Category: ebook

New book ‘Tools’ shows how to cut, shape and assemble wood or plastic projects – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Maker Media’s new book Tools is subtitled “How They Work and How to Use Them.” But the Tools title seems a little too broad for what is covered. Most of the tools described in the book’s pages are associated mainly with working with wood or ABS plastic, not with metal or other materials. That is … Continue reading New book ‘Tools’ shows how to cut, shape and assemble wood or plastic projects – #bookreview

Learning Dart – A solid guide to basic development using Google’s Dart #programming language – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Learning Dart Learn how to program applications with Dart 1.0, a language specifically designed to produce better-structured, high performance applications  Ivo Balbaert and Dzenan Ridjanovic (Packt – Kindle, paperback)   The programming language Dart was introduced in late 2011 by Google as a potential replacement for aging JavaScript. But JavaScript, of course, has continued to … Continue reading Learning Dart – A solid guide to basic development using Google’s Dart #programming language – #bookreview

Mastering the Nikon D610 – Another helpful how-to from Digital Darrell – #photography #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Mastering the Nikon D610 Darrell Young (Rocky Nook – paperback, Kindle) Today’s digital SLR cameras have many more features than most of us can possibly use. And, certainly, they have many more features than most of us can readily employ without cracking open a how-to guide. Still, I am both a fan and user of … Continue reading Mastering the Nikon D610 – Another helpful how-to from Digital Darrell – #photography #bookreview

Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Data Science for Business What You Need to Know about Data Mining and Data-Analytic Thinking Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) This is not an introductory text for casual readers curious about the hoopla over data science and Big Data. And you definitely won’t find code here for simple screen scrapers written … Continue reading Data Science for Business – A serious guide for those who need to know – #bigdata #bookreview

Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to – A short, well-focused guide – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Instant Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to A practical guide to getting started with PHPUnit to improve code quality Michael Lively (Packt Publishing – paperback, Kindle) PHPUnit is considered by many to be the leading tool for testing PHP code. This “Short, Fast, Focused” book (82 pages digital, 69 pages in paperback) is a recent addition to … Continue reading Hands-on Testing with PHPUnit How-to – A short, well-focused guide – #programming #bookreview

The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

The Modern Web Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript Peter Gasston (No Starch Press – Kindle, paperback) After a quick first glance, you might look right past this book. You might assume its title, “The Modern Web,” simply introduces some kind of heavily footnoted, academic study of the Internet. Not so, Web breath. … Continue reading The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript – #bookreview

EPUB 3 Best Practices – A solid guide to the EPUB digital publishing process – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

EPUB 3 Best Practices Matt Garrish and Marcus Gylling (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) If you publish ebooks and other documents or hope to publish some soon, you definitely need to be aware of EPUB 3. “EPUB is a format for representing documents in electronic form,” the two authors of EPUB 3 Best Practices point out. “Ebook, on … Continue reading EPUB 3 Best Practices – A solid guide to the EPUB digital publishing process – #bookreview

NOOK HD: The Missing Manual – Tips and tricks for getting the most from your e-reader tablet – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

NOOK HD: The Missing Manual Preston Gralla (O’Reilly – Kindle, paperback) Prolific and top-notch technical writer Preston Gralla is back again, this time with a handy “Missing Manual” that explains how to use two Barnes & Noble e-reader tablets, the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+. His 18-chapter, 464-page book is divided into eight well-written parts containing generally … Continue reading NOOK HD: The Missing Manual – Tips and tricks for getting the most from your e-reader tablet – #bookreview

Go APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) with Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch – #bookreview #amwriting

by Si Dunn

APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur—How to Publish a Book Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch (Nononina Press, Kindle) Okay, confession time. I know a bit about the book business—what used to be the book business. Years ago, I was a freelance developmental book editor for a trio of well-known publishing houses; I’ve had a couple of book agents; … Continue reading Go APE (Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur) with Guy Kawasaki & Shawn Welch – #bookreview #amwriting

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Grover’s well-written and updated new book shows you how to build animated HTML 5 graphics for the iPhone, the iPad, and the Web, using familiar Adobe features. By the sixth page of the first chapter, you are using the software to begin … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate: The Missing Manual – #bookreview