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BOOK REVIEW: Trevor Burnham’s CoffeeScript For Pragmatic Programmers
Write CoffeeScript code and compile JavaScript output—this book will show you how.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Twitter Book, 2nd Edition
If you want to read about Twitter and it needs to be ink on paper, pick this book up and enjoy.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Tangled Web And Untangling Web Security
There's not much I can say against The Tangled Web: it is comprehensive, clearly written, and technically accurate.
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BOOK REVIEW: Design By Nature Teaches The Designs Around Us
Our notions of space, color and juxtaposition are informed by the world we live in and what we see around us since birth. However, designers staring at a screen all day often forget this natural inspiration.
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BOOK REVIEW: 344 Questions Is A Massive Self-Help Quest
Mark up this book with thoughts, ambitions, questions and other notes to spark insight and ideas.
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REVIEW: Adobe Digital Publishing Suite
It's hard to put a rating on such an expansive service like the Digital Publishing Suite. There are so many components to it that judging the whole publishing process seems to do a disservice to the product.
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Scott structures Mindfire around his three ultimate takeaways: motivation ("gasoline"), leveraging catalysts ("sparks") and building long-term success ("fire").
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REVIEW: Adobe’s Touch Apps for Android
Some apps really stand out for their usefulness; others are not as helpful and robust. Despite this, I'm really glad to see Adobe stake a claim in the tablet market for creative professional apps.
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HP’s EliteBook 8460w Still Durable and Tough, Inside and Out
Many changes have happened this year in the computer hardware industry as tablets continue to affect the form factor of our computers. The EliteBook remains a thick and durable piece of hardware.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of Ruby
The Book of Ruby is a good primer on Ruby for the average beginner but there are some things that keep it from really standing out against all the other Ruby books on the market.
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BOOK REVIEW: Learn You A Haskell For Great Good!
I give kudos to Miran for making what could have been an opaque and difficult subject actually quite interesting and fun.
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BOOK REVIEW: Digital Alchemy
It's pretty rare to read a photography book that discusses denatured alcohol, emulsions and other hands-on techniques that bring back memories of the darkroom.
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BOOK REVIEW: Andy Hertzfeld’s Revolution in the Valley
Fans of the Macintosh, Apple, or the PC industry in general should have a copy of this book, even if they have folklore.org bookmarked on their browser.
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Welcome to Oz 2.0 is a book for advanced and intermediate readers, and Vincent's tutorials are not simple or quick but constitute a "deep dive" into many features at once and produce great results.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Manga Guide to Relativity
The book is unique in that it combines a university-level topic like relativity with a storytelling format like manga.
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While the content and the delivery is good, I think the production quality of the DVD can be improved.
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The Inspiration Guide might be a hard sell for illustrators—after all, why buy the book when you can see the work online?
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The Nomad Brush Brings Artistry To The iPad
I really enjoy the Nomad Brush and would recommend it to anyone painting on the iPad.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Book of CSS3
There are entire sections of the CSS3 spec that I never really appreciated until I read this book.
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If you want to grasp all the basic concepts behind JavaScript and write more eloquent code, try Eloquent JavaScript.
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BOOK REVIEW: Vector Basic Training Shows The Grunt Work
Surprisingly, Vector Basic Training actually has relatively little emphasis on Illustrator or other vector drawing applications. But it's still a good book on illustration.
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There's an ecliptic mix of painters, illustrators and photography pros in this book so styles differ and I like some more than others, but they are all excellent.
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BOOK REVIEW: Mining Twitter and Data Source Handbook
How much data is floating around on the Internet for you to use in your applications?
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A book like Canvas Pocket Reference is important for all web designers to have on their shelf
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REVIEW: Photoshop/Premiere Elements 9 for Mac
New prosumers will find the Photoshop/Premiere Elements bundle to be a great buy. The really interesting decision will be in the hands of Mac users.
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