T.G.I.F. God I love Fridays. So I came into the office today and to my surprise, 5 books from Amazon came in! I totally didn’t expect it. Actually, to tell you the truth, I forgot I ordered them last week. Anyway, these are important books that I need to dive into so here’s a brief overview about why I got them.

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Don’t make me think - A common sense approach to web usability 2th edition (Steve Krug)
I don’t know why it took me so long to get this book. It’s an instant classic that’s got 5 stars on Amazon. Since I’m really getting into usability this year, I knew I had to pull this book from my wish list bucket and get it.

Essential ActionScript 3.0 - Programming Fundamentals (Colin Moock)
I’m finally making the dive. Right when I got the fundamentals of AS 2.0, ActionScript 3.0 was coming out a few months later. They made a few changes as far as syntax, and some depreciated functions. It’s supposably much faster than AS 2.0 with a lot of new features like native support for Regular expressions, new primitive types, and DOM3 event model. I don’t think I could have gone wrong with Colin Moock being the author, he’s got a great track record on previous books I’ve read, and great reviews.

ActionScript 3.0 Cookbook - Solutions for Flash Platform and Flex App Developers (Joey Lott)
Knowing the fundamentals is one thing, but having some practical examples to really get you going is priceless. I always love O’Reilly’s cookbooks; they know exactly how to hand pick some great examples to show off the different things that can be accomplished with AS 3.0.

Microformats - Empowering your markup for web2.0 (John Allsopp)
With data portability about to kick off and with all these web 2.0 companies joining in, learning more about the technologies behind this movement didn’t seem like a bad idea. Reading more about Microformats got me very interested in trying it out on different projects of my own like some WordPress themes, or simple web apps I’ve got cooking in the oven.

Letting go of the words - Writing web content that works (Janice Redish)
Lastly, Letting go of the words, another 5 star book on Amazon. You know a book is good when Amazon’s price is cheaper than buying the book used. I wanted to read this book to improve my writing on this blog. Being trilingual does have its drawbacks when you can’t get your thoughts down fast and to the point.

If you’re interested in a review of any of these books, just let me know in the comments. I’ll post them on here once I’m finished reading front to back.