Book Review: R Cookbook
The R Cookbook is written by Paul Teetor, a developer with degrees in statistics and computer science, specializing in finance. The programming language R is a specialized language designed for deep...
View ArticleBook Review: Envisioning Information, by Edward Tufte
When I purchased Envisioning Information, I expected it to merely discuss the nuances of communication through graphs and infographic-style pictography. Rather, the author is an artist, and describes...
View Article“Learning ExtJS 4″ Review
“Learning ExtJS 4” is a good, practical introduction to ExtJS for beginner ExtJS developers who haven’t used the library, or who have used prior Ext versions. In a couple spots I found myself wishing...
View ArticleBook Review: Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps is exactly what you’d expect: an art book full of images of sea monsters from old medieval maps. Rather than being a history of all images of sea monsters,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Joy of Clojure
I picked up The Joy of Clojure: Thinking the Clojure Way, to help me understand Clojure code, after discovering a couple experimental data manipulation projects that use Clojure. I’ve also seen one of...
View ArticleBook Review: Secrets of the Javascript Ninja
“Secrets of the Javascript Ninja,” is a relatively new Javascript book (2013), written by developers with deep browser programming experience, John Resig and Bear Bibeault, It covers lessons learned...
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