Code mining
I wrote Dreaming in Code because I believed that, as Bjarne Stroustrup says, “our civilization is built on software.” I noticed that creating software remains stubbornly difficult in certain ways, and,...
View ArticleJudging books by the page
I confess I’m confused. A good while back I read about the “page 69 test” — apparently descended to us from Marshall McLuhan. The idea is that you can open any book to page 69 and use that to determine...
View ArticleFree Dreaming paperbacks: going, going…
Thanks for the great response to my offer. I’m sending out copies today to all the bloggers who’ve requested, and I’ve got just a handful left. If you want to read the book and post something about it,...
View ArticleChesterton quote archeology
That Orwell quote earlier this week that began “Our civilization is founded on coal” had a “pace Chesterton” at the start that puzzled me. A number of you wrote in with suggestions, including a pointer...
View ArticleThose paperbacks are gone
I’m out of copies, so this concludes the free-paperbacks-for-bloggers program. Two side notes: A handful of the requests I received got trapped in the spam filter. I think the word FREE adds a lot of...
View ArticleSinging in Code
OK, this one is just for plain fun: it’s the first Wordyard playlist. When I was planning my campaign of global domination for Dreaming in Code I had visions of a multimedia onslaught. I’d pull...
View ArticleChandler 1.0 ships
When I first began reporting on Chandler for Dreaming in Code at the very start of 2003, there was talk of shipping a 1.0 version within a year. Then, in following years, the project got so bogged down...
View ArticleInterview with Lovink re: Dreaming in Code
And now, we take a brief break from the financial apocalypse for some personal notes. I remain in deep writing mode here — can’t say there’s light at the end of the tunnel yet, but I can say the tunnel...
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Appearances elsewhere (NOOP.nl, Fray)
Item one: Jurgen Appelo was kind enough to include Dreaming in Code earlier this year in his Top 100 Best Software Engineering Books Ever. (Top 100 and best ever! Yow!) When he came back to me and...
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New bridge, old book: the shape of software progress
The Bay Bridge’s new eastern span is about to open. When they started building it over a decade ago, I was beginning work on my book Dreaming in Code. As I began digging into the history of software...
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