I just got back from Borders where I picked up a copy of Danny Ayers and Andrew Watt's (who, by the way, deserves some sort of award for coming up with *BY FAR* the most creative domain name/subject usage I've seen in a long time!) new title, "Beginning RSS and Atom Programming." Earlier in the week I received in the mail a copy of "SVG Essentials" by J. David Eisenberg. I just want to quickly give a shout out to all three of these authors for producing two *EXTREMELY* well written titles containing all sorts of fantastic bits of content and reusable code. I spent a good portion of yesterday reading "SVG Essentials" and found it absolutely perfect in regards to covering the ins and out of SVG programming and while I have only spent an hour or so skimming "Beginning RSS and Atom Programming", even with a good deal of development experience using both of these feed formats I have found some nuggets of insight that undoubtedly will find there way into my daily programming routines.
Cheers to all three of you for a job *REALLY* well done :)
By the way, in regards to SVG development without a doubt you should look into Kurt Cagle's "SVG Programming: The Graphical Web" which is something I have had for a while, receiving my copy directly from Kurt a while back (thanks Kurt!) and, until a few days ago was the only SVG title on my shelf. Both of these titles have there value and will continue to be well used over the next few months as I become even more familiar with this area of software development.
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Thanks for the kind words! Andrew has a fine domain name indeed ;-)
I’m particularly pleased to hear the RSS/Atom book’s been picked up by an SVG enthusiast, it’s one of my favourite pointed-bracketed things. (Previous big project I worked on, Andrew leading, was SVG Unleashed, although that’s probably showing it’s age by now).
btw, I’m a big fan of your blog - keep up the good work!
Hey Danny,
Thanks for taking the time to comment :) And I appreciate the fact that that you enjoy my blog :) To be honest there are times when I wonder if I am doing more damage to my career than good but I enjoy writing it WAY TOO MUCH to give it up. It’s nice to hear that a developer in whom I have a great deal of respect for (as do many!) enjoy’s reading what I have to say. Thanks!
I am spell bound by this title… ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS (as a side note, one of my more favorite, err, favourite British comedies ;) and I’m only a couple of chapters in. This is just what I needed as I have definitely been very narrow minded as far as what I have been using/envisioning RSS and Atom in regards to application usage and development. My creative “channels” (pun really wasn’t intended but I did decide to quote channels after the fact so… ;) have definitely been opened and primed and I’m excited to get going with a few ideas that I hadn’t even considered before now. Thanks for both yours and Andrew’s help in this regard! No doubt I will find even more the deeper I get into this… :)
Cheers :)
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