Books & Writing

I've authored four engineering books for O'Reilly & Wiley on data visualization, JavaScript & mobile web, and contributed various articles & ebooks to Smashing Magazine.

JavaScript & jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization

Published by O'Reilly / Wrox

A deep dive into building interactive data visualizations in the browser. Written at the moment when data-driven UX was becoming a real discipline, I came away convinced that the best charts tell a story rather than just display data (a lens I still apply today).

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JavaScript Programming: Pushing The Limits

Published by Wiley

An advanced look at JavaScript, including an early treatment of Node.js before server-side JavaScript was mainstream. Writing this one changed how I think about language design, performance & the web platform.

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Smashing Mobile Web Development

Published by Wiley

Written at the dawn of the mobile era. The fundamentals of building for small screens, including the ergonomic realities most web developers still ignore: touch targets, thumb zones, how the hand actually holds a phone. Industrial design meets digital.

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Smashing WebKit

Published by Wiley

Written when CSS3 & HTML5 specs were still being drafted. Writing it sharpened a view I still hold: the best animations are barely noticeable, and most of the time the right call is to skip them entirely.

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