Industry Figure Tom Chappell

Classics of Software Engineering: “Design Patterns”
(One of a series of short reviews on books which have profoundly affected my own programming style, and which have made me a better Software Engineer)
Design Patterns
Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides (The Gang of Four)
Addison-Wesley, 1995
This book was the one which finally unseated “Software Tools” as my own personal “Most [...]

(One of a series of short reviews on books which have profoundly affected my own programming style, and which have made me a better Software Engineer)
Software Tools
Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plaugher
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1976
When I was getting my B.S. in Computer Science the first time, 26 years ago, I was one of an exceedingly [...]

(An e-mail to my Linguistics Professor and her aide)
Dear Linguists,
Alright, but now that my mind is opened, how do I close it again?
My friend John Blackburn and I were chatting, and he tried to say, “unmanaged code” (talking about computer software) and it came out sounding like “unmanaged goat”, and I couldn’t stop myself [...]