Free jQuery Book

jQuery Fundamentals by Rebecca Murphey is available on-line for free.

On-Camera Flash by Neil van Niekerk

I've been slowly going through the book On-Camera Flash by Neil van Niekerk - I'm not even halfway through it yet - but I've been very pleased with it so far. He is able to explain flash in a way that makes sense to me and finally makes it click. I don't do as much portrait photography as I might like, though I do get the opportunity to take photos of people at work, though only on a point and shoot camera, but I feel like I am already doing a better job at taking photos with flash.

Web Form Design - Filling in the Blanks review

Oct 26, 2008 by Steveproduct

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

4 out of 5 stars

Luke Wroblewski's Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks is an excellent book for anyone that wants to make more usable forms or even increase the number of completions for the forms on your site, whether they be for sign ups or sales.

Luke looks at what should and should not be included on a form, placement of labels, error messages, and much more. Some of what he mentioned in the book I have heard before, but there was also a lot of new stuff that I had not heard of before.

I was a bit disappointed on his weak discussion of what input field types to use based on the possible answers. Instead, he points people in the direction of a six year old book that you will probably be hard pressed to find in a book store. At the very least I would have liked to see references to Web sites that discuss this topic, as I have seen at least one address this.

While it would have been beyond the scope of the book, I would have like to seen site references for the various inline errors and confirmations that he mentions in the book. Not just how to implement these, but how to implement these so they are Section 508 compliant.

This is definitely a must read book if you are creating forms for a Web site.

BookLamp

BookLamp is an early beta attempt at making a service like Pandora is for music, but for books instead.

Right now the site is limited in books and only gives recommendations for the book you select. At the moment, you cannot give a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" like you can in Pandora. When I visited, BookLamp only had one book that I have read (that I can remember), 1984 by George Orwell. My feelings on whether I liked the book or not are mixed, and since that is the only book in their database that I have read, it is impossible for me to say how accurate their system is for me. They will have to add more books for me to know for sure.

Looks like the Legend of Huma did well enough

Now it sounds like they will have a comic book version of the Dragonlance Chronicles. Hopefully it will be easier to find than Huma was.

Dragonlance: Dark Chronicles

It looks like Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman will be writing Dark Chronicles, which takes place during the Dragonlance Chronicles, complete with all the characters we have come to know and love. :)

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