Tag Archives: Books

Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML – Review

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML was my second book in Head First series after Head First Java, 2nd Edition. Like the 1st book, this book continues the method of simple, redundant explanations that make the content stick. The book doesn’t cover all the topics but really makes sure that the reader has completely …

May 31, 2010 – 6:20 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Books, Movies | Tagged | Comments (0)

Chetan Bhagat – Right and Wrong

My long-time Twitter acquaintance Ankur has joined the #chetanblocks gang. His review of Bhagat’s new book “Two States” suffers from a syndrome “if something is liked by masses, cane it”. Everyone is free to like or dislike Bhagat’s style of writing but to justify book piracy is hypocritical. The same crowd then speaks against the …

December 22, 2009 – 6:29 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Everything Else | Tagged , | Comments (2)

The Story Behind Neoforma.com

Browsing through the “World Trade” section of VIT library, I was looking for C.K.Prahalad’s famous “The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”. To my despair, someone had misplaced that book. Disappointed, I glanced over the adjacent Entrepreneurship section – a permanent favorite. I found “Starting Something” by Wayne McVicker– a strange name. I thought …

March 22, 2009 – 9:31 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Books, Movies, Startups | Tagged , | Comments (0)