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News Archive for 2007
[2007-12-18] Website Hosting Provider Changed
[2007-11-11] Website Design Tweaked
I have tweaked the design of this website a bit. It should now be slightly easier to get a quick overview of the available content on some of the pages. (Note: You might need to reload script.js and custom.css to properly see the effect of the changes, if you have visited this website some time in the recent past. This is to avoid the problems caused by stale copies of these files cached by your web browser.)
[2007-05-21] “The Search”
“The Search” is a book by John Battelle that seeks to explain “How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture”. The book highlights how searching for something or someone on the Internet is becoming such an integral part of our lives and how companies are trying to profit from this opportunity.
[2007-04-25] “The Intelligent Investor”
Benjamin Graham, known as “The Dean of Wall Street” and as “The Father of Value Investing”, was one of the greatest investors and teachers of investing principles. His disciples include some of the most famous investors, including Warren Buffett, and his approach of “value investing” still retains a dedicated following despite the advent of fancier and more popular approaches like “Modern Portfolio Theory”. He is credited with bringing discipline to the field of investing via the influential textbook “Security Analysis” that he co-authored with David Dodd and that was first published in 1934.
[2007-03-24] “Alistair Cooke's America”
“Alistair Cooke's America” is a book derived from an eponymous 13-part television series about the United States of America and its history. If you are even vaguely familiar with the history of the USA, this is the book that can provide great perspectives on the events that shaped the country and wonderful insights into the character of its people.
[2007-02-16] “Guns, Germs, and Steel”
Why was it that the Europeans came to dominate over the native Americans, the Africans and the aboriginal Australians and not vice versa? Why was it that civilisation flourished early on in places like the Middle East, India and China while places like sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and the Americas languished far behind for several thousand years?
Although “Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming” by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi looks intimidatingly big at around 900 pages, I found it surprisingly easy to read. It has a good balance of theoretical and practical descriptions of the concepts covered by it. It has a cohesive overview of the major programming styles in a manner that I have not seen in any other book. I would rank it as a must-read for the serious programmer along with classics like “The Art of Computer Programming” and “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming”.