 14. September 2004 |
Neu in meiner Bibliothek Wolfgang Lefèvre (Ed.): Picturing Machines 1400—1700, Cambridge (Mass.) (MIT Press) 2004. Aus der Verlagswerbung: »Technical drawings by the architects and engineers of the Renaissance made use of a range of new methods of graphic representation. These drawings — among them Leonardo da Vinci's famous drawings of mechanical devices — have long been studied for their aesthetic qualities and technological ingenuity, but their significance for the architects and engineers themselves is seldom considered. The essays in Picturing Machines 1400—1700 take this alternate perspective and look at how drawing shaped the practice of early modern engineering. They do so through detailed investigations of specific images, looking at over 100 that range from sketches to perspective views to thoroughly constructed projections.« Mein Dank für das Exemplar geht an Wolfgang.
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Schlangenfraß Haben wollen: Python Scripting for Computational Science. Aus der Verlagswerbung: »Scripting with Python makes you productive and increases the reliability of your scientific work. Here, the author teaches you how to develop tailored, flexible, and efficient working environments built from small programs (scripts) written in Python. The focus is on examples and applications of relevance to computational science: gluing existing applications and tools, e.g. for automating simulation, data analysis, and visualization; steering simulations and computational experiments; equipping programs with graphical user interfaces; making computational Web services; creating interactive interfaces with a Maple/Matlab-like syntax to numerical applications in C/C++ or Fortran; and building flexible object-oriented programming interfaces to existing C/C++ or Fortran libraries.« [Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs)]
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| 10. September 2004 |
Buch-Review Der glücklichste Geek auf der Erde über Dive Into Python: »If you've ever spent an afternoon in the "Computers" section of a bookstore perusing the programming language books, you've probably noticed that most of them seem to exist only to boost a publishing company's fortunes by capitalizing on the hot new programming language of the moment. These books - essentially glorified bookends - seem to follow the same format, cover the same subjects and aside from the tiny flourishes that are part of each author's particular writing style, are indistinguishable from each other. Reading them, one gets the feeling that its primary purpose is to allow the author to make some payments on a car or mortgage. I have a few of these books and they're gathering dust on the bookshelf farthest away from my desk. However, from time to time, you can find a programming language book that stands apart. You can tell from the way the author writes, the topics s/he covers, the unique presentation style and insight that s/he brings that the book is a labor of love. These books enjoy placement on the shelf closest to my desk - that is, if they're not propped open beside my computer. "Dive Into Python" is such a book.« [Daily Python-URL! (from the Secret Labs)]
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| 7. September 2004 |
Pulp Fiction
[Boing Boing]
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Plone-Buch online Dank Tom weiß nun auch ich — warum erfahre ich so etwas immer als Letzter? — daß es von Andy McKays The Definitive Guide to Plone auch eine Online Version gibt. Für die, die erst einmal stöbern wollen, für die, die ein elektronisches Nachschlagewerk bevorzugen und natürlich für die, die den Wald schonen wollen. ;o) Wenn es jetzt noch eine PDF-Version zum Download gäbe, wäre ich wunschlos glücklich. Aber man kann ja nicht alles haben... [tomster.blog]
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| 6. September 2004 |
Neu in meiner Bibliothek Ich freue mich, daß man in Köln noch immer aufmerksam den Schockwellenreiter liest: Cocoa in a Nutshell ist genau das, was man von den Büchern der Nutshell-Reihe erwartet. Eine solide, kurzgefaßte Desktop-Referenz mit einem kleinen, einführenden Tutorial in Objective-C und Cocoa und einer Referenz über die wichtigsten (über alle?) Cocoa-Klassen. Die Referenz ist vielleicht etwas kurzgeraten, ein oder zwei erläuternde Sätze zu den einzelnen Klassen und Methoden hätte man sich schon gewünscht, aber auf der anderen Seite wollen die Nutshell-Bücher ja keine Lehrbücher sein (dafür gibt es andere bei O'Reilly) und so ist das wohl OK. Und wenn ich mich endlich an PyObjC heranwage, wird es wohl das nützlichste Buch sein, was neben meinem Terminal liegt. Mein Dank geht nach Köln.
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