WOOHOO!!!

Just bought Code Complete 2 - Code Complete, Second Edition!! Reading it now.

Book List

Okay, here is my list of books that every programmer should read at some point or the other. This is only based on the books I have already read. There are lots of good books on my reading list, which arent here. Once I'm done reading them, I'll decide whether to put them here. That said, here is the list (in no particular order) -

• Rapid Development


• Peopleware


• Code Complete


• Writing Sold Code


• The Pragmatic Programmer


• The Mythical Man Month


• Refactoring


• Design Patterns

Well, thats the list for now. Expect stuff to be added from time to time.

The above image is from the first page of Steve McConnell's book "Software Project Survival Guide". This is such a stunning image. For anyone who has worked in software, will immediately understand what it means, and yet the point comes through so beautifully and simply. "If only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't." Amazing. Steve, you are a genius, and I'm your biggest fan. 

Amazon has a great offer going right now. If you buy the Sony Ericsson T610 Phone, with a T-Mobile subscription, THEY WILL PAY YOU $150 !! 

Yet another template change

I'm tweaking around with the template. Expect more changes over the week to come

Brian Hubbard, The Gloria Record 

Ben Houtman, The Gloria Record. I took these photos during Baybeats 2003 

David M from Fonzie. Taken October 2003, Baybeats music festival 

Carlos Teixeira from the group Fonzie. I took this photo during the Baybeats 2003 music festival, October 2003. 

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ?

Blogger Help : What is BlogThis! ? BlogThis! is a simple bookmarklet to make posting to blogger easy. Check out the page for more details. This thing rocks.

Amnesty International - Stop Violence Against Women

Stop Violence Against Women

From birth to death, in times of peace as well as war, women face discrimination and violence at the hands of the state, the community and the family.

Do something about it

The Visionaries: Jaime Escalante

The Visionaries: Jaime Escalante : A really nice interview with Jaime Escalante on education and excellence.

The Nice programming language

The Nice programming language

Could this be THE hot new concept in programming languages ? The Nice programming language is a totally new, independant language. However, and this is the cool part, it gets compiled into java bytecode. This means that anyone who has the JRE can execute a program written in Nice.

The idea is by no means new. In fact, it is similar to how many languages are all compiled into the same IL bytecode in the .Net environment. However, making it compatible with Java bytecode gives all the portability benefits that Java has to offer. Will this become a trend among new languages ? Create good language features, and become instantly portable by compiling into bytecode ?

Template Change

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Yes! A template change at long last. I've been going over a few of the new blogger features, and I will probably integrate a few of them into the design. Comments will be added for sure, though that means that all the old comments will soon be gone. Then there is the photo add on with hello.com and the blogroll add on from bloglines. Hmm... lots of work ahead.

By the way, I'm still in Bangalore, and will be here till 14 June.

Great article

From Kuro5hin: Genetic Responsibility

Right or wrong, what makes the article so good is the great discussion that it generated. Not to mention that the whole idea is so radical... yet it could well be extremely viable in the future.

In other news, I'm in bangalore right now on some work. Will probably be here for 2-3 weeks.