Joel's Programmer's Bookshelf
Eine sehr nette Bücherliste bei Joel Spoelsky mit vielen Klassikern (Peopleware, Man-Month, Pragmatic Programmer, ...).
fad - 1. Jun, 10:38
books
Mittwoch, 1. Juni 2005
Donnerstag, 28. Oktober 2004
microserfs
Monday
Melrose Place night tonight. We double-clicked onto the "BRAIN CANDY" mode. We're all addicts.
We like to pretend our geek house is actually Melrose Place.
Tonight Abe said, "I wonder what would happen if we all started randomly going nonlinear like the show' characters. What would happen if our personalities became divorced from cause and effect?"
"We could take turns going psycho," said Bug.
Susan, writing the words D-U-R-A-N/D-U-R-A-N on the proxemial phalanges of her fingers, said, "You already are psycho, Bug. That doesn't count."
Susan read aloud from the Habdbook of Highway Engineering:
"Improperly installed or unwarranted signals can result in the following conditions:
- Excessive delay
- Disobedience of the signal indications
- Use of less adequate routes to avoid the signal
- Increase of accident frequency ..."
She paused and looked at the fire for a while. " I wonder if this guy is alive and married?"
Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the nineties, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
"... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus'. It's sick and evil." END
from Amazon.co.uk
-> amazon.de
Melrose Place night tonight. We double-clicked onto the "BRAIN CANDY" mode. We're all addicts.
We like to pretend our geek house is actually Melrose Place.
Tonight Abe said, "I wonder what would happen if we all started randomly going nonlinear like the show' characters. What would happen if our personalities became divorced from cause and effect?"
"We could take turns going psycho," said Bug.
Susan, writing the words D-U-R-A-N/D-U-R-A-N on the proxemial phalanges of her fingers, said, "You already are psycho, Bug. That doesn't count."
Susan read aloud from the Habdbook of Highway Engineering:
"Improperly installed or unwarranted signals can result in the following conditions:
- Excessive delay
- Disobedience of the signal indications
- Use of less adequate routes to avoid the signal
- Increase of accident frequency ..."
She paused and looked at the fire for a while. " I wonder if this guy is alive and married?"
Microserfs is not about Microsoft--it's about programmers who are searching for lives. A hilarious but frighteningly real look at geek life in the nineties, Coupland's book manifests a peculiar sense of how technology affects the human race and how it will continue to affect all of us. Microserfs is the hilarious journal of Dan, an ex-Microsoft programmer who, with his coder comrades, is on a quest to find purpose in life. This isn't just fodder for techies. The thoughts and fears of the not-so-stereotypical characters are easy for any of us to relate to, and their witty conversations and quirky view of the world make this a surprisingly thought-provoking book.
"... just think about the way high-tech cultures purposefully protract out the adolescence of their employees well into their late 20s, if not their early 30s," muses one programmer. "I mean, all those Nerf toys and free beverages! And the way tech firms won't even call work 'the office,' but instead, 'the campus'. It's sick and evil." END
from Amazon.co.uk
-> amazon.de
SoapM - 28. Okt, 18:36
Sonntag, 24. Oktober 2004
peopleware
Das klassische amerikanisch-humorige 'Wir stellen mal alles bisher praktizierte in Frage und haben damit auch noch Recht'-IT-Management Buch. Die Lobpreisungen seien den Links überlassen:
-> google search
Und hier der erste Abschnitt:
Since the days when computers first came into common use, there must have been tens of thousands of accounts receivable programs written. There are probably a dozen or more accounts receivable projects underway as you read these words. And somewhere today, one of them is failing. Imagine that! A project requiring no real technical innovation is going down the tubes. An accounts receivable program is a wheel that’s been reinvented so often that many veteran developers could stumble through such projects with their eyes closed. Yet these efforts sometimes still fail.
-> look inside (amazon.com)
-> amazon.com
zur Verwirrung der Leser läuft die deutsche Version unter dem reizenden Titel: Wien wartet auf Dich! Der Faktor Mensch im DV-Management
-> amazon.de
-> google search
Und hier der erste Abschnitt:
Since the days when computers first came into common use, there must have been tens of thousands of accounts receivable programs written. There are probably a dozen or more accounts receivable projects underway as you read these words. And somewhere today, one of them is failing. Imagine that! A project requiring no real technical innovation is going down the tubes. An accounts receivable program is a wheel that’s been reinvented so often that many veteran developers could stumble through such projects with their eyes closed. Yet these efforts sometimes still fail.
-> look inside (amazon.com)
-> amazon.com
zur Verwirrung der Leser läuft die deutsche Version unter dem reizenden Titel: Wien wartet auf Dich! Der Faktor Mensch im DV-Management
-> amazon.de
SoapM - 24. Okt, 13:36
Freitag, 22. Oktober 2004
best c++ starter book ever
behold:
C++ FOR DUMMIES
-> bei amazon.de
-> bei amazon.com (look inside)
plus: MORE C++ FOR DUMMIES
-> amazon.com
'Unlike other C++ programming books, C++ For Dummies considers the "why" just as important as the "how." The features of C++ are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Rather than just present the features, this book will help you to really understand how they fit together. After you finish this book, you'll be able to write a reasonable C++ program, and, just as important, you'll understand why and how it works.'
from amazon.com
Im ersten Semester hatte ich sicher an die zwanzig Bücher zu C++ ausgeliehen und überflogen und alle waren Mist. Das obenstehende bringt die Sache gut auf den Punkt. C++ f.D. erklärt warum Sprachkonstrukte so sind wie sie sind und wozu und warum OOP (davon handelt das Buch nämlich auch) Sinn macht.
Es startet nicht ganz bei Null, was manche Leute vieleicht abschreckt (siehe amazon.de-Beitrag), aber weit genug am Anfang, wenn man schon mal zwei Zeilen Code geschrieben hat und deckt gegen Ende praktisch alle Möglichkeiten der Sprache ab (was dann schon ein Stückchen Weg ist). Dazu gibt's ein durchgehendes Beispiel, das kontinuierlich ausgebaut wird.
> Statt Studenten in langatmigen Vorlesungen zu quälen sollte man Ihnen dieses Buch geben.
> Gute Computerbücher machen Spass. Dieses macht Spass.
> Im 4. Semester waren dann bei mir langsam mal alle Themen die dieses Buch beinhaltet in Vorlesungen behandelt.
C++ FOR DUMMIES
-> bei amazon.de
-> bei amazon.com (look inside)
plus: MORE C++ FOR DUMMIES
-> amazon.com
'Unlike other C++ programming books, C++ For Dummies considers the "why" just as important as the "how." The features of C++ are like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. Rather than just present the features, this book will help you to really understand how they fit together. After you finish this book, you'll be able to write a reasonable C++ program, and, just as important, you'll understand why and how it works.'
from amazon.com
Im ersten Semester hatte ich sicher an die zwanzig Bücher zu C++ ausgeliehen und überflogen und alle waren Mist. Das obenstehende bringt die Sache gut auf den Punkt. C++ f.D. erklärt warum Sprachkonstrukte so sind wie sie sind und wozu und warum OOP (davon handelt das Buch nämlich auch) Sinn macht.
Es startet nicht ganz bei Null, was manche Leute vieleicht abschreckt (siehe amazon.de-Beitrag), aber weit genug am Anfang, wenn man schon mal zwei Zeilen Code geschrieben hat und deckt gegen Ende praktisch alle Möglichkeiten der Sprache ab (was dann schon ein Stückchen Weg ist). Dazu gibt's ein durchgehendes Beispiel, das kontinuierlich ausgebaut wird.
> Statt Studenten in langatmigen Vorlesungen zu quälen sollte man Ihnen dieses Buch geben.
> Gute Computerbücher machen Spass. Dieses macht Spass.
> Im 4. Semester waren dann bei mir langsam mal alle Themen die dieses Buch beinhaltet in Vorlesungen behandelt.
SoapM - 22. Okt, 12:35
Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2004
spielplatz computer
habe schon so viel aus den artikeln zitiert, da sollte das buch selbst auch nochmal in der passenden rubrik genannt werden:
-> http://www.dpunkt.de/buch/3-88229-193-1.html
-> http://www.dpunkt.de/buch/3-88229-193-1.html
SoapM - 20. Okt, 20:14
Montag, 27. September 2004
the baroque cycle
it's out and i'll have to get it by now:
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.
from amazon.com
-> The System of the World
btw here are vol. 2 and 1:
-> The Confusion
-> Quicksilver
The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion.
from amazon.com
-> The System of the World
btw here are vol. 2 and 1:
-> The Confusion
-> Quicksilver
SoapM - 27. Sep, 13:59
mythical man-month
The classic book on the human elements of software engineering. Software tools and development environments may have changed in the 21 years since the first edition of this book, but the peculiarly nonlinear economies of scale in collaborative work and the nature of individuals and groups has not changed an epsilon. If you write code or depend upon those who do, get this book as soon as possible -- from Amazon.com Books, your library, or anyone else. You (and/or your colleagues) will be forever grateful. Very Highest Recommendation.
from Amazon.com
- > mythical man-month
also a must-have-read-classic (but haven't read yet):
-> peopleware
from Amazon.com
- > mythical man-month
also a must-have-read-classic (but haven't read yet):
-> peopleware
SoapM - 27. Sep, 13:51
