Archive for the ‘Reviews’ Category
Review: Team Foundation Server
February 13th, 2010 by Joel
Until a few months or so ago, the policy where I worked was to use Microsoft’s Visual Source Safe (VSS) for source control. Now, granted, VSS does have something of a reputation for corrupting your repository, which is generally considered to be an unforgivable sin for a source control system. That, however, never happened to [...]
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2009 Reading List
January 6th, 2010 by Joel
This is a partial list of the books I read in 2009, with some (short) thoughts on each. It’s partial, as I’m current 1200km away from my bookshelf (the horror…) and didn’t keep a list. Here we go:
Mathematics
Fermat’s Last Theorem (Simon Singh)
My favourite read of the year – Simon Singh takes us on a fascinating [...]
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Review: Unscientific America
January 5th, 2010 by Joel
Unscientific America is not a bad book. It’s certainly well-meaning, considering an important topic, and with a sometimes thoughtful discussion. The unfortunate part, however, is that large chunks of the book aren’t as well thought out as others – many of the examples given really do not support the thesis.
The oddities start out, of course, [...]
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Review: The Greatest Show on Earth
September 7th, 2009 by Joel
[cross-posted onto Young Australian Skeptics]
In previous books, Richard Dawkins has looked to promote new perspectives on natural selection, and at barriers to the understanding of evolution. In The Greatest Show on Earth, however, he looks at the evidence for evolution. You can read extracts from chapter one and chapter two online.
One of the book’s major [...]
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