May 2003

Every now and then I order a book to study through my work at Chess. The title of this book is quite ambitious, and it had a good review on Slashdot, so I decided to try it. Unfortunately it was not as good as the cover looks. The books is well-written, but contains hardly anything new. Most of it is just basic computer science, or can be found in older books on J2EE patterns.

After "The Science of Discworld" I got really interested in the work of Cohen and Stewart. Terry Pratchett's work has no secrets anymore. I went to the library and I found the The Collapse of Chaos (in a Dutch translation).

It certainly didn't disappoint me! A very interesting book on science, its history and its philosophy.

A well-written book by Steve Krug on the design and usability of websites. It touches the surface of the field, but doesn't go very deep. Still, it was refreshing to look with different eyes to websites, and I've learned some stuff to apply to my own website.