The Best of Verity Stob (eBook)

Highlights of Verity Stob's Famous Columns from .EXE, Dr. Dobb's Journal, and The Register

Verity Stob (Autor)

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2006 | 1st ed.
XVIII, 336 Seiten
Apress (Verlag)
978-1-4302-0003-1 (ISBN)

Infos

* Verity Stob is a very popular column throughout the IT sector.

* Think: 'Monty Python' and 'The Office' meet IT!!

* Many of the columns haven't been available to the public since .EXE stopped publishing .

Verity Stob has been a programmer since 1984 and a columnist since 1988. Her column appeared in the 'cult' (i.e. defunct) British programming journal .EXE Magazine until 2000, and has since adorned the granddaddy of programmers' rags, Dr. Dobb's Journal. Stob's work has also appeared on the popular IT news website, The Register. Miss Stob lives and works in London, U.K. Her face remains hidden.

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It's hard to believe now, but there was a time when writing jokes about multi-dispatch inheritance in dynamically typed languages simply wasn't the glamorous, highly paid profession that it is today. Before Slashdot, before User Friendly and the Joy of Tech, before Futurama, before Old Man Murray, before Dilbert, and before "e;1001 Surefire Gags about C++ That Will Wow Your Klingon Wedding Guests,"e; funny for geeks was a criminally underserved market sector. Biro-drawn cartoon strips were the typical fare, all called something like Just Byting Around! or Giga-giggles! These would run for a few months in Practical Computing or PC Handholder or some such ma- zine. After recycling gags revolving around hard drives and floppy disk entendres, these wretched specimens died for lack of inspiration and, I would hope, some vestigial sense of shame. And then there was, thank God, Verity Stob. I remember the first time I read the Stob column. It was 1988, and I was hiding in a fluorescent-lit dungeon in the heart of my university, strumming futilely through the lower-rent academic journals and controlled-circulation tech mags. The first few lines-some throwaway comment about Lisp, I think- had my snorts echoing across the library.

Inhalt

How Friendly Is Your Software?
The Programmers' Guide to Programmers
Larn Yasel Programmin!
POET'S Day
The Maltese Modem
Late One Night
The Kraken Sleeps
Twenty Things (Almost) You Didn't Know
Few Lend (but Fools)
The Best Improve with Age
STOB versus the Software Engineers
Auntie Verity's Hardware Help
Underground Liff
The Games We Play
A Chance to Meet You
Wot Any Bule Kno
About
Not Fairies' Footfalls
FLGMJLLGHQ
In Glorious VerityVision
I Want to Die
Dear Bill
Modem Tales
Around and Around
Four Yorkshiremen
Email and Femail
Morse Code
I Prefer Tea
Junior Makes Three
Don't Look Back
Book of Anders
The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie
Mr. Jobs Works Next Door
Quality Street
You May Start
8086 and All That
The Browser
Park Gates
Et Tu Gnome?
Let's Parler Y2K!
Yocam Hokum
Bye Bye Byte
Night Mail
Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead
One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey
The Dog's Breakfast
Book of Yoc-am (Cont'd.)
Fair Play
By Other Means
Waltz$
Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB
Claire's Story and Other Tragedies
Down the Pole
Out to Lunch
Two by Two
Big Iron Age Man
Just William
Downwards and Backwards with Dotdotdot
Up with the Joneses
Wherever He Goes
The Devil's Netiquette
At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface
Double Plus Good?
I Know This, It's Unix
Your Call Is Important to Us
Way After 1984
Patter Song
Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster
State of Decay
In Memoriam—Edsger Dijkstra, 1930–2002
Open Saucery
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Process
Fragments from a New Finnish Epic
Stoblog
We Don't Guarantee That Using The Latest .NET XML Windows API Feature Can Metaphorically Speaking Put Bounce In Your Boobs And/Or Hairs On Your Chest (Delete As Applicable) But By Golly We Find It Extremely Hard To Imagine Circumstances Under Which This Will Not Follow As Naturally As Night Follows Day
Soundtrack
Damnation Without Relief
Cold Comfort Server Farm ForgeAhead
One After 409
Jam Today
Borland Revelations
Patenting by Numbers
Confessions of a Spammer
Solder Cellar—Kindly Accept Substitutes
Lara's Last Stand?
Too Obscure or Rude

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.11.2006
• Zusatzinfo: XVIII, 336 p.
• Verlagsort: Berkeley
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
• Schlagworte: .NET • programming • Python • Software • WINDOWS • XML
• ISBN-10: 1-4302-0003-0 / 1430200030
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4302-0003-1 / 9781430200031