Passages

In every larger-scale endeavor, or at least in most larger-scale endeavors, there comes a time to evaluate progress, solicit opinion, ask your public, survey your customers -- in short, to find out if what you are doing is actually worth doing. In some ...

Douglas Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern" is not the Hofstadter book people probably expected to eventually turn up in a Passages column, to be honest. And I do not want to disparage his most famous work; I ...

Gerald M. Weinberg's The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition is this month's Passages selection. Weinberg died last August, but this book alone makes him immortal in the world of software engineering. The Psychology is one of ...