Just occasionally you come across a book that covers a subject in sufficient detail that you don’t need any other books to fill gaps in the information it provides. This is such a book with respect to how to use GIMP. Of course it can’t provide the necessary talent needed to know what to create [...]

Only a small book but covering some very important topics. The significance of this book is so great that despite it being one of the smallest books I have reviewed it has ended up with one of my longest reviews. “Security and Privacy for Microsoft Office 2010 Users”

I don’t have an iPod but my son does and he’s using it almost constantly when he’s at home. So I thought that getting him to review this book for me was both a way to introduce him to writing book reviews and also to be able to provide a review of a book that [...]

Both HTML5 and CSS3 are considered to be the next great thing by some people involved in web development. While CSS3 is broken up into modules where some have already effectively become standards while others are still in early draft, HTML5 is still at a very early draft stage. This doesn’t mean that you can’t [...]

Here’s my review of another C++ book that might be just what a beginner is looking for. Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours

This O’Reilly book produced in conjunction with Microsoft provides you with step by step instructions on how to set up a home network which includes Windows 7 computers (along with possibly Vista, Windows XP, Mac, and Ubuntu Linux based computers as well). Read more about what I think of the book “Step By Step Network [...]

This book took me much longer to review than any book I have reviewed before simply because it took me several times as long to read as any of the others. This wasn’t because the book was harder to read, it was because the book captured my interest so much that I kept stopping and [...]

As I reviewed this book I was rather disappointed in how many errors there were with the HTML and JavaScript. It wasn’t until I compared my review of this third edition with what I had written a few years ago about the second edition that I realised just how much the book has actually improved. [...]

This pocket sized reference covers a whole three versions of HTML. There are the old obsolete HTML 3.2 codes (as permitted under the HTML 4 transitional doctype), the current standard HTML 4 (strict) codes, and the preliminary draft HTML 5 codes. They are all labelled as to which version they apply to but are unfortunately [...]

Most books on web design assume that you have no knowledge of creating web pages apart perhaps from knowing some HTML. This book takes a different approach and assumes that the person is already a web developer. It then builds on what they already know about how server side processing interacts with the web page [...]

This book takes a very different approach to all the other books on programming that I have seen. Definitely worth a look for anyone with no prior programming experience whatsoever who is thinking about writing their own programs. Find out more about what I think of “Head First Programming”.

The biggest problem with a Content Management System such as Joomla is figuring out how to use it in the first place. This book not only tells you what all the options are for (and which ones you probably will not need to touch), it also tells you how to use the options to preform [...]