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Short reviews of things, mostly books

Dreaming In Code

I just finished reading Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg today. In short; I liked it! The book is an exploration of the pitfalls of developing and managing software projects. It follows several years of development on the Chandler Project by the OSAF asking questions such as: Why are software projects rarely delivered on time? […]

Hacking and Painting

Hackers and Painters is a collection of Paul Graham’s essays which where published as a hardback book in 2004. I really enjoyed this collection of essays and since reading it have begun to follow Paul’s website and read each new essay as it is published, having recently read it for a second time I thought […]

[Book Review] User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers Joel Spolsky - Apress (2001) This book does exactly what it says on the cover. It is a concise (144 pages including index etc) introduction to the areas of UI design that matter to programmers (as opposed to designers and HCI types). The 18 chapters are all less than 10 […]

Book Reviews

Work have a library of interesting books which I intend to start making my way through. I’ll review them, and any other books I think people should read, here.