geek ramblings » Books http://dougal.gunters.org Random musings of a Southern geek Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:24:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.2-alpha en WordPress Book http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:49:12 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book Building Online Communities With Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

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

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Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress

Well, actually, the book isn’t just about WordPress. But it does devote six chapters to our favorite blogging platform. The book I’m talking about is Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress, co-authored by Mike Little.

The result is six chapters on using WordPress to help build an online community. Although I wrote the book using version 1.5.x most of the WordPress chapters are version agnostic. This isn’t a “how to use WordPress” book (the excellent WordPress Codex is good for that). This is a book about how to use WordPress to help you build an online community.

It’s published by Apress, who really seem to get the Open Source community. I’ve got several other books by them, and I hope to write up some reviews eventually. I’ll have to see if I can add Mike’s book to my collection, too!

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/12/22/wordpress-book/feed Zen of CSS Design http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/02/22/zen-of-css-design http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/02/22/zen-of-css-design#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:14:23 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/02/22/zen-of-css-design The Zen of CSS Design : Visual Enlightenment for the Web

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. [...]

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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. His efforts, and those of many Garden contributors are now detailed in a book, The Zen of CSS Design.

Update 2005-03-04:
Flog me thrice for neglecting to mention that Molly Holzschlag is the co-author of this book.

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]]> http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2005/02/22/zen-of-css-design/feed An Open Letter To Amazon.com http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/10/20/open-letter-to-amazon http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/10/20/open-letter-to-amazon#comments Wed, 20 Oct 2004 21:39:21 +0000 Dougal http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2004/10/20/an-open-letter-to-amazoncom 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. [...]

]]> 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. But Amazon doesn’t accept it. My regular account is awaiting my next paycheck before I make any unnecessary purchases. And it would take several days to transfer money from PayPal back to my regular accounts, so all semblance of convenience is lost.

Please, please, please add PayPal support.

Please?

Need a use-case? PayPal is one of the few ways I can purchase a gift for my wife without her seeing the bill. [Ed note: pretend you didn't read that, sweetheart ;) ] But the main use-case is just that it’s awfully darned convenient to use PayPal when you already have funds sitting in the account. It’s a source of funds that are already outside my primary budget management, so it’s almost like “free money” that I don’t feel guilty about spending (because as far as my budget calculations are concerned, it’s already “spent”).

C’mon, Amazon… MAKE MONEY NOW!!!!1!1!

Sorry, I don’t know what came over me.

Don’t I at least deserve a $20 gift certificate for making my message entertaining (as well as informative)?

No?

…darn…

$10?

Alright, I’ll stop now.

Seriously, though.

PayPal.

Your customers want it.

Do you agree? Why not let Amazon know?

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