What is HTML5?
Once you really understand HTML5, you'll change the way you think about the web.
HTML5, when used both as the 21st century web suggests and as the original HTML specification allows, is best at interconnecting things.
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Brett McLaughlin
Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.
What is Node.js?Node isn't always the solution, but it does solve some important problems.
Learning Node might take a little effort, but it's going to pay off. Why? Because you're afforded solutions to your web application problems that require only JavaScript to solve.
We are iPad. Resistance is (not) futileApple may have closed the iPad, but you don't need permission to open it.
A lot of people are upset about how closed the iPhone, and now the iPad, are. Cory Doctorow wrote a lengthy piece about the evils of the iPad and its awful closed system. I agree that Apple has taken far too much away. I agree that it is infantalizing to require us to send in the iPad to get its battery replaced. But, my gosh, when did developers ever need permission to break things? When did Steve Jobs become not just rule maker, but some sort of deity that actually prevented me from ignoring said rule maker, and doing whatever I could with my device?
Is the "e" in ebooks the new blink tag?How one vowel creates a limiting design paradigm
The first group/publisher/company/person who moves away from the ebook and to content -- content that can be delivered to a variety of media, digital and non-digital, with display and style applied separate from and after content creation -- wins.
Where's the continuity?
As seen in comic books, continuity has long been considered a function of good fiction. Here's a simple question: in your reading, your writing, your speaking, your programming, what are you doing to create and absorb context and continuity? I believe there are ways to achieve this in almost every field, and I believe this is an important part of what sets the elite apart from the non-elite in terms of communication.
Where are the learners?
I tend to browse around Flickr a lot, and came across this image of an empty classroom. So what's missing here? Well, it would seem obvious... except to many technical book authors. See, for most folks, the obvious answer here is, "There are no students!" But for the average technical book author -- and to be clear, I'm one of that crowd, so I'm speaking personally and from experience -- we would all, loudly, cry out, "There's no teacher!" What a fundamental disconnect.
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