Book reviews — all blog posts
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Technically reviewed Magento 2 Theme Design book
I acted as technical reviewer on the recently released Magento 2 Theme Design book.
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Review of WordPress Theme Development – Beginner’s Guide
WordPress, the ever-popular open source CMS, spawns hundreds of help guides and books from plugin development to general administration, so I was pretty excited to see Packt’s WordPress Theme Development Beginner’s Guide book (and thanks to Ramon for the tip the book was out!).
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Review of jQuery for Designers Beginner’s Guide book by Natalie MacLees
jQuery has become – rightly or wrongly – the defacto JavaScript library for web designers and developers these days, so I jumped at a chance to review the jQuery for Designers Beginner’s Guide book by Natalie MacLees. The book is aimed at web designers with little knowledge of JavaScript; you won’t learn to write your… Read more »
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Drupal 7 Webforms Cookbook published
A book I acted as a technical reviewer for has just been published. Drupal 7 Webforms Cookbook, by Vernon Denny, is a guide to one of Drupal’s most popular contributed modules with allows great flexibility in creating custom web forms through Drupal’s administration panel. Written in Packt’s by-now-familiar ‘cookbook’ format, the book contains over 70… Read more »
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Review of The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston
A little back story to start this review off: I met Peter Gasston, the author of The Book of CSS3, at Front Row Conference in Krakow (highly recommended for 2012, by the way). The book The book is sold as ‘a developer’s guide to the future of web design‘; a (perhaps acceptable?) bit of marketing… Read more »
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Review of Drupal 7 Themes book
After being asked to review Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook the other month, I’m back on the topic of Drupal, with a review of Packt’s recent Drupal 7 Themes book by Ric Shreves ( Drupal 7 Themes book page on Packt’s website). Chapter 1: Learning the Basics of Drupal Theming Chapter 2: Working with the Default… Read more »
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Review of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook
After a slight delay, I’ve had time to settle in to reading Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook (my very brief overview post on the book) by Mihaela Jurković and Rigel Di Scala. I’ll get the basics out of the way first, so here’s the full chapter list for the book: Chapter 1: Creating and Editing Objects Chapter… Read more »
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Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook
I’ve just received my copy of Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook from Packt Publishing. I’ll be taking the time to review it over the weekend, so I should hopefully have something coherent to post early next week. My first impressions are good – I had a quick flick through and there seems to be a huge range… Read more »