- REST Web Services — A new book for O’Reilly by Leonard Richardson and Sam Ruby, which looks fantastic – both in tone and in content. Almost certain to be essential reading when it’s published.
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- Inside Aperture — O’Reilly launch an Aperture-specific site. Some great writers, and some good content already. Looking forward to more…
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- The Django Book — The Django Book is now in beta, and it’s looking great – the JavaScript annotation system in particular is a delight. I’m really looking forward to seeing this develop.
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- ThisService — Input: a script in a language of your choice; output: an entry in the Services menu. Neat. Never really used Services too much, but this might convert me…
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- the { buckblogs :here }: Prolog in Ruby — Jamis is right; sometimimes a little prolog can be awfully succinct.
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- Bagelturf – Aperture Articles — A series of fantastic, well-written, clear articles about some of Aperture’s nuances. Definitely a piece of software on my "one day" list…
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- Creating Passionate Users: Better Beginnings: how to start a presentation, book, article… — Guilty of half of these (at points). They usually didn’t matter – but I’ll be some more in mind for the future.
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- A beginner’s guide to freelancing (Phil Gyford: Writing) — Really detailed, careful notes on going freelance from Phil – definitely worth a read
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- Citation Universal Style Guide: Draft — APA citation formats
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- exljbris — Delicious is a beautiful, free sans-serif. The Italic is especially gorgeous.
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