Software Generalist

I admit that this blog needs a revival. I haven’t been writing posts since September and my multi-reading techniques failed. It doesn’t mean that techniques are bad, it means that multi-reading needs a reader process and good scheduling. Therefore, in 2009 I change my reading techniques and introduce a reading notebook or journal on this blog. Ideally the notebook will record the most important stuff that I learnt or paid attention to during the day or the previous day while reading software engineering books.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

I wrote already about cooperative multireading technique in another blog:

Managing Reading via Cooperative Multireading

This week I started testing it and found that 30 books for one hour is too much for me and finally selected 20 books rich in concepts that I own but have never opened to read. I excluded books that I started reading some time ago but never finished and books heavy on source code and hands on practice. Here is the picture of selected books:

I tell you that the first session was a success and I even managed to write notes. These will be published after each reading session. The notes have their own code name Book Stack Dump.

Today it was mostly foreword and preface pages :-)

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

Reprinted from www.DumpAnalysis.org/blog

Motivated by the following book title that I bought a month ago:

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

I decided to convert my library into a beautifully illustrated color book called

The OpenTask Guide to Modern Software Engineering Writing

I plan to update it yearly with new titles that come to my attention. The first edition is planned for this summer and has the following draft product details:

• Title: The OpenTask Guide to Modern Software Engineering Writing, 2008 Edition
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (25 August 2008)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.0
• ISBN-13: 978-1-906717-04-9
• Paperback: 128 pages

Draft table of contents and sample chapter will be posted soon.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -

This blog was set up to collect various information and posts that will form the foundation of the following planned book:

• Title: Software Generalist: 256 Things You Need to Know
• Paperback: 550 pages
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9558328-9-5
• Author: Dmitry Vostokov
• Publisher: Opentask (15 April 2010)
• Language: English
• Product Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24

Here I would talk about everything that Programmer Universalis should know about. I will also put software engineering book reviews here like I did for another my blog Literate Scientist. All books reviewed are from my software engineering library.

Blog to Book approach is one of the practices of IIPP (Iterative and Incremental Publishing Process) I devised and implemented for Crash Dump Analysis books.

- Dmitry Vostokov @ SoftwareGeneralist.com -