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: …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …