The latest updates to these pages are announced in this section.

27th January 2008 - CSS Hacks

The CSS Anthology provides good examples on real-world designs.

2nd January 2008 - Programming Ruby

It’s hard to imagine a better introduction to this promising programming language than Programming Ruby.

2nd November 2007 - The Business of Software

Clear and insightful writing on start-ups- Eric Sink.

4th July 2007 - Pragmatic Programming?

One of the best books on software development: The Pragmatic Programmer reviewed.

21st June 2007 - Anniversary and Multi-Paradigm Design

Congratulations to my page - two years today. As a small celebration I've added a review of Coplien's Multi-Paradigm Design. A tough but rewarding read that makes it 43 tech books in these two years - stay tuned for the '50s celebration.

2nd June 2007 - The Best of Verity Stob

Brilliant. Brittish. That's Verity Stob.

9th April 2007 - Design in Test-Driven Development

An article discussing the impact of TDD on the development process.

2nd April 2007 - C++ Template Metaprogramming in action

An article describing how I solved FizzBuzz using C++ compiler error messages.

29th March 2007 - Frequently forgotten facts captured

Robert L. Glass has written an excellent book covering imporant facts and fallacies about our industry.

18th March 2007 - C++ gets extended

Pete Becker's new and well-written book guides us through the C++ Standard Library extensions.

25th February 2007 - Founders at work

A fascinating book filled with interviews covering the early days of technology startups.

28th December 2006 - Wisdom and Extreme Programming

Love it, hate it, but make sure you check out Extreme Programming Refactored. The Wisdom of Crowds is probably less controversial but also a great read.

13th November 2006 - Psychology, Egoes and Patterns

Psychology of Programming and Patterns of Software: two books sharing the fact that they are partly highly interesting.

14th October 2006 - ANSI Common Lisp

The language, the philosophy, the reference - an excellent book by Paul Graham.

17th September 2006 - Wasted Time

Beyond Java stands out as the first really bad book reviewed on these pages.

11th July 2006 - Agile database development and high-tech marketing disasters

No updates in a long time. I'll have to blame it on the FIFA World Cup... Anyway, I finally put two new book reviews online: Agile Database Techniques and In Search of Stupidity.

18th May 2006 - Objects for States in C++

A brand-new article covering different implementation strategies for this classic design pattern. The article, together with the full source code, is availabe from the article section.

9th May 2006 - Two great Common Lisp books

I've added reviews of the Jolt award winning Practical Common Lisp and CLOS.

5th April 2006 - Cars and Software

Can software developers learn from Japanese just-in-time? I believe so in my review of The Toyota Production System by Taiichi Ohno.

16th February 2006 - The Tao of Hackers and Schemers?

Well, the connection is in the title of the three new book reviews I wrote.

5th February 2006 - Idiomatic Expressions article!

I have published a new article about idiomatic expressions. The article is available in the articles section.

21st December 2005 - Pattern Mania

Added a review of The Patterns Handbook, which includes a lot of material on patterns.

6th December 2005 - Extreme Programming Reviewed

Wrote a review of the 2nd edition of the modern classic Extreme Programming Explained.

23rd November 2005 - 3 x Joel within a week!

Two of these are reviews on books by Joel Spolsky and one is my young nephew who was christened Joel last week! There's a photo of young Joel here.

27th October 2005 - Christopher Alexander's classic book on patterns reviewed

Check out the review of The Timeless Way of Building at the book reviews section.

17th October 2005 - C++ book of the year already arrived!?

I added a review of Björn Karlsson's brilliant book about the Boost libraries to the book reviews.

29th September 2005 - I finally read Code Complete, 2nd Edition

A review of this tome has been added to the book reviews.

25th September 2005 - Patterns in C series completed!

The 5th and final part (at least for now...) has been added to the articles section.
This part covers the REACTOR architectural pattern and the full source code is available as well.

6th September 2005 - From metaprogramming to modeling

Four new book reviews, ranging from C++ to UML and open source, available.

13th August 2005 - Fourth part of Patterns in C published

The fourth part, covering the design pattern Observer, has been added to the articles section.

27th July 2005 - Five book reviews added

The new book reviews range from Machiavelli to Scott Meyers with a stop in PHP land.

28th June 2005 - First book reviews added

The book reviews pages have been activated.

21st June 2005 - Page created

The first three parts of the Patterns in C series have been added to the articles section.