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Planned books:
None
Current books:
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Mathematics for the Digital Age and Programming in Python by Maria Litvin and Gary Litvin
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Statistics In Plain English by Timothy C. Urdan
Recent books:
- Practical Machine Learning in R by Fred Nwanganga, Mike Chapple
- Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse by Chester Ismay and Albert Y. Kim
- The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman
- Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert McKee
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley
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Category Archives: JavaScript
Working On The Web Site
I have not written about my freelance work in a long time. Business has really dried up. I am down to just one client who is not giving me much work. While things are slow I have been working on … Continue reading
A jQuery Table Sorter Parser For German Vocabulary Lists
I still plan to go on vacation in April. I will be spending a week in Berlin. I am putting a lot more effort into learning German in order to prepare for my trip. I have been studying German for … Continue reading
6 Ways To Work With Dates In JavaScript
Yesterday I added another AJAX demonstration to my web site using the Reddit API. http://www.williamsportwebdeveloper.com/reddit.html The reddit API provides dates in the UTC number format which forced me to spend some time figuring out how to convert it into other … Continue reading
How To Create A JSON Web Service In ASP.NET
ASP.NET makes it easy to create web services but they usually return XML. Like many web developers I now prefer JSON. This article and sample code will show you how to get your web service to return data in the … Continue reading
Posted in ASP.NET, Databases, JavaScript, Programming, Web
Tagged ASP.NET, C#, jQuery, JSON, MySQL, web service
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Firebug, PHP, JavaScript, and Media RSS
I continue to spend a lot of time just on improving my web development skills. Recently I’ve been working on some complicated JavaScript which required me to spend an entire day researching how to parse XML using JavaScript. I created … Continue reading
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on Windows XP
This week I decided to be daring and install Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on my Windows XP computer at home. I especially like the Developer Tools which are similar to Firebug and Firefox’s Web Developer toolbar. The ruler is … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, JavaScript, Web
Tagged Color Picker, CSS editor, Developer Tools, IE 8 Beta 2, Image Ruler, Internet Explorer 8, JavaScript Errors
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The Improved YouTube Tag Cloud
I have made an improvement to my YouTube Tag Cloud page. While browsing some web design sites I came across a blog post about Beautiful Word Clouds which showed some images of fancy word clouds. They used a fancy font … Continue reading
Posted in CSS, Graphics, JavaScript, Web
Tagged jQuery, tag cloud, YouCloud, YouTube
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