The Best of Verity Stob Highlights of Verity Stob's Famous Columns from .EXE, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and The Register - Stob, Verity; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2005)
Life Before Guis (1988-1994) -- How Friendly Is Your Software? -- The Programmers' Guide to Programmers -- Larn Yasel Programmin! -- POET'S Day -- The Maltese Modem -- Late One Night -- The Kraken Sleeps -- Twenty Things (Almost) You Didn't Know ... -- Few Lend (but Fools) -- The Best Improve with Age -- STOB versus the Software Engineers -- Auntie Verity's Hardware Help -- Underground Liff -- The Games We Play -- A Chance to Meet You -- Wot Any Bule Kno -- About ... -- Not Fairies' Footfalls -- FLGMJLLGHQ -- In Glorious Verity Vision -- The Rasp of the Modem (1995-19100) -- I Want to Die -- Dear Bill -- Modem Tales -- Around and Around -- Four Yorkshiremen -- Email and Femail -- Morse Code -- I Prefer Tea -- Junior Makes Three -- Don't Look Back -- Book of Anders -- The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie -- Mr. Jobs Works Next Door -- Quality Street -- You May Start -- 8086 and All That -- The Browser -- Park Gates -- Et Tu Gnome? -- Let's Parler Y2K! -- Yocam Hokum -- Bye Bye Byte -- Night Mail -- Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead -- One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey -- The Dog's Breakfast -- Book of Yoc-am (Contd.) -- Fair Play -- By Other Means -- Waltz$ -- Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB -- Claire's Story and Other Tragedies -- Down the Pole -- Out to Lunch -- After the Apocalypse (2000-2004) -- Two by Two -- Big Iron Age Man -- Just William -- Downwards and Backwards with Dotdotdot -- Up with the Joneses -- Wherever He Goes -- The Devil's Netiquette -- At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface -- Double Plus Good? -- I Know This, It's Unix -- Your Call Is Important to Us -- Way After 1984 -- Patter Song -- Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster -- State of Decay -- In Memoriam-Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002 -- Open Saucery -- Idle Thoughts of an Idle Process -- Fragments from a New Finnish Epic -- Stoblog -- We Don't Guarantee That Using The Latest .NET XML Windows API Feature Can Metaphorically Speaking Put Bounce In Your Boobs And/Or Hairs On Your Chest (Delete As Applicable) But By Golly We Find It Extremely Hard To Imagine Circumstances Under Which This Will Not Follow As Naturally As Night Follows Day -- Soundtrack -- Damnation Without Relief -- Cold Comfort Server Farm -- ForgeAhead -- One After 409 -- Jam Today -- Borland Revelations -- Patenting by Numbers -- Confessions of a Spammer -- Previously Unpublished -- Solder Cellar-Kindly Accept Substitutes -- Lara's Last Stand? -- Too Obscure or Rude.
Keywords: Programming languages (Electronic computers).; Software engineering; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems