Tag Archive for 'Books'

Data Mining Books & Amazon

Today my very first Amazon order just arrived: Intelligent Data Analysis - a Data Mining book that I saw at Kurt Thearling personal website. I’m really into learning Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, I find it quite an interesting (and useful) subject.

Intelligent Data Analysis - Front Cover Intelligent Data Analysis - Back Cover

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ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 (EAN) validation with PHP

Since the begining of this year the standart ISBN has now 13 numbers instead of 10 so, I did some functions for validating the ISBN-10 and EAN (works for ISBN-13) with PHP, maybe it’s useful for someone.

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Bulletproof AJAX

Yesterday I bought this very good book about AJAX called “Bulletproof AJAX”.

Bulletproof AJAX - Front CoverBulletproof AJAX - Back Cover

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I’m back from Lisbon!

Hello there, I’m finally home! I’m kinda tired from the train trip but hopefully my bed will give me my deserved rest tonight…

The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Band Concert at Alvalade (Lisbon)

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Deception Point

Yesterday, I finished reading “Deception Point” by Dan Brown - had a hard time trying to translate the book name from Portuguese (”A Conspiração” - The Conspiracy) to English - thank God for the ISBN!

Dan Brown - A Conspiração

Well, the book really sucks, I think the name is appropriate though - it is really a deception.

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O Tempo

I was looking for poetry books, and I found this really old one Portuguese book called “O Tenue” lying around on the bookshelf. It is very old, it was printed in 1902 in Lisbon and the author is Manuel dos Santos Marques.

O Tenue - O Tempo

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