Alice Pretchet » Books http://www.alicepretchet.com Mobile web developement ideas Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:48:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Books vs Kindles http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/books-vs-kindles/ http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/books-vs-kindles/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:26:51 +0000 Alice Pretchet http://www.alicepretchet.com/?p=248 Last year the best selling item at Christmas on Amazon was the Kindle. I think that they are really cool, but this is so early in the development of the new electronics. My biggest objection to most of them is that they are mono displays. I want a full color screen and books with color illustrations and photos. So I am waiting a bit – there will be better models coming out.

]]> http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2011/books-vs-kindles/feed/ 0 Slate features one of my favorite authors / books http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2009/slate-features-one-of-my-favorite-authors-books/ http://www.alicepretchet.com/chrono/2009/slate-features-one-of-my-favorite-authors-books/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:22:25 +0000 Alice Pretchet http://www.alicepretchet.com/?p=219 I hardly ever get a chance to catch up with Slate, but I was on some website that had a one liner about patterns in architecture, and I have always been a big fan of patterns and architecture, so I clicked over and found an article talking about e of my favorite books and authors. A book called a pattern language describes outside the box ways to look at neighborhoods, houses, rooms, designs, all kinds of things to consider when building a house, an addition, a community – it is one my all time favorites.

That book changed the way I look at houses and streets, and it definitely gave me insight when looking into code and how to setup coding projects – and that is actually mentioned in the slate article – check it out to learn more.

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