Posts tagged with "books"

"I am reading Cal Henderson’s Building Scalable Web Sites. It covers a lot of topics, some of which I am closely familiar with such as version control. Cal does however have suggestions for situations I have never been in, in particular I do love this quote from the part on how to handle hardware platform growth: “When you get to the point of having a few thousand servers […]”. Never been there."

"While at Lecando, I was quite proud of the library of computer books we assembled oveer the years. These days as a consultant for Valtech, my employer does indeed have a library, but as I am almost never at the office it is not really accessible. I have therefore started to buy the books that I find necessary for my daily digital life out of my own pocket so that I can have access to them whenever I want."

"Like so many others, I have read Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham. And, surprise, I find it highly recommendable, like everybody else. The following are a few thoughts about I jotted down while reading: Why, oh why, in the name of mad page flipping are the footnotes placed in the back? I am surprised that Pete McBreen of Software Craftmanship fame is not mentioned - in my opinion they are making the same case against “Computer Science” Contrary to common XP belief Paul Graham favors code ownership."

"Huge kudos to Mike for hinting about “Getting Things Done”. I’ve only made it to page 75 so far, but it has already resulted in my desk being clean. This is something that no coworker of mine has ever seen. I wonder what the rest of the book will do to me."