Book Reviews
During the last few years, I’ve written small reviews of the books I’ve read over on Goodreads. At some point, I came across Scott Hanselmans post about how your words are wasted and decided to self-host the reviews here on my own blog, under my own domain. So, I’ve copied my reviews from Goodreads to this site, or at least the ones I’ve written something about (I didn’t copy star-only reviews).
Regard these reviews as small comments that could just as well have been posted on Goodreads.
Computing History
- Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Pascal G. Zachary, 1994)
- Turing's Cathedral The Origins of the Digital Universe (George Dyson, 2012)
- UNIX A History and a Memoir (Brian W. Kernighan, 2019)
Computing Theory
- Code The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Charles Petzold, 2022)
- The Annotated Turing A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Charles Petzold, 2008)
- An introduction to functional programming through Lambda calculus (Greg Michaelson, 2011)
Entertainment
- What if? 2 (Randall Munroe, 2022)
- The Office The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s (Andy Greene, 2020)
Programming Languages, Frameworks & Tools
- Effective Modern C++ 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 (Scott Meyers, 2014)
- Programming in Haskell (Graham Hutton, 2018)
- The Rust Programming Language (Steve Klabnik, 2019)
Software Patterns & Practices
- Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns (Vladimir Khorikov, 2019)
- Test-Driven Development By Example (Kent Beck, 2002)
- Dive Into Design Patterns (Alexander Shvets, 2018)
- Patterns for Fault Tolerant Software (Robert S. Hammer, 2007)
- A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup, 2013)
- Clean Agile Back to Basics (Robert C. Martin, 2019)
- Code That Fits in Your Head Heuristics for Software Engineering (Mark Seemann, 2021)