Daniel Guerrero Thoughts » Books

Web Dragons: Inside the Myths of Search Engine Technology

danguer — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:05:06 +0000

This book is an excellent introduction not only about Search Engines and how works, but all which is around it, mainly internet from the view point of find information. The book also handle information about copyright, future and past of …

Professional Javascript for Web Developers

danguer — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 19:37:18 +0000

This book is a great introduction for Javascript and also for those who know basics of javascript. The book is clearly explained and feature a lot of examples, but unfortunately after the DOM chapter it doesn’t show the output of …

Myth: A Very Short Introduction

danguer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:28:06 +0000

This excellent book will provide you a good introduction to myths, is not about myths properly but to theories about myths: purpose, possible origin and interpretations. The introduction states very clearly: “Let me be clear from the outset: this book …

Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning

danguer — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:10:10 +0000

I recently finished reading this excellent book. Even the first part not clearly explained like other books, the personas chapter is very good to present this good resource. It worth to keep in mind this phrase: “I think our users …

Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

danguer — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:58:35 +0000

I’ve finished reading this compact but excellent book: Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability The book is written in an easy to read form; you will pick up the basic aspects of usability in this …

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, 2nd Edition

danguer — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:58:41 +0000

I’ve finished reading this excellent book, I think in some parts have a lot of content and some chapters are barely explained. This book mandatory for HCI / usability areas, it clearly explain the role of information architecture through examples, …

Book: The Silence of the Lambs

danguer — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:04:17 +0000

Today I finished to read The Silence of the Lambs, in this case the movie have minor changes to the novel but of course had cut several parts from novel for example Bella character (or mention) as the sickness wife …

Descartes’ Error

danguer — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:41:02 +0000

I finally finished to read this book (it took more than I thought), now doesn’t seem much controversial as was ten years ago. The book put back the emotions in the reason processing, and shows examples of patients similar to …

The Bourne Identity

danguer — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:47:33 +0000

I’ve just finished to read The Bourne Identity book, I have to say even the Movie is very different from the book, is one of the few movies I really like even there is only loosely based on a book. …

Memoirs of a Geisha

danguer — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:30:21 +0000

From a time ago I wanted to read this book, the movie wasn’t very good from my point of view, but I wanted to check the book since I thought it will provide a more historic background than movie. I …