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Just listened to…
The Connected Show: Git LIT with Silverlight and WPF 4Peter Laudati is really figuring this podcast hosting thing out. In this show he leads a superb Silverlight/WPF discussion with Pete Brown. One of my measures of a good podcast is how few times I have to yell out loud at my iPod imploring the interviewer to ask the obvious follow-up question (Carl Franklin usually gets yelled at the most!). Peter had done his homework and asked rational, insightful follow-up questions. This was a very good interview all around. There are also great show notes available.
Currently reading…
High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
This book was was featured as O'Reilly's ebook of the day for only $9.99 the other day. How could I go wrong? Ten bucks and just a few minutes later I had the mobi version on my Kindle (the mobi format is soo much better than PDF--I can't wait for Manning to get around to offering the mobi format for its ebooks.)
If you write JavaScript for any serious purpose, you gotta have this book. There are detailed chapters on JS file loading, data access, DOM scripting, among lots of other valuable topics. There is one of the best detailed (very) descriptions of how regular expressions work that I've ever seen. A close look at performance tools is also provided. High Performance JavaScript debunks myths, explains mysterious issues, and clears up lots of confusion. This book needs to be within arm's reach of any Web developer. Although I only gave $10 for this book, it's worth its weight in gold and even at its suggested retail price (who ever pays that!) it's a great value.
Roger
Enjoyed reading your blog, I’m working my way thru CSS: The Missing Manual by David McFarland great book for learning CSS and getting away from using tables for layout.
Later
John
Is this Roger Pence the iSeries Guru?
Guru may be too strong of a word, but yep, it’s me!
rp
when you get a free minute check out the video made by indiana aa enduro rider ryan moss of 2009 s upland national enduro. i think you will be impressed, possibly depressed at the speeds these young punks are acheiving on slippery tree laden trails. but then again if the bikes cost upwards of 7000$ they should do anything. peace out mr.soul.