bellanna's former colleague Paul Butcher has written a book all about debugging software. While some of the tips may seem obvious to those with even a few years experience (you do use some form of source control, don't you?), Paul not only helps find bugs after they have occurred but also before with tips about automated testing, the use of asserts, ( Read more... )

I finished one of my Christmas books from bellanna in the early hours of this morning. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett, is a great story of a con artist given the choice between death for previous crimes, or reviving the Ankh-Morpork post office. Moist von Lipwig chooses the post office of course, otherwise it would be a very short novel. Reading the ( Read more... )

It has rained a lot today, so I have caught up with some of my reading. Lucky the BBQ was yesterday!

I have just finished The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. It is a curious book, written from the point of view of a teenager with Asperger's Syndrome. Christopher tries to find out who killed his neighbour's dog and ( Read more... )

Tsk, I'm just going to have to undelete a couple entries from velvetpurrs's author list of ten:

J. R. R. Tolkien
Terry Pratchett
Isaac Asimov
Marquis de Sade
Patricia Cornwell
Ian Irvine
Iain M. Banks
J.V.Jones
Melanie Rawn
Stephen King
Bill Bryson - Velvet> You really should read his books
Neil Gaiman - Well, might not be to everyone's taste, but I really ( Read more... )