Category: books
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Attacking the modern JavaScript world
Learning all the JavaScript libraries that have come out in the past two years is hard work. I attacked the modern Javascript approach through first focusing on functional programming. 1) Python + functional programming in Python Python is hardly a pure functional language, but it’s lovely and simple and has all the core concepts including…
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TeX fonts for the Web
I love the fonts that come out of LaTeX. However I’ve never seen sites displayed using the same fonts, so I wanted to find if it was available to put on a website. TLDR; It looks like you can get a very close free font called Latin Modern Roman. Self help This meant a bit…
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Hooray for O’Reilly ebook pricing
Its always good to see a major retailer having similar ideas as you. I was looking at the Integrating PHP Projects with Jenkins book by Sebastian Bergmann. I always check out the pricing structures first because I’m always interested. They have the pricing structure as follows: Print: $19.99 eBook: $9.99 (so 50% of the price)…
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This is water
This speech by David Foster Wallace is taken from the web archives. Continuing the eBooks saga… Amazon want to charge you $9.99 for the Kindle version when its available for free. I’m republishing it here because I don’t understand why its buried, and the original post was taken down (I hear the patter of a…
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2 Hardcovers for 1 Kindle edition
As part of the on-going saga of eBooks, here’s yet another quite stark example. 37signals.com are a cool company, they wrote Ruby on Rails which is a simply stunning piece of software to have produced. They have a book REWORK, which when you read the sample looks excellent, anything which sets out so neatly why…
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The proper price of an eBook
£ eBook = £ (book – printing) / (eBook sales / book sales) I have major issues with the way Amazon prices eBooks. They are consistently (I’ll need some proof of that…) within 10% of the price of a paperback. That’s a farce. Here is one perfectly good example of a more sensible pricing structure,…
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May the farce of eBooks be with you
Its May the 4th. Star Wars day and more importantly its the International Day Against DRM. Buying eBooks currently is a farce. Here’s my experience. I love the Big Issue that’s sold in the UK, its fantastic in the service it provides, the magazine it produces and the cracks in the society that it fills.…
Ian Channing 