Posted in Books on July 7, 2007 | No Comments »
After discovering aNobii, a bookshelf web application, through a couple of italian weblogs I regularly read, and after hearing a couple of (ex) co-workers suggesting me to give a deeper look at it, I was quite intrigued. But, before trying to set up an account, I had to chase out a doubt: does aNobii let [...]
Posted in Books, Django, Python on November 6, 2006 | No Comments »
Do you remember when, at the end of this post, I tried to make a comparison between visible attitudes of the Python and the Ruby community? And as a key example I quoted Dive Into Python, available free on the Internet but also published in paper form by Apress?
Now it happens that the Django book, [...]
Posted in Books on August 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Well, the missing parcel has forever gone, lost. But Amazon decided, after solicitation, to resend available books, and to refund the book it had no more in stock. So another parcel arrived, containing Everything is Illuminated and The Blind Watchmaker, which I can now delete from my wishing list, while perhaps moving it from Amazon [...]
Posted in Books on August 2, 2006 | No Comments »
I was browsing some different flavours of Amazon lately, because I became interested in buying some new books, and while discovering (yet again, I’m certainly not the first one) that for a poor old chap living in Italy, the single book costs less in the United States than in England even when item shipment fees [...]
Posted in Books on July 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
More or less two months and three weeks ago, my birthday came, and a kind friend of mine decided to buy me a present from Amazon.co.uk. The gift box contained: Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion, which I could peruse a lot these days; The Blind Watchmaker, which I discovered by reading the last Douglas Adams [...]
