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Books Writing

Changing course

Learning Node will be my last book for O’Reilly, at least for the foreseeable future. Learning Node was a particularly exhausting book. Not only is there much to cover in one book, Node is a very dynamic technology. I like to think my coverage is both comprehensive and solid, but I guess we’ll see how the book […]

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Technology Writing

Node: References and Resources

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. During my explorations of Node.js, I came across many excellent resources, references, tutorials, and various other online publications related to the technology. I had planned on incorporating this material into an appendix for Learning Node but decided it would make a better online resource than a book chapter. Every person […]

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Books

Learning Node: Raw

Evidently, O’Reilly is going to publish my Learning Node book as a Rough Cuts/Early Release. What people should know is that the material has not gone through a final edit, a copy edit, or a tech review. So yes, there will be typos, gotchas, and oopsies. Probably lots and lots of oopsies. But the advantage […]

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Diversity HTML5

Homogeneity

homogeneity: noun composition from like parts, elements, or characteristics Not long ago, Molly Holzschlag tweeted an innocuous comment: I’d love to see a woman or group of women edit the HTML5 spec. It’d make for an interesting social experiment. Certainly would be a first. I re-tweeted her without additional comment, and that started a sequence […]

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Critters

Is the puppy mill fight over?

Good question: is the puppy mill fight over? Rabbit Ridge is still in business. It starved a dog to death, and it’s still in business. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/where-did-missouri-s-puppy-mill…