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The Best of Verity Stob


The Best of Verity Stob

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

von: Verity Stob

26,99 €

Verlag: Apress
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 22.11.2006
ISBN/EAN: 9781430200031
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 336

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Beschreibungen

* Verity Stob is a very popular column throughout the IT sector.
<P>* Think: "Monty Python" and "The Office" meet IT!!
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<P>* Many of the columns haven’t been available to the public since .EXE stopped publishing .
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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 “1001 Surefire Gags about C++ That Will Wow Your Klingon Wedding Guests,” 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.
<ol>
<li>How Friendly Is Your Software? </li>
<li>The Programmers' Guide to Programmers </li>
<li>Larn Yasel Programmin! </li>
<li>POET'S Day </li>
<li>The Maltese Modem </li>
<li>Late One Night </li>
<li>The Kraken Sleeps </li>
<li>Twenty Things (Almost) You Didn't Know </li>
<li>Few Lend (but Fools) </li>
<li>The Best Improve with Age </li>
<li>STOB versus the Software Engineers </li>
<li>Auntie Verity's Hardware Help </li>
<li>Underground Liff </li>
<li>The Games We Play </li>
<li>A Chance to Meet You </li>
<li>Wot Any Bule Kno </li>
<li>About </li>
<li>Not Fairies' Footfalls </li>
<li>FLGMJLLGHQ </li>
<li>In Glorious VerityVision </li>
<li>I Want to Die </li>
<li>Dear Bill </li>
<li>Modem Tales </li>
<li>Around and Around </li>
<li>Four Yorkshiremen </li>
<li>Email and Femail </li>
<li>Morse Code </li>
<li>I Prefer Tea </li>
<li>Junior Makes Three </li>
<li>Don't Look Back </li>
<li>Book of Anders </li>
<li>The Black Eye of the Little Blue Techie </li>
<li>Mr. Jobs Works Next Door </li>
<li>Quality Street </li>
<li>You May Start </li>
<li>8086 and All That </li>
<li>The Browser </li>
<li>Park Gates </li>
<li>Et Tu Gnome? </li>
<li>Let's Parler Y2K! </li>
<li>Yocam Hokum </li>
<li>Bye Bye Byte </li>
<li>Night Mail </li>
<li>Cringing for Bobot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Quality of My Work and Just Made Dreary TV Programmes Instead </li>
<li>One Nostril Hair, 17mm, Grey </li>
<li>The Dog's Breakfast </li>
<li>Book of Yoc-am (Cont'd.) </li>
<li>Fair Play </li>
<li>By Other Means </li>
<li>Waltz$ </li>
<li>Thirteen Ways to Loathe VB </li>
<li>Claire's Story and Other Tragedies </li>
<li>Down the Pole </li>
<li>Out to Lunch </li>
<li>Two by Two </li>
<li>Big Iron Age Man </li>
<li>Just William </li>
<li>Downwards and Backwards with Dotdotdot </li>
<li>Up with the Joneses </li>
<li>Wherever He Goes </li>
<li>The Devil's Netiquette </li>
<li>At the Tomb of the IUnknown Interface </li>
<li>Double Plus Good? </li>
<li>I Know This, It's Unix </li>
<li>Your Call Is Important to Us </li>
<li>Way After 1984 </li>
<li>Patter Song </li>
<li>Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster </li>
<li>State of Decay </li>
<li>In Memoriam—Edsger Dijkstra, 1930–2002 </li>
<li>Open Saucery </li>
<li>Idle Thoughts of an Idle Process </li>
<li>Fragments from a New Finnish Epic </li>
<li>Stoblog </li>
<li>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 </li>
<li>Soundtrack </li>
<li>Damnation Without Relief </li>
<li>Cold Comfort Server Farm ForgeAhead </li>
<li>One After 409 </li>
<li>Jam Today </li>
<li>Borland Revelations </li>
<li>Patenting by Numbers </li>
<li>Confessions of a Spammer </li>
<li>Solder Cellar—Kindly Accept Substitutes </li>
<li>Lara's Last Stand? </li>
<li>Too Obscure or Rude </li>
</ol>
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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<P>This book will appeal to anyone who works in the IT industry; from Windows to Linux, and from C++ to Java to Delphi to Visual Basic, Stob’s witty writing covers the entire spectrum. While the humor has a technical ring, it will be appreciated by anyone who understands the industry.</P>

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