Essential Reading List for Web Designers - Part 2

October 6, 2008 at 8:45 am · Filed under Bibliography, Webdesignology, Webstandardology

Continuing my research on the Essential Reading List for Web Designers, System Architects, Technologists and “other-ologists”. And before I forget — check out my blogroll. The writers (bloggers) on my blog roll are very important (or they wouldn’t be on my blog roll). I’ve been reading some of these blogs for several years. Scroll down and review the blogroll list on the right hand side column (about half-way down).

Remember — this is a survey of books, blogs and magazines that people are recommending to me. I haven’t distilled the list down yet… still collecting suggestions from friends… My friend Antoine told me to look at Digital Web Magazine - they publish a variety of articles of interest to web designers, web developers, etc.

Here’s a few books that Antoine mentioned:

  1. Designing With Web Standards, by Jeffrey Zeldman, published by Peachpit Press, 2007, ISBN:0321385551, 410 pages (and you know I’ve recommended Zeldman’s book a Zillion times)
  2. Web Accessibility, Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, by Jim Thatcher, Michael R. Burks, Christian Heilmann, Shawn Lawton Henry, Patrick H. Lauke, Richard Rutter; published by Friends of ED, 2006, ISBN:1590596382, 648 pages
  3. The Zen of CSS Design, by Dave Shea, and Molly E. Holzschlag; Published by Peachpit Press, 2005, ISBN:0321303474, 296 pages
  4. The Business Side of Creativity, The Complete Guide for Running a Graphic Design Or Communications Business, by Cameron S. Foote, Illustrated by Mark Bellerose;Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 2002, ISBN:039373093X, 432 pages

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Mongrel 1.1.1

November 20, 2007 at 5:56 am · Filed under Webdesignology

This one (Mongrel onepointonepointone ) is just a little bug fix, fixing the Mongrel 1.1 mongrel_rails restart bug. Mongrel is a web server, that is cooler than a brick, and if you have used TomCat in the past, or heard of TomCat, you might understand the inside joke (TomCat vs. Mongrel (Dog)).

Most of the cool people who understand this stuff (wink, wink), are letting the cat out of the bag, because a dog is man’s best friend. But this really not really not a cat-fight, or even Cat vs. Dog fight, since even the guy who wrote TomCat has switched to Mongrel.

Update 10-Apr-2008:  Mongrel foot prints lead here now.

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