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.

My Delicious Bookmarks

• PowerPivot | Home / anayltics data datamining
• iPhone devsugar: Create shiny buttons easily / iphone_dev
• Processing Language for iPhone / processing iphone_dev visualization
• How-to: real-world dates with the iPhone SDK / iphone programming nsdate
• Using Mongo With LINQ / linq mongodb nosql
• CWE - 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming …

• Signing off so that I can watch the Oscars spoiler-free. Up "Hurt Locker"! Down "Avatar"! #
• Edward Tufte takes Gov't app't to chair production of reports on recovery spending. http://bit.ly/aTiWaf #
• First good rain in Kona in months yesterday afternoon. Cleaned out sky for gorgeous stars and blazing mars …

::: {#delicious-posts-lobrien .delicious-posts} My Delicious Bookmarks {#my-delicious-bookmarks .delicious-banner .sidebar-title}

• ayende's Example.MapReduce at master - GitHub / mapreduce performance c#
• Using Mongo With LINQ / linq mongodb nosql database
• Directed Edge - Blog - On Building a Stupidly Fast Graph Database / algorithm concurrency database performance graphs
• google-diff-match-patch - Project Hosting on Google Code / programming algorithm diff match …

• Applying for data-centric jobs. I think of myself as an algorithm / performance guy, so it's weird to write cover letters with DBA stuff... #
• USA vs CAN hockey game was epic. Hope it helps NHL. Togue-wearing syrup-suckers: health-care AND gold? #
• Skinput from CMU and MSR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v …

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 …

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 …

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.

If you're interested, here are Amazon affiliate links to the books:

• Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
• Practices of an Agile Developer: Working in …

Photo by Wayne Levin. All rights reserved.