One of my favourite Brookmyre books yet. His usual humourous thriller, with biting satire - ABBDIARA also has a ton of computer game references, I defy any geek not to love it.
As funny and engaging as ever, I zoomed through it in a week, finding it hard to put down - I'm looking to pick up the next one ASAP.
By this time you should have the same skills for the Basic Scale Forms that you acquired for the Chord Forms. You should be able to recognize and play all five Forms in any Position, visualize them in CAGED sequence and Name a scale by its Form and Position.
By now you should be able to recognize all five Basic Chord Forms in any position, connect them in CAGED sequence from any position, and name the chord from any form and position.
I read this for GCSE English and loved it. I bought it again at the weekend just for the book cover. Awesome.
This is a really good book to get up to speed with PHP, it skims over major features used in developing web apps, and highlights the potential pitfalls.
My one critique would be that it's nowhere near as quirky and fun read as the cover and title would suggest. I'll be honest, I judged this book by it's cover - I bought it cos I wanted to read about PHP, and I like robots. Seemed like it was made for me.
That being my biggest criticism should tell you a fair bit, as some one with experience with developing webapps on other platforms (ASP.Net / Django) it was a good catch up read.
So that's the first part of the intro done with. I'll be honest, it wasn't encouraging - more like a series of excuses for PHP being a bit rubbish. It didn't even touch upon the inconsistencies of the language, more a load of straw man arguments.
But my mind is open, I've heard good things about this book, I'll overlook the apologist authors :D
I'm reading this to quickly bring me up to speed with PHP, I get the syntax and all that - but some of the wheres and whys are kinda mental. I mean, wtf is Register Globals about? Which crackhead thought that could POSSIBLY be a good idea?
Thus far this book is helping me get around the language and giving me heads up on various pitfalls.
This book is absolutely gorgeous. The photos are fantastic - a nice even spread of action shots, profile shots, and (my favourite) before-and-after shots, with fighter quotes spread throughout.
Brilliant coffee table book.
The first few chapters were about the web design process. Incredibly insightful, and pragmatic. Just started the Typography section - so far, very high-level, I'm hoping that it gives some case studies and the like on when to use different typefaces, but we shall see.
Phewsh, thus far this is incredibly well researched.
I got this book primarily as a reference for the techniques contained within, but up until now it's only contained a history of martial arts (from Feudal Japan, via the late-19th century Judo revolution, to Gracie Jiu-Jitsu, and modern day MMA). This history really demonstrates why modern Jiu-Jitsu has been as successful as it has ("proper" sparring, borrowing wisely from other disciplines, a loose belt-system, testing it out against other disciplines), and is not only useful, but constantly fascinating.
What is really apparent, is that even just reading this history and the high-level breakdown of strategy (the death of the classic close-range/punching-range/kicking-range strategy found in other TMAs) could be beneficial in Jiu-Jitsu training. (Obviously that will become more obvious next time I'm on the mat - I'll let you know!)