This is where you respond with books, websites, magazines, forums, etc that you''ve found useful, informative, inspirational, or hilarious in the process of developing web applications. Please also provide a short sentence about why you included the particular resource. Post even the resources that you think everyone already knows about, cuz I''m still finding new things every day that help me. I''ll start: Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition. -- The definitive guide to CSS. Online guides aren''t nearly as good as this. http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/books/css-tdg/ http://www.37signals.com/. Excellent examples of cleanly designed, usable sites. Apache Cookbook. http://apache-cookbook.com/ Excellent guide to Apache. ---- Also, I''m a software developer by nature. I can''t draw or design well, and I''m horrible in Photoshop. Anyone know of any resources that would help me improve? I''m not interested so much in art or design theory as I am in practical advice on how to create good graphics / designs.
On 21-Feb-2005, at 18:32, Joe Van Dyk wrote:> This is where you respond with books, websites, magazines, forums, etc > that you''ve found useful, informative, inspirational, or hilarious in > the process of developing web applications. Please also provide a > short sentence about why you included the particular resource. Post > even the resources that you think everyone already knows about, cuz > I''m still finding new things every day that help me. > > Also, I''m a software developer by nature. I can''t draw or design > well, and I''m horrible in Photoshop. Anyone know of any resources > that would help me improve? I''m not interested so much in art or > design theory as I am in practical advice on how to create good > graphics / designs. >I''m afraid you''ve contradicted yourself :-) ----- Visual / Interaction Design ------ I''ve heard good things about this book: The Non-Designer''s Design Book, second edition http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321193857 Interesting stuff here on design http://www.useit.com/ Also see Alan Cooper (the father of Visual Basic) About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764526413 I have the first edition, and it was the first book I read that questioned the age old design paradigms. Apple Computer http://www.apple.com Perhaps the best school of design is to buy and use an Apple computer. Mac programmers and users think differently. A typical scenario would go something like this: You''re surfing the web and see a program you would like to try. You click the download link, wait a little, and a window opens with an icon for the program in it. At this point you can double-click to run it. Like it? Drag the icon over to Applications and drop it. It''s installed. Tired of it? Drag the icon from Applications to the Trash. It''s uninstalled. It''s obvious when a program for the Mac (such as Canon''s scanner toolbox) is written by Windows people. They''re counter-intuitive (the programs, not the people :-). ------- Development -------- Hunt & Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020161622X THE absolute must have book on development. Most books on development teach you how to write code. This book teaches you to write poetry. Thomas, Hunt & Fowler: Programming Ruby http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0974514055 The essential reference for Ruby. The first edition is one of the books I use most often. I''m looking forward to getting the second edition too. McConnell: Code Complete http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0735619670 Hunt and/or Thomas articles available on the web. http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/articles/ and elsewhere. ----- Other ----- The Power of Now Great book on living life, rather than having life live you. High Income Consulting A great introduction / reference for consultants. Google Great search engine. Amazon Great place to buy books. Regards, JJ
> This is where you respond with books, websites, magazines, forums, etc > that you''ve found useful, informative, inspirational, or hilarious in > the process of developing web applications.This might be a bit early, but Stuart Langridge''s DHTML book coming in April 2005 will probably be amazing: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0957921896/
On 22 Feb 2005, at 17:58, John Johnson wrote:> Drag the icon over to Applications and drop it. It''s installed. Tired > of it? Drag the icon from Applications to the Trash. It''s uninstalled.Actually, it''s more complicated than that. A lot of applications will leave crap lying around in /Library and ~/Library. Try this for an experiment: Install Adobe Reader, then uninstall it and try to view a PDF from within Safari. OK, your point about Windows guys writing Mac apps might apply here, but there are Mac guys writing similar rubbish. I''m writing this on my 3-month old iBook despite being the author of this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2004-October/002684.html I don''t buy the design aesthetics and ''thinking differently'' that apple users cliché themselves with. I think OS X has many stupid design flaws - try using a Mac without a mouse/trackpad for more than 15 minutes without the help of a load of third-party plugins and other apps. I would suggest anybody needing to get a grip on design first needs to understand heuristics != design != good understanding of colour != artistic flair != brand management Learn all the above, and you''re done. Or concentrate on what you''re good at and get a designer to help you with what they''re good at. Design is hard. Much, much, much harder than programming. We have Ruby, they have nothing more than the same eyes we do. -- Paul Robinson
- Joe Van Dyk :> CUThttp://www.stopdesign.com/articles/design_process/ In my opinion he is one of the best designers out there, all in his site is interesting, but I found his essay on designing one of the entries on zengarden particularly helpful. http://www.csszengarden.com/ A must ... http://www.alistapart.com/ http://www.digital-web.com/ This two doesn''t need a presentation :) Magazines on design. http://www.cssbeauty.com/ http://www.cssvault.com/ Repositories of good sites. HTH, ngw -- checking for life_signs in -lKenny... no Oh my god, make (1) killed Kenny ! You, bastards ! nicholas_wieland-at-yahoo-dot-it ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l''antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/