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8 items tagged “books”

JavaScript: The Good Parts. Douglas Crockford’s soon-to-be-published book on the subset of JavaScript that he recommends. Promises to be “short, but dense”—if it’s half as good as his JavaScript lectures this is going to be a must-have. 0 19th April 2008, 4:38 pm

The Principles Of Project Management (via) Meri’s book has been published by SitePoint. 0 26th March 2008, 12:12 pm

The Art & Science of JavaScript. The JavaScript book I contributed to is now shipping! My chapter describes how to build a Flickr / Google Maps mashup entirely using client-side code (via JSON-P). 5 12th January 2008, 7:05 pm

“The Definitive Guide to Django” is now shipping from Amazon. The book looks absolutely fantastic (bias disclosure: I contributed the newforms chapter)—huge congratulations to Adrian and Jacob. 6 11th December 2007, 9:12 pm

Professional Python Frameworks: Web 2.0 Programming with Django and Turbogears. Apparently published by Wrox in October 2007, beating the “official” Django book by just over a month. Has anyone seen this on bookshelves yet? 5 16th November 2007, 9:16 pm

Roy Orbison in Cling-film, the novel. If you missed the original internet meme you might be a bit baffled by this one, but I picked up a copy of the novel today and it completely lives up to the standard set by the short stories. 0 17th October 2007, 3:58 pm

The Art & Science of JavaScript. My first author credit: I’m contributing a chapter to SitePoint’s next JavaScript tome. 0 15th October 2007, 10:35 pm

Programming Erlang. A book on Erlang from the creator of the language himself, out in July but available to buy now as a beta PDF. 1 3rd March 2007, 8:49 am

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