The day before yesterday I finished reading “Practical Perforce” (by Laura Wingerd, from O’Reilly books). I liked it more than I thought I would. My first impressions of Perforce, hadn’t been that favorable, mostly because of its unusual paradigm of keeping track of client workspaces, which can lead to a lot of unintuitive behavior. Reading the . . . → Read More: Finished “Practical Perforce”
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A few nights ago I finished reading The Rise of Endymion and thus, the entire 4-book Hyperion series. Total # of books read: 4 That’s a lot of pages and if that scares you, then I might suggest reading only the first two books. The first two books comprise one cohesive story and . . . → Read More: Finished The Rise of Endymion and the Hyperion series Last night I had a headache and couldn’t sleep so I took a couple of Excedrin and then went downstairs to read Endymion until the headache subsided. I was near the end of the book and the story hit a climax. I couldn’t put the book down and ended up reading to the end. Excellent as . . . → Read More: Finished Endymion Back in May, I read Hyperion, the first book in a renowned 4-part sci-fi series from Dan Simmons (official site). This weekend, I finished The Fall of Hyperion. This book continues the story of the Shrike pilgrims from the first book and a few other characters, including the John Keats cybrid, as the interstellar war escalates and . . . → Read More: The Fall of Hyperion During our recent Europe trip, I read the book Hyperion and really enjoyed it. The first in a series of 4 books (the others being The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion), Hyperion is a science fiction novel set in the far future. The Earth had been destroyed centuries earlier and mankind lives in . . . → Read More: Hyperion
I saw “The Little Schemer” a few days ago at my local Barnes & Noble so I just finished reading Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost. A really interesting read. Some of the more interesting things that I picked up: boost::shared_ptr – like auto_ptr on steroids, a very nice reference-counted smart pointer. Not only can it clean up memory allocated with new, but you can pass in a custom deleter . . . → Read More: Beyond the C++ Standard Library: An Introduction to Boost |
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