Tag Archives: Books

Best-selling author Sidney Sheldon dies in California

Sidney Sheldon is one of my favorite and I enjoyed reading all his Novels released so far. I am left with The Other Side of Me which is perhaps his last writing.

During his lifetime, Sidney Sheldon won awards in three careers - Broadway theater, movies, television then at age 50 turned to writing best-selling novels [...]

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based on New York. He have won many outstanding awards, to mention a few - the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper’s, Time, Conde [...]

In the Line of Fire: A Memoir by Pervez Musharraf

I was asking my friend, “Have you read In the Line of Fire“. What he answered was funny that we all laughed aloud, “I will, we should Know what the Enemy thinks“. No, we don’t think of Pakistan as our enemy, atleast not me. I personally have no particular enemity with anybody or any country [...]

Head Rush Ajax

Head Rush Ajax is meant for those developers/designers who

knows html, css and javascript but not yet a guru
want to learn, understand and remember ajax
want to talk cool things about ajax to other people

Don’t Make Me Think

The book promises to keep the content short, to the point and easy to be read on a plane ride (well, a little longer plane ride). Don’t Make Me Think : A Common Sense Approach To Web Usability quoted some good points including that of “nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away”, [...]

Blogwild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging

Finished reading yet another book - Blogwild: A Guide for Small Business Blogging, a book targetted to the non-tech-savvy internet users. It tries to explain all about the fun, enjoyment and benefit of blogging. It covers topics ranging from - titles to tag line, posts, permalinks, comments, archives, authors, blogrolls, feeds to trackbacks.

It goes back [...]