Archive for the ‘Beautiful Code’ Category
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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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Dr. Dobb's Journal has announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards at the SD West 2008 conference. The Jolt Awards recognize those products, books, and websites that have "jolted" the industry in past year. Winners are selected by a panel of judges consisting of ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
DDJ's Jon Erickson blogs about last night's Beautiful Code panel session at SD West. I wish I could have been there --- I've gotten to know several of the authors well, but have never actually met them in person.
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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
I just got sales figures for Beautiful Code from O'Reilly: since its release last summer, it has raised more than US$38,000 for Amnesty International. My thanks once again to the authors, and to everyone at O'Reilly who helped make the project a reality --- and, of course, to everyone ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Scroll down on this page and play the video --- I think it makes me look chunky, but Sadie says TV adds ten pounds...
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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008
From today's post by Tim O'Reilly:
Beautiful Code, a collection of essays by master programmers about how they solved particularly hard problems, must have hit a nerve. It was our #9 bestselling title for the year, and the number one software engineering title industry-wide according to our analysis of Bookscan figures.
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Finalists for the 2008 Jolt Awards have been announced, and I'm pleased to say that Beautiful Code is on the list. Thanks again to all the contributors for being so generous with their time; we'll know in a month whether we're going to share a "programmer's Oscar".
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