Just read a good CSS book
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It’s going to take him just 45 minutes to undo the last several years worth of CSS work. He's going to launch his site. And then, he's going to go and get a donut.
"Coming soon"
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done. CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland). I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it. I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Christopher Duncan wrote:
CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland).
That looks great. I might be interested in the Javascript & jQuery book (and the HTML 5 one) as well. Thanks for pointing these out! Marc
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Really? I thought it amusing.
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Really? I thought it amusing.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done. CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland). I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it. I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Missing Manual is a really good series. My wife really liked CSS: the missing manual when she read it a few years back.
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Really? I thought it amusing.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me me, in pictures
Maybe he just doesn't like your style.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
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It’s going to take him just 45 minutes to undo the last several years worth of CSS work. He's going to launch his site. And then, he's going to go and get a donut.
"Coming soon"
Donut, hell. Try tequila. :)
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
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Nice, thanks o/ I've been looking to get my feet wet as we have a lot of web based hosted applications here and I'm a C++ weenie, but most CSS literature seems to belong in the bathroom ...along side the reading material.
Yeah, I started out with Borland's Turbo C, but these days it's all about the web. It's a crappy development environment, but at least you don't have all the install issues we used to fight.
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Most books I've read like that are VERY dry reading and mainly used as reference. I've run into the same problem with Photoshop, I'm on about my 5th one and it is of the "...missing manual" name/type also and is a very good book.
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Yeah, it was not only well written but also well edited. And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor (which I happily did). I think the missing manual series has a really good team.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland).
That looks great. I might be interested in the Javascript & jQuery book (and the HTML 5 one) as well. Thanks for pointing these out! Marc
I got this one for JQuery: JQuery Compressed[^]. Haven't started it yet so I can't speak to the quality. Would be interested in what you come up with. A glance at the TOC seems to indicate that JQuery isn't a terribly deep subject.
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Missing Manual is a really good series. My wife really liked CSS: the missing manual when she read it a few years back.
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Yeah, it looks like the series got bought out by O'Reilly - or maybe they had it all along. Either way, they've always been a good tech publisher so the quality isn't surprising.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
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Yeah, it was not only well written but also well edited. And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor (which I happily did). I think the missing manual series has a really good team.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Christopher Duncan wrote:
And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor
Yeah I could imagine you would be sensitive to that. It's always nice to read a book that's accurate and grammatically pleasing. :)
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
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I got this one for JQuery: JQuery Compressed[^]. Haven't started it yet so I can't speak to the quality. Would be interested in what you come up with. A glance at the TOC seems to indicate that JQuery isn't a terribly deep subject.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Christopher Duncan wrote:
A glance at the TOC seems to indicate that JQuery isn't a terribly deep subject.
It may not be terribly deep, but being rather clueless about it at the moment, it looks like a vast uncharted ocean. :) Marc
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done. CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland). I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it. I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
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Most books I've read like that are VERY dry reading and mainly used as reference. I've run into the same problem with Photoshop, I'm on about my 5th one and it is of the "...missing manual" name/type also and is a very good book.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
Mike, for PhotoShop, try Deke McClelland's "PhotoShop One-on-One" books (his latest in the series is for PhotoShop CS5, and was published in 2010): [^]. bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done. CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland). I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it. I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
Christopher Duncan Author of Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd ed, just released) Have Fun, Get Paid: How to Make a Living With Your Creativity (Due Nov 2013) The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World
Thanks for the heads-up on those. I'm going to order the CSS3 and HTML5 books.:thumbsup: I have a couple of the "missing manual" books at home. They're nice quality and unlike those sell-by-the-pound books we're use to seeing, it's nice to see books that don't buckle the bookshelf. :)
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Mike, for PhotoShop, try Deke McClelland's "PhotoShop One-on-One" books (his latest in the series is for PhotoShop CS5, and was published in 2010): [^]. bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
Thanks Bill I'll give it a look. I have CS6 but there's not that much difference and there may be an update.
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor
Yeah I could imagine you would be sensitive to that. It's always nice to read a book that's accurate and grammatically pleasing. :)
VS2010/Atmel Studio 6.1 ToDo Manager Extension The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. -Steven Wright
There are actually a couple of editors on a book, who serve different purposes. Jeff Olson was the editor for both books. The editor is the person in charge who oversees the project, making sure the concept is good, all the chapters work well together and that it's a coherent bit of work. He also happens to be the executive editor of the business division overall, so I was lucky to get him on my team. Cleaning up my dubious grasp of the English language fell to Jana Weinstein, my copy editor. She's the one who kept me from looking stupid in public. No small task. :-D Rita Fernando was the project manager who kept the wheels on the wagon and made sure everything was taken care of and delivered on time. Publishers usually take a year or so to release a new title. These guys got two books on the streets in six months. There were other bits ilke indexing, compositing, etc. but these three were the team that I interacted with as I wrote them. I'm sure you've been on bad software projects before, so you can imagine how much I appreciated having top flight people to work with. Lots of fun. I'd work with these guys again in a heartbeat.
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
A glance at the TOC seems to indicate that JQuery isn't a terribly deep subject.
It may not be terribly deep, but being rather clueless about it at the moment, it looks like a vast uncharted ocean. :) Marc
Yeah, I can dig it. That's why I've had my nose buried in books for MVC, JQuery, CSS, etc. the past couple of weeks. After so many years in this business, it's kinda nice to start out knowing nothing, ain't it? :)
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thx for sharing, I might just buy this book :) I think it's the same for me, I just figure out how to get something to look like the way I want, and move on without caring about css organization, structure, maintainability, etc... pretty bad I know...
Yeah, I figured since MVC gives you so much more control over the markup I should, you know, maybe learn something about it. :)
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