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    Sat, 24 Sep 2005

    Practical Development Environments


    Hijinx customer Matthew Doar has finally finished his epic tech tome Practical Development Environments. It's about how to choose and deploy a suitable set of tools for programming great software. This is sometimes considered a dark and murky area of software engineering filled with arcane practices and tools.

    If I had this book when I was a release engineer, I might still be doing that now. Thank god he waited, but you shouldn't wait to pick up this book that shines a light on the underbelly of the software industry. Plus, my name is in it!

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    Bill Watterson speaks


    Read this interview with legendary Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson. It's short, but it's the first new Watterson interview in a dog's age and it helps to set the stage for the upcoming Complete Calvin and Hobbes hardcover out this Fall.

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