Category Archives: books

Related methods and tools

Posted on 2024-04-11 by Graham

The book Software: A Technical History has plenty of exercises and projects at the end of each chapter, to get readers thinking about software and its history and to motivate additional research. For example, here’s exercise 1 (of 27 exercises … Continue reading →

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Cap in Hand

Posted on 2021-02-14 by Graham

You’re probably aware that between this blog, De Programmatica Ipsum, and various books, I write a lot about software engineering and software engineers. You may know that I also present a podcast on software engineering topics, and co-host two live … Continue reading →

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My changing relationship with books

Posted on 2019-07-18 by Graham

My Delicious Library collection just hit 1,000 books. That’s not so big, it’s only a fraction of the books I’ve read in my life. I only started cataloguing my books a few years ago. What is alarming about that is … Continue reading →

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What’s on the other channel?

Posted on 2019-04-18 by Graham

I run a company, a mission-driven software consultancy that aims to make it easier and faster to make high-quality software that preserves privacy and freedom. On the homepage you’ll find Research Watch, where I talk about research papers I read. … Continue reading →

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Last Chance: Ultimate Programmer Super Stack

Posted on 2019-02-25 by Graham

Remember this? It’s the last day for the stack today. Buy today for $47.95 within six hours and get my APPropriate Behaviour, along with books on running software businesses, building test-driven developers, and all sorts of software stacks including Ruby, … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Programmer Super Stack Reloaded

Posted on 2019-02-21 by Graham

Remember remember the cough 6th of November, when APPropriate Behaviour joined a wealth of other learning material for software engineers in a super-discounted bundle called the Ultimate Programmer Super Stack? It’s happening again! This is a five-day flash sale, with … Continue reading →

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Two books

Posted on 2018-12-03 by Graham

A member of a mailing list I’m on recently asked: what two books should be on every engineer’s bookshelf? Here’s my answer. Many software engineers, the ones described toward the end of Code Complete 2, would benefit most from Donald … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Programmer Super Stack: Last day!

Posted on 2018-11-13 by Graham

I already wrote about the Ultimate Programmer Super Stack, a huge bundle of books and courses on a range of technologies: Python, JS, Ruby, Java, HTML, node, Aurelia… and APPropriate Behaviour, my book on everything that goes into being a … Continue reading →

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Ultimate Programmer Super Stack

Posted on 2018-11-06 by Graham

There’s a great bundle of polyglot learning taking place over at the Ultimate Programmer Super Stack. My book, APPropriate Behaviour – the things every programmer needs to know that aren’t programming – is featured alongside content on Python, Ruby, Java, … Continue reading →

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OOP the Easy Way: now 100% complete

Posted on 2018-09-26 by Graham

Hello readers, part 3, the final part of the “OOP the Easy Way” journey, has now been published at Leanpub! Thanks for joining me along the way! As ever, corrections, questions, and comments are welcome (you can comment here if … Continue reading →

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