Archive for the ‘Beautiful Code’ Category
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Another book in the "Beautiful" series, this one co-edited by my former colleague Adam Goucher and Mozilla's Tim Riley, is nearing completion. It'll be listed on Amazon tomorrow, and ship in October. Congrats!
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009
From this page, via Serguei Zinine.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Software Design is now available from O'Reilly (and also from Amazon, of course). Diomidis and Georgios have done a great job pulling it together---congratulations!
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Thursday, December 18th, 2008
I'm very pleased to pass on Adam Goucher's announcement that he and Tim Riley (of Mozilla) will be helming a sequel to Beautiful Code called Beautiful Testing. Proceeds will go to Nothing But Nets, which provides mosquito nets to malaria-infested regions in Africa. BT will be the third "sequel", joining ...
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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
The folks at O'Reilly sent me another royalty statement for Beautiful Code a couple of days ago: sales have (unsurprisingly) leveled off, but we've still raised another $8.5K for Amnesty International. Better to light a candle...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
...rather than downloading it from a file-sharing site. Royalties go to Amnesty International, who help people like this:
A teacher who posted photos of collapsed schools on the internet after a devastating earthquake in China's Sichuan province has been ordered to serve a year of "re-education through labour".
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
I've been giving talks about Beautiful Code for ten months now. Mostly I talk about how the project came to be, and a few of my favorite chapters, but I end with this:
My father built most of the house that I grew up in. My mother made ever sweater I ...
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Friday, May 16th, 2008
I left Toronto for Austin mid-day Wednesday, and got back at midnight last night. Lots happened in the interim, so here's a linkandthoughtdump (which I bet actually is one word in German):
Gave a talk about Beautiful Code to the Austin Python Users' Group Wednesday at Enthought's swanky offices. (They're ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I was very pleased yesterday to receive a copy of the Japanese translation of Beautiful Code, along with a powder-blue t-shirt bearing the names of the contributors. My sincere thanks to Ryoko Akaike and everyone else involved in the project.
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Jon Erickson has posted a video clip from the Beautiful Code panel held at SD West a couple of weeks ago. Michael Feathers, Jim Kent, Christopher Seiwald, Elliotte Harold, Ron Mak, and Alberto Savoia were there; wish I could have been too.
Later: the second installment is up now too.
Still ...
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