A few days ago, fantasy author Terry Pratchett announced some sad news on Josh Kirby’s blog (in a post titled “An Embuggerance”). Apparently he has been diagnosed with a rare, early onset form of Alzheimer’s. His blog post sounds optimistic under the circumstances:
Folks,
I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a little while, [...]
Dave Thomas just announced a new Pragmatic Bookshelf series called Pragmatic Fridays. I have no idea what inspired the name “Friday” in this context, but a Pragmatic Friday is a short (60 - 100 pages), low-cost ($7.50 - $10), and focussed book on a specific topic. The books are available for download in PDF form [...]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy movie (which I didn’t care for all that much, as I previously wrote), prompted me to pick up a copy of “Don’t Panic”, Neil Gaiman’s guide to the guide. The original version came out in the late 80s, but it has been updated several times since then to keep [...]
The upcoming Make: magazine from O’Reilly sounds very interesting. It is published as a “mook”, a magazine / book hybrid, and covers a wide array of technology and what people can do with it. It sounds like the focus will be on concrete consumer projects, including things like kite aereal photography, home entertainment, websites, etc. [...]
Out of curiosity I just did a Google search for “digitalhobbit” to find any references to my site (not that I really expected any…). One of the links that was returned among the top search results was this one. It points to a site called All Consuming, which apparently monitors blogs for Amazon book links [...]
The third book in the Pragmatic Starter Kit series, “Pragmatic Project Automation”, is now available, either from Amazon or from the Pragmatic Programmer website. I have read and can thoroughly recommend the other two books in the series, “Pragmatic Version Control” (Amazon link) and “Pragmatic Unit Testing” (Amazon link). All books in the series are [...]
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