Posts Tagged ‘Book Review’
The Art of Readable Code – Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code – by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher – is a book on advice on making your code more readable. Why would you want your code to be more readable? It might not seem so important while you are coding, specially if [...]
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The Developer’s Code – What Real Programmers Do – by Ka Wai Cheung is supposed to contain “nuggets of wisdow” on how to sustain a healthy relationship with your work. I have just finished reading the first beta version. That means this is not a review of the complete book – there are whole sections [...]
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Killer Headlines for Web Content, by Nick Osborne is an e-book by WordTracker. It is more of a report than a book, at 65 pages. This is a problem in the sense that it limits the amount of content it covers, but it also makes it a quick read. The book proposes to cover a [...]
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Smashing CSS: Professional Techniques for Modern Layout – by Eric Meyer covers a number of techniques, tools, tips and tricks on using CSS. The book is very clear about the level of the reader – advanced beginner to intermediate. If you are really advanced, you will probably know about most tricks, and if you are [...]
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Article marketing is now horribly popular, to the point that Google had updates to specially tame article directories and content farms. Of course, that happened because articles are an easy way to get links to your site, as well as get content to Adsense sites. You have probably noticed that the average quality of those [...]
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I’ve just finished reading Convert!: Designing Web Sites to Increase Traffic and Conversion – by Ben Hunt. The book covers many ways to improve your traffic – and most importantly – how to improve the conversion rate you get from that traffic. The book is divided in two parts. The first part is Designing for [...]
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