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Well. FB have games, and photo processing and all sorts of other stuff (So I understand - not a FB fan meself) and well over one billion active users.
Thats more than three times the entire US population.
And I would guess the activity on FB is far heavier than the (proposed) obamacare thingo.
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Thats more than three times the entire US population.
Unless you count our illegal aliens...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's what I've been thinking all along, but political emotions are running high over this, so intelligent discussion is out the window.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've been hacking my way through CSS for years, just dealing with whatever the problem at hand was and moving on, so I wanted to go back to basics. Made it through this in one day and found it nicely done.
CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland).
I bought it because it wasn't CSS3 specific. It covers CSS in general, breaks out CSS3 and HTML5 so you can easily skip past if you're not supporting them, and has a nice organization & flow to it.
I don't know the guy, but I've slogged through many a geek book that ended up being 30 pages of information, jam packed into a 500 page tome (tech books are typically sold by the pound). When I bump into one that's clean and well written, I figure I should share it with the rest of the class.
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I thought that went out of style? 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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.MarkMerrens
{
funny : no;
}
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Really? I thought it amusing.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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amusing, yes. Funny, no.
Yellow yes, blanched almond, no.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Maybe he just doesn't like your style.
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Nice, thanks o/
I've been looking to get my feet wet as we have a lot of web based hosted applications here and I'm a C++ weenie, but most CSS literature seems to belong in the bathroom
...along side the reading material.
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Yeah, I started out with Borland's Turbo C, but these days it's all about the web. It's a crappy development environment, but at least you don't have all the install issues we used to fight.
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heh. To be honest I'll take 'em.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I've been hacking my way through CSS for years
just give up and use tables
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 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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It’s going to take him just 45 minutes to undo the last several years worth of CSS work. He's going to launch his site. And then, he's going to go and get a donut.
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Donut, hell. Try tequila.
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Most books I've read like that are VERY dry reading and mainly used as reference. I've run into the same problem with Photoshop, I'm on about my 5th one and it is of the "...missing manual" name/type also and is a very good book.
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Yeah, it was not only well written but also well edited. And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor (which I happily did). I think the missing manual series has a really good team.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: And trust me, having just wrapped up two books in the past few months, you have no idea how important it is to have a good editor
Yeah I could imagine you would be sensitive to that. It's always nice to read a book that's accurate and grammatically pleasing.
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There are actually a couple of editors on a book, who serve different purposes.
Jeff Olson was the editor for both books. The editor is the person in charge who oversees the project, making sure the concept is good, all the chapters work well together and that it's a coherent bit of work. He also happens to be the executive editor of the business division overall, so I was lucky to get him on my team.
Cleaning up my dubious grasp of the English language fell to Jana Weinstein, my copy editor. She's the one who kept me from looking stupid in public. No small task. 
Rita Fernando was the project manager who kept the wheels on the wagon and made sure everything was taken care of and delivered on time. Publishers usually take a year or so to release a new title. These guys got two books on the streets in six months.
There were other bits ilke indexing, compositing, etc. but these three were the team that I interacted with as I wrote them. I'm sure you've been on bad software projects before, so you can imagine how much I appreciated having top flight people to work with. Lots of fun. I'd work with these guys again in a heartbeat.
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Mike, for PhotoShop, try Deke McClelland's "PhotoShop One-on-One" books (his latest in the series is for PhotoShop CS5, and was published in 2010): [^].
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Thanks Bill I'll give it a look. I have CS6 but there's not that much difference and there may be an update.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: CSS3: The Missing Manual[^] (David Sawyer McFarland).
That looks great. I might be interested in the Javascript & jQuery book (and the HTML 5 one) as well. Thanks for pointing these out!
Marc
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I got this one for JQuery: JQuery Compressed[^]. Haven't started it yet so I can't speak to the quality. Would be interested in what you come up with. A glance at the TOC seems to indicate that JQuery isn't a terribly deep subject.
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