Monthly Archives: January 2015

Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig and Bear Bibeault This is a very good book which is so much more than a simple JavaScript language text. Sure, it covers some of the subtle points of the JavaScript language, … Continue reading →

Expert .NET 2.0 IL Assembler by Serge Lidin I have read large parts of this book multiple times, but have never sat down and read it cover to cover before. It’s a great book for understanding the CLR. The book … Continue reading →

Basic Category Theory For Computer Scientists by Benjamin C. Pierce I have looked at this book before, but decided to try to give it another read over the holiday. The content is rather dry, but for each of the concepts … Continue reading →

Writing High-Performance .NET Code by Ben Watson A really good book from someone who has clearly worked hard in the past to maximize the performance of .NET applications. The book has a strong emphasis on using Event-tracing for windows, ETW, … Continue reading →

Distributed Algorithms: An Intuitive Approach by Wan Fokkink I kept coming across descriptions of various algorithms from distributed computing during my reading, such as this one on Paxos, but felt that I’d like to read a book that gives an … Continue reading →