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What books are you reading?
Darwin:
Currently reading Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory series. I'm currently on the second book (first book of the Great War Trilogy) American Front. It's an alternate history series that starts with the Confederacy winning the American Civil War and seceeding from the Union resulting in an ongoing power struggle in North America. I'm about a third of the way through the American Front which sees the USA allied with Germany and the CSA with Britain and France in the First World War...
mouser:
I've read a bunch of books on web frameworks cover to cover in last week or twoy:
* Drupal 7 Module Development - v7 book for developers currently; inexplicably horribly bad chapter on nodes which is arguably most important topic in book. I would recomment (Pro Drupal Development (updated for v7) over this; i read the v6 edition last year and it was excellent.
* CodeIgniter 1.7 - good discussion of CodeIgniter
* Definitive Guide to Django - quite good (Python web framework); django itself is ok
* Practical Django Projects - ok
* Agile Web Application Development with Yii 1.1 - excellent book and excellent looking new framework (PHP)
Tuxman:
I'm done now with the German edition of that one:
"Delete" looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've searched for and when. The digital realm remembers what is sometimes better forgotten, and this has profound implications for us all. In "Delete", Viktor Mayer-Schonberger traces the important role that forgetting has played throughout human history, from the ability to make sound decisions unencumbered by the past to the possibility of second chances. The written word made it possible for humans to remember across generations and time, yet now digital technology and global networks are overriding our natural ability to forget - the past is ever present, ready to be called up at the click of a mouse. Mayer-Schonberger examines the technology that's facilitating the end of forgetting - digitization, cheap storage and easy retrieval, global access, and increasingly powerful software - and describes the dangers of everlasting digital memory, whether it's outdated information taken out of context or compromising photos the Web won't let us forget. He explains why information privacy rights and other fixes can't help us, and proposes an ingeniously simple solution - expiration dates on information - that may. "Delete" is an eye-opening book that will help us remember how to forget in the digital age.
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J-Mac:
"Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women" by Ricky Jay.
Jim
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kyrathaba:
The most recent trilogy I've enjoyed has been the one that begins with "The Blade Itself". Highly recommended!
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