Adam Reviews “Automated Defect Prevention”
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Adam Goucher's review of Automated Defect Prevention is up at his blog.
Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Adam Goucher's review of Automated Defect Prevention is up at his blog.
Writing a Technical Book
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008Baron Schwartz has put up a lengthy post describing what it's like to write a technical book (which I found through Matt Doar's smaller, but more graphical, post). I'm doing this for the fifth time right now (two solo, two edited, the current one collaborative). I haven't been keeping ...
Yep, More Books
Monday, May 5th, 2008I believe very strongly that if you want to write well, you have to read relentlessly and critically: relentlessly, because there's a lot out there, and critically, because you must always be asking yourself, "What's good about this? What's bad? What do I want to imitate? What mistakes ...
A Rare Triple
Saturday, April 12th, 2008I can't remember the last time I read three books in a row that I really liked: Robert Hutchinson: Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War That Saved England. (Precede or follow with Patricia Finney's excellent novel Firedrake's Eye for best effect. Would someone please make a movie of this?) Michael ...
Six Books for a Canadian Winter
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008For a long time, I have believed that Jon Udell has the best job in the world. He gets to build interesting systems and talk to interesting people about interesting futuristic things, and best of all, he gets paid for it. A couple of years ago, though, I discovered Brian ...
One, Two, Three
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008My favorite books these days are Boynton's Your Personal Penguin and Pratchett's Where's My Cow?, but since this is a magazine for programmers, not parents, I'll turn my attention to six others: one very good, two useful, and three that missed the mark. The first is Smith and Marchesini's The Craft ...
Best of 2007
Tuesday, January 1st, 2008Inspired by Jorge's list (but sadly, no games): Sandra Boynton: Your Personal Penguin. Workman Publishing, 2006, 0761143726. Now, lots of other penguins seem to be fine // In a universe of nothing but ice. // But if I could be yours, and you could be mine, // Our cozy ...
…But With A Whimper
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007The latest On Spec magazine (Vol 19, No 3, Fall 2007) includes "The Sorceress' Assistant", by Bakka's own Leah Bobet, and (ahem) "...But With A Whimper", by yours truly.
Off and Away
Friday, October 12th, 2007I just finished the final [sic] round of edits on A Bottle of Light, my next children's book, and sent them to the publisher. I've been over this manuscript a dozen times or more, but I still keep catching silly typos and inconsistencies---I wonder if my code is this flaky, ...
Three Angles on Security
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Plane flights are a great way to catch up on my reading, though they play hell with my back. I got through two and a half books on my way to and from the west coast last week, and finished the last one while eating handfuls of Vitamin I ...