Category: Books

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.

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.

A nice little book about life around the turn of the previous millenium.

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.

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.

Interesting speculation about the functional breakdown of the human brain.

A biography of the family of the current Dalai Lama. I found it very interesting.

Oh boy, this is good! Brooks explains why large software projects are difficult, why simply adding more programmers is usually harmful rather than helpful, and why there is no “Silver Bullet” in Software Engineering.