Archive for the 'Book' Category

Book on WordPress theme design
Monday, 2 June 2008

Packt Publishing have a new book on WordPress theme design:
“This book walks through clear, step-by-step instructions to build a custom theme for the WordPress open-source blog engine.
The author provides design tips and suggestions and covers setting up your WordPress sandbox, and reviews the best practices from setting up your theme’s template structure, through coding markup, [...]

Putting in the time
Monday, 17 March 2008

Back in the day when I was learning how WordPress worked (that’s the blogging/content management software that’s running this here blog-like thing) I must have literally spent hours pouring over the documentation, I printed out the source code and picked it apart, and found out what made it tick.
I really need to do the same [...]

The most dangerous sounding book in the world
Monday, 10 March 2008

I think I’ve just found the most dangerous sounding book in the world on Amazon: Plumbing for Dummies.
I’m surprised on that page it doesn’t have
People who bought this book also bought:

CPR for Dummies
How to survive a flood
Electricity and Water: Practical Experiments for Everyone
How to completely invalidate your home insurance in one afternoon

Financial liberty for the Library One
Friday, 7 March 2008

Yesterday I got a call from the University Library asking why I’d not returned the book that was recalled last Saturday.
Erm … because that telephone call was the first time I’d heard about the book (The Warnock Report, in case you’re interested) being recalled.
Seemingly I had already accrued a fine of six earth pounds (£6.00).
They’d [...]

Learning Subversion
Thursday, 28 February 2008

Having effectively moved PCs three times in the last year I’m feeling a little insecure about the safety of my code, so today I’m learning how to use Subversion.
Subversion (SVN) is a version control application that allows me to store my code on a server while working on a local copy. I can then commit [...]

The Abs Diet
Sunday, 17 February 2008

In my last issue of Men’s Health magazine I got a flyer inviting me to
Send for your 14-day FREE-PREVIEW COPY of The Abs Diet…
If I decided to keep the book the flyer told me that “I’ll pay four easy instalments of just £6.99″ which included postage and handling. A total of £27.96.
You can buy the [...]

Joomla!
Sunday, 13 January 2008

Yesterday I picked up a book at Borders bookstore in Edinburgh. Actually, I went further than that: I also took it to the cashier and paid for it. It’s mine now. I got to take it home, and everything™!
The book was (and still is) Joomla! A User’s Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website by [...]