Archive for the ‘Writing’ Category

Portrait of the Author

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

I got my first two copies of A Bottle of Light last week, and immediately handed them off to my nephews (to whom the book is dedicated). About half an hour ago, the postman delivered a (small) box full --- w00t! It's only available through a special reading ...

DDJ and Google Summer of Code

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Last year, Dr. Dobb's Journal ran a series of short articles describing some of 2005's Summer of Code projects, and we'd like to give this year's participants the same kind of recognition. Some samples from the last time around are on the new DDJ web site at: http://www.ddj.com/184406349 http://www.ddj.com/184406383 http://www.ddj.com/184406437 http://www.ddj.com/184406467 If you're an ...

StickyMinds Part Deux

Friday, April 14th, 2006

The second part of a StickyMinds article on Data Crunching is now on-line (the first part went up in February).

StickyMinds article on Data Crunching

Sunday, February 26th, 2006

Part 1 of an article on data crunching is now up on the StickyMinds web site. Part 2 should follow in a couple of weeks.

American Scientist article on Software Carpentry

Friday, December 9th, 2005

The Jan/Feb 2006 issue of American Scientist, the magazine of Sigma Xi, contains an article on Software Carpentry.

Laurie and Jorge’s book reviews in DDJ

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Book reviews by our very own Jorge Aranda and Laura MacDougall are now on the DDJ web site. (Unfortunately, they're behind a paywall, but trust me, they're spiffalicious.)

A Typical Developer’s Typical Day (not humor)

Thursday, November 24th, 2005

Jon Erickson, the editor-in-chief of Doctor Dobb's Journal, asked me to write a couple of paragraphs about a typical developer's typical day. As usual, I went a little overboard; unusually, I veered toward the bright side. It's 9:30. You've caught up on email from the contractors in India, skimmed ...

First four Summer of Code articles are live

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

The first four Doctor Dobb's Journal articles about Google's Summer of Code projects are now on the web: Apache Axis2 JMX Front CL-GODB: A Common Lisp GO Database Manipulation Library Wide Character Support in NetBSD Curses Library gjournal: FreeBSD GEOM Journaling Layer There are more queued up behind them, so stay tuned. Coincidentally, my latest book ...

Summer of Code and DDJ

Friday, September 9th, 2005

I'm collecting articles from participants in Google's Summer of Code for Doctor Dobb's Journal. We're going to run 4-8 articles, each roughly 400 words long, for several months. It's pretty cool stuff---I'm awed by the talent of the students who took part.

Focus on Java interview

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Focus on Java has just published an interview with me about Data Crunching.