BOOKS FOR YOUR INNER INVENTOR

From the mid 19th through the 20 century, America was the world leader in technology. Perhaps the most important driver of those advances was kids… Read more

SO YOU WANT TO BE A GAME DEVELOPER

We got a reader letter from someone wanting to know how to get their game published and make some money with it. It’s wasn’t our first such… Read more

TOY ROBOTS AND TRAINS

“The LEGO MindStorms NXT 2.0 Discovery Book, by Laurens Valk; $30 from NoStarch Press, nostarch.com. If you ever go to science fiction… Read more

SELLING IPAD APPS

Every once in a while we look at books that might help the reader make some money or get a better understanding of a current trend. A subject that… Read more

HOLDING ONTO A GREAT IDEA

Inspiration is fleeting. Brahms once raced wildly across a field to get home and write the notes of a new theme before it fled his mind… Read more

BACK TO BASICS

People who started using computers many years ago probably remember BASIC, a relatively simple and easy to learn programming language that allowed… Read more

ONLINE CERTIFICATION

O’Reilly Media, which gained notice and respect the past several years as a publisher of technical books, is now offering online classes that lead… Read more