The Processor

It’s not every day that two books currently in my possession are reviewed one after another on the same site. Roger Johansson of 456 Berea Street recently published a short review of The Art and Science of CSS and Simply Javascript, both published by Sitepoint. I purchased a PDF version of the former and have a hardcover of the latter and they’re beautiful books to look at. Anyway, check out the take-away from each review below:

The Art and Science of CSS (Book review)

With that in mind, reading The Art & Science of CSS will teach you how to use CSS to accomplish a number of useful design tasks, so I think it's worth its price unless you already know most of what there is to know about CSS.

Simply Javascript (Book review)

Revisiting the sub-title of this book, I think the audience that will get the most out of it falls somewhere in between the novice and expert levels. To me it seems best suited for designers or developers with a decent knowledge of HTML and CSS and some familiarity with JavaScript. If that describes you, I can recommend Simply JavaScript.

I remember reading this in FeedReader at work and at first I was in denial but after reading the post more calmly, I realized it was true! Brent Simmons, the author of the very popular Mac RSS reader NetNewsWire announced on his blog that all NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, Newsgator Inbox and NewsGator Go! are now free. That’s right, free. For those aware of the popularity of NetNewsWire in the Mac software community, it’s rather shocking that one of the most successful indie Mac applications is going this route.

The announcement makes me glad that I didn’t purchase NetNewsWire even though its synchronization feature made me think twice about using NewsFire (which I did purchase).

Check out the official Newsgator Inc. press release here.

By the way, in case you’re wondering, I find NetNewsWire to be way more pleasurable to use than FeedDemon. Macs rock.

After a few days of bitter cold temps, we’re starting to see the kind of warm winter weather we’ve been experiencing over the past few years. In particular, check out that 16 degree forecast for Tuesday!

I had the privilege of attending two marriage ceremonies last week, one of which was of my close friend Salman Sayany to Zeenat Malam. It was lovely to see so many university friends there. I probably hadn’t seen many of them since the end of third year. Reflecting on the experience, I realize how much time has passed since we all first met. Life passes so quickly that years pass by and we don’t even notice.

May Allah Most High put love and mercy between all the new couples and those that are currently married.