Hal Helms On Web Development - Book Review

Book Review: jQuery UI 1.7

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:29:00 -0400

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. [More]

The Fetish of Free

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:50:00 -0400

fetish: \�fe-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. [More]

Book Review: A Whole New Mind

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:27:00 -0400

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. [More]