Best Books of 2009

Date Arrow  February 24, 2010

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 [...]

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Epic Interview: A New Literary Genre in the Tech Section?

Date Arrow  September 13, 2009

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 [...]

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Olé, olé, olé

Date Arrow  February 15, 2009

I just stumbled into this amazing TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert via James Duncan Davidson (@duncan in Twitter) and I want to share it with you with some very personal thoughts below.

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Best books of 2008

Date Arrow  January 6, 2009

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 [...]

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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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Erlang

Date Arrow  December 19, 2007

As I said before, I like to learn a new programming language every year. I also like to read at least 6 computing-related books every year, but the article about those 6 will come later.
The reason for these two rules is twofold: first, it gives me lots of material to blog about, and [...]

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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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Rethinking the Corporate World

Date Arrow  October 31, 2007

In Buenos Aires I’ve studied corporate management (I did, shame on me), and as part of that, I had to learn about all the different identified types of organizations: matrix-based, pyramidal, military, organic, etc. Afterwards, books like Peopleware made me rethink these concepts, particularly when seeing the pityful state of some software development companies here [...]

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