Category Archives: Books

The things I read

Book Review Poll

By Dougal | Published: January 6, 2009

I have some more books available to review, this time, a selection from Apress. I can’t decide which one I want to look at first, so I’m going to leave it up to you, my readers. . [...]

Posted in Books | Tagged administration, automating, automation, Books, Linux, reviews, scripting, Server, server administration, shell, shell scripting, system administration, Ubuntu, ubuntu server | 2 Comments

WordPress Book

By Dougal | Published: December 22, 2005

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Well, actually, the book isn’t just about WordPress. [...]

Also posted in Community, WordPress | Tagged PHP, WordPress | 3 Comments

Zen of CSS Design

By Dougal | Published: February 22, 2005

The Zen of CSS Design

Congrats to Dave Shea, whose CSS Zen Garden web site has demonstrated the benefits of CSS-based design so much better than any verbal explanation could. [...]

Also posted in CSS, Design | Tagged CSS, Web | 5 Comments

An Open Letter To Amazon.com

By Dougal | Published: October 20, 2004

This is some feedback that I just sent to Amazon. I thought I’d share it.

I’m sure you must get this question a lot, but do you have any plans to support PayPal in the future?

Call me lazy, but sometimes I’d rather just not order something, than to have to transfer funds from my PayPal account back to my regular account just to spend it (despite their recent problems).

Like just now. I wanted to purchase High Performance MySQL, figuring I’d pay using some funds that I have sitting in PayPal at the moment. [...]

Posted in Books | 8 Comments