
Picked up several books to learn PHP – yuck!
Picked up this book. Wow. In 2 days I was on my way!
1. all the code examples actually work. Yes, it’s true. I know it’s shocking.2. the explanations are excellent. [...]

Programming in Objective-C 2.0 Review

March 8th, 2010 No comments
Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (2nd Edition)

This book is both comprehensive and easy to understand.The sequence of chapters chosen to be read chronologically is well thought out (e.g. having the reader use static data types before introducing the generic id type, or having the reader declare and implement accessor methods before introducing the property and synthesize directives).The end of chapter exercises [...]

Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach Review

March 8th, 2010 No comments
Programming Massively Parallel Processors: A Hands-on Approach

One of the problems with many parallel programming books is that they take too general of an approach, which can leave the reader to figure out how to implement the ideas using the library of his/her choosing.There’s certainly a place for such a book in the world, but not if you want to get up [...]

Crush It! Review

March 7th, 2010 No comments
Crush It!

Are you living, or just earning a living? So asks wine critic, social media star and business consultant Gary Vaynerchuk in his new book, Crush It!
The premise of Crush It! is that technology has disrupted the historical boundaries of business, making it possible for anyone with knowledge and passion to build a business that capitalizes [...]