<div dir="ltr"><div><div>After a string of O'Reilly User Group emails that didn't seem worth sending to the list, they have review copies of a few javascript books I think folks might be interested in. The rules, as always (though it's been quite a while):<br>
<br></div>If you want any of the below books, let me know, I'll request it/them. You can keep the book if you review it online (somewhere such as Amazon).<br><br></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zl86i0j8npfm9q5mtekp8be9ec9js7c6pq1ellf0" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Appcelerator Titanium: Up and Running</a></li>
<li><a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zmafremngjlv7cu5ekcrit0ofpmg1j0jteogr0h0" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Interactive Data Visualization for the Web </a></li></ul>Appcelerator Titanium seems to be a js framework to build native Android and iOS apps.<br>
</div><div><br>The data visualization book is on "D3.js", a JS library to build W3M-standard compliant interactive visual applications, based solely on SVG, CSS, and JS. A quick google shows some pretty neat visualizations- with very tidy source code: <a href="https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery">https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Gallery</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>And finally a video on yet another ("modern") functional language based on Lisp... :)<br></div><div><ul><li><a href="http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zvqlr8pkmmk8784ab0mfujaruf52fji53994hnto" style="font-weight:bold" target="_blank">Clojure Inside Out</a></li>
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