Summary First, let us provide a little context for this review. Two of us contributed to the review; one of us is a psychology professor and the other in software research. We both make regular use of statistics and have some statistical background in our training, albeit with fairly different end applications.

Even before I finally got an iphone 3G, I was very curious about programming it and when the iphone App store took off, well that just sweetened the pot...

This book is all about how to use the text editor Vi and the improved version of it Vim and to a lesser extent other editors derived from Vi.

This book could as aptly be titled "Expert Python Development" with a subtitle along the lines of "Stakes in the Ground". The book's subtitle is "Best practices for designing, coding, and distributing your Python software." The stakes in the ground are the most widely accepted tools and techniques, with discussions backed up with references to related PEPs.

Back in April 2008 I eagerly volunteered to review a "rough cut" of Python Web Development with Django...

Although I had been using subversion in my workplace for over a year, I found "The Pragmatic Version Control Using Subersion 2nd Edition" by Mike Mason to be a valuable learning tool.

This book presents SQLAlchemy in a clear and comprehensive manner. Beginning with basics and covering the subject matter in an orderly approach. It is a good way to gain a fairly in depth understanding and set you on your way to being able to use SQLAlchemy.

For anyone looking to refresh and update their algorithms background, the recently released second edition of Steve Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual might well be the best resource available. At the very least, it's an approachable start.

So you're web site seems slow, users have to wait a long time for pages to render. Is it time to start looking at your database, and webserver configs? Perhaps not, there's a lot to be gained by following a few simple rules in your frontend.

Learning the vi and Vim Editors, Seventh edition, July 2008, by Arnold Robbins, Elbert Hannah and Linda Lamb is both a tutorial for beginners and a reference for experienced users. vi and several of its clones are covered in this edition: nvi, elvis, Vim, and vile. Chapters 9 through 15 cover Vim. Chapters 16, 17 and 18 cover nvi, elvis and vile, respectively. Including the index and appendices the book is 470 pages.