Once again I received a review-copy of a book from Packt, for which I'm again really grateful :-) This time it was Django 1.2 E-Commerce by Jesse Legg. The book tries to introduce you in a tutorial style to how to write a simple e-commerce store using Django core components and some selected 3rd-party reusable apps.
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Django 1.2 E-Commerce
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Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server
If you've read my post about the latest rewrite of this site, you know that the search engine working in the background here is Solr, an opensource search server originally developed by CNet. During that migration I kind of learnt the basics of working with it on its own (without some of the fancy wrappers that do the whole configuration for you by looking at your model layer) but the schema.xml still was kind of scary to me. So when Packt gave me with "Solr 1.4 Enterprise Search Server" by David Smiley and Eric Pugh - once again - the chance to review a book about something that I wanted to learn, I couldn't resist :-)
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Book review: Hacking Vim 7.2
First a short disclaimer : I received a review copy of this book by Packt, which is really nice of them.
For the last couple of years I've been using Vim more or less constantly without actually getting all that deep into it. My whole configuration is a collection of (a) stuff I found on the web and (b) what I could hack together myself after looking at some examples and the documentation for less than an hour. For some reason I simply never could find the time to actually read the documentation.
So when Swati Viswanathan of Packt Publishing asked if I'd like to review a book about hacking up Vim, at first I was pretty undecided. I have virtually no knowledge about the extensibility of that awesome piece of software except for what is in my configuration. But then I read the description of Hacking Vim 7.2 by Kim Schulz and thought this might be finally the right time for getting into it for real ;-)
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Deep Space Nine: The Never-Ending Sacrifice
The summer is finally over and autumn is on its way in. And with it comes a ton of new Star Trek books in more or less every series. Even though Simon & Schuster's new website makes it really hard to find new books, I managed to find one before the new Enterprise finds its way into my hands next week: The Never-Ending Sacrifice by Una McCormack.
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Red Faction: Guerilla
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Yes, I know, I already wrote about it, but now I'm through (not at 100% but anyway), so I can make this a real review. But since I already wrote about Red Faction: Guerrilla, I will try to make this review a bit shorter since I can mostly stick with my first impression: The game is a really competent 3rd-person shooter with tons of side-missions and some strong story aspects that really motivate you to finish this game. It never gets in the way of the bombing and shooting action but it just adds the right amount of atmosphere to make you please "just 5 more minutes". -
Star Trek: DS9 - The Soul Key
Once again Amazon.de outdid themselves and delivered a book that shouldn't have been out for at least 2 weeks, but I don't complain ;-) At least now I had another Star Trek book to get into and it's even a DS9 book. Fearful Symmetry, the second book (or first depending on how you count them) in the current mini-series/crossover between the Mirror Universe-timeline and the DS9-relaunch didn't impress me all that much, but I was still kind of looking forward to a continuation of that story. So here it finally is.
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inFAMOUS
When I first saw some longer gameplay footage of inFamous for the PS3 I thought: "Crackdown + shooting electricity from your hands? I'm in". But inFamous is more than just a simple iteration or only a slight improvement over the two-year-old Xbox360 game. And with its successor still far away, there was nothing holding me back on getting this one.
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Star Trek: Titan - Over a Torrent Sea
It's been quite a while since the last book out of the Titan series has been released and I've been really looking forward to the next installment -- especially after the fairly big role the crew of the Luna-class vessel had during the resolution of the latest Borg crisis. Now, nearly one and a half year after Sword of Damocles Titan has finally continued its mission of exploration with Christopher L. Bennett's Over a Torrent Sea.
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Prince of Persia
Every once in a while, I get a game more or less by chance. Back when I was a kid this happened quite a lot but now I only very rarely get a game without thinking about it for weeks. So happened just a week ago with Prince of Persia for the Playstation 3. Amazon.co.uk had a sale back then I thought it couldn't be not worth EUR 23. It's not like it got bad reviews or something but its developers definitely made some controversial gameplay decisions.
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Enterprise: Kobayashi Maru
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The adventures of the crew of the NX-01 continue with Kobayahi Maru) as the first novell set after the final episode of the TV-show. Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin tell the story of Archer trying to proof for Romulan attacks on Coalition Freighters, Trip still playing spy-games and T'Pol and Reed going totally nuts. But is it worth all the madness?
