Man vs Code : books

Fowler - The King

aconrad — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:25:00 GMT

For the IoC amateurs (like myself) out there - Fowler has a very good introduction using the style of P of EAA.

Also, some very good updates to P of EAA here.

The amazing thing is this guy writes stuff faster then I can grok it.

Michael's book part II

aconrad — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:41:00 GMT

Michael Brundage’s (one of my co-workers from SqlXml days) new book on XQuery has sky rocketed to number 7172 on the Amazon.com sales rank. Although Michael will probably give me a copy, I am tempted to buy one from Amazon to see the effect on the sales rank.

Michael Lewis homepage

aconrad — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 21:33:00 GMT

In an item of interest only to myself and a couple of other Michael Lewis apologists I work with. I found his homepage, which although being mediocre at best, has never the less been given a permanent bookmark in my browser.

Read "Moneyball" - it will change your life.

Michael's book

aconrad — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 03:25:00 GMT

Michael Brundage ’s book on XQuery is now posted on Amazon. He tells me it is “done”. I read an early draft, and found it quite interesting and entertaining. Unfortunately, it won't be ready for the holiday season '03 (it will be out in early '04), so a lot of people are going to have to rethink their gift giving plans.

By finishing his book, Michael has motivated me to think about writing a book myself. My book won't be 448 pages long and probably won't be about XQuery. I believe I have settled on a topic and have actually started a couple of chapters, now I just need to get motivated to fully commit.

Incidentally, Michael is a graduate of Cal Tech which seems to be the modern center of science and engineering research. I didn't realize that fact until I read the memoirs of Richard Feynman which incidentally is an extremely good book.