http://books.slashdot.org/ News for nerds, stuff that matters en-us Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 2009-07-12T21:30:23+00:00 SourceForge, Inc. help@slashdot.org Technology hourly 1 1970-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://s.fsdn.com/sd/topics/topicslashdot.gif http://books.slashdot.org/ http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/BXXzskiXEeo/CJKV-Information-Processing-2nd-ed stoolpigeon writes "At the end of last year, I made a move from an IT shop focused on supporting the US side of our business to a department that provides support to our operations outside the US. This was the first time I've worked in an international context and found myself, on a regular basis, running into long-time assumptions that were no longer true. My first project was implementing a third-party, web-based HR system for medium-sized offices. I found myself constantly missing important issues because I had such a narrow approach to the problem space. Sure, I've built applications and databases that supported Unicode, but I've never actually implemented anything with them but the same types of systems I'd built in the past with ASCII. But a large portion of the world's population is in Asia, and ASCII is certainly not going to cut it there. Fortunately, a new edition of Ken Lunde's classic CJKV Information Processing has become available, and it has really opened my eyes." Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/134258/CJKV-Information-Processing-2nd-ed?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/08/134258"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/134258/CJKV-Information-Processing-2nd-ed?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/V5SHTfSbVgXHjVF4i3ZcTNiQ_P4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/V5SHTfSbVgXHjVF4i3ZcTNiQ_P4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/V5SHTfSbVgXHjVF4i3ZcTNiQ_P4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/V5SHTfSbVgXHjVF4i3ZcTNiQ_P4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/BXXzskiXEeo" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-07-08T18:00:00+00:00 programming read-all-about-it books 52 52,50,40,27,12,6,3 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/08/134258/CJKV-Information-Processing-2nd-ed?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/HXONsveSWfE/Beautiful-Security brothke writes "Books that collect chapters from numerous expert authors often fail to do more than be a collection of disjointed ideas. Simply combining expert essays does not always make for an interesting, cohesive read. Beautiful Security: Leading Security Experts Explain How They Think is an exception to that and is definitely worth a read. The book's 16 chapters provide an interesting overview to the current and future states of security, risk and privacy. Each chapter is written by an established expert in the field and each author brings their own unique insights and approach to information security." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/137217/Beautiful-Security?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/06/137217"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/137217/Beautiful-Security?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BbBran1Ehew9bAbB0TYJsIXPHIc/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BbBran1Ehew9bAbB0TYJsIXPHIc/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BbBran1Ehew9bAbB0TYJsIXPHIc/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/BbBran1Ehew9bAbB0TYJsIXPHIc/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/HXONsveSWfE" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-07-06T18:56:00+00:00 security read-all-about-it books 81 81,78,68,37,4,2,1 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/06/137217/Beautiful-Security?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/1ijKynAB5HQ/The-Twitter-Book stoolpigeon writes "Microblogging service Twitter has undeniably been a hit, with growth rates that were at times in excess of 1400%. The growth was rapid enough that the site became well known for its periodic, and, at times, extensive downtime. Even with these issues, the service continued to grow rapidly, and with celebrities getting into the mix Twitter was quickly on the radar of mainstream media. The ubiquity of Twitter and ever-increasing coverage of 'tweets' has also brought the inevitable backlash. As with anything that gains high-profile popularity, there are plenty of Twitter haters out there, though the role Twitter has played in the recent Iranian elections seems to have brought more legitimacy to Twitter in the eyes of many. With popularity come books, and quite a few are already out there about and for Twitter, but my favorite so far is The Twitter Book by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein." Read below for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1327226/The-Twitter-Book?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/07/01/1327226"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1327226/The-Twitter-Book?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CarR4wNRQvLDqd7dgn-1kz_r0w4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CarR4wNRQvLDqd7dgn-1kz_r0w4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CarR4wNRQvLDqd7dgn-1kz_r0w4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CarR4wNRQvLDqd7dgn-1kz_r0w4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/1ijKynAB5HQ" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-07-01T17:15:00+00:00 social read-all-about-it books 88 88,87,68,57,18,9,6 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/07/01/1327226/The-Twitter-Book?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/xhBu3p8t5i0/Unlocking-Android Michael J. Ross writes "Of all the potential challengers to Apple's phenomenally popular iPhone, perhaps the one with the best prospects is Google's Android, which is not a mobile phone per se, but rather an open-source platform that the company encourages phone manufacturers to deploy in their own products. Similarly, Google encourages computer programmers to develop applications for the Android environment. But learning how to create such applications is daunting to the uninitiated, particularly for developers who have never before worked with the user interface controls, Web services, and other resources involved. A recently published book, Unlocking Android, is designed to help such developers." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/139256/Unlocking-Android?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/29/139256"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/139256/Unlocking-Android?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zpR7MJ5zwW4AvL8WFR8QuaEeDe4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zpR7MJ5zwW4AvL8WFR8QuaEeDe4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zpR7MJ5zwW4AvL8WFR8QuaEeDe4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zpR7MJ5zwW4AvL8WFR8QuaEeDe4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/xhBu3p8t5i0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-29T18:26:00+00:00 handheld read-all-about-it books 117 117,112,86,62,19,9,2 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/29/139256/Unlocking-Android?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/kgXHIYQsGwk/A-Practical-Guide-to-Ubuntu-Linux-2nd-ed stoolpigeon writes "One thing I love about Linux is the rapid development and frequent updates that allow me to run the latest versions of all my favorite software packages. My favorite distributions make it simple to always have the latest and greatest. In fact, the distros themselves roll out new versions regularly, and I am always excited to see what new packages and features will be included. For book publishers this must be a little less exciting. Anything tied to a specific product that is under active development is going to quickly be behind the times. Mark Sobell's A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux managed to avoid the worst of this by providing a lot of information that is useful for any Linux user running any distro. But still things move forward and almost exactly a year later we have A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux 2nd ed. I was very pleased with the first edition and I think they've managed to really improve what was already a solid resource." Read below for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/134211/A-Practical-Guide-to-Ubuntu-Linux-2nd-ed?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/24/134211"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/134211/A-Practical-Guide-to-Ubuntu-Linux-2nd-ed?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0SAvthQnu25LsYwfI9u0iVDB46A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0SAvthQnu25LsYwfI9u0iVDB46A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0SAvthQnu25LsYwfI9u0iVDB46A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/0SAvthQnu25LsYwfI9u0iVDB46A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/kgXHIYQsGwk" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-24T18:55:00+00:00 os read-all-about-it-the-2nd-time books 85 85,80,60,46,19,9,2 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/134211/A-Practical-Guide-to-Ubuntu-Linux-2nd-ed?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/dzb8qFkUTB0/Game-Design-A-Practical-Approach Aeonite writes "As the title suggests, Game Design: A Practical Approach presents a practical approach to game design &mdash; one that is almost too practical in places. The book does a good job of covering many of the foundational elements of game design (called "atoms" by the author), but in places the level of practical detail &mdash; and the heavy focus on Lua code examples &mdash; is a bit hard to work through. Readers allergic to code may find themselves skipping over swaths of text instead of actually reading it." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/138258/Game-Design-A-Practical-Approach?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/17/138258"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/138258/Game-Design-A-Practical-Approach?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lLeeVjRS4Y3WFMDcZr-XzpR5rN4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lLeeVjRS4Y3WFMDcZr-XzpR5rN4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lLeeVjRS4Y3WFMDcZr-XzpR5rN4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/lLeeVjRS4Y3WFMDcZr-XzpR5rN4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/dzb8qFkUTB0" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-17T18:00:00+00:00 pcgames read-all-about-it books 85 85,82,66,50,20,8,7 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/17/138258/Game-Design-A-Practical-Approach?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/r01SACsnjdo/Drupal-6-Ultimate-Community-Site-Guide Michael J. Ross writes "Among the more popular and better-regarded content management systems (CMSs), Drupal is distinguished partly by its building-block approach, in which a website's functionality is built up in pieces, each of which is a module (either core or contributed). The opposite approach &mdash; using far fewer but more encompassing modules &mdash; is generally preferred by non-developers who do not relish integrating a sizable collection of modules or trying to modify the underlying code. Nonetheless, anyone who wishes to build a Drupal-based social website, can learn how to do so in a new e-book titled Drupal 6: Ultimate Community Site Guide." Read below for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/1331252/Drupal-6-Ultimate-Community-Site-Guide?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/15/1331252"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/1331252/Drupal-6-Ultimate-Community-Site-Guide?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KIDOefbGanOtxdaLc1BRcdVVlDY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KIDOefbGanOtxdaLc1BRcdVVlDY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KIDOefbGanOtxdaLc1BRcdVVlDY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/KIDOefbGanOtxdaLc1BRcdVVlDY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/r01SACsnjdo" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-15T18:22:00+00:00 internet read-all-about-it books 63 63,61,50,35,11,4,2 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/15/1331252/Drupal-6-Ultimate-Community-Site-Guide?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/kAgh4yY2Fqw/Wired-for-War stoolpigeon writes "The US Army's Future Combat Systems program calls for one third of their fighting strength to be robots by 2015. The American pilots seeing the most combat in Iraq and Afghanistan right now do so from flight consoles in the United States, and they are controlling Predator unmanned vehicles. Every branch of the US military has aggressive robotics programs in place. This is not anything unusual. Other nations are also developing and purchasing robotic systems designed to be used in combat. Advances in communications, software and hardware make it inevitable that robotics will have a profound effect on conflict in the future. The development of these systems has been rapid, and while technology hurtles forward, culture and understanding seem to lag behind. Similar to the way our legal codes are playing catch-up with new technologies, combat-enabled robots raise questions and issues that did not even exist a short time ago. Wired for War by Dr. P. W. Singer is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested to dive into just what is going on all over the world with regards to robotics and their use by the military." Read below for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/132236/Wired-for-War?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/10/132236"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/132236/Wired-for-War?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UARIkFn-zsScPJPcRiZb6oJD-k0/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UARIkFn-zsScPJPcRiZb6oJD-k0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UARIkFn-zsScPJPcRiZb6oJD-k0/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/UARIkFn-zsScPJPcRiZb6oJD-k0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/kAgh4yY2Fqw" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-10T18:45:00+00:00 robot read-all-about-it books 252 252,242,204,172,35,15,9 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/10/132236/Wired-for-War?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/IZbVSPRFFvk/The-Futurological-Congress eldavojohn writes "Stanislaw Lem was arguably the greatest non-English science fiction writer before his death three years ago and left behind many science fiction novels with messages of satire and intrigue. The Futurological Congress is no different. The book has several motifs throughout it but I found the most prominent to be that we are living in an increasingly medicated society whereby the future may be wonderfully dystopian &mdash; in that the horrors of our existence are simply hidden by drugs on top of drugs on top of drugs. With a movie due out shortly by director Ari Folman, it seems like a good time to revisit this often overlooked short classic sci-fi work." Read on for the rest of eldavojohn's review<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/08/1326233/The-Futurological-Congress?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/08/1326233"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/08/1326233/The-Futurological-Congress?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZStZx-9h1VXhP2PwC05kQQBJc1A/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZStZx-9h1VXhP2PwC05kQQBJc1A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZStZx-9h1VXhP2PwC05kQQBJc1A/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ZStZx-9h1VXhP2PwC05kQQBJc1A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/IZbVSPRFFvk" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-08T18:34:00+00:00 scifi read-all-about-it books 82 82,78,64,47,12,5,3 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/08/1326233/The-Futurological-Congress?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/JUelJMEWe7k/Vintage-Games Aeonite writes "Featuring a subtitle that is almost longer than the preface, Vintage Games: An Inside Look at the History of Grand Theft Auto, Super Mario, and the Most Influential Games of All Time offers a retrospective look at those games which authors Bill Loguidice and Matt Barton feel were, in their words, 'paradigm shifters; the games that made a difference.' As the preface points out, these are not necessarily best-selling games, innovative games, or novel games, but rather titles that, 'in their own special way changed videogames forever.'" Keep reading for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/03/1319225/Vintage-Games?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/03/1319225"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/03/1319225/Vintage-Games?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RMHna_j2TqOKonLzQNb05kE9l_4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RMHna_j2TqOKonLzQNb05kE9l_4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RMHna_j2TqOKonLzQNb05kE9l_4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/RMHna_j2TqOKonLzQNb05kE9l_4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/JUelJMEWe7k" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-03T18:10:00+00:00 games read-all-about-it books 159 159,152,126,94,31,9,6 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/03/1319225/Vintage-Games?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/0BQY-iWHsNE/SQL-in-a-Nutshell stoolpigeon writes "The cover of SQL in a Nutshell sports a chameleon, the little lizard well known for its ability to blend in just about anywhere. This is a great choice for the Structured Query Language. SQL has been around since the seventies, helping developers interact with the ubiquitous relational database management system. Thirty some years later, SQL grinds away in the background of just about any interactive web site and nameless other technologies. New alternatives are popping up constantly but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that SQL is going to be around for a long time. Anyone interacting with an RDBMS is in all likelihood going to need to use SQL at some point. For those who do, who also want a handy desktop reference, SQL in a Nutshell has been there for the last 9 years. The SQL language itself has not stood still over those years, and neither have the products that use SQL, and so now the book is available in a third edition." Read on for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/01/1320228/SQL-in-a-Nutshell?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/06/01/1320228"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/01/1320228/SQL-in-a-Nutshell?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_YWnhLaaZ4iEwQ9-EUT_w45zp8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_YWnhLaaZ4iEwQ9-EUT_w45zp8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_YWnhLaaZ4iEwQ9-EUT_w45zp8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/1_YWnhLaaZ4iEwQ9-EUT_w45zp8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/0BQY-iWHsNE" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-06-01T19:03:00+00:00 database read-all-about-it books 86 86,78,62,53,28,15,7 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/06/01/1320228/SQL-in-a-Nutshell?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/IKWSPlv1uAk/Beginning-Python-Visualization aceydacey writes "Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. Beginning Python Visualization: Creating Visual Transformation Scripts, published in February 2009 by Apress, shows how Python and its related tools can be used to easily and effectively turn raw data into visual representations that communicate effectively. The author is Shai Vaingast, a professional engineer and engineering manager who needed to train scientists and engineers to do this kind of programming work. He was looking for a tutorial and reference work, and unable to find a suitable text, wound up writing his first book. He writes in the easy and clear style of someone comfortable and engaged with the subject matter." Keep reading for the rest of aceydacey's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/27/1327255/Beginning-Python-Visualization?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/05/27/1327255"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/27/1327255/Beginning-Python-Visualization?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2R4IVL7Duen9cwBt9Y1cxNYovC4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2R4IVL7Duen9cwBt9Y1cxNYovC4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2R4IVL7Duen9cwBt9Y1cxNYovC4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2R4IVL7Duen9cwBt9Y1cxNYovC4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/IKWSPlv1uAk" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-05-27T18:02:00+00:00 programming read-all-about-it books 46 46,41,37,29,14,5,4 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/27/1327255/Beginning-Python-Visualization?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/0WhVhk8AOvQ/Space-Vulture stoolpigeon writes "In 1953 John Myers brought his friend Gary Wolf a book he had just read, Space Hawk by Anthony Gilmore. The two were already avid readers but this would be their introduction to an entire genre, Science Fiction. They both say that it was Space Hawk that sparked a life long love of all things Sci-Fi. According to both of them, they had an opportunity to re-read it as adults and found that it had not weathered the years well. They decided they would write their own science fiction adventure in the same style, but do a better job. The result is their book Space Vulture." Keep reading for the rest of JR's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/20/1330257/Space-Vulture?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/05/20/1330257"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/20/1330257/Space-Vulture?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pNMMtqnPDHDlybWWXm4stkrDasw/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pNMMtqnPDHDlybWWXm4stkrDasw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pNMMtqnPDHDlybWWXm4stkrDasw/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/pNMMtqnPDHDlybWWXm4stkrDasw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/0WhVhk8AOvQ" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-05-20T18:39:00+00:00 scifi read-all-about-it books 73 73,71,57,44,17,9,4 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/20/1330257/Space-Vulture?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/5a2Kod62UTI/Front-End-Drupal Michael J. Ross writes "Content management systems (CMSs) are created largely by Web developers using back-end programming languages (such as PHP, by far the most common choice). The free CMSs are built as open source projects, by volunteers who have many demands on their time. As a result of both of these competing factors, far less time is devoted to the front-end aspects of these CMSs. In turn, the "themes" that define the appearance of a CMS-based website are typically substandard, in the eyes of many Web designers and, most likely, countless users of those sites. This criticism has been leveled even against Drupal, although the situation is improving. A new book, Front End Drupal: Designing, Theming, Scripting, is intended to help Drupal designers everywhere speed up that process of improvement." Read on for the rest of Michael's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/18/139218/Front-End-Drupal?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/05/18/139218"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/18/139218/Front-End-Drupal?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zypX8CkuH8EVdZYS3eh8cUAb8tY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zypX8CkuH8EVdZYS3eh8cUAb8tY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zypX8CkuH8EVdZYS3eh8cUAb8tY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/zypX8CkuH8EVdZYS3eh8cUAb8tY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/5a2Kod62UTI" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-05-18T18:27:00+00:00 internet read-all-about-it books 68 68,61,45,34,12,12,4 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/18/139218/Front-End-Drupal?from=rss http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~3/Vwu-w8ms38w/Artificial-Ethics basiles writes "Jacques Pitrat's new book Artificial Ethics: Moral Conscience, Awareness and Consciencousness will be of interest to anyone who likes robotics, software, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and science-fiction. The book talks about artificial consciousness in a way that can be enjoyed by experts in the field or your average science fiction geek. I believe that people who enjoyed reading Dennet's or Hofstadter's books (like the famous Godel Escher Bach) will like reading Artificial Ethics." Keep reading for the rest of Basile's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/13/143213/Artificial-Ethics?from=rss"><img src="http://books.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&amp;op=image&amp;style=h0&amp;sid=09/05/13/143213"></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/13/143213/Artificial-Ethics?from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ykCJEtHzJEnLDE4LMTEhDUxXjfE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ykCJEtHzJEnLDE4LMTEhDUxXjfE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ykCJEtHzJEnLDE4LMTEhDUxXjfE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/ykCJEtHzJEnLDE4LMTEhDUxXjfE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBookReviews/~4/Vwu-w8ms38w" height="1" width="1"/> samzenpus 2009-05-13T19:20:00+00:00 software read-all-about-it books 210 210,209,189,137,24,15,10 http://books.slashdot.org/story/09/05/13/143213/Artificial-Ethics?from=rss Search Slashdot stories query http://books.slashdot.org/search.pl