Our front-end guru wants to take the plunge and get to know more about our middle and back (and way-back) ends. There are more than a couple steps down the road to mastery, but the essentials are enough to get you well on your way. This is a brief (link-farm) guide for someone with some [...]
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Over the years I’ve gotten a lot of value out of reading Amazon reviews. But only recently have I actually become a contributor to their sophisticated social system (a different S3 . Now I’m discovering some great benefits to writing reviews — let me share them with you. Here are the reasons it might be [...]
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Contrary to the notion that books are dead, I’ve recently been making great use of my local library. While I agree that learning is best accomplished by doing, I still like to start exploring subjects by amassing a bunch of relevant dead-tree books. I like to prop back in an old La-Z-Boy and get real [...]
While getting ready for Startup School, I was frantically trying to plow through the bulk of Paul Graham’s essays. He mentions that an important read for preparing to start your own business is How To Win Friends and Influence People, by Dale Carnegie. I picked it up at the library (footnote: I bet most libraries [...]