Tech Book Face Off: The Seasoned Schemer Vs. The Reasoned Schemer

Years ago I was led to the Schemer books by some of Steve Yegge's blog posts . It's been over two years since I've read The Lit...

Tech Book Face Off: Breaking Windows Vs. Showstopper!

For this Tech Book Face Off, I felt like expanding my horizons a bit. Instead of reading about programming languages or software development...

Tech Book Face Off: The New Turing Omnibus Vs. Patterns of Software

I'm churning through tech books now, finishing off a bunch that I had started a while back, but couldn't find the time to finish unt...

Tech Book Face Off: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks Vs. Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

Yes, that's right. I learned fourteen programming languages in as many weeks. Actually, it was more like four weeks, but I just couldn...

Tech Book Face Off: Confident Ruby Vs. Metaprogramming Ruby 2

I'm always on the lookout for books that will help me improve my programming skills by learning to write cleaner, clearer code. For this...

Tech Book Face Off: Introduction to Algorithms Vs. Linear Algebra and Differential Equations

This Tech Book Face Off has been a significant undertaking, more so than I originally imagined. It took over ten months to get through these...

Tech Book Face Off: Physics of the Impossible Vs. The Physics of Star Trek

It's been a while since I've done a Tech Book Face Off. The idea here is to review a couple of books together and compare and contra...