Adding Manpower

Date Arrow  August 8, 2008

Published in 1975, “The Mythical Man-Month” is considered an all-time classic in the software engineering field. The book author, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., used his experience as the project manager of the IBM System/360 and its software, the Operating System/360, to explain a common set of problem patterns, applicable to other software projects as well.
One [...]

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Blow your mind

Date Arrow  March 11, 2008

Take a careful look at this:

#include

class Gadget
{
public:
void sayHello() const
{
std::cout

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Best books of 2007

Date Arrow  January 23, 2008

I have several mantras in my life. One of them is to learn a new programming language every year. Another one is to read at least 6 technology-related books every year.
I’ve already talked about Erlang (and boy that was the most read article ever in the whole life of this blog! More than 1600 visits [...]

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Starting with Django in Leopard

Date Arrow  January 9, 2008

As I’ve written earlier, I’m playing with Django these days. It’s a refreshing change, I must say, even if I admit that I prefer Ruby’s syntax to Python’s. Of course that’s just a purely subjective impression (I’m writing this while I try to avoid the rotten tomatoes thrown by angry pythonistas reading this) that does [...]

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segunda edicion de “en torno a la anarquia”

Date Arrow  December 3, 2007

hola,
escribo para avisarles que ya está disponible la versión digital del libro segundo de en torno a la anarquía, un texto cuyo libro primero data de 2003 y cuyo libro segundo estoy publicando (por ahora en formato digital) ahora mismo.
puede descargarse de entornoalaanarquia.com.ar o del blog, hernun.com.ar/blogs/enta
saludos,
h.
pd: se agradece la difusión

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The Old New Thing

Date Arrow  August 31, 2007

Je viens de finir de lire The Old New Thing. L’auteur, Raymond Chen, a bosse dans l’equipe de developpement de Windows depuis 1995 (au moins) et il raconte les raisons de certaines decisions prises pendant le design de differentes versions de Windows, depuis 1985 jusqu’a Vista. Le livre est une compil’ des meilleurs articles de [...]

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Free book about Maven

Date Arrow  April 27, 2007

To be downloaded from here for free! (registration required, though)

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Adrian Paenza

Date Arrow  April 7, 2007

Me acuerdo de haber visto a Adrian Paenza en la television, cuando yo era pibe en Buenos Aires, alla por los ‘80; escucharlo en la radio o en la tele, hablando de futbol o de cualquier otro deporte, era parte de la cultura televisiva del domingo a la tarde, cuando pasaban los resultados deportivos [...]

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A sus plantas rendido un león

Date Arrow  April 3, 2007

Lauri pagó y fue a caminar por la costa. Las lanchas parecían flotar a la deriva rodeadas de pájaros. Todo el paisaje transmitía una calma adormecedora. En alguna parte Lauri habia leído que la ciudad estaba edificada sobre galerías abarrotadas de oro y le pareció lógico que no lo quisieran allí. Entró en un supermercado [...]

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Incredible Free Books

Date Arrow  April 1, 2007

I just found some awesome free books to download in PDF format:

Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (1st Edition) by Ross Anderson
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay
Programming the Be Operating System, by Dan Parks Sydow
Numerical Recipes in C & Fortran
Introducción a la programación con Python e Introducción a la [...]

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