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Designed as Designer

Today I read the extended version of Richard Gabriel’s essay Designed as Designer, written as a response to Fred Brooks’ OOPSLA’07 keynote. Brooks reiterated his position from The Mythical Man-Month...

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How to do everything with Outlook

I have picked up this book from the library to see if there were better ways of using Outlook, and indeed learned a couple of new things from just reading a few sections. I’ve added an entry for this...

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Visualizing Data

I read this book by Ben Fry, one of the fathers of Processing, the ‘successor’ of DBN, and I highly recommend the book. I wrote a short review on Bibsonomy (click on the ‘description’ heading to see it).

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Envisioning Information

I had already heard Tufte‘s name mentioned several times, and finally read this book some time ago. I have now posted a summary of it on Bibsonomy (click on ‘description’ to see it), just before...

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Turtles, termites, and traffic jams

That’s the title of a short but interesting book I finished reading early this week. It was written in 1994 by Mitchel Resnick, who had previously co-created the ‘programmable bricks’ that led to LEGO...

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