Book Review

I'm reading Banker to the Poor, by this Bengali entrepreneur...he is the former economics professor who became founded the successful Grameen bank, to lend money to poor women and even beggars so these people could generate an income.

Woz speaks. Nilges says, whussup with that Steve?

Welcome to a new, hopefully regular feature on the developer.* Software Development Books Blog: a compilation of links to reviews of books related to software development. As I find out about, or stumble into, software development book reviews, I'll post them to this blog--most likely with varying frequency. Here is this installments collection of book review links:

A review of The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer by David Leavitt. Leavitt's biography regales readers with back story, including idiosyncrasies and horror stories associated not only with Turing, but some of his contemporaries.

Upon perusing the local public library new arrivals last night, I happened upon The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (2006) by David Leavitt. In the spirit of agile reading, I offer some initial reactions after just the first couple of chapters. I hope to add additional comments later, and provoke some from d.* readers.

If future historians or present day space aliens needed to know what this whole software thing is/was all about on Earth circa 2003, this is the first book they should read.