February 1, 2010 – 11:25 am
Most of you know (or maybe not) that I have a bit of an obsession with the Supreme Court. As the only of the three branches of government that I really have any respect for, I enjoy reading and listening to the workings and decision making process of the justices. To be clear, respect does [...]
October 24, 2007 – 5:41 pm
On a slightly less introspective note, I have been doing things other than just hunting for “the next great thing.” I have taken this as an opportunity to try to catch up on the stacks of books that have pilled up over the last year. I thought I would highlight a few that I have [...]
Continuing my exploration of non computer and non science fiction books, I picked up Guns, Germs, and Steel. I had heard good things about the book and heck, a Pulitzer Prize still means something. The book seeks to answer what seems at first a simple question: what factors led to the domination of the world [...]
March 11, 2005 – 12:05 pm
I haven’t been doing such a great job of posting what I’ve read lately, so here is a quick update. Exploiting Software was a pretty good book that had quite a few odd coincidences with one of the authors (he is the CTO of the company some friends work for and in reading the foreword, [...]
January 29, 2005 – 9:32 pm
I just finished reading Ken Grimwood’s Replay. This in and of itself isn’t particularly interesting. The notable fact though is I started reading it less than 12 hours ago. It isn’t that often I come across a book so enthralling that I just can’t stop reading but this one definately got me. I found myself [...]
January 26, 2005 – 8:02 pm
I will hardly be the first person to recommend The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria’s book on the politics of democracy and freedom, but I wanted to add my vote. I am hardly an expert in government and politics and have rarely found books on this topic that I care about deeply even remotely interesting. [...]
January 17, 2005 – 7:15 pm
For many people the run-up to the 2004 presidential election and the way in which we gathered news was completely different than ever before. The advent of free-lance and amateur news sources on the internet provided a new source for information that was faster and more responsive (although not always accurate). The mainstream web news [...]
As a regular user of CVS, I am well aware of the limitations this classic tool has. As a result, I’ve been looking for tools that are as simple to use as CVS yet have learned from the shortcomings of CVS. Subversion appears to be such a tool. The authors of Version Control with Subversion [...]
If you are writing something not application specific in Java you are doing something wrong as it is probably already written for you. But finding the correct solution or class that answers the need you have is often hard. Books such as Java in a Nutshell are useful, but you need to know what you [...]
"Be afraid. Be very afraid." If there is one motto to be taken from this book, that is it. Security Warrior takes a new track from most security books, the view of the attacker. How and what they do are explained in detail, from reverse code engineering to methods of avoiding intrusion detection systems. As [...]