Tagged: books

Groklaw Review of The Wisdom of Crowds

November 8, 2004 Posted by mitch | books | 0 Comments

The Review was written very well, and actually has me thinking about it. Because I must admit I was under the impression that crowds were dumb. However, after reading the review, I do believe I'm conviced to change my belief about that.

Advanced PHP Programming

August 13, 2004 Posted by mitch | books, website | 0 Comments

I bought this book a couple of weeks ago... I have yet to really open it and read through it.... Which when I bought it I thought I'd be able to jump right into it. However I've been studing for my RHCE test in september... which is comming up and I have ALOT to prepare for... However, hopefully I will dive into this MVC (Model View Controler) pattern for php applications. I know Java's been doing it for a while. I'm just to the point where I really see the usefulness in it. On top of that, it has a chapter about smarty which got me excited :) And as for my blog here... I think I'm going to be rewriting it from scratch again. However, this time I do believe I'm going to stick with it being my own creation. I will allow hopefully easy additions of other php classes and I plan on using some to begin with (smarty and pear) anyhow, hopefully that goes together soon.

Finished reading Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

June 17, 2004 Posted by mitch | books | 0 Comments

I finally finished reading the first harry potter book the other day. I would have finished it earlier, but I got called about a DNS problem at work and had to go in for it. Anyway, I liked it other than the fact it really is written for a younger reader. I didn't think it was a whole lot different than the movie. I mean there were alot of little parts left out of the movie that were in the book, some of which explained alot more than the movie even hinted at. Anyway, I liked it, I'll just have to wait for another week or two before we'll be buying the second book so I can read it finally. (My wife wants the hardback books and we haven't seen the quad set anywhere recently so were just going to buy them one at a time). Anyway, I'll start the second as soon as we buy it in a couple weeks.

Harry Potter reading

June 13, 2004 Posted by mitch | books | 0 Comments

I've been reading harry potter and the sorcerers stone for what 2 days now? I'm almost though it, I have less than 100 pages to go. And so far so good. For the most part the movie followed in line with the book. I think it left out a couple of important details along the way however, but those scenes would have taken a while to portray on film I suppose. Anyway, I'll update when I've finished the book.

Harry Potter

June 12, 2004 Posted by mitch | books, life | 0 Comments

Well, I'm finally breaking down and reading the Harry Potter books. Seems like everyone I know has read them. My wife and her sister are obsessed with them. And with the recent movie craze about them, I figure, might as well... right? So, I'm starting off with the first book. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. I must admit when I first saw the movie I thought it was pretty good. And the second movie was even better I thought. However, the third movie... was somewhat dissapointing. I really think the director messed things up when he did it. My wife and her sister both thought it wasn't that good at all either, they complained that ALOT was left out, alot of important stuff (for the future books and all). But since I haven't read the books I can't speak on that, but I did notice that the movie moved really fast and didn't really develop any characters, no more than what the previous 2 had... just introduced more characters without much of a history or their own development. We'll wait and see how the forth movie handles this.

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