Delighted to hear that an updated edition of the Framework Design Guidelines is in the pipeline. I found the original to be a hugh boon in improving the quality and consistency of my .NET classes, and I'm hoping that the
Books
A collection of 47 posts
If I Seem A Little Grumpy
An explanation for my tiredness today.
Inside Microsoft SQL Server 2005: The Storage Engine
During 2007, I unexpectedly achieved a long-held ambition by increasing the number of books I regularly read (as opposed to merely buying, then leaving them to languish on the bookcase!). I read plenty of techie books of course, but also
SQL 2005 Unleashed
Many moons (and about four jobs) ago, a wise DBA by the name of David Hanson once recommended to me a book called Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Unleashed. I took his advice, bought a copy, and it rapidly became one
Today's Favoured Reading Material
I've just finished reading Duncan Bannatyne's autobiography, Anyone Can Do It. It didn't take me long, as it's a real page-turner - and that's coming from someone who doesn't usually enjoy biographies (perhaps my taste in books is maturing
More Tufte Books
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 online library catalogue to see if they had any more of the great man's works.
Spot The Misleading Graph
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 oldest trick in the book: At first glance it all looks very impressive, but closer
William Bloke
It's always nice when your lifelong heroes turn out to be decent folk in real life. Today in York the one and only Billy Bragg was in Borders signing copies of his latest book, The Progressive Patriot. Although