pamela fox's reading list :: code
Here are the books I've read recently that match code. Click to view my full reading list.
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HTML5 Multimedia: Develop & Design
Ian DevlinLIKE. Great quick read about video and audio tags.
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Team Geek
Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-SussmanLOVE. Highly recommended reading for any engineer working in a company or in an open source project, even if you're not a manager.
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The Diamond Age
Neal StephensonLOVE. A sci-fi novel that follows a women from an abusive childhood to an epic adulthood -- I loved it because it reminds me of my favorite movie, Puff the Magic Dragon. Also makes interesting observations on how society is structured and what makes people intelligent.
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Snow Crash
Neal StephensonLOVE. A thrilling sci-fi novel which touches both on web technologies (coining the term avatar), history, and human languages - all interesting to me.
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Programming Google App Engine
Dan SandersonLOVE. A well written book explaining App Engine, with many chapters dedicated to an in-depth look at the datastore, one of the trickiest parts. Slightly better for Python devs than Java devs.
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HTML5: Up & Running
Mark PilgrimLOVE. A humorous, informative, and well-written introduction to various parts of HTML5 - the new semantic tags, multimedia, microdata, geolocation, offline storage, and more.