Earlier this year or late 2015, Packt Publishing asked me to be technical reviewer for a book called "Modular Programming with Python" by Erik Westra. It sounded really interesting and it ended up being one of the best books I've read from Packt. Note that I am the sole technical reviewer of the book. I'm […]
December 11, 2015 by
Mike No Starch Press recently sent me a book called Python Playground: Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer by Mahesh Venkitachalam to review. I don't normally get books from that publisher so I wasn't sure what to expect, but the book is quite good. But I won't provide any spoilers here as we have a quick […]
Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of Mastering Python High Performance by Fernando Doglio. They also had me be a technical reviewer of the book before its publication. Anyway let's do a quick review and if you think it sounds interesting, you can check out my full review too! Quick Review Why I picked […]
September 2, 2015 by
Mike I was recently approached by the author of the free eBook, Intermediate Python by Muhammad Yasoob Ullah Khalid to review his work. Yasoob is the fellow behind the Python Tips blog. The book has been released as open source on Github but can be downloaded as a PDF from ReadTheDocs. But before I go into […]
December 19, 2014 by
Mike Packt Publishing recently sent me a copy of the eBook version of Flask Framework Cookbook by Shalabh Aggarwal. I didn't read it in its entirety as Cookbooks don't usually make for a very interesting linear read. I just went through it and cherry picked various recipes. But before I get into too much detail, let's […]
This week, Packt Publishing asked me to review IPython Notebook Essentials by L. Felipe Martins. They sent me an eBook copy to review. I've always been interesting in learning about the IPython Notebook, but had never gotten around to it, so this seemed like a great way to learn more. Quick Review Why I picked […]