Authors - Pete Cliff
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Book Review: Approximately 97 Things
Pete Cliff learns something new in this 'Open Source' book every time he makes the tea. -
Book Review: Delete - The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Pete Cliff hopes he'll not forget this marvellous book, even when the author seems to suggest it might be better if he did! -
Book Review: Ajax in Oracle JDeveloper
Pete Cliff finds aspects of this work useful and interesting, but he also expresses some serious reservations. -
Book Review: Website Optimization
Pete Cliff used to think 'Website Optimisation' simply meant compressing images and avoiding nested tables, but in this he book finds out how much more there is to it, even in the Age of Broadband. -
Book Review: Visualizing Data
Pete Cliff considers a new book on data visualisation and hopes one day to implement some of the interesting ideas presented in this work. -
Book Review: Programming Collective Intelligence
Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets. -
Book Review: Principles of Data Management
Pete Cliff takes a look at a new book from the British Computer Society that aims to help readers understand the importance, issues and benefits of data management across an enterprise. -
Digital Repositories: Dealing With the Digital Deluge
Pete Cliff gives an overall view of the multi-stranded JISC conference held in Manchester over 5-6 June 2007. -
Book Review: Digital Literacies for Learning
Pete Cliff reviews a work that challenges traditional notions of literacy and how suggests that new literacies need to be developed to empower both learners and teachers in the digital age. -
Building ResourceFinder
Pete Cliff looks at how the RDN has utilised the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol. -
Distributed Computing: The Seti@home Project
Eddie Young and Pete Cliff look at a particularly successful example of a distributed solution to a very large number crunching problem. -
Review: Building Community Information Networks
Pete Cliff reviews 'Building community information networks: strategies and experiences,' edited by Sheila Pantry. -
Review: Online Searching (Library Association)
Pete Cliff reviews the Library Association's guide: Online Searching. -
Review: The Oxford English Dictionary Online
Pete Cliff previewed the electronic version of this standard reference, and gives a user's verdict.