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Every year I’m doing the same post (well, in 2006 I completely forgot to do it) that starts more or less with the same phrase: “every year I like to read at least 6 new tech books, and to learn a new programming language.”
Last year’s language was Go, and the books, well, here we [...]

Here’s a simple recipe:

Contact the most important people in some field.
Sit down and ask a similar set of questions to each one of them.
Record all the interviews and then write them down.
Publish the resulting book, usually with great reviews (such as this one).

This does not constitute, by any means, a new genre; but it’s certainly [...]

You might remember my beloved mantras: learning a new programming language and reading at least 6 relevant books every year. Following the 2007 edition, here’s the list of the 8 books I have enjoyed most in 2008, ordered by a purely subjective and absolutely irrational decreasing preference. I strongly recommend all of them!
Winner: Geekonomics: The [...]

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 [...]

Take a careful look at this:

#include

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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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