Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Bryan Cantrill, one of the contributors to Beautiful Code, has blogged about the possibility of stack overflow in the regular expression code written by Rob Pike that was the subject of Brian Kernighan's chapter. It's fun to read; I'm looking forward to more crosstalk of this kind.
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
C'mon, folks, we're still only in the number three spot for new programming books on Amazon, behind books on Photoshop and ActionScript. Remember, all the royalties go to a good cause, so by bumping us up to #1, you're helping to make the world a better place ;-)
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Saturday, July 7th, 2007
Beautiful Code is the #3 title on Amazon in the "Programming" category right now, and #574 overall.
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
Today I:
Clicked the "submit" button on my first major grant application.
Got my first copy of Beautiful Code (picture below).
Sold a science fiction story to On Spec magazine.
Finished [sic] rewriting the introduction to the first-year Python book we've been working on.
Lost a game of chess (came out on the short end ...
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
Andy Oram sent me email this morning to say that Beautiful Code has now been printed, and that copies are on their way to contributors. Coincidentally, David Crow dropped by this afternoon to chat, and mentioned that he'd seen a copy at FooCamp on the weekend. I look ...
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Monday, June 18th, 2007
You can now by O'Reilly books a chapter at a time (an outgrowth of technology originally developed for SafariU). Meanwhile, Pearson (who own Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Peachpit, and a bunch of other imprints) has launched a Short Cuts series with the same format and remit as O'Reilly's, and is offering ...
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Sunday, June 17th, 2007
It being Father's Day, I got breakfast in bed---and my very first Father's Day card. *sniffle* I also got a few minutes to explain why I was so disappointed by two books I'd been reading, so here goes.
The first of the pair is Karen Armstrong's The Great Transformation: The ...
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Sunday, June 10th, 2007
[This article has also been posted on Doctor Dobb's Journal.]
I remember when it felt odd to have colleagues I'd never met face to face. These days, though, I don't give it a second thought---not until one of them moves on, and the odds of ever sharing a cup of ...
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Saturday, June 9th, 2007
Beautiful Code is in the home stretch: a few more terms need to be indexed, and a few diagrams need to be tidied up, but it's looking very nice. An author panel is being organized for OSCON in Portland in July---I can't go, but I look forward to hearing ...
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
Well, the feline has apparently been debagged: in his keynote at SIGCSE 2007 on Friday, Grady Booch mentioned the book that Andy Oram and I are putting together for O'Reilly. It's called Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, and contains essays by more than thirty great software developers ...
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