Archive for the ‘Beautiful Code’ Category
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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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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