The Cheat to Lose Diet: Cheat BIG with the Foods You Love, Lose Fat Faster Than Ever Before, and Enjoy Keeping It Off! If you’ve been struggling to lose fat for a year, say, and someone came up to you and said you could drink a 2L bottle of pop a week, ice cream, cookies, [...] Read more »

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I’m always reading something: blogs, magazines in the bathroom, books. The frequency of each ebbs and flows. Right now I’m amid a dearth of books half read: The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker – This book is an argument against the theory that humans are born without any innate knowledge or skills. He already convinced [...] Read more »

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I’ve been reading Brad’s blog for, well, as long as I’ve been reading blogs. I always found great little tidbits of .NET knowledge on his blog: performance tips, Framework conventions and idioms, as well as pointers into the .NET Design Guidelines. So when this book, Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries was [...] Read more »

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A few months ago, I was in my favourite, local, non-corporate giant bookstore looking at the computer books for anything worth looking at. Normally, general bookstores’ computer books collection is pretty anemic, but this one has always been quite good. Scanning the shelves, my eyes kept falling on this one book: The Art of Project [...] Read more »

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Pragmatic Unit Testing, by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (The Pragmatic Programmers), is just the kind of software book I like: short, concise, laser-focussed on one topic. That topic, apparently, is unit testing with a pragmatic bent. There are two versions of the book: 1) In C# with NUnit; and 2) In Java with JUnit. I [...] Read more »

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