Zeitgeist of Programming Books
This press release, announcing "Learning iPhone Programming" and "Developing Large Web Applications" somehow struck me as perfectly fitting the zeitgeist of the development world today.
more ...This press release, announcing "Learning iPhone Programming" and "Developing Large Web Applications" somehow struck me as perfectly fitting the zeitgeist of the development world today.
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Twitter's buzzing with technolust based on an Engadget article picturing a Microsoft concept-computer.
Looks lovely, but the photo is misleading. It shows lines of cursive writing that are fraction of a size of the reader's fingernail. Take a look at this blowup:
Based on my fingernail, that cursive writing is …
more ...O'Reilly and Microsoft Press have recently switched to using eBooks as the preferred media for distributing review copies. Like all book reviewers, I receive more books than I actually review. However, since I live in Hawaii, the physical and energy waste of a book that goes unread and for which …
more ...My article on the 10 most influential software development books of the past 10 years only appeared in the 2/15 print edition of SD Times.
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