What's in your programming library
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*sigh* Everytime I see a thread with library, books or such in the title I perk up and hope, hope beyond hope, you chaps are talking about real books. But alas no, all technical tombs tomes to prop my bed up with. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Paul Watson wrote: all technical tombs to prop my bed up with You do mean "tomes", right? (Or have you been sucked into some vampire cult?) ;P John
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Paul Watson wrote: all technical tombs to prop my bed up with You do mean "tomes", right? (Or have you been sucked into some vampire cult?) ;P John
"You said a whole sentence with no words in it, and I understood you!" -- my wife as she cries about slowly becoming a geek.Oh wow, that was embarassing. Thanks John. I am going to slink back to my tomb right now... ;) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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It's all fiction to some extent, Paul. We just have different ways of suspending disbelief... ;)
Shog9
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Indeed. There is this great website where people write as fictional characters, more specifically as programmers. They argue politics and war and language choice as well as sexual orientation and hell, it can get heated. There's Stan, Wulff, Mike, someone naming themselves after a throat lozenge and a whole bunch of amazing characters. Thank god it's all fictional though... hey wait a minute, there's a guy named Shog9 from outer space on it too... :~ Let me out! Let me out! regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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My god, can you image listing all of the books in your library?? BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
-Days of the NewI fake it by photographing them :-O (That isn't all of them of course. Still getting round to the others.) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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Indeed. There is this great website where people write as fictional characters, more specifically as programmers. They argue politics and war and language choice as well as sexual orientation and hell, it can get heated. There's Stan, Wulff, Mike, someone naming themselves after a throat lozenge and a whole bunch of amazing characters. Thank god it's all fictional though... hey wait a minute, there's a guy named Shog9 from outer space on it too... :~ Let me out! Let me out! regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Paul Watson wrote: Thank god it's all fictional though... :-D Never forget: "Stay kul and happy" (I.A.)
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I'm interesting in seeing what's in your library. Here is my library. Please observe the no yelling sign.[^] Jerry He said this was like painstakingly assembling the first layer of a house of cards, then boasting that the next 15,000 layers were a mere formality.--The Code Book, pp. 331 Toasty0.com DotNetGroup.org
That's an impressive collection! It would have been interesting to have had an extra column with the price you payed per book. Also, you may consider making the columns sortable to get an idea of how things are grouped (by Publisher, Rating, etc). I only have about 10 books in my collection. I tend to only buy one book for a particular topic and if possible learn from online tutorials. Regards, Alvaro
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Indeed. There is this great website where people write as fictional characters, more specifically as programmers. They argue politics and war and language choice as well as sexual orientation and hell, it can get heated. There's Stan, Wulff, Mike, someone naming themselves after a throat lozenge and a whole bunch of amazing characters. Thank god it's all fictional though... hey wait a minute, there's a guy named Shog9 from outer space on it too... :~ Let me out! Let me out! regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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:laugh: I'm going on 30 hours w/ no sleep, and was getting way too ornery... Thanks for the chuckle. :)
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
A chuckle from Shog9 from outer space is worth ten ROTFLMAOs from someone else. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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*sigh* Everytime I see a thread with library, books or such in the title I perk up and hope, hope beyond hope, you chaps are talking about real books. But alas no, all technical tombs tomes to prop my bed up with. :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Paul Watson wrote: I perk up and hope, hope beyond hope, you chaps are talking about real books These are real books! Non-computing I am currently reading are.... The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins Oh! That's it. Other than that I'm patiently waiting for July 16th. A better list might be non-computing books I have read recently (last month or so) The Salmon of Doubt - Douglas Adams Terry Pratchett - Going Postal
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Curiously enough, I took a couple of pictures of a couple of my book shelves yesterday. http://blogs.wdevs.com/colinangusmackay/archive/2005/01/30/2124.aspx[^] I have many more books than that from when I was first starting to get to grips with .NET, so they don't get opened much these days. I also have some ancient books on C and C++ from way back.
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I thought I was the only guy around with both editions of Code Complete on the same bookshelf. :) Ed Atwell
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I fake it by photographing them :-O (That isn't all of them of course. Still getting round to the others.) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
:-D I imagine that wouldn't be all your books. I'm putting myself on a buying freeze until I've cleared out my backlog. I have enough unread material to last me through the year, especially at the snails pace I'm reading Frankenstein. I hope it gets better, because at the moment the action isn't all that gripping and to make matters worse the writing is roundabout. A random sentence. "Exhaustion succeeded to the extreme fatigue both of body and of mind which I had endured. For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which made its noisy way beneath." Just not my style, I guess, but hey it's a classic.:rolleyes: BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
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Oh wow, that was embarassing. Thanks John. I am going to slink back to my tomb right now... ;) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
Well, I wasn't going for embarrasing! But, it did provide some enjoyment. :rolleyes: John
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I'm interesting in seeing what's in your library. Here is my library. Please observe the no yelling sign.[^] Jerry He said this was like painstakingly assembling the first layer of a house of cards, then boasting that the next 15,000 layers were a mere formality.--The Code Book, pp. 331 Toasty0.com DotNetGroup.org
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:-D I imagine that wouldn't be all your books. I'm putting myself on a buying freeze until I've cleared out my backlog. I have enough unread material to last me through the year, especially at the snails pace I'm reading Frankenstein. I hope it gets better, because at the moment the action isn't all that gripping and to make matters worse the writing is roundabout. A random sentence. "Exhaustion succeeded to the extreme fatigue both of body and of mind which I had endured. For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which made its noisy way beneath." Just not my style, I guess, but hey it's a classic.:rolleyes: BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
-Days of the NewI rather like that quote, seems like a book I might enjoy, definitley my style :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
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I rather like that quote, seems like a book I might enjoy, definitley my style :) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
It is that the prose, being of a flowery and over-descriptive ilk, to me finds itself obtrusively in the path of the action. Were that I enjoyed language for its own sake moreso than the development of character or plot, which perhaps in this particular case is too well-known to allow the story to flourish of it's own accord, I might be better equipt to gleen the beauty of this tale. I find in the reading that I must initially engage into the books 19th century vernacular, taking me from the task of focusing upon the very reason I read, which is to say from enjoying a fine tale. Were that your presence was but 1300 miles less distant I would gladly loan you my copy replete with photos from the latest theatrical release bearing it's name. BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
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It is that the prose, being of a flowery and over-descriptive ilk, to me finds itself obtrusively in the path of the action. Were that I enjoyed language for its own sake moreso than the development of character or plot, which perhaps in this particular case is too well-known to allow the story to flourish of it's own accord, I might be better equipt to gleen the beauty of this tale. I find in the reading that I must initially engage into the books 19th century vernacular, taking me from the task of focusing upon the very reason I read, which is to say from enjoying a fine tale. Were that your presence was but 1300 miles less distant I would gladly loan you my copy replete with photos from the latest theatrical release bearing it's name. BW
"Get up and open your eyes. Don't let yourself ever fall down.
Get through it and learn how to fly. I know you will find a way...
Today"
-Days of the NewQuite. ;) regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project Pope Pius II said "The only prescription is more cowbell. "
