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Designing With Web Standards (Second Edition)
Spot the difference: In the three years since Jeffrey Zeldman wrote his first edition of Designing With Web Standards his book cover has now turned green, the content has been printed in full...
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Learning about good design underground
This morning I finished reading Mr Beck’s Underground Map: A History by Ken Garland. It has been sitting on my bookshelf since March when Hazel recommended it to me. The London Underground map is...
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The End of the Question Mark
Still looking for that last minute Christmas present? Why not ask Any Question Answered (63336) if they know what you should get! They might well recommend that you buy their new book called The End...
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Roy Orbison in cling-film
The telephone conversation began with an apology and ended with news of a new novel, about wrapping Roy Orbison in cling-film. It was my cousin Alan and he’d called during the Powerpoint Edinburgh...
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Books of choice
One of my friends, Kenny, always teases me that no matter where I go my desk always looks the same; in other words, it is always laid out the same way. And he’s right, but there’s a good reason for...
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I think I’m in a Douglas Coupland novel …
Last night I began to wonder if I really am an autonomous, free-thinking human-being and not just the creation of a 20th/21st-century literary genius. Yesterday, late-afternoon, a few minutes before...
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The Present Future
While reading around the subject of Jesus saying: “You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?” (Luke 12: 56)...
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Transcending CSS
Transcending CSS: the fine art of web design by Andy Clarke is one of the best books about cascading style sheets (CSS) that I’ve read in a long time. As a designer Andy Clarke has produced a book...
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How will you get there, Maisy?
How will you get there, Maisy? Subtitle: How a children’s book sums up yesterday’s snow According to the BBC News website we’re in for another very cold night. I drove in to work this morning, but...
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Hello Ruby — teaching children to write code
Ruby, with a wise penguin, a green robot, and lonely snow leopard. Drawing by Linda Liukas. A few years ago I remember reading a book advocating that all school children should be taught to program...
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