Learning Perl (6th Edition) by Schwartz, Foy and Phoenix

Learn­ing Perl (Sixth Edi­tion) Is the latest iter­a­tion of the de facto stand­ard for learn­ing the basics of the PERL pro­gram­ming lan­guage. It has been lately updated to deal with latest changes to the lan­guage remains a superb start­ing point for those with little or no pro­gram­ming exper­i­ence. It assumes no prior exper­i­ence and provides …

Head First iPhone and iPad Development (2nd Edition)

Head First iPhone and iPad Devel­op­ment (Second Edi­tion) provides an extremely access­ible and approach­able guide for those new to using tools such as Xcode to develop apps for iOS. As with other Head FIrst books, the approach is extremely graph­ic­ally enhanced and takes the reader through a series of hands-on tutori­als. Gen­eral approach and processes …

Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac by Joe Kissell

OK. Let’s go for the hat trick with this one. The third book in what Kisell terms The Mac Fit­ness Books series is Take Con­trol of Troubleshoot­ing Your Mac. He com­pletes his tri­logy as he deals with gen­eral and some­times fatal issues such as slow­down in sys­tem oper­a­tion (much of which is dealt with in …

Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac by Joe Kissell

Take Con­trol of Speed­ing Up Your Mac by Joe Kissell is one of a tri­um­vir­ate of step-by-step manu­als to keep your OSX based com­puter run­ning as advert­ised — or as close to that as pos­sible. Like his other two volumes on main­tain­ing and troubleshoot­ing your Mac, Kissell takes a sys­tem­atic approach to exam­ine the areas …

Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac by Joe Kissell

Take Con­trol of Main­tain­ing Your Mac provides a series of steps and activ­it­ies that can done on a peri­odic basis to pre­vent slow­down and/or crashes of your OSX based com­puter. The book lives up to its prom­ise of provid­ing a clear, con­cise and straight­for­ward approach that explains why to carry out par­tic­u­lar routines, what their …

Take Control of Scrivener 2 by Kirk McElhearn

When I saw that there was a Take Con­trol book avail­able for Scrivener 2 I was excited to see if it could help me use Scrivener more effect­ively. I bought Scrivener back in 2005/6 in des­par­ate hope that it would help me take con­trol of my own dis­prate thougths and work on my doc­toral thesis. …

HTML5 Geolocation

The sub­title ‘Bring­ing Loc­a­tion to Web Applic­a­tions’ is par­tic­u­larly apt to this thor­ough and use­ful volume. In HTML5 Geo­loca­tion Anthony Holdener takes a pro­gram­matic approach through full cycle, explor­ing the nature of loc­a­tion, the tech­nic­al­it­ies of goe­lo­ca­tion and defin­i­tion of the JS W3C Geo­loca­tion API. It goes bey­ond this mere defin­i­tion of access­ing the API …

Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston

This book is just chock full of good­ness. Not only does the Book of CSS3 by Peter Gas­ston provide a thought­ful intro­duc­tion to the latest and greatest power of CSS3 (the his­tory and back­ground of which is covered superbly), it offers clear, thor­ough and well illus­trated examples built on tips, tricks and real world experience.

Capture: Deep Theory Well Executed

Cap­ture by Rand, Broughton and Quintenz-Fiedler is an opu­lent manual that plumbs the depths of pho­to­graphic the­ory, present­ing it with clar­ity and extends the tra­di­tional ana­logue into the digital dis­cuss­ing the aspects that make work­ing digital unique. This is a principle-based approach that pos­its that full appre­ci­ation of the the­ory can lead to free and …

R Recipes: A Cookbook For Data Analysis and Visualisation

The R Cook­book by Paul Tee­tor is a solid addi­tion to the well respec­ted series. Tee­tor provides a rich col­lec­tion of use­ful examples writ­ten in the proven method and cov­er­ing everything from installing, con­fig­ur­ing and run­ning R to car­ry­ing out soph­ist­ic­ated stat­ist­ical ana­lysis tasks that demon­strate the power of R. The book is tar­geted at …