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New Programmer's Survival Manual: Now For Sale!

Now for sale: my book for programmers entering industry, the New Programmer’s Survival Manual, is available in ebook and paper form. I expect readers of this book to fall into a couple categories: …

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PragProWriMo 2009: What Your CS Degree Didn't Teach You

In November 2009, I took on the Pragmatic Bookshelf challenge: write the first draft of a tech book in a month. Every weekday I posted a couple pages worth of my book, tentatively titled What Your …

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PragProWriMo: My Book

The guys at Pragmatic Bookshelf are issuing a challenge: write the first draft of a tech book in a month. I’m taking them up on it. Every weekday in November I’ll be posting a couple pages worth of my …

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Hacking MacOS X Tiger

Scott Knaster's new book Hacking Mac OS X Tiger is out! I had the great pleasure of contributing to two chapters in this book; one on creating Dashboard widgets and another on creating Spotlight …

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Great Ideas in Computer Science: A Gentle Introduction

Back in my university days I had the great honor of contributing to one of my professor’s textbooks, Great Ideas in Computer Science by Dr. Alan Biermann. I contributed to the Simulations chapter, …

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