Bill de hÃ“ra: December 2003 Archives (via Mowser)

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December 30, 2003

Reading for 2004

I'll be hoping to read these at some point in the year:

Text Processing in Python, by David Mertz. Extreme Programming Adventures in C#, by Ron Jeffries (Ron's other book is my favourite on XP). Unit Testing in Java, by Johannes Link (looks like this one is taking the hard stuff on). XQuery, by Michael Brundage. Agile Database Techniques, by Scott Ambler (if it's anything as good as Agile Modelling...). AI Game Programming Wisdom, ed. Steve Rabin (no markup, no middleware, no enterprises; just a collection of neat hacks ;). Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, by Christopher Manning and Hinrich Schutze. Causality: Models, Reasoning and Inference, by Judea Pearl (I bought this the afternoon I moved back to Dublin - that was over two years ago!). Calendrical Calculations, by Edward Reingold. Programming .NET Components, by Juval Lowy. Ruby in a Nutshell, by Yukihiro Matsumoto (anyone that wants me to be a happy programmer deserves a read) RELAX NG, by Eric Van Der Vlist.

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Recent reading

I'm coming off a self-imposed tech book buying ban. During 2002, I read 3 fiction books (not good), while building up a backlog of about 20 unread tech books (not good). Incidentally, I figure that not buying tech books saved me well over 1000 euro (good). Having a Safari subscription has been great, although the page layout is often poor enough that I can only skim.

I've recently shelled out and gotten through the following:

Enterprise Integration Patterns, Domain Driven Design Beyond Software Architecture

All good books, and I'll write up reviews in time.

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Unsubscribed

Couldn't keep up with:

xml-dev
extremeprogramming
testdrivendevelopment
junit
axis-user
xml-dev (openoffice)
chi-web
chandler-dev
p2p-hackers
rest-discuss
xml-sig

[Bill de hÓra: How many mailing lists?]

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December 18, 2003

Peaty Malt

10 year old Talisker. Not as peaty as one would hope for, but yummy still. Ben Hammersley:

For peat, it has to be Laphroaig 10 or Lagavulin 16. I can't wait untill Christmas...

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