I’ve been working with my Palm Pre recently and as I decided to work through the SDK (Software Development Kit) I thought it might be handy to get a book on the subject – so I turned to the book “Palm webOS”, by Mitch Allen, and published by well known technology publishing company O’Reilly Media [read more...]

The Last Lecture, written by the late Randy Pausch (with Jeffrey Zaslow), is one of those books you can read over and over and keep handy in case you need inspiration or motivation to remember to follow your dream. A New York Times best selling book is a high accolade indeed and, in this instance, [read more...]

It didn’t take long to get through “The Google Story”, by David A. Vise with Mark Malseed and this has to be one of the most interesting books I have read in quite some time – so much so I have already read it twice. The version of the book I have is the updated [read more...]

I recently bought a new book to help with my Flash development project titled Adobe Flash CS4 Professional How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques, by Mark Schaeffer. With the nature and planned format of the book it’s not so much of a straight read but more of a dip in book for appropriate techniques. As such, especially [read more...]

Some time ago I read a gripping cyber thriller called Daemon by Daniel Suarez (see Could The Daemon Really Exist?) which followed the story of detective Pete Sebeck in his quest to find and stop a dead man, Matthew Sobol, and his rogue computer Daemon. I recently heard the good news that there is a [read more...]

“I Am Legend”, the classic novel by Richard Matheson is the first book, for quite some time, I have read in just one day. It is a relatively short book (176 pages) but one that is full of story and offers a master class in writing giving that constant feeling of wanting to read what [read more...]

Over the last year I have really got back into reading – it had to take a back seat whilst I finished my studies but now they are done (for now anyway) I am trying to find time to catch up with all manner of book reading. You can see which books I have got [read more...]

I recently asked friends on Twitter for recommendations of technology related books to read – I got a few pointers to Neal Stephenson. Two books were highlighted “Snow Crash” and “Cryptonomicon” – it is “Snow Crash” we will be talking about in this article. Snow Crash, originally published back in 1992, is an interesting book [read more...]