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New blog domain: kula.blog

It's still work in progress but new posts will be published on  https://kula.blog/ Thanks to 11ty base blog RSS is working from the start so it should be easy to add to your reader if you still use any :) If now then I hope you can sign up to the newsletter where I'll be publishing new posts and interesting articles to it from time to time. Please use  kula.blog  from now on.

August Update: Canvas + Fantasy

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This is short update as I'm really busy recently and it looks will be till mid-October. Tech: HTML5 Canvas Tutorial by Eric Rodwell   - really good site! Strongly recommended! HTML5 Canvas Cookbook by Eric Rowell  - tutorial is better because interactive :) If you're going to run all code samples and play with them then it makes sense to buy it. Of course buying this book is a good way to help author :) Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM - unfortunately it is too boring for me, long and lacks any story/structure. Maybe good to easy find something you need by Ctrl-F. (No link because this is boring :) Non-tech: Painted Man - Petera V. Bretta. - rather good 6/10 The Battle for Skandia: Book Four (Ranger's Apprentice) by John Flanagan - good for lazy day :) - without image :)  short "How to read faster"  from personalMBA - really short and I knew most of it... The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, Book 1

July Update - SICP, The Modern Web, Functional JavaScript

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This will be short update! Books that I will talk about on today's  ReadingClub : SICP Really good and hard book. Right now I stumble upon many ideas that I read in SICP in very different places :)  Most of it is around Functional Programming and Clojure but still. The Modern Web by Peter Gasston Really good book about newest API's. It's still fresh so it's worth to read it!  Paranormality: Why we believe the impossible by  Prof. Richard Wiseman Awesome book! It's great to see how I've been fooled :) Being Geek by Michel Loop I was disappointed by this one. It's mostly about geek being team leader or manager. I'm not so much interested in it.  Functional JavaScript by Michael Fogus I have really high expectations about this book but unfortunately I feel that I miss something in it. Probably context of me and author are too different. One of the ideas in book started to make sense to me while learning mo