Books
We have a small library at Eau de Web, about two or three shelves' worth, mostly about programming. There are a few non-technical, very interesting titles, like Blink, but most of them are Python/Zope/Web oriented. Now, it so happens that I had a wishlist of books that had been building up, mostly from blog pages – Mark Bernstein, Tim Bray, etc – and our little library was missing all of them. So I told management about this problem and the books were ordered from Amazon. (For the record: there's 9 of us in the company; the "management" department is rather small.)
They arrived today, all five of them:
- Beautiful Code (many contributors)
- Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming In Code
- Tim Berners-Lee – Weaving The Web
- Brian Kernighan & P. J. Plauger – Software Tools
- Tracy Kidder – The Soul Of A New Machine
Here's to hoping I'll read them all anytime soon :)