Posted by Ben on May 10, 2010
To celebrate how well C# 4.0 How-To is doing, I’m going to give away two free copies of the book! Here’s how it’s going to work: 1. Leave a comment on this post describing a project you’d like to build with C# 4. 2. I’ll pick two people from those comments at random. (Make sure [...]
Posted by Ben on March 19, 2010
InformIT has just published an interview with me where they asked me a bunch of questions related to C# 4.0 How-To. We got into the multicore future, Internet versus books, why C# programmers need to know about UAC, and a lot more. Check it out!
Posted by Ben on March 9, 2010
These arrived in the mail today.
Posted by Ben on March 8, 2010
Well, it’s finally out! Amazon no longer lists the book as available for pre-sale, and it should be shipping to purchasers today or tomorrow. If you’re a B&N shopper, you can also order it there, or grab it in stores within a few days. From the product description: Real Solutions for C# 4.0 Programmers Need [...]
Posted by Ben on November 3, 2009
I recently wandered into a thrift store and as is usual in these stores I headed to the book section.(I live by the maxim that you can never own too many books.) The only thing that really caught my eye was a hardcover edition of The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt [...]
Posted by Ben on October 15, 2009
For the last year, aside from starting a great job with Bing, I’ve also been working on a book about C# 4.0 and the upcoming .Net framework. The news: it is finally available for presale! This book is not your typical C# reference. It’s designed to be an easy guide to how to accomplish specific [...]
Posted by Ben on November 3, 2008
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the kind of technology and scientific understanding that would need to go into a computer like the one on the Enterprise in Star Trek, and specifically its interaction with people. It’s a computer that can respond to questions in context—that is, you don’t have to restart in every [...]
Posted by Ben on June 4, 2008
I saw this book when I bought Programming WPF a few weeks ago and it looked promising enough to buy. I’ve been doing unit testing in C# for a few years now, but I thought there were always things to learn and maybe I’d pick up a few new ideas. It is easy to contrast [...]
Posted by Ben on February 29, 2008
Well, after a week of investigation, I’ve settled on a social network for books: Shelfari. It’s attractive, easy-to-use, easy to manipulate many books at once, they have a mobile version, and I have one friend on it (who invited me). Goodreads.com also looked nice, and it almost won. bookwormr.com, the one I originally found was [...]
Posted by Ben on February 20, 2008
I found a great site I wanted to share with everybody: bookwormr. To explain: I’ve got 3 large books on my nightstand at the moment: Scotland: The Story of a Nation – Magnus Magnusson – Much of my heritage is Scottish, and I got intensely interested in Scottish history during our trip to Edinburgh last [...]