This is some good, pragmatic advice. It’s good for flipping through, though, not reading from page 1 to the end.

I read The Club Dumas and really liked that. So far this one is OK, though it doesn’t have the super-natural part I liked in The Club Dumas. None-the-less, I like the laid-back life-styles of the characters.

I’ve drank (drunk is more like it) Wild Turkey in many variations for quite sometime. It can be syrupy and thick when you start, but you get used to it after awhile. As a normal stocker for the old booze cabinent, I recommend the 101. When you’re feeling snazy, or if you really like bourbon, I’d say get the Rare Breed. I’ve tried the rye, and it wasn’t too good.

I’m about 1/3 through and this book is fantastic so far. It’s one of those can’t put down books that you have to read in 50-100 page chunks.

I’ve read up to page 50 or so, and I’m liking it. It’s getting close to the danger zone of being overly repetative.

I never finished this one, but I got about 1/2 through.

Occasionally, this book gets a little nutty—like suggesting that security guards dress like Beefeaters.

But, overall it’s good.

Really, the Slashdot review says it all. Nonetheless, it was worth reading, but, not paying $40 for. $10-20 would have been better.

It’s a good intro to what’s probably one of the next big sub-movements in Java: make this shit simpler, we don’t need all that heavy weight stuff.

I love how honest Chapman is about the stupid, and smart, things he’s seen in the software world.

It’s not that he’s intentionally being mean, he’s just writing up the types things everyone else keeps silent about.

Also, I like the historic aspect of the book: we’re terrible about remembering our past in the software industry.