I don’t mind completing surveys, I even do those phone surveys. Having working with several different marketing teams and conducted countless UX information gathering surveys over the years. I can understand the difficulties of getting a good response from people. So I don’t mind taking the time to complete the odd survey.
Still I have to wonder sometimes if the teams behind the surveys are really understanding their audience that is completing the survey in the first place.
A few weeks back our fence was blown over in a storm. We put in an insurance claim, it was processed, and we got the fence repaired. No issue, good service all round.
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- 3.5
Painting the Web by Shelly Powers is not the type of book I would normally pick up. Having 14 years web design experience means that you tend to have absorbed something in the way of use of graphics on the web, from raster images, to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), which is what this book is all about.
Looking at this book from its title alone, I first thought, Painting the Web was a book on SVG. But I was wrong, well partly wrong.
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I have been playing around with various JavaScript frameworks for a while now, one that has taken my interest of late is JQuery. Hence getting hold of Learning JQuery by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer was to be expected. The book is available as a pdf e-book or in print format. I’m old school, I like the print version. Mainly so I can throw a book down in frustration 
or fall asleep with it and not worry about a laptop crashing to the ground.
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- 4
I first encountered Jeremy Keith via his book DOM Scripting, and then again in Sydney at Web Directions 2006, where I attended a very good workshop he ran on DOM Scripting.
Unlike Jeremy’s first book DOM Scripting, which is basically a getting starting guide on DOM Scripting and its use to enhance a web site. Bulletproof Ajax, his latest book, takes things to the next level, in a way. It deals in-depth with the use of Ajax on a web site front end and it’s implementation with the least impact on accessibility and usability of the web site.
