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Books, Commentary, Ephemera, & More is a general-purpose blog focusing on a wide range of topics, including book reviews, computer programming, public sociology, small business, economics, space, and more. This blog is not open to unsolicited posts, so please do not send articles, essays, poems, or other materials for consideration. Materials published here are arranged in advance.

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Author

  • Si Dunn is a novelist, screenwriter, photojournalist, and book reviewer. His published books include: DARK SIGNALS, a Vietnam War memoir; ERWIN'S LAW, a private-detective novel; and JUMP, a novella about a combat veteran suffering from PTSD and alienation while trying to work for newspapers as a journalist. Several of his feature screenplays recently were under option to movie producers. He spent nearly 15 years working as a technical writer and software tester in the telecommunications industry. His current programming interests include Go, JavaScript, Python, R, Angular, and other languages and frameworks. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and a graduate of the University of North Texas.

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  1. PostgreSQL: Up and Running – Get a well-guided grip on this powerful, free database software – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 16, 2012 at 2:47 pm

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  2. Regular Expressions Cookbook, 2nd Edition – Seek, find, fix–in 8 programming languages – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 18, 2012 at 12:10 pm

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  3. Practical Computer Vision with SimpleCV – ‘Seeing’ with Python – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 20, 2012 at 7:54 am

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  4. Shipping Greatness – How to build and launch outstanding software – #bookreview #projectmanagement « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 20, 2012 at 12:02 pm

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  5. Learning JavaScript Design Patterns – For better JavaScript and jQuery coding – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 25, 2012 at 8:44 am

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  6. Head First HTML and CSS, 2nd Edition – An effective and entertaining guide now updated for HTML5 – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 25, 2012 at 12:53 pm

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  7. The Connected Company – Restructure now or die in today’s hyperconnected economy – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    September 27, 2012 at 9:06 am

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  8. Ethics of Big Data – Thoughtful insights into key issues confronting big-data ‘gold mines’ – #management #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 4, 2012 at 8:59 am

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  9. The Last Camel Charge – An intriguing look at America’s pre-Civil War desert military experiment – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 6, 2012 at 3:06 pm

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  10. Sophie’s Diary: A Mathematical Novel – Imagining French mathematician Sophie Germain as a young teen – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 6, 2012 at 3:51 pm

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  11. Developing with Google+ –A handy how-to guide to working with the Google+ Platform – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 8, 2012 at 9:39 am

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  12. Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 12, 2012 at 8:13 am

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  13. Learning Node – A good how-to guide for server-side Web development with Node.js – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 15, 2012 at 8:39 am

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  14. Learning Unix for OS X Mountain Lion – Working with the Terminal and Shell – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 22, 2012 at 11:31 am

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  15. Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 22, 2012 at 2:25 pm

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  16. R in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition – A welcome update to an excellent reference guide – #programming #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 24, 2012 at 12:36 am

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  17. Surviving Orbit the DIY Way – You, too, can launch a satellite – #diy #science #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 25, 2012 at 8:47 am

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  18. Juniper MX Series – A comprehensive guide for network engineers – #bookreview #juniper #networking « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 29, 2012 at 3:35 pm

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  19. The Lens – A Practical Guide for the Creative Photographer – #photography #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    October 29, 2012 at 7:24 pm

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  20. Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    November 27, 2012 at 9:44 am

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  21. Go APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) with Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch – #bookreview #amwriting « Books, Books & More (New) Books
    December 10, 2012 at 2:09 pm

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