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Book Review: jQuery UI 1.7

Posted At : January 3, 2010 3:29 PM | Posted By : Admin
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Packt Publishing seems to be one of the leading publishers of client-side programming books -- and good ones. My first experience with them was the excellent Learning jQuery. Now, I've just finished jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery.

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The Fetish of Free

Posted At : August 6, 2009 6:50 AM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: Book Review,Software Development,General,Philosophy

fetish: \ˈfe-tish

1a: a material object regarded with superstitious or extravagant trust or reverence.

1b: an object of irrational reverence or obsessive devotion

I just finished reading Chris Anderson's book, Free: The History of a Radical Price. It's quite good. While listening to the book (it's available...for free...at audible.com), I couldn't shake the sense that, for many, "free" software has become a fetish, to the great harm of us all.

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Book Review: A Whole New Mind

Posted At : January 2, 2009 3:27 PM | Posted By : Admin
Related Categories: Book Review,General

In his latest book, A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future", Daniel Pink argues that three forces have changed the nature of the world.

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