Category: Microsoft Windows

Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time – #Racket #game #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Realm of Racket Learn to Program, One Game at a Time! Matthias Felleisen, David Van Horn, Conrad Barski, M.D., Forrest Bice, Rose DeMaio, Spencer Florence, Feng-Yun Mimi Lin, Scott Lindeman, Nicole Nussbaum, Eric Peterson, and Ryan Plessner (No Starch Press – paperback, Kindle) Formerly known as PLT Scheme, Racket is an offshoot of the Lisp/Scheme … Continue reading Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time – #Racket #game #programming #bookreview

Windows 8: The Missing Manual – The reference guide you need to sort it all out – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Windows 8: The Missing Manual David Pogue (O’Reilly – paperback, Kindle) Okay, so Windows 8 is not exactly setting the digital world on fire these days. Many of us bought it anyway, because we have been using Windows machines at home and in office settings for a long, long time. And we like to keep … Continue reading Windows 8: The Missing Manual – The reference guide you need to sort it all out – #bookreview

Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

In the world of Big Data, Hadoop has become the hard-charging elephant in the room. Its big-name users now span the alphabet and include such notables as Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Google, the New York Times, and Yahoo. Not bad for software named after a child’s toy elephant. Computer systems that run Hadoop can store, process, … Continue reading Hadoop is hot! Three new how-to books for riding the Big Data elephant – #programming #bookreview

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

Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition – An important how-to guide, updated – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition Dan Sanderson (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) O’Reilly recently has published a new edition of Dan Sanderson’s Programing Google App Engine.  The new edition updates the 2009 first edition and includes coverage of Java 6 and Python 2.7 support, multithreading, asynchronous service APIs, and using frameworks such as webapp2 and Django … Continue reading Programming Google App Engine, 2nd Edition – An important how-to guide, updated – #programming #bookreview

Learning Node – A good how-to guide for server-side Web development with Node.js – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Learning Node Shelley Powers (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle)  “Node is designed to be used for [server-side] applications that are heavy on input/output (I/O), but light on computation,” veteran Web technology author Shelley Powers notes in Learning Node, her ninth and newest how-to book from O’Reilly. “Node.js,” she explains, “is a server-side technology that’s based on … Continue reading Learning Node – A good how-to guide for server-side Web development with Node.js – #programming #bookreview

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

by Si Dunn

Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual Chris Grover (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Chris Glover’s well-written 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 create … Continue reading Adobe Edge Animate Preview 7: The Missing Manual – #bookreview #html5 #animation

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition – Dynamic websites #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition Robin Nixon (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Robin Nixon recently has updated and expanded his popular 2009 “step-by-step guide to creating dynamic websites.” The new edition has an added section that focuses on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), so the book “now covers all four of the most popular … Continue reading Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, and CSS, 2nd Edition – Dynamic websites #programming #bookreview

CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner’s Guide – #programming #bookreview

by Si Dunn

CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner’s Guide Tim Juravich (Packt Publishing, paperback – Kindle) CouchDB and PHP can be a formidable team when used to create web applications.  “CouchDB is a database that completely embraces the web,” according to the Apache CouchDB website. Data is stored with JSON documents; documents can be accessed with a web … Continue reading CouchDB and PHP Web Development Beginner’s Guide – #programming #bookreview

Ubuntu Made Easy – A simple, well-guided way to try Linux without installing it – #bookreview

by Si Dunn

Ubuntu Made Easy: A Project-Based Introduction to Linux Rickford Grant, with Phil Bull (No Starch Press, paperback – Kindle) Curious about Linux? (Many of us are.) Wondering if you should put it on one of your PCs and venture out into a different realm that some of our geek friends constantly tell us is “better” … Continue reading Ubuntu Made Easy – A simple, well-guided way to try Linux without installing it – #bookreview