Archive for the 'books' Category

Eason take over Reads – the end of cheap books and highlighters?

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

I was shocked and disappointed to read in The Irish Times this morning that the main Irish bookseller Eason has bought its rival Reads of Nassau Street. Generations of students have fond memories of stocking up on cheap stationery at this institution. It’s a great place for refill pads, pens and binders but my favourite [...]

The Zen of CSS Design

Sunday, April 3rd, 2005

My favourite area of web development is CSS (Cascading Style Sheets – used to format web pages). I’m thoroughly enjoying reading The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea and Molly E Holzschlag, at the moment. This book is easily the most "coffee table" of my extensive computer book collection. It is based on the [...]

hitting the big 4-0

Sunday, October 31st, 2004

my name’s janine and i’m addicted to computer books. well, they say admitting you have a problem is the first step but i’m not sure i’ll ever be cured! i have realised that i now own over 40 books, mainly on web development. i don’t intend calculating how much this has cost but phone directory [...]