The Best of Verity Stob Highlights of Verity Stob's Famous Columns from .EXE, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and The Register /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stob, Verity. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : Apress : Imprint: Apress, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-0003-1
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.