Archive for the ‘Beautiful Code’ Category
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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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Beautiful Code made the Amazon Editors' Top 10 Computers & Internet Books list for 2007.
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Friday, October 26th, 2007
It's a small world: Andy Oram, my co-editor on Beautiful Code, just interviewed Brent Gorda, co-author of the first version of the Software Carpentry course, about the cluster challenge that's running at Supercomputing'07. Don't be fooled by the purple-on-black titles: this is a very cool idea. Students teams get ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
From TitleZ, which I found via Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools blog:
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
O'Reilly has now sold the rights for both Russian and Korean translations of Beautiful Code. W00t!
Later: Chinese and Japanese translation are in the works as well, to be released in late 2007 and February 2008 respectively. Given how frequently AI criticizes China for human rights abuses, I'll be very interested ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
David Crow has posted an update on the status of DemoCamp 14 (Sept 17, downtown, registration free but required). It looks like a cool lineup of demos, and yours truly will be giving a five-minute talk on Beautiful Code. Hope to see lots of you there...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
A lot happened while I was on holiday:
RegDeveloper in the UK liked it.
Jon Bentley gave a talk about Quicksort at Google (video online). He refers to BC as "a reasonably cool book", which I think it is a good description.
We discovered that a PDF of the book is already available ...
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
The Beautiful Code interview has been Slashdotted --- thankfully, the link points to O'Reilly's server, not this one.
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Thursday, August 9th, 2007
Over on the Beautiful Code blog, Ian Darwin has a nice article about reflection in Java. It starts simple, but the end, he's shown readers how to create dynamic proxies. The first person who sends me translations of his examples into Python, Ruby, or C# gets a guest posting on ...
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