Daniel Dennet’s second book is a collection of essays on consciousness, free will, the possibility of artificial intelligence and other subjects. Good as always.
Monthly Archives: August 2002
Book: Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
Fantastic! A re-telling of the Cinderella fable from the point of view of one of the step-sisters, and also an historical novel about the craze in Tulip speculation in the Netherlands of the 1600′s.
Book: The Year 1000
Book: Perl Cookbook
If you only use Perl occasionaly, this is a fantastic book. It is organized using “recipes” for accomplishing common tasks, so when you get stuck, you can look up the operation you are trying to implement.
Book: Open Source Development with CVS
This is an introduction both to the use of the CVS source code control system and to the process of open source development using CVS. The CVS-specific parts of the book are available online.
CVS is only one of many source code control systems, but it is one of the most common. Newer projects such as arch and Subversion are aiming to provide new, better replacements for CVS.
Book: The Zope Book
This is a nice introduction to the Zope web publishing system, the system used to create this website. The currently published edition is a bit out of date, however, so you might try the the online version.
Zope is a python-based object system with a web-based interface. It’s a lot of fun to work in, though I’m only beginning to scratch the surface of all its features.






