Tuesday, October 19, 2010

[BookReview] Hacking Firefox - More than 150 Hacks, Mods and Customizations

Simple easy-to-use how-to full of tips-n-tricks for automating, configuring and customizing firefox to your specific needs.
Table of Contents is good with 2 versions - At-A-Glance and Detailed so you can just scan it for your current needs without having to go through the entire book/index.
Gives enough background info to get you started and understand how firefox works.
This approach helps you tweak it just so.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

[Book Review] Apprenticeship Patterns - Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman

First off - A Huge "Thank-You":
To both of Dave Hoover and Adewale Oshineye, for writing this Jewel-of-a-Book:
"Apprenticeship Patterns - Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman"
I Especially loved the long snaking road set in an emerald green landscape. "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever"

It was the missing view of the jig-saw puzzle.A birds eye-view of a completed jig-saw puzzle.
The beauty of it - everything fitting in perfectly.

I'd been regularly using some of the patterns for as long as I can remember. Study The Classics and quite a few others. But somewhere there was a gnawing thought - That I was missing something.
It's been a long and wearying quest - "There's gotta be a better way".

Until I found this book:  
"Apprenticeship Patterns - Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman"
It was like an Emerald Oasis emerging from the burning sands (almost seemed like a mirage at first)