Archive for the 'Books' Category
June 30, 2005
5 Years Makes a Difference
Jeffrey Veen talks about how the web world has changed since he wrote his ‘Art and Scient of Web Design’ book 5 years ago.
I wrote The Art and Science of Web Design five years ago. That doesn’t seem like all that long ago, really, but when I recently paged through the book I was pleasantly surprised to find just how much had changed. When I started writing the book in the winter of 1999, there were no large-scale commercial sites built with standards-based markup. Every single design decision we made factored the dial-up experience. Personal home pages were still a handcrafted-html effort; blogs had only barely emerged on the scene.
I was frustrated with the state of things back then. I was building a team at HotWired, which had become a division of the Lycos search portal. That was the height of the boom, and hiring designers meant talking to dozens of people who thought being a good designer meant not collapsing layers before throwing the Photoshop file over to “one of those HTML people.”
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September 11, 2004
Definition of Do It Yourself IT
I spotted this definition on Doc Searls’ IT Garage (paraphrase):
DIY-IT is happening wherever you see shelves full of O’Reilly books.
So true! I’ve learned a lot and advanced my career by reading as many O’Reilly books as I can get my hands on and find the time to read.
Which reminds me of one-half of a cell phone conversation I overheard in the M Street Borders in DC one day. This young guy in dockers was kneeling in front of a shelf of operating system books and his phone rang. Here is the half of the conversation I heard:
Young Dockers Guy: Hello?
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YDG: Yes.
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YDG: Yes, I know the server is down.
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YDG: I’m looking for a book on it right now!
Ouch.
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August 6, 2004
Content Management Requirements Toolkit 2.0
James Robertson has announced the release of the second version of his Content Management Requirements Toolkit:
The first version of the Toolkit has been used by organisations the world over, from Fortune 500 companies to government agencies and small businesses. This new version builds upon these successes, and delivers even greater value.
I highly recommend picking up this report if you are embarking upon a CMS selection. It was very helpful to us when we conducted our last CMS selection.
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June 3, 2004
phpMyAdmin Book
Gadgetopia has posted a a review of Mastering phpMyAdmin, a book on how to use the excellent MySQL administration tool, phpMyAdmin. I used an early incarnation of it back in ‘99 for my first PHP project. It has been a regular part of my LAMP toolkit ever since. Definitely check it out if you need to manage MySQL databases and have a PHP box on the same network (which you probably do if you are using MySQL).
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