What We’re Reading This Summer

What We’re Reading This Summer

Summer is here! Just as we did around the holidays, we decided to share some of the books we’ll be reading over the next couple of months. Amy Cox I’m reading Japanese Tales of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Would like to get into the...
The Best Interface is an Enchanted Object

The Best Interface is an Enchanted Object

Book Review: Let’s look at a pair of books that contain deep critiques of the world where more and more of our devices’ functionality is exposed only through interfaces on screens, and lay out a path to a more human-centered technological future filled with devices that engage us more richly in a wide variety of ways instead of asking us to keep poking at black glass rectangles with our stubby fingers.

Ignoring Cyber-Monday With Free Books

Put your credit card back in your wallet — I’ve found some really good software development books that are available for free, and will keep you busy until the end of the year, at least. The Nature of Code by Daniel Shiffman Daniel Shiffman is a professor...

Friday Linked List (revisited)

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a link dump here. The recurring (but not exclusive!) theme today is that specialization is for insects. A post went up on  Dr Dobb’s yesterday that shows some very telling data that’s maybe obvious to many...

Books: More Good Ones

I’d like to expand on Brett’s post a bit with some more recent books that I’ve enjoyed. And another which is perhaps a few clicks off the maintained trail. The Algorithm Design Manual (Steven Skiena) I’ll kick this discussion off with the fact...