Currently reading this online book about CSS by Jonathan Snook. It’s still a work in progress. Pretty good so far.

Currently reading this online book about CSS by Jonathan Snook. It’s still a work in progress. Pretty good so far.

I’ve been analyzing my process (and the process of those around me) and figuring out how best to structure my code for projects on a larger scale. The concepts were vaguely there with the smaller sites that I had worked on but have become more concrete as a result of working on more complex projects. Small sites don’t often hit the same pain points as a larger site; small sites aren’t as complex and don’t change as often. However, what I intend to describe in these pages is an approach that can work equally well for sites small and large.

Free Kindle book.

Free Kindle book.

The hardcover edition costs $50 (via PZ Myers)

The Logic of Chance offers a reappraisal and a new synthesis of theories, concepts, and hypotheses on the key aspects of the evolution of life on earth in light of comparative genomics and systems biology. The author presents many specific examples from systems and comparative genomic analysis to begin to build a new, much more detailed, complex, and realistic picture of evolution. The book examines a broad range of topics in evolutionary biology including the inadequacy of natural selection and adaptation as the only or even the main mode of evolution; the key role of horizontal gene transfer in evolution and the consequent overhaul of the Tree of Life concept; the central, underappreciated evolutionary importance of viruses; the origin of eukaryotes as a result of endosymbiosis; the concomitant origin of cells and viruses on the primordial earth; universal dependences between genomic and molecular-phenomic variables; and the evolving landscape of constraints that shape the evolution of genomes and molecular phenomes.

could be interesting