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Book recommendation II: Database System Concepts

Max Pagels — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:10:28 +0000

Contains information on the theory of relational databases, popular RDBMSs, concurrency control etc. The site has a collection of PPT/PDF slides that are useful for repetition of the main concepts.

PDF recommendation

Max Pagels — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:12:16 +0000

The Information Retrieval Methods PDF by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze is not only gratis, but a good resource on all kinds of Information Retrieval topics: the boolean model, the vector space model, tf-idf weighting, language models etc.

Book recommendation: The Linux Administration Handbook

Max Pagels — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 18:54:57 +0000

The Linux Administration Handbook (second edition) is $42.89 on Amazon. From the /proc pseudo filesystem to information on user accounts and GRUB, this book is one of the most comprehensive Linux sysadmin resources I own.

There are 129,864,800 books in the world

Max Pagels — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 04:41:59 +0000

According to Google. The final figure isn’t as interesting as the post detailing how they came up with it – a process that started by answering a seemingly simple question: “What counts as a book?”

HTML5: Up and Running

Max Pagels — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:04:15 +0000

An upcoming book by Mark Pilgrim of Dive into HTML5 fame. Available for preorder now, releasing March 15.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Max Pagels — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:55:51 +0000

★★★★★

Fascinating general science book written in layman’s terms.

Browser Security Handbook

Max Pagels — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:04:54 +0000

A lesser-known but informative online book by Google.

Details on Google Editions

Max Pagels — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:45:25 +0000

Tom Turvey, Google’s director of strategic partnerships, now explains that the device does not need to be connected to the Internet to read the book after it was accessed once. He also clarified that the company is “not focused on a dedicated eReader or device of any kind.”

Interesting to se how Kindle consumers react when Google launches this service next year.