January 24, 2006

Practical Common Lisp [Peter Siebel/Apress] Nominated As Jolt Finalist

CMP Media's Software Development Magazine Announces Finalists for the 16th Annual Jolt Product Excellence & Productivity Awards

Books: Technical

-- Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas et al. (Pragmatic
Bookshelf)

-- Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for
Reusable .NET Libraries by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams (Addison-
Wesley)

-- Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel (Apress)

-- Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts Technology and Design by Thomas
Erl (Prentice Hall)

-- Why Programs Fail, First Edition: A Guide to Systematic Debugging by
Andreas Zeller (Morgan Kaufmann)

-- Wicked Cool Java: Code Bits, Open-Source Libraries, and Project Ideas
by Brian D. Eubanks (No Starch Press)

I picked up my copy of Peter Seibel's Practial Common Lisp title a few months back, and while I haven't been able to spend as much time as I would like reading and studying this title, what I have read so far is *FANTASTIC*. Highly Recommended to those who want to begin studying Lisp building real world applications instead of your typical theory type samples you tend to see in a lot of titles (see Amazon link below.)

While I don't use the Mac I purchased a while back much beyond my coffee break/shop laptop, true to the "REALLY USEFUL" MacAttackers Mantra, I have discovered many other uses for it. For example, in the following pic you will discover how nicely it works as a book stand, propping up my copy of Practical Common Lisp for a quick pic:

Of course it works just as well a book stand for reading as well!

I hate to admit it, but the MacAttackers are right... It's *UNBELIEVEABLE* how truly useful a Mac can be! :D

Breathtaking, really... ;)

Enjoy your Practical Common Lisp-enhanced (oh, and Mac-as-a-bookstand!) Day! :D