Tag: book
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Fifth anniversary of Evidence-based Software Engineering book
Yesterday was the 5th anniversary of the publication of my book Evidence-based Software Engineering. The general research trajectory I was expecting in the 2020s (e.g., more sophisticated statistical analysis and more evidence based studies) has been derailed by the arrival of LLMs three years ago. Almost all software engineering researchers have jumped on the LLM…
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Little book of workflow management
I have a confession to make. I recently published a series of articles not on this blog, and not even in my newsletter. I wanted to try something a bit different. I wanted to try writing short descriptions of the working techniques agile teams use but without using the word agile, referring to software development,…
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ACCU 2023: presentation and free books
The ACCU 2023 conference is next week, running from 19th-22nd April 2023, in Bristol, UK. My presentation This year I will be presenting "Designing for concurrency using message passing" on 22nd April. The abstract is: One common way to desi…
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Review of Embracing Modern C++ Safely by John Lakos, Vittorio Romeo, Rostislav Khlebnikov and Alisdair Meredith
Verdict: Conditionally Recommended (3/5) This is a huge book, over 1300 pages, and contains a wealth of information about all the language (not library) facilities added in C++11 and C++14. It has one "section" per language feature, and …