I first heard about PeepCode sometime last spring. At the time I must admit I was not too keen on Ruby. Times have changed. I discovered for myself why Ruby (particularly Rails) is so cool this past summer. Recently, I actually went out to the PeepCode site and took a look [...]
The what? Well it’s a book, or is it a lifestyle. Either way, I debated on whether or not I should post on this, since I’m not sure what it has to do with computers but I digress. Basically, it all starts about six months ago. My wife (then fiance) and I decided that we [...]
I mentioned Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences a few posts ago. I just finished reading the book this weekend so I thought I’d give my final impression of it.
I just took a look around my work area to see what the most useful thing has been over the past week. It has been a rather long week since I’ve been studying for an exam. There is nothing I hate worse than exams. They are the least practical way to evaluate real knowledge that [...]
If I could only recommend one book that every software engineer must read it would NOT be The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, but to be fair I’m not sure what it would be. I will say that when you graduate with a B.S. in Computer Science your university should send you a copy [...]
As a method of rating different items that I post reviews for I will use beers. Basically, I’ll relate the quality or enjoyment of the item to the equivalent enjoyment in beers. The scale will go from -5 beers being something that was really unenjoyable or of very low quality, to 5 beers being something [...]