22 May 2005
In Search Of Stupidy, written by Rick Chapman, covers the mighty stupid blunders of high-tech companies from the early 80s right up to 2003, when the book was published. To be worthy of mention in this book, it took the combined efforts of personnel in upper management, development, sales, and marketing, all fiercely dedicated to [...] Read more »
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19 May 2005
At the recommendation of the Wealthy Blogger, I bought the Automatic Millionaire by David Bach (US, Canada), and read it off and on for the past few weekends. It’s not very long but I just didn’t have attention span to finish it all at once. I blame TV. Seriously, that usually means that the writing isn’t very interesting. [...] Read more »
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16 May 2005
Given my natural distaste for Computer Books, and my penchant for lists, here are my picks for Computer Books That Don’t Suck (.NET Version): Essential .NET by Don Box. You’ll need a quiet room for this one. Windows Forms Programming in C# by Chris Sells. The reference for WinForms. Advanced .NET Remoting by Ingo Rammer. [...] Read more »
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14 May 2005
Chris Sells is asking his Windows Forms Programming Readership what he should do about the 2nd edition. It got me thinking about what I like and dislike about technology books. I remember, when I first started out in Computer Science (~2001), walking into the computer section at my local giant bookstore, looking for books about how to [...] Read more »
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27 January 2005
Well I finally finished The System Of The World by Neal Stephenson. The System Of The World is the third and final book in The Baroque Cycle. I finished on the plane on the way to Australia. I say finally because I started it in October when it came out. Since I bought it I read [...] Read more »
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