Posts tagged “Books”

2011 Feb 20

Visible Indentation in Python Publishing

It suddenly occurred to me that I managed to write an entire blog post about my new book last month without so much as mentioning that it represents a landmark, so far as I know, in Python publishing. What was my big idea? That in printed Python code, indentation should…

2011 Jan 24

Foundations of Python Network Programming: A Last Hurrah For Python 2

My long labor is at last at an end: Apress has published my rewrite of John Goerzen's Foundations of Python Network Programming (2004) and I have released the example programs as both Python 2 and Python 3 code in a Bitbucket repository and also as a zipfile on the Apress…

2010 Jun 10

Grok has book. Book good!

I little suspected the great chasm that lies between the simple act of agreeing to review a book, and the actual exercise of sitting down later to write the review. It feels quite pleasant, really, to jot off a positive reply to the publisher's polite question. One feels magnanimous for…

2008 Aug 11

Aphorism

Entertainment wants only to satisfy its audience; but Art will teach us new desires. (Penned after pondering the talk that Dana Gioia gave at Oxbridge 2008)…