On My Desk(top)
The following is a random and occasionally changing snapshot of things that are of interest to me "lately" that occupy some portion of my desk, desktop, or brain. These things have something to do with a current interest, project, or hobby. Enjoy.Books
These books currently adorn my desk. I bought them at Amazon.com. So can you!I am, by no means, a web designer. (These pages should bear sufficient testament to that...) I have little, if any, artistic ability. I am, however, a computer programmer. So the programming aspects of web design are interesting, especially when I have something to program. A few websites have afforded me an opportunity to dabble in web site programming and construction, most recently the website of Temple Beth Sholom. Knowing nothing more than basic HTML, but armed with "years of programming experience" and my own web server to play with, I bought these books and jumped in.
Knowing nearly nothing about JavaScript, I set out to find a single book that would cover nearly everything I might need to know to do "basic" stuff with JavaScript. This book has proven itself to be that book.
Given the choice of using CGI or PHP, I think I'd chose PHP, now that I'm familiar with it. PHP itself is both a programming language (like C++) and a scripting language (like Perl) rolled into one, that you can embed right in your HTML. I've found the language and the book easy to use. In choosing this book, again I was interested in finding a single source for most of the information about PHP I might need.
When I setup my own Linux systems at home, having never been a Unix system administrator, I decided I should have come references around. I bought these books specifically as reference books, although Running Linux has some fairly readable sections on the history of Linux, and the like.
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