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After the Software Wars by Keith Curtis

Friday, 29. May 2009, 19:32:12

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW:
"Keith Curtis, an 11-year veteran of Microsoft, takes a programmer’s approach in “Software Wars,” attempting to systematically build a case that free software can help pave the way for a 21st-century renaissance in many fields ranging from artificial intelligence (cars that drive themselves) to the human journey into space (space elevators). For Mr. Curtis, free software is all about leveraging our collective intelligence."

You can get it free from:

http://www.lulu.com/content/4964815

A wonderful book, well written, joyful, smart, and most of all: free

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The State of Flow

Saturday, 16. May 2009, 14:18:31

It takes the typical developer 15 minutes to get into the state of "flow", where furiously typing fingers create a wide-bandwidth link between the programmer's brain and the computer. Disturb that concentration and the link fails. It takes 15 minutes to rebuild that link but, on average, developers are interrupted every 11 minutes.

Jack Ganssle, The Art of Designing Embedded Systems

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