Friday, July 26, 2002

Best Computer Books For The Smart

Chris DiBona

You'll remember last week, I asked for recommendations of the Best Websites for developers. This was a -great- thread and in the story, I mentioned that I was planning on doing the same regarding books this week. So here it is. What do you, the slashdot reader consider seminal works? What would you consider great introductions to technical topics? If you are interested, check it out...

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OpenOffice for Mac OS X Goes Alpha

Masha Zager

While the software is not a final release, according to OpenOffice.org, the organization presented it as an important milestone in the effort to create free office productivity software that runs on all major platforms.

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NetNewsWire Lite 1.0b4...

Brent Simmons

...includes new features — aggregate feed, dock menu — and bug fixes.

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Music preview: The Pixies

Ross White

In 1987 indie rock group the Pixies recorded a 17-song demo cassette at Fort Apache Studios in Boston. Fans came to know of it as the hard-to-find "purple tape." That demo got the Pixies a deal with record label 4AD, which used eight of the tracks for the band's debut EP "Come on Pilgrim," released that same year, yet the original versions of the nine other songs have existed only as bootlegs.

Ah, 1987 - the year I came to Boston...

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Hollywood wants the right to hack your computer

Dave Winer

Two years ago I never imagined that the US Congress would consider making it legal for Hollywood to spread viruses that hack our computers; that give us a disease to protect a right that's not clear that they have. But that's exactly what is happening in Washington, now, in 2002.

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Book Review: Eric Meyer on CSS

Andy King

As you're reading the book, you get the feeling Meyer isn't fighting the medium, he's working with it in almost a Zen-like way.

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August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web

Paul Ford

How does syntax become semantics? Human brains are really good at this, but computers, are dreadful. They're whizzes at syntax, you can tell them anything, if you tell it in a structured way, but they can't make sense of it, they keep deciding that "The flesh is willing but the spirit is weak" translates to "The meat is full of stars but the vodka is made of pinking shears" or suchlike.

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National Homeland Security Knowledgebase

"The definitive homeland security information resource"

Wow. Lots of interesting links.

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