I just picked it up to re-read some of my favourites, like
- Bruce Eckel's Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing, which
is a bit of a milestone article in the rise of the "scripting" languages like ruby and Python.
- Adam Bosworth's ICSOC04 Talk which reminds
us it is more important for computer science to be understandable by people than by computers.
There's also some great pointed humour, with
- Rory Blyth's Excel as a Database
-
Powerpoint Remix - Aaron Swartz
- And the legendary A Quick (and Hopefully Painless)
Ride Through Ruby (with Cartoon Foxes) by why the lucky stiff
Definitely one of the all-time-must-have tech reads (and re-reads).