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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:40 PM

Musing about Windows and Development

Have you ever wondered why "shut down" is on the "start" menu? Has the dialog manager confused and annoyed you? Do you want to know why registry keys are stored in a hive? If you'd like to know the answers to these questions, you should pick up a copy
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Friday, January 20, 2006 2:23 PM

Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom

I picked up this book a few weeks ago when I was at the 'brar. I've read a lot of stuff on evolution over the years. I think Dawkins has the position that I most agree with, but his writing is really hard to get through. I've been working on " The Ancestor's
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Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:38 AM

How to update your C# language book without really trying

I posted this on Monday, but it got eaten during a server upgrade. Luckily, the lemmings post didn't. I'm very pleased to report that the third edition of my book has now shipped. As I've noted in the past (in a post I linked to in the first version of
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Saturday, May 21, 2005 10:36 AM

Swimming to Antarctica

If you've read either of Lance Armstrong's books, it's probably not a surprise to you that endurance athletes, to put it nicely, tend towards the thin part of the distribution in terms of normality. Having said that, this woman is crazy. But in the good
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Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:39 PM

So you want to write a computer book?

I've gotten asked a bunch of times about writing a book, so I decided to write a short article about it. So you want to write a computer book? If you have comments, please let me know. Useful/Not useful? What else does it need to cover?
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Monday, March 28, 2005 9:23 PM

Book Review: Take Back Your Life!

Last spring I had the opportunity to take a class single-day class named "Take Back Your Life - Using Microsoft Outlook to Get Organized and Stay Organized", taught by Sally McGhee. The class is no longer taught, but the bulk of the advice is now available
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Tuesday, March 08, 2005 5:00 PM

Updated version of my book coming...

In the spring before C# was first disclosed, I ended up, through a curious juxtaposition of events, writing a book on C# named " A Programmer's Introduction to C# " This probably rates second on the list of "cool things I got to do while I was on the
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Monday, January 17, 2005 9:57 PM

True Lies - the GNN Book

I happened to pick this one up at the library when I was there last. (aside - it's pretty weird to be in the library these days. Not only do the sell food and drinks, they work on the honor system, so you check out your books yourself and then just walk
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Thursday, January 13, 2005 9:55 PM

Naked in Baghdad

I just finished reading " Naked in Baghdad ", written by NPR correspondent Anne Garrels. Anne spent time in Baghdad on and off (the visas were only 10 days, so that the Iraqis could charge more money), and was there during the initial attack and when
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Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:31 PM

Halo: First Strike

When I was in the library on Saturday, I came across a copy of Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund. I figured that since I had spent a ton of time playing the game, it would be worth it to spend a little time reading a Halo book. I didn't expect much -
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004 10:51 AM

Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission

I just finished reading Sojourner: An Insider's View of the Mars Pathfinder Mission It's written by Andrew Mishkin , a systems engineer at JPL , and gives an insider's view into how the Sojourner team managed to design, build, staff, and operate the rover
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:12 AM

The Lunar Men

The time: The early 1700s The place: England, at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. In this book, Jenny Uglow details the lives of the group of men - industrialists, scientists, doctors, and others - who made up the “Lunar Society of Birmingham“.
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Friday, May 28, 2004 10:15 AM

Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham

On Wednesday night, I spent some time at the O'Reilly reception. In the SWAG bags that they gave us was a copy of the book, Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. The O'Reilly website has this to say about the book: "Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from
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Friday, May 14, 2004 3:28 PM

Books on my desk

I have a couple of books that have showed up on my desk recently. The first is “ Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET ”, by James Newkirk and Alexei Vorontsov. They started writing the book while working at ThoughtWorks , though Jim is
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Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:59 AM

Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

I got this reference from http://www.theserverside.net , but since they require login to get to the link, I'll instead refer you to the book page I took a look one of the sample chapters , and I thought it looked pretty good, except for the fact that
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