We've got winning code for all three labs in Head First C#, so you can now download the executables. Congratulations to the winners!...
February 2008 Archives
The next Head First book showing up in your local book store might surprise many of you... it's a brand new edition of Head First Servlets & JSP. This new edition has flown under the radar a bit, competing...
Continue reading So you wanna be a servlets stud? Or a JSP jedi?.
You asked for it! We've doubled the size of the Head First HTML index and made it much more comprehensive. Download the PDF here....
Suppose you're reading your favorite Head First book, waiting for your stop to come up on the train. You're learning, it's great, you might even laugh a bit along the way. All good stuff, right? But then it hits you,...
Continue reading In search of a few good authors....
Novelist Walter Kirn recently wrote an extremely insightful, extremely hysterical piece in The Atlantic on the effects of a 21st-century, electronic-gadget-glut-enabled multitasking culture on our beleaguered Pleistocene brains. It's a long read, but well worth it. And I highly recommend...
Continue reading The Multitasking Mind.
Here's the latest from Jennifer Greene, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. Andrew mentioned the Why Projects Fail talk that we've been giving around at various meetings and conferences over the past few months. Pretty much everybody...
Continue reading Jennifer Greene: Buckets of Problems.
Here's the next post from Jennifer Greene, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. I once worked on a team that had a standing practice of padding all of the estimates their developers gave by 40%. They figured...
Continue reading Jennifer Greene: Buffers can get you into trouble.
Here's our first post from Jennifer Greene, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. When we were starting to write Head First C# I had just bought Scarface for the Wii. The opening level for the game was...
Continue reading Jennifer Greene: Scarface and Head First C#.
We've added a page that explains a bit about why Head First books are so different, and why they work....
Another post from Andrew Stellman, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. Back in November, there was a really interesting Slashot post about some C# trouble that the Princeton team working on the DARPA Grand Challenge ran into....
Continue reading Andrew Stellman: Helping out the Princeton DARPA team with C#.
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