I’ve enjoyed reading a variety of fiction and non-fiction books during 2022. Here are my favourites.
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Category: Books
The Top 5 And Away… by Bob Mortimer As was the case in 2020, my favourite book of the year was an autobiography; this time … Read more
So that, then, was 2020. Good riddance. One might imagine that the enforced downtime offered by the pandemic lockdowns would have afforded me the opportunity … Read more
Near the end of 2018, I stumbled upon a thread of tweets by First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon in which she shared some of … Read more
Sometimes, when you join a new team as a .NET developer, the team lead proudly points you in the direction of a Word document or … Read more
When I mentioned Edward R. Tufte’s excellent The Visual Display of Quantitative Information in a recent blog post, it prompted me to search North Yorkshire’s … Read more
Fifty-three years since Darrell Huff published the seminal How to Lie with Statistics, and still we have newspapers as august as The Times pulling the … Read more
I succumbed to temptation and bought another book at the MSDN briefing yesterday, pausing only out of concern that the guy who mans the Computer … Read more
Elizabeth Keogh has been blogging her advice for software-developer apprentices, and recommends buying and reading a selection of good software development books. I think this … Read more