We’ve shipped! C# in Depth is out now (ebook)
I’m hugely pleased to announce that C# in Depth is now available in finished form as an ebook. The hard copy will ship in about three weeks. Thanks to everyone who’s been involved, particularly the...
View ArticleGoogle, here I come!
This may be a somewhat unexpected announcement for many of you, but I’m delighted to announce that as of April 7th I will be an employee at Google. (If you really needed to follow that link to know who...
View ArticleCritical dead-weight
We’re all familiar with the idea of a technology achieving critical mass: having enough users (subscribers, customers, whatever the appropriate metric might be) to keep it alive and useful. This...
View ArticleBook review: User Interface Design for Programmers (Joel Spolsky)
Resources Joel on Software (Joel’s blog) Amazon Introduction This will be a brief review. It’s a short book, after all – a mere 134 pages for the main body of the book. That’s not a bad thing at all,...
View ArticleProgramming “in” a language vs programming “into” a language
I’m currently reading Steve McConnell’s Code Complete (for the first time – yes, I know that’s somewhat worrying) and there was one section was disturbed me a little. For those of you with a copy to...
View ArticleC# in Depth – it’s really real
On Saturday, when I returned from Mountain View, there were two boxes waiting for me. Guess what was inside… So yes, it really exists, it’s slightly slimmer than expected – and even Amazon have it for...
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