Archive for the 'Books' Category
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
The book ‘Framework Design Guidelines’ is high on many .NET programmer’s recommended reading lists, so I decided to finally try it out.
To me, it scored bad points for its awfully long subtitle (Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries — Microsoft .NET Development Series). We’ll refer to it as FDGCIPRNL as a form [...]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
As a companion the the iWoz book, I also read Revoltution in The Valley – The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made.
It was not a page-turner like “iWoz”, but just as interesting to read.
Just like with the book by Woz, I already knew some of its contents — this time by accidentally [...]
Categories: Aanrader, Books, English, Hardware, Software, Technology
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
I recently read this book by Steve Wozniak: iWoz.
It’s an exceptionally interesting biography, if you care for technology and some personal computing history.
I listened to Wozniak via IT Conversations before (it’s the highest rated talk over there), so I already knew some of the anecdotes and developments, but the humor and engaging style of the [...]
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
I’ve been reading my “Agile web development with Rails” book, which I bought at FOSDEM in early 2006. It had been lying around half-unread every since. Of course, by now the latest Rails releases have deprecated some stuff that’s recommended in the book, but almost everything is still compatible.
Trying out the examples in [...]
Categories: Aanrader, Books, English, Open source, Software, Technology, Usability, Web stuff
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Tuesday, April 25th, 2006
Ik heb dit boek van Godfried Bomans na jaren opnieuw gelezen (en ervan genoten).
Categories: Books, Nederlands
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
I have read this crazy ebook by Why the lucky stiff, about the Ruby programming language.
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Friday, January 27th, 2006
Ik heb dit boek van Simon Joinson net gelezen, en het is een aanrader om een goed algemeen beeld te krijgen van fotografie en digitale technieken.
Categories: Books, Foto, Nederlands
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Friday, December 16th, 2005
I have read (and enjoyed) the book ‘Effective C#’ by Bill Wagner.
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Tuesday, August 30th, 2005
The book ‘Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET’ is a good introduction to the topic.
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005
Dit boek heb ik zopas uitgelezen, en terecht!
Categories: Books, Nederlands, Politiek
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