Please don’t call it Book 2.0
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 19th Nov, 2007
Lots of movement in the news today about Amazon’s new foray into an attempt to replace? the hard-back with an electronic gizmo. The device, named The Kindle, has been announced by Jeff Bezos and is said to be the future of reading. It can be used to read books, newspapers, even blogs; so you [...]
Building Responsive Web Application with AJAX and PHP
Posted by: Owen on Monday, 13th Feb, 2006
Cristian Darie, a good mate of mine is in the process of release a new book: Building Responsive Web Applications with AJAX and PHP: Online Edition. It will be available soon and I’m sure it will prove to be an excellent read! Some of the AJAX demos are already available, so feel free to click [...]
Download and read: God’s Debris
Posted by: Owen on Friday, 18th Nov, 2005
Scott Adams has just put up an electronic version of one of his books: God’s Debris. Here’s why he put
it up:
It’s free because it’s designed to be discussed with people who have also read it. I’m confident that some percentage of the free e-book readers will be inspired to buy a physical book for friends [...]
ISBN .. where did it come from?
Posted by: Owen on Thursday, 22nd Sep, 2005
Yeah .. we all know it’s a standard numbering system for books, giving each book a unique machine readable ID (and people who did computer science probably know that the final digit is a mod 11 checksum digit), but did you know it’s only 35 years old and was originally started by WH Smith? More [...]
