Publications

The Geek Atlas

With this unique traveler's guide, you'll learn about 128 destinations around the world where discoveries in science, mathematics, or technology occurred or is happening now. Travel to Munich to see the world's largest science museum, watch Foucault's pendulum swinging in Paris, ponder a descendant of Newton's apple tree at Trinity College, Cambridge, and more. Each site in The Geek Atlas focuses on discoveries or inventions, and includes information about the people and the science behind them.

GNU Make Unleashed

230 pages of GNU Make from basics to advanced. Covering topics not covered in other GNU Make books such as: eliminating recursive make, doing arithmetic, Makefile debugging techniques and more. Everything you wanted to know about making real Makefiles.

What's New

July 2010

17th: There must be a name for this disease 17th: GAGA-1: Some initial investigations 16th: The Lazy Programmer 15th: The thing I hate about HTML 15th: Programmer Gore 13th: The Geek Atlas Companion 11th: GAGA-1 11th: BallastHalo 5 launch afternoon out 10th: UseTheSource / O'Reilly book giveaway 9th: Top nerdy parody music videos 8th: How to sleep on a long haul flight 8th: The CCE Review report 3rd: Bayes, Bletchley, JN-25 and a 'modern' optimization 2nd: Update to UseTheSource 2nd: UseTheSource: a sort of "Hacker News" that's about code

June 2010

30th: A quite hackable poll 29th: The iGlove 28th: Archive of my NewsTilt stories 25th: An interview with me about The Geek Atlas 25th: What's wrong with Flash Cookies? 25th: The greatest hotel socket collection... ever 23rd: Facebook's DKIM RSA key should be crackable 23rd: Lots of domains are using crackable DKIM RSA keys 23rd: UI editing is a professional job 23rd: Tribute to Alan Turing by a Second World War WREN 22nd: Duodecimal 22nd: The BBC needs to fix its "Most Popular Stories Now" 22nd: The Elevator Button Problem 20th: A final reply about awarding a Knighthood to Alan Turing 17th: Your last name contains invalid characters 15th: 10:10 Code FAQ 14th: The 10:10 Code 14th: Calendar Geeks 14th: Off to Bengaluru 14th: Don't be ashamed to ask for business 14th: Calendar Geeks (NewsTilt article) 11th: How to write a successful blog post 10th: How to write a "Malcolm Gladwell Bestseller" (an MGB) 9th: Offline HTML5 apps need a way to be installed: the appmarklet 9th: Imagine there's no PowerPoint (it isn't hard to do) 3rd: Sun, sand, sea and... science 3rd: Sea, sand, sun and ... science: a geek holiday (The Times article)

May 2010

28th: Naming competition: The London 2012 Mascots 28th: Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' 20th: British Computer Society Pioneers vote is easily defrauded 18th: Make friends with Porgy 17th: Talking to Porgy 14th: Would you pay for this service? 14th: If you're going to search the web, make an intelligent guess first 13th: Project Gutenberg shines on the iPad 13th: Project Gutenberg shines on the iPad (NewsTilt article) 5th: Starbucks is not a coffee shop (NewsTilt article)