How do the experts solve difficult problems in software
development? In this unique and insightful book, leading computer
scientists offer case studies that reveal how they found unusual,
carefully designed solutions to high-profile projects. You will be
able to look over the shoulder of major coding and design experts
to see problems through their eyes. This is not simply another
design patterns book, or another software engineering treatise on
the right and wrong way to do things. The authors think aloud as
they work through their project's architecture, the tradeoffs made
in its construction, and when it was important to break rules.
"Beautiful Code" is an opportunity for master coders to tell their
story. All author royalties will be donated to Amnesty
International. The book includes the following contributions:
"Beautiful Brevity: Rob Pike's Regular Expression Matcher" by Brian
Kernighan, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University;
"Subversion's Delta Editor: Interface as Ontology" by Karl Fogel,
editor of "QuestionCopyright.org", Co-founder of Cyclic Software,
the first company offering commercial CVS support; "The Most
Beautiful Code I Never Wrote" by Jon Bentley, Avaya Labs Research;
"Finding Things" by Tim Bray, Director of Web Technologies at Sun
Microsystems, co-inventor of XML 1. 0; "Correct, Beautiful, Fast
(In That Order): Lessons From Designing XML Validators" by Elliotte
Rusty Harold, Computer Science Department at Polytechnic
University, author of "Java I/O, Java Network Programming", and
"XML in a Nutshell" (O'Reilly); and, "The Framework for Integrated
Test: Beauty through Fragility" by Michael Feathers, consultant at
Object Mentor, author of "Working Effectively with Legacy Code"
(Prentice Hall). It also includes: "Beautiful Tests" by Alberto
Savoia, Chief Technology Officer, Agitar Software Inc; "On-the-Fly
Code Generation for Image Processing" by Charles Petzold, author
"Programming Windows and Code: The Hidden Language of Computer
Hardware and Software" (both Microsoft Press); "Top Down Operator
Precedence" by Douglas Crockford, architect at Yahoo! Inc, Founder
and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON; "Accelerating
Population Count" by Henry Warren, currently works on the Blue Gene
petaflop computer project Worked for IBM for 41 years; "Secure
Communication: The Technology of Freedom" by Ashish Gulhati, Chief
Developer of Neomailbox, an Internet privacy service Developer of
Cryptonite, an OpenPGP-compatible secure webmail system; and,
"Growing Beautiful Code in BioPerl" by Lincoln Stein, investigator
at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory - develops databases and user
interfaces for the Human Genome Project using the Apache server and
its module API. It also includes: "The Design of the Gene Sorter"
by Jim Kent, Genome Bioinformatics Group, University of California
Santa Cruz; "How Elegant Code Evolves With Hardware: The Case Of
Gaussian Elimination" by Jack Dongarra, University Distinguished
Professor of Computer Science in the Computer Science Department at
the University of Tennessee, also distinguished Research Staff
member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak
Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Piotr Luszczek, Research
Professor at the University of Tennessee; "Beautiful Numerics" by
Adam Kolawa, co-founder and CEO of Parasoft; and, "The Linux Kernel
Driver Model" by Greg Kroah-Hartman, SuSE Labs/Novell, Linux kernel
maintainer for driver subsystems, author of "Linux Kernel in a
Nutshell", co-author of "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd Edition"
(O'Reilly). It also includes: "Another Level of Indirection" by
Diomidis Spinellis, Associate Professor at the Department of
Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of
Economics and Business, Greece; "An Examination of Python's
Dictionary Implementation" by Andrew Kuchling, longtime member of
the Python development community, and a director of the Python
Software Foundation; "Multi-Dimensional Iterators in NumPy" by
Travis Oliphant, Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer
Engineering Department at Brigham Young University; and, "A Highly
Reliable Enterprise System for NASAs Mars Rover Mission" by Ronald
Mak, co-founder and CTO of Willard & Lowe Systems, Inc,
formerly a senior scientist at the Research Institute for Advanced
Computer Science on contract to NASA Ames. It also includes: "ERP5:
Designing for Maximum Adaptability" by Rogerio de Carvalho,
researcher at the Federal Center for Technological Education of
Campos (CEFET Campos), Brazil and Rafael Monnerat, IT Analyst at
CEFET Campos, and an offshore consultant for Nexedi SARL; "A
Spoonful of Sewage" by Bryan Cantrill, Distinguished Engineer at
Sun Microsystems, where he has spent most of his career working on
the Solaris kernel; "Distributed Programming with MapReduce" by
Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, Google Fellows in Google's Systems
Infrastructure Group; "Beautiful Concurrency" by Simon Peyton
Jones, Microsoft Research, key contributor to the design of the
functional language Haskell, and lead designer of the Glasgow
Haskell Compiler (GHC); and, "Syntactic Abstraction: The
syntax-case expander" by Kent Dybvig, Developer of Chez Scheme and
author of the Scheme Programming Language. It also includes:
"Object-Oriented Patterns and a Framework for Networked Software"
by William Otte, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Vanderbilt University
and Doug Schmidt, Full Professor in the Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science (EECS) Department, Associate Chair of the Computer
Science and Engineering program, and a Senior Research Scientist at
the Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) at Vanderbilt
University; "Integrating Business Partners the RESTful Way" by
Andrew Patzer, Director of the Bioinformatics Program at the
Medical College of Wisconsin; and, "Beautiful Debugging" by Andreas
Zeller, computer science professor at Saarland University, author
of "Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging" (Morgan
Kaufman). It also includes: "Code That's Like an Essay" by Yukihiro
Matsumoto, inventor of the Ruby language; "Designing Interfaces
Under Extreme Constraints: the Stephen Hawking editor" by Arun
Mehta, professor and chairman of the Computer Engineering
department of JMIT, Radaur, Haryana, India; "Emacspeak: The
Complete Audio Desktop" by TV Raman, Research Scientist at Google
where he focuses on web applications; "Code in Motion" by
Christopher Seiwald, founder and CTO of Perforce Software and Laura
Wingerd, vice president of product technology at Perforce Software,
author of "Practical Perforce" (O'Reilly); and, "Writing Programs
for 'The Book'" by Brian Hayes who writes the Computing Science
column in American Scientist magazine, author of "Infrastructure: A
Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape"(W.W. Norton).
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