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February 07 2013
We at O’Reilly are very pleased to announce that we have officially upgraded to EPUB 3, and ebook bundles purchased from oreilly.com will now include EPUB 3 files, in addition to Mobi and PDF files. All O’Reilly ebooks released in … read moreA Kindle developer’s 2013 wishlist
December 02 2012
2012 was a good year for Kindle developers. With the unveiling of the first-generation Fire tablet in late 2011 and the release of the KF8 Mobi format in early 2012, designing beautiful ebooks for the Kindle platform became a reality. … read moreHTML5 for publishers: Drawing on the screen
November 15 2011
This excerpt from "HTML5 for Publishers" shows how a simple finger painting canvas can be added to an HTML5-based children's book read moreNovember 26 2008
Nicholas Negroponte's incredible, buzzworthy nonprofit, one laptop per child, whose goal is to supply free, energy-efficient laptop computers to all children in the developing world, is having a special 2007 holiday promotion: Give One. Get One. If you donate a... read moreYour very own mail-order cylon
November 26 2008
The lede from from a Computerworld article from Saturday: An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050. Robots will become so human-like... read moreNovember 26 2008
Technology is turning us into morons. David Brooks of the New York Times says so in this fabulous, tragicomic column, and he's right. OK, actually to be more accurate and less sensational (because that's what blogging's all about), he merely... read moreNovember 26 2008
Yes, I know you Head First readers are way more in shape and buff than me (it wouldn't be hard, trust me), and you've got the Gold/Platinum/Plutonium Plan at your local gym to prove it. But apparently these days, that's... read moreHow do you like your learning?
November 26 2008
At Head First, we know that learning styles vary widely from person to person, which is why we use multiple presentation styles to teach each concept: diagrams for visual learners, dialogues for aural learners, exercises for people who tend to... read moreNovember 26 2008
This month's Wired has a fascinating interview with Oliver Sacks, whose new book Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain is a series of case studies that explore the role music plays in our mental lives. One of the things... read moreNovember 26 2008
As presidential primary season gets under way in the U.S. and voters begin to align their loyalties with their candidate of choice, here's an interesting hypothesis to ponder: what if our political leanings are ingrained in our brain chemistry?... read moreHF JavaScript: Learn outside the book
November 26 2008
We know the Head First series offers some of the most interactive tech books around, but there are limits to what we can feasibly do within the confines of the printed page. Much as we'd like to, we can't engage... read moreNovember 26 2008
I recently received an email from a Head First reader suggesting we consider creating supplemental Head First reference books for the existing titles in the series: materials that would presumably provide a summary/recap of key concepts and skills covered in... read moreNovember 26 2008
Andrew Stellman (co-author of Head First PMP and Head First C#) has a great post on his and Jennifer Greene's blog Building Better Software, where he tackles some JavaRanch reader questions about how Agile development processes mesh/conflict with PMP® practices... read moreRight- and left-brained learning
November 26 2008
In Head First Land, we aim to provide "learning for the way your brain works." Sounds good, right? We know how your brain works. But the dirty little secret is that we really have no idea how your brain works.... read moreNovember 26 2008
Since you're currently reading the Head First blog, it's probably a fairly safe bet that you're eagerly awaiting the release of one or more of our holiday titles: Head First C#, Head First JavaScript, and Head First Software Development. But... read moreNovember 26 2008
Novelist Walter Kirn recently wrote an extremely insightful, extremely hysterical piece in The Atlantic on the effects of a 21st-century, electronic-gadget-glut-enabled multitasking culture on our beleaguered Pleistocene brains. It's a long read, but well worth it. And I highly recommend... read moreRecent Posts | All O'Reilly Posts
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December 14, 2011
HTML5 is revolutionizing the Web, and now it's coming to your ebook reader! With the release of the EPUB 3 specification, HTML5 support is now officially part of EPUB standard, and publishers will be able to take full advantage of HTML5's rich feature...
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