This is a more general reading list for software engineers than my previous book lists that covers articles, essays, blog posts and journal papers. Because I’m planning ahead, I’m calling this Part 1 and expecting more lists to come in the future.
Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
I know there are probably tons of ways to download a copy of a YouTube video but this is the method I prefer and I thought I’d share. The basic idea is that we have a simple shell script that extracts the Flash video information from YouTube and uses ffmpeg to convert it into an XviD AVI file with MP3 audio.
Quick little tip from me today. In the last week I’ve run into this problem twice: when using a <textarea> to form the basis of a content management system, you have to pay attention to whether or not forms will be entered into it. If you don’t you might come across a strange problem where the content that is currently being edited (entered into the textarea) will itself contain a </textarea>. A browser will interpret this as the closing of the original textarea tag and run the rest of the content as the rest of the content editing form, which is clearly going to cause problems. The solution to this problem is ridiculously simple.
Continuing on from my previous list, here are some more books you might like to check out for your collection. Once again, I tried to keep the list manageable so expect some more booklists!
This list was originally published on the old site so I thought I’d reproduce it here since these books are so useful. I hope to start putting some reviews of them up soon. I’ve tried to put a couple of links up for each book where you can get more information, as well as a link to Amazon where you can purchase it (and I can get a small cut).