Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Foundation Website Creation with CSS, XHTML, and JavaScript

Friday, August 8th, 2008

I would have announced this earlier, but somehow with the trip to Taiwan, the subsequent jet lag, and the whopper of a cold I had this past week has delayed me from getting this post out until now. But here it is: My book titled "Foundation Website Creation with CSS, ...

Taking a little break

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

The past three years have been grueling. Working full time, taking classes towards a masters degree, and being a dad all at the same time was taking a toll. The last few months were especially interesting since I was working on a book project on top of everything. Well, life has ...

LibraryThing

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

LibraryThing is one of my favorite web 2.0 sites. As I mentioned in an earlier post, it is Flickr for bookworms. One of my missions is to always have a book that I'm actively reading - something I keep around with a bookmark in it, reading it whenever I get ...

Acrobat Reader Feature Requests

Friday, April 27th, 2007

I find it easier nowadays to use PDF documents and other screen-based formats for my reading needs than to use books. The reasons are that I can enlarge the fonts, I can scroll with minimal effort in a comfortable position (which helps with speed-reading), and text-to-speech features found in Acrobat ...

Two things regarding books.

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

I'm an avid reader of books. I am kind of an Amazon.com addict that way too. Unfortunately, 95% of the books I read are of the geek variety - some sort of alphabet soup of technologies that I'm constantly chasing in order to stay on top of the web development ...