The Modern Web: Multi-Device Web Development with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript by Peter Gasston is a good book to catch somebody up on the new rules of website development with HTML5 and CSS3. It's able to build upon your existing knowledge to make the lessons easily understandable while being short, to the point, and incredibly informative. The focused content was a great read … [Read more...]
Book Review and Giveaway: Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition by Michael W. Lucas
Absolute OpenBSD: Unix for the Practical Paranoid, 2nd Edition by Michael W. Lucas is a stellar technical book. Writing a guide to an operating system can not be an easy task. It's a chore to weave between a textbook approach, explaining dry technical material, and conveying enough information to be useful. Somehow the author managed to write and, perhaps more importantly, … [Read more...]
Book Review: This Machine Kills Secrets by Andy Greenberg
This Machine Kills Secrets - How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information is written by Forbes journalist Andy Greenberg and provides a historical recount of the use of the cryptography revolution. This takes the story from the Pentagon Papers of 1971 to the WikiLeaks of 2010 and beyond with several organizations' attempts to build the next … [Read more...]
Product Review: Logitech G500s Laser Mouse
Following Logitech's announcement about the availability of their G line of products, they offered a G500s Laser Gaming Mouse to test and review. Until the G500s arrived, I have been using the Logitech G5 Laser Mouse for the past six years. It is durable, precise, corded, and works great. That actually set the benchmark higher for the G500s Laser Gaming Mouse in order for it to … [Read more...]
Product review: O2 Hurricane canless air system
Canned air is a staple for the computer technician's toolbag. Dusty computers are all too commonplace and can be pretty disgusting. With a few blasts of canned air, you can have the PC cleaned out very quickly and from hard to reach spots like the fins of a heatsink. For all of its familiarity, uses, and usefulness, canned air has a lot of negatives. It can be costly at ~$4 a … [Read more...]