Leveraging the JavaScript Stack
Przemysław's rating:
 5.0
On Nov 7, 2014 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Node book done well
Ethan Brown did good job in writing Web Development with Node and Express. He covered many topics & provided solutions to real-life developer’s problems. Full Review >
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Przemysław's rating:
 4.0
On Nov 1, 2014 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Manual for beginners
If you're taking first steps in web development and you want to start with programming in JavaScript, that's the book for you. Full Review >
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Taming Callback Hell with Deferreds and Promises
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4.0
On Sep 27, 2014 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Promising Deferreds
In general it’s good to get familiar with idea of deferreds and this book is good with explaining with that concept. Full Review >
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Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jan 20, 2014 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Learn how to use the good parts of JavaScript
Author did a good job to point out good & bad parts of JavaScript. Book as a whole is great overview of JavaScript as a programming language... Full Review >
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A JavaScript and jQuery Developer's Guide
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5.0
On Jan 3, 2014 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Patterns in JavaScript developer’s life
I really like Addy’s approach in book: every pattern has diagram (to visualize concept), code (to see real implementation), more examples (when pattern has some “flavoursâ€Â), references (to read more), discussion (about advantages and disadvantages)... Full Review >
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Detecting and Preventing Web Application Security Problems
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Dec 27, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Be more security-aware developer/user
Examples are pretty useful, ready to check on existing websites (of course those you own ;-))... Full Review >
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Services for a Changing World
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Sep 29, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good reference book
In my current project I use JSON heavily as representation when “talking to†servers. I decided to read that book and possibly get some insights how design better APIs... Full Review >
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Solutions for iOS Developers
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5.0
On Sep 22, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Cook your iOS apps
I like cookbooks and iOS6 Programming Cookbook is no exception. Author covers a lot of practical knowledge: basics of Objective-C, UI solutions, Xcode features... Full Review >
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Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Sep 15, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Perl from the ground up
Learning Perl Video is almost 11 hours long lectures covering Perl from the ground up. Randal Schwartz presents concepts and quirks in Perl step by step. Videos are nicely divided by topics... Full Review >
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Recipes for Object-Oriented and Functional Programming
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Sep 3, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Scala in examples
Scala Cookbook is very practical book. Author presents every small example as problem to solve and possible solutions with discussion. I learned... Full Review >
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Complexity Science and Computational Modeling
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3.0
On Aug 23, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Nothing special
After studying 5 years Computer Science there are not too many surprising topics in that book. It was nice adventure to refresh some Python and go through “Case Study†chapters... Full Review >
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Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript
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5.0
On Jul 27, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good overview
Web is changing: new technologies, frameworks but also new devices for browsing Internet.
The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript is interesting book  informative but often author barely scratches the surface.... Full Review >
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Recipes from the Community for Building Web Applications with Scala
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jul 23, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Practical Lift
Lift Cookbook is very practical book. Author covers the most basic & used aspects of web apps (HTML rendering, form, Ajax, REST API, connecting to SQL & NoSQL databases and more)... Full Review >
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Introducing Functional Programming with Underscore.js
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jul 21, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: JavaScript more functional
Functional JavaScript is nice mindshift and exploration into functional world when reader can write software with elegant API using functional approach... Full Review >
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Building Better JavaScript Applications
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jul 11, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good book
Book is organized quite well for me. After some introductory and essential material there are two chapters with Todo app and simple application storing books in library... Full Review >
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Native Interactivity and Animation for the Web
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Jul 3, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good reference book
HTML5 Canvas is good book. It is good reference for canvas. It provides examples about drawing shapes, texts, raster images e.g. from PNG, JPEG. There is nice JavaScript library: Box2DWeb for animating physics & drawing it on canvas... Full Review >
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Messaging for Many Applications
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5.0
On May 13, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Comprehensive guide to ZeroMQ
Book has two parts: “Learning to work with ØMQ†& “Software Engineering Using ØMQâ€Â.
In first part author presents basics, socket and a lot of different different patterns. Examples are quite easy to grasp, many of them are continuations of others or they are different approach solving particular problem... Full Review >
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Practical Use Cases with the Leading NoSQL Database
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Apr 10, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Useful and practical examples
Recently, I needed to think about structure of documents used in one of my web app.
In first part author helps to solve that problem  he shows pros and cons... Full Review >
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A Hands-On Guide to Modeling, Sculpting, Materials, and Rendering
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Apr 7, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Blender  good to know
After introductions to Blender and GIMP authors covers consecutive steps how to create “The Projects†from a scratch. Author presents and develop three projects through the book... Full Review >
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A Guide to Engineering Experiences
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5.0
On Mar 24, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Games demystified
Tynan Sylvester wrote the great book. He included many tips, personal experiences, insights which make the book even more valuable. I started reading Designing Games and immediately I got absorbed into this book. It is clearly written, well explained, uses... Full Review >
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Get Up to Speed With Sinatra in a Weekend
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Mar 7, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Simply good
Author did a good job. He clearly presents... Full Review >
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Ensuring Reliable Code
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Mar 1, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Test Your JavaScript
Testable JavaScript is written in a good solid way... Full Review >
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Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Feb 6, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: R in practice
R Graphics Cookbook covers a lot of stuff. There are many different kinds of graphs/plots... Full Review >
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Rapid Prototyping and Scalable Deployment
Przemysław's rating:
3.0
On Jan 30, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Could be better
Node.js is quite promising technology and for some time I’ve been trying to take a deeper look at it. Title Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone looked good for me then I started reading… Full Review >
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How To Use Comics to Communicate Ideas
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jan 9, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Doodling for fun and profit
... with author suggestions, I started doodling and doing exercises from book and it was fun :-) ... Full Review >
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Get Up to Speed With CoffeeScript in a Weekend
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Jan 5, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Adventure with CoffeeScript
Jump Start CoffeeScript is written in interesting & entertaining way: you are taking part in “7-day HTML5 Game Jam-a-Thon Challenge (TM)†with your teammates. Every chapter is one day when you learn CoffeeScript... Full Review >
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Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Jan 3, 2013 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Repetition is the mother of study
What I like the most in this book that almost every chapter contains tutorial at the end. It gave me hands-on experience... Full Review >
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Powerful tools and techniques for collaborative software development
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Dec 26, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Git inside out
Version Control with Git is an awesome book. Authors explain things thoroughly. They also have a good sense of humour and it makes reading much more pleasant... Full Review >
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Get Up to Speed With Node.js in a Weekend
Przemysław's rating:
3.0
On Dec 23, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Node.js for novices
Beginning of Jump Start Node.js looked promising: test-driven development, interesting examples, fetching remote data, connecting Node.js with MongoDB. The goal of the book was to write Nockmarket  application with different features... Full Review >
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Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Dec 21, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good stuff
McCullough and Berglund present material well... Full Review >
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Bridging the Gap Between the Web and the Mobile Web
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Dec 1, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Building web apps with HTML5 & JavaScript
Author did a good a job to show the latest concepts/solutions in HTML5 & JavaScript. Big part of this book covers The Mobile Web (e.g. fetching, caching, network type detection, device orientation and others). Across the book there are many practical code examples... Full Review >
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Functional Programming for the Web
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Nov 26, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Functional Programming for the Web
Authors did a great job to get ClojureScript up and running. Book is relatively short but it covers essential things about ClojureScript. The compilation process and use of Google Closure Compiler are well explained. Book also goes through basics of ClojureScript... Full Review >
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Create User Experiences to Wow Your Visitors
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Nov 20, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Insightful UX design
It is vital to understand how technology can enhance the human experience… As a programmer/developer I decided to get to know UX design better by reading this book. The beginning of Killer UX design introduces what is UX, covers different aspects of experience (e.g. usefulness, usability, aesthetics) and puts reader in the User’s shoes. Chapters 2-8 describe consecutive phases (Research, Insight, UX vision, Concept and Design) of case study: creating Recipe App... Full Review >
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Building 3D Graphics for the Web
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Nov 13, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Good & practical book
This book is good introduction to WebGL. It covers the most important aspects of programming in WebGL. There are a lot of practical examples... Full Review >
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A Software Developer's Guide to Working Well with Others
Przemysław's rating:
5.0
On Aug 30, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Book full of practical knowledge
This book is great. It is full of practical useful tips, a lot of insights... Full Review >
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Rails from the Outside In
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Aug 26, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Really, really good book
I was very curious about this book when came out. I like the way authors present material in book. First, they show bigger picture and step-by-step explain it in details... Full Review >
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Working with REST and Web Sockets on Yaws
Przemysław's rating:
4.0
On Aug 5, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote: Start building your Erlang web applications with this book
Book covers a lot of aspects of web development: scalability & NoSQL databases, REST, file upload, web sockets, streaming and much more.
If you want build your web applications with Erlang, this book is really good position to begin with... Full Review >
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The Language that Powers Rails
Przemysław's rating:
3.0
On Jul 22, 2012 Przemysław Dąbek wrote:
Learning Ruby can be still valuable position for beginner however I would recommend find more up-to-date book. Full Review >
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