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Books and Tears of Joy
Published on: August 24, 2006 by Paul Boag
First, let me apologise for the lack of posts recently. I am having real trouble striking the balance between boagworld and proper work! However, I do have a couple of good books for you to check out and a post on the IE blog that almost brought tears to my eyes.
As the podcast has grown in popularity, I have found it increasingly hard to strike the balance between my work for Headscape and my passion for boagworld. On one hand, I get to write for various magazines (like .net or Practical Web Design), speak at conferences and contribute to other sites, which is all very exciting. On the other, I could easily become divorced from the day-to-day process of building websites, which would be a real shame. I get concerned about how the more "vocal" and "active" members of the web design community, end talking about design and development more than they actually doing it. That is why for the last few weeks I have been a bit more quiet on boagworld and have been focusing more heavily on client work.
Of course, you don't care about my personal woes so I will move on to a couple of things that have caught my eye recently.
Books of note
Firstly, I have seen a couple of books you might want to look at. I cannot say I have read either of them personally yet (I am still ploughing my way through "Prioritizing Web Usability" by Jakob Nielsen) but they have both received excellent reviews and I respect the opinions of their respective authors:
Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax
I really want this one as my DOM Scripting knowledge still has significant room for improvement. Also Chris is an excellent writer and talks a lot of sense.
Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance
Sounds dull doesn't it? However, from what I can gather it is actually a lively read. A number of excellent designers and developers have contributed to this one so it is well worth your attention. If you want to finally nail this accessibility issue once and for all then this is a good place to start.
Tears of joy
On a completely different note, I wanted to draw your attention to a recent post on the IE 7 Blog. This post lists all of the bugs and problems from IE6 that have now been fixed in IE 7. Credit, where credit is due, IE 7 is an excellent browser and I can't wait until it is officially rolled out.
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