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Gear!
Every once in a while, I use something that rocks my socks. Here's where I tell ya about it.
- A Better Mouse
- Recently, a friend got me into online gaming. Yes, I was resistant. I do not want to spend any more time online than I already do, and I have plenty I want to do off-line. To help me out, my friend sent me this mouse as a surprise. I thought I only wanted Apple mice, but this one has me converted. It is so responsive and reliable, I'm addicted. Yes, the blue glow one looks kinda… macho? sexy? silly? So, I've provided a link to the black one, too.
- Black: Razer Deathadder Black 3500 High Precision 3.5G Infrared Gaming Mouse
- Blue (with glowing design): Razer Deathadder 3500 High Precision 3.5G Infrared Gaming Mouse
Books!
Many people are asking me for suggestions on learning, so I created a list of links to books at Amazon.
In the interest of full disclosure, I do earn a single-digit % for each purchase made through my referral, so help me feed my book addiction by making your purchases through these links. Thanks!
- First Steps
- Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
- Designing with Web Standards (3rd Edition)
- Prioritizing Web Usability
- The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
- Planning & Communication
- Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning
- Web ReDesign 2.0: Workflow that Works (2nd Edition)
- Information Architecture and Content Strategy
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites
- Content Strategy for the Web
- @font-face
- Fluid Web Typography
- Interface, Interaction, Experience
- Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices
- Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices (2nd Edition) (Voices That Matter)
- Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (5th Edition)
- Designing for People
(This one is out of print and difficult to find. I found it on ebay for $15 plus shipping.)
- Forms
- Forms that Work: Designing Web Forms for Usability (Interactive Technologies)
- Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks
- Design Patterns
- Designing Interfaces
- Typography
- Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students (Design Briefs)
- The Elements of Typographic Style
- Typographic Design: Form and Communication
- Beginning to Code
- CSS, DHTML, and Ajax, Fourth Edition
- Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)
- CSS
- The Art and Science of CSS
- CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training
- CSS: The Definitive Guide
- CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
- Eric Meyer on CSS: Mastering the Language of Web Design
- Bulletproof Web Design: Improving flexibility and protecting against worst-case scenarios with XHTML and CSS (2nd Edition)
- CSS Cookbook, 3rd Edition (Animal Guide)
- More CSS
- For researching CSS issues, this is great: The CSS Detective Guide: Tricks for solving tough CSS mysteries
- More Eric Meyer on CSS (Voices That Matter)
- Handcrafted CSS: More Bulletproof Web Design, Video Edition (includes Handcrafted CSS book and Handcrafted CSS: Bulletproof Essentials DVD)
- Javascript
- DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model
- JavaScript: The Missing Manual
- Scriptin' with JavaScript and Ajax: A Designer's Guide (Voices That Matter)
- JavaScript: The Good Parts
- Pro JavaScript Techniques
- ppk on JavaScript, 1/e
- jQuery
- Learning jQuery: Better Interaction Design and Web Development with Simple JavaScript Techniques
- jQuery Reference Guide: A Comprehensive Exploration of the Popular JavaScript Library
- PHP [& MySQL]
- Learning PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites (Animal Guide)
- PHP Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for PHP Programmers
- PHP Solutions: Dynamic Web Design Made Easy
- Head First PHP & MySQL
- Mobile
- Mobile Design and Development: Practical Concepts and Techniques for Creating Mobile Sites and Web Apps (Animal Guide)
- Mobile Web Design
- iPhone
- Beginning iPhone 3 Development: Exploring the iPhone SDK
- iPhone SDK Development (The Pragmatic Programmers)
- iPhone SDK Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone and iPod touch
- iPhone Games Projects
- Developing Hybrid Applications for the iPhone: Using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to Build Dynamic Apps for the iPhone
- Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript: Making App Store Apps Without Objective-C or Cocoa
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