The Daily Dose

• Me: oops I made a typo in ma FB Post!!
• Arnab: Why you made a typo there?
• Me: well that was a silly error, now anyway I have corrected it! and the matter is over :)
• Arnab: Matter will not end there. WHY YOU MADE A TYPO? The Question is in the public domain of your FB page.You will have to explain. Since You did the typo you will have to explain.
• Me: I have already explained.
• Arnab: My typing skills are not good Mr., But yours should be good, I want to know how you made the mistake. I want to understand your typing speed which made you cause the typo
• Me: But I told you I have corrected it.
• Arnab: So what if you have corrected it. You corrcted it too late. You are avoiding my Questions. But I will not let you. You also didnt put proper punctuation marks nor checked the grammars.... Please expalin
• Me: Please understand its corrected. I have no more comments.
• Arnab: No no no you cant simply correct the typo and get away. When you are caguht on the wrong foot, you try to blame the keyboard manufacturer and get away. Don't you think its extremely cowardly of you. Don't you think that because of you, keyboard manufacturers are painted as ignorant and illiterate? You dont have the courage and guts to own up your own statement.
• Me: I corrected the statement, since it was difficult for people to read the post due to typo.
• Arnab: So you have made the correction not because it was wrong, but people found it difficult to read. So you still believe in making typos and making posts that are not grammatically correct. There may be two reasons you corrected your typo. one is because you dont want embarass yourself and your english teacher. The other may be because you also beleieve what you have done is so uncultured,uncivilised, and a threat to society. (A long pause)
• hello....hello... are you there. I am told that the chat line is working fine...
• Me: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..........................

This might be one book which I find the most easiest to write a review. A tweet could tell more than enought about this book. A comprehensive book on C which simply draws you the big picture about C. Head First C Indeed is a good read, but not the kind you would read for your exams or you keep on reference kit. This book brings you literally everything about what people around the globe do with C. I would say it lets you see what C can do.

Whether you are a beginner more sweetly called as noob trying to figure out what this odd language does or a seasoned programmer drowned in day to day enterprise chores, this is indeed a rejuvenating experience as it shows you the real power of C.For the cynics here’s the list of what it covers.

Starting off with pointers(Yes! they started with pointers), moving to troublesome strings, they introduce to ‘make’ and other tools and then starts the ride: Arduino, OpenCV, network programming, Threads, IPC and a whole lot. What is more interesting is they have not left out data structures, functions, dynamic binding, UI or libraries. As Steve Jobs would state with all his iProducts this could easily cost about 1000 pages but we are giving this to you in 600 pages (of course he will talk in dollars).

High point: Its Head First!! It keeps its legacy…… most comprehensive book on c written in recent past

Low Point: Jack of all trades…. Hope you figure out the rest

Verdict: Grab it, but not the eve of your deadline :)

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Dreamweaver CS 5.5 - the missing manual by David Sawyer McFarland is one book that tries to not only introduce dreamewaever but also the concepts of web design. Something of a nice blend between conceptual learning and quick reference has made the book worth every penny one spend on it. As it is said “Jack of all trades, Master of nothing” the book finds difficulty to concentrate specifically to a group of people, whether novices,beginners,experts or dreamweaver regulars, but caters to everyone. The contents are quite insightfully segmented so that seasoned users can skip quite first few chapters and take off from where you are comfortable with.

Tutorials provided are well refined and nothing of sort of redundancy in contents occurs anywhere. The book will help one to get a real picture of dreamweaver’s capabilities. Well structured formatting of book makes it a quick and complete reference while the layout, flow of language and various side notes,tips and illustrative examples makes it a good and engaging read. Coming to advanced sections such as templates,dynamic sites and libraries the author does a wonderful job in explaining the conceptual and usage aspect of those features.

Bottomline: go and grab one of those copies, start working with dreamweaver and when you are stuck just go for the read.