{"id":921,"date":"2008-12-30T11:38:23","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=921"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:10","slug":"merry-book-mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/merry-book-mas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Book-mas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas I received a bunch of great books from friends and family.\u00a0 My <a href=\"http:\/\/oreilly.com\">O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> collection in particular doubled in size!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a list of what I&#8217;ll be reading in 2009:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0750696400?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0750696400\">Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0750696400\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; Several first hand accounts of what it takes to be a good analog circuit designer by leaders in the industry.\u00a0 An older book with lots of circuit examples and historical notes illustrating trade-offs, breakthroughs and the analog circuit design process.\u00a0 Discussion of the looming threats of digital circuits (20+ years ago!).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596527322?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0596527322\">HTML &amp; XHTML: The Definitive Guide (6th Edition)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0596527322\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; HTML has grown a lot since I started using it in 1995.\u00a0 This is my attempt to catch up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596527330?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0596527330\">CSS: The Definitive Guide<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0596527330\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; So I can hopefully upgrade my web designer status from &#8220;hopeless hack&#8221; to &#8220;amateur&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0596513984?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0596513984\">Learning Python, 3rd Edition<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0596513984\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; You can never have too many scripting langages at your disposal (can you?).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0061673730?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=mightyohm-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0061673730\">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (P.S.)<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=mightyohm-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0061673730\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/> &#8211; To give the right side of my brain something to do in between the previous four entries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Christmas I received a bunch of great books from friends and family.\u00a0 My O&#8217;Reilly collection in particular doubled in size! Here&#8217;s a list of what I&#8217;ll be reading in 2009: Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers) &#8211; Several first hand accounts of what it takes to be a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/merry-book-mas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Merry Book-mas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40,5],"tags":[132,130,120,129,128],"class_list":["post-921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-resources","category-electronics","tag-books","tag-circuit-design","tag-programming","tag-python","tag-web-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-eR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2120,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/tim-williams-the-circuit-designers-companion\/","url_meta":{"origin":921,"position":0},"title":"Tim Williams: The Circuit Designer&#8217;s Companion","author":"Jeff","date":"March 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently picked up a copy of Tim Williams' Circuit Designer's Companion after I noticed it on my Amazon recommendations list (which seems to know my tastes a little too well these days.) 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