Xavier Noria's Reading

Ongoing

Title: Crafting Rails Applications, 2nd Edition Author: José Valim Progress: 48% (92/188) Start: May 2013 Comment: Reading a draft of the new edition.

Title: Noche sobre las aguas Author: Ken Follet Progress: 65% (353/543) Start: April 2013 Comment: Spanish translation of Night Over Water, linked above.

Title: Paul Newman: La biografía Author: Shawn Levy Progress: 53% (279/518) Start: February 2013 Comment: Spanish translation of Paul Newman's biography by Shawn Levy, linked above.

Done

Title: Playing the Saxophone Author: Rob Buckland Progress: Finished Start: March 2013 Comment: I started to play the alto saxophone last October. This is an extraordinaire book which covers playing the instrument in depth. Teaching style is profound. It covers a solid explanation of the techniques, how and why you build a strong foundation, together with a more transversal message about reflecting, consciously observing yourself, and in general taking an active approach to improve your playing. Awesome book.

Title: Why does E = mc²? (and why should we care?) Author: Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw Progress: Finished Start: February 2013

Title: The Irrationals Author: Julian Havil Progress: Finished Start: January 2013

Title: How Music Works Author: David Byrne Progress: Finished Start: December 2012

Title: Redis in Action Author: Josiah L. Carlson Progress: Finished Start: November 2012

Title: Ruby Under a Microscope Author: Pat Shaughnessy Progress: Finished Start: October 2012 Comment: Amazing book about Ruby internals soon to be published. I am proofreading a draft.

Title: Ready Player One Author: Ernest Cline Progress: Finished Start: October 2012 Comment: I am reading the Spanish translation.

Title: Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby Author: Sau Sheong Chang Progress: Finished Start: October 2012

Title: Zen Verdadero Author: Taisen Deshimaru Progress: Finished Start: August 2012 Comment: This is the first book by Taisen Deshimaru, a Zen master who brought Soto Zen to Europe. He founded the dojo where I did zazen in Barcelona.

Title: The Art of Flying Author: Robert N. Buck Progress: Finished Start: August 2012

Title: The Stand Up Paddle Book Author: Nate Burgoyne Progress: Finished Start: July 2012

Title: Deploying Rails Author: Tom Copeland and Anthony Burns Progress: Finished Start: July 2012

Title: Yeager: An Autobiography Author: General Chuck Yeager & Leo Janos Progress: Finished Start: June 2012 Comment: Autobiography of General Chuck Yeager. Legendary test pilot, WWII flying ace, first man who broke the sound barrier.

Title: Essential Bodyweight Exercises and Nutrition Author: Richard West Progress: Finished Start: June 2012

Title: The Productive Programmer Author: Neal Ford Progress: Finished Start: June 2012

Title: La esquina Author: David Simon & Ed Burns Progress: Halted Start: June 2012 Comment: Spanish translation of The Corner, linked above. A nonfiction book about West Baltimore written as a novel that spawned the HBO series of the same title, and later The Wire. I read about 1/3 of the book, but once the day to day of the corner had been depicted I wasn't hooked enough to have other 400 pages of the same thing.

Title: Lo que hay que tener (elegidos para la gloria) Author: Tom Wolfe Progress: Finished Start: May 2012 Comment: Spanish translation of The Right Stuff, linked above. Fascinating research story about test pilots engaged in U.S. postwar experiments with rocket-powered, high-speed aircraft, and the Mercury project.

Title: Un cerezo en el balcón: Practicar Zen en la ciudad Author: Laia Montserrat Progress: Finished Start: April 2012 Comment: Simple, authentic, unpretentious, a little jewel.

Title: The Rails View Author: John Athayde and Bruce Williams Progress: Finished Start: April 2012

Title: The SPDY Book: Making Websites Fly Author: Chris Strom Progress: Finished Start: March 2012

Title: MacRuby: The Definitive Guide Author: Matt Aimonetti Progress: Finished Start: March 2012

Title: Getting Started with Fluidinfo Author: Nicholas J. Radcliffe and Nicholas H. Tollervey Progress: Finished Start: February 2012 Comment: This book is not published yet. I am reading a practically final draft Nick (@njr) kindly gave me. I am the author of the Perl interface to Fluidinfo, and was involved in the project for some weeks in 2009. It has an enormous potential to become a world-wide database of everything.

Title: X-Plane 10 Desktop Manual Author: Laminar Research Progress: Finished Start: January 2012 Comment: I am getting into flight simulation these days. X-Plane 10 has been the first simulation I've tried. Also got FSX.

Title: Understanding Flight (Second Edition) Author: David F. Anderson & Scott Eberhardt Progress: Paused Start: January 2012

Title: The Principia Author: Isaac Newton Progress: Paused Start: January 2012

Title: Tot és definitiu: Catorze contes obscurs Author: Stephen King Progress: Finished Start: December 2011 Comment: Catalan translation of Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales, linked above.

Title: Inflight Science Author: Brian Clegg Progress: Finished Start: December 2011

Title: The Courage To Start: A Guide To Running for Your Life Author: John "The Penguin" Bingham Progress: Finished Start: November 2011

Title: Steve Jobs Author: Walter Isaacson Progress: Finished Start: October 2011 Comment: Hardcover edition, Catalan translation.

Title: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking Author: Christopher Hadnagy Progress: Paused Start: October 2011

Title: Rails AntiPatterns Author: Chad Pytel, Tammer Saleh Progress: Finished Start: October 2011 Comment: Excellent book about Rails best practices and refactorings to fix common AntiPatterns. A must read for any beginner/intermediate Rails developer.

Title: Kafka a la platja Author: Haruki Murakami Progress: Paused Start: September 2011 Comment: Catalan translation of Murakami's acclaimed novel 海辺のカフカ, translated to English as Kafka on the Shore.

Title: Paraula de Pep Author: Pep Guardiola Progress: Finished Start: September 2011

Title: De qué hablo cuando hablo de correr Author: Haruki Murakami Progress: Finished Start: September 2011 Comment: Spanish translation of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Fantastic book about... I don't know, it is supposed to be about running and writing novels, and it certainly covers those topics, but there's more in it, about life, endurance, little things, being oneself. I devoured it in two sittings.

Title: Budismo para dummies Author: Jonathan Landaw, Stephan Bodian Progress: Finished Start: August 2011 Comment: Spanish translation of Buddhism for Dummies. Introduction to Buddhism using a clear language, its basis, history, practices, branches, etc.

Title: Córrer per ser feliç: 42 motius i 195 raons per a córrer Author: Arcadi Alibés Progress: Finished Start: August 2011 Comment: Arcadi Alibés is a known Catalan journalist who has done more than 100 marathons all over the world as an amateur runner. This book, written in Catalan, explains his experience. A really nice story that breaths simplicity, humbleness, and love for this sport. Recommended.

Title: For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge Of Time Author: Walter Lewin & Warren Goldstein Progress: Finished Start: August 2011

Title: 30-Second Psychology Editor: Christian Jarrett Progress: Finished Start: August 2011

Title: The Deadline Author: Tom DeMarco Progress: Finished Start: July 2011

Title: Programming Prolog in Depth Author: Michael A. Covington, Donald Nute, André Vellino Progress: Paused Start: July 2001 Comment: Somehow lost this book. I was doing the exercises, check their GitHub repo.

Title: Ciclismo indoor Author: José María Muyor Rodríguez Progress: Finished Start: June 2011

Title: Visual Complex Analysis Author: Tristan Needham Progress: Paused Start: May 2011 Comment: This book is a gem. It is a formal and rigorous math book, but it is full on drawings and intuitions that explain why things behave the way they do. You think math non-linearly using intuitions, symbolic manipulation and orderly exposition comes after that. IMHO the approach in this book should be the norm for books and classes.

Title: The RSpec Book Author: David Chelimsky Progress: Finished Start: May 2011 Comment: Test::Unit user over here, but worth reading about anyway.

Title: TeX: The Program Author: Donald E. Knuth Progress: Paused Start: May 2011 Comment: The source code of TeX. A masterpiece of literate programming.

Title: L'Última Lliçó Author: Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow Progress: Finished Start: April 2011 Comment: Catalan translation of The Last Lecture. This is a wonderful book about life. Go read it.

Title: Apprenticeship Patterns Author: Dave Hoover, Adewale Oshineye Progress: Finished Start: April 2011 Comment: Really insightful. Recommended if you're into software development no matter your expertise level.

Title: Notes from the Universe Author: Mike Dooley Progress: Finished Start: March 2011

Title: Pro Git Author: Scott Chacon Progress: Finished Start: March 2011 Comment: Very clear introduction to Git. I read its online version in my iPad.

Title: Agile Web Development with Rails (Fourth Edition) Author: Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, and David Heinemeier Hansson Progress: Finished Start: March 2011 Comment: I learned Ruby on Rails with the first edition of this book. Still the best introduction in the market in my view. Good coverage, good pace, good exposition, superb editorial quality, with an extensive test suite that explains its overall correctness.

Title: Lejos de casa Author: Kiyohiro Miura Progress: Finished Start: February 2011 Comment: Spanish translation of He's Leaving Home.

Title: How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming Author: Mike Brown Progress: Finished Start: February 2011

Title: Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment Author: David Perlmutter & Alberto Villoldo Progress: Finished Start: February 2011 Comment: Really insteresting book with quite a lot of information about what modern neuroscience knows about brain health. With some incursions into shamanic practices I don't care about, buy anyway worth reading.

Title: Bases del condicionament físic Author: Alberto Martín Costa, Edgar Tejedor García Progress: Finished Start: December 2010

Title: La barrera sin puerta: Comentarios zen al Mumonkan Author: Zenkei Shibayama Progress: Finished Start: December 2010 Comment: Spanish translation of Sumiko Kudo's Gateless Barrier: Zen Comments on the Mumonkan.

Title: La Bolsa en tu bolsillo Author: Francisco Álvarez Progress: Finished Start: December 2010 Comment: And introduction to the stock market in Spain, not very to the point though.

Title: Crafting Rails Applications Author: José Valim Progress: Finished Start: September 2010 Comment: I read a draft of José's book. Superb, the most advanced Rails book in the market.

Title: Un matemático invierte en la Bolsa Author: John Allen Paulos Progress: Finished Start: November 2010 Comment: Spanish translation of A Mathematician Plays the Stock Market.

Title: La Biblioteca de los Muertos Author: Glenn Cooper Progress: Finished Start: October 2010 Comment: Marketed as Secret of the Seventh Son in USA, linked above.

Title: The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Detecting and Exploiting Security Flaws Author: Dafydd Stuttard & Marcus Pinto Progress: Paused Start: October 2010 Comment: A second edition of this book is due by October 2011, will wait for that one.

Title: Logicomix: an Epic Search for Truth Author: Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou Progress: Finished Start: October 2010

Title: The Elements of Style (Fourth Edition) Author: William Strunk Jr. & E.B. White Progress: Finished Start: September 2010 Comment: Second time I read this little jewel.

Title: Head First Statistics Author: Dawn Griffiths Progress: Halted Start: September 2010 Comment: This book covers only the basics, but the Head First series is interesting in itself. Didn't read the +700 pages though.

Title: Rework Author: Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson Progress: Finished Start: August 2010 Comment: A book by 37signals, full of a common-sense that is not so common.

Title: Last Words: A Memoir Author: George Carlin & Tony Hendra Progress: Finished Start: August 2010

Title: The Barefoot Running Book: A Practical Guide to the Art and Science of Barefoot and Minimalist Shoe Running Author: Jason Robillard Progress: Finished Start: July 2010 Comment: I've been wearing Vibram FiveFingers for months now and am gonna give running a whirl, inspired by Born to Run.

Title: Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen Author: Christopher McDougall Progress: Finished Start: July 2010 Comment: Really fascinating, no matter whether you run or not (I don't). There's something fundamental in it, about running, authenticity, endurance, about we as human beings.... Totally recommended.

Title: The Rails 3 Way Author: Obie Fernandez Progress: Finished Start: July 2010 Comment: This book has not been yet published, I reviewed some chapters of it.

Title: Sin sangre Author: Alessandro Baricco Progress: Finished Start: June 2010 Comment: Spanish translation of Senza sangue, also translated to English as Without Blood, linked above.

Title: Being Zen: Bringing Meditation to Life Author: Ezra Bayda Progress: Halted Start: June 2010 Comment: Bought in Barnes & Noble in Baltimore, during RailsConf 2010. Read like half of it, too much talk.

Title: The Passionate Programmer Author: Chad Fowler Progress: Finished Start: June 2010 Comment: Insightful and reflective about you and your career. Full of wisdom. This was the first book I read in the iPad.

Title: Paz Author: Richard Bausch Progress: Finished Start: May 2010 Comment: Spanish translation of Peace, linked above

Title: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 (Second Edition) Author: Stephen G. Kochan Progress: Finished Start: May 2009

Title: The Science of Leonardo Author: Fritjof Capra Progress: Finished Start: April 2010

Title: Advanced UNIX Programming (2nd Edition) Author: Marc J. Rochkind Progress: Finished Start: December 2009

Title: Ruby 1.9.x Web Servers Booklet Author: Muhammad A. Ali Progress: Finished Start: December 2009

Title: afterzen: Experiencias de un estudiante zen de patitas en la calle Author: Janwillem van de Wetering Progress: Finished Start: November 2009 Comment: Spanish translation of afterzen: Experiences of a Zen Student Out on His Ear, linked above. A perspective of Janwillem's Zen experience, 40 years after he went to Tokyo as related in The Empty Mirror.

Title: El espejo vacío: Experiencias en un monasterio Zen Author: Janwillem van de Wetering Progress: Finished Start: November 2009 Comment: Spanish translation of The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery, linked above. This guy went to Japan to study in a monastery of the Rinzai school and explains his experience in a very honest way.

Title: To The Limit: The Untold Story Of The Eagles Author: Marc Eliot Progress: Finished Start: October 2009

Title: Beginning iPhone 3 Development Author: Dave Mark & Jeff LaMarche Progress: Paused Start: October 2009

Title: Your Body: The Missing Manual Author: Matthew MacDonald Progress: Paused Start: October 2009

Title: The Pomodoro Technique Author: Francesco Cirillo Progress: Finished Start: August 2009

Title: La broma infinita Author: David Foster Wallace Progress: Paused Start: August 2009 Comment: Spanish translation of Infinite Jest. I lost it in a bus, hope to retake it someday.

Title: Python Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition Author: Mark Lutz Progress: Finished Start: August 2009

Title: Rails Rescue Handbook Author: Mike Gunderloy Progress: Finished Start: July 2009 Comment: A must-read, full of experience, balance, and reflection.

Title: El Zen Author: Raquel Bouso Progress: Finished Start: July 2009 Comment: Short but very good overview of zen: practice, terminology, history, art, philosophy. In Catalan.

Title: The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language Author: Apple Inc. Progress: Finished Start: April 2009

Title: Mac OS X Technology Overview Author: Apple Inc. Progress: Finished Start: April 2009

Title: Tribes Author: Seth Godin Progress: Finished Start: April 2009 Comment: Seth Goding deeply understands modern leadership.

Title: The Principles of Beautiful Web Design Author: Jason Beaird Progress: Finished Start: March 2009

Title: Advanced Rails Author: Brad Ediger Progress: Finished Start: March 2009

Title: The Bruce Lee Story Author: Linda Lee Progress: Finished Start: February 2009

Title: La teoría del todo Author: Stephen W. Hawking Progress: Finished Start: February 2009

Title: Agile Web Development with Rails (Third Edition) Author: Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson Progress: Finished Start: February 2009 Comment: I read the first edition of AWDwR back in 2005. Still a must for any Rails developer.

Title: Outliers Author: Malcolm Gladwell Progress: Halted Start: January 2009 Comment: I liked The Tipping Point, but this one is unconvincing for me.

Title: The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX2e Author: Tobias Oetiker Progress: Finished Start: January 2009 Comment: I first read this intro circa 1995, nice little book.

Title: Pragmatic Version Control Using Git Author: Travis Swicegood Progress: Finished Start: January 2009

Title: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware Author: Andy Hunt Progress: Finished Start: December 2008 Comment: I received this book in PDF format as a gift from a user of my Rails plugin model_auto_completer. I am proud to read it to use for the first time my brand new shiny iRex DR 1000S ebook reader.

Title: JavaScript: The Good Parts Author: Douglas Crockford Progress: Finished Start: August 2008

Title: Founders at Work Author: Jessica Livingston Progress: Finished Start: August 2008

Title: The Tipping Point Author: Malcolm Gladwell Progress: Finished Start: June 2008 Comment: A revealing book. Must read. There's a short summary in the Wikipedia. (Check the "Criticism" section as well.) And another longer one at Wiki Summaries.

Title: Hacking: The Art of Explotation (2nd Edition) Author: Jon Erickson Progress: Finished Start: May 2008

Title: El manuscrito Voynich Author: Gerry Kennedy & Rob Churchill Progress: Finished Start: March 2008 Comment: Spanish translation of The Voynich Manuscript, linked above. I wrote summary (in Spanish)

Title: Els pilars de la terra Author: Ken Follet Progress: Halted Start: March 2008 Comment: Catalan translation of The Pillars of the Earth, linked above. I liked it a lot but some work interrumpts prevented me from following the story, parked until the right time comes.

Title: The Ruby Programming Language Author: David Flanagan & Yukihiro Matsumoto Progress: Finished Start: March 2008 Comment: Prize for my 2nd in the Rails Hackfest of January 2008

Title: L'anell de la via zen Author: Taisen Deshimaru Progress: Finished Start: February 2008

Title: Running into the Sky Author: Chris Wolf Progress: Finished Start: January 2008

Title: Programming Erlang Author: Joe Armstrong Progress: Halted Start: January 2008 Comment: I got the idea of the language, but the book itself didn't hook me enough to finish it.

Title: La carretera Author: Cormac McCarthy Progress: Finished Start: January 2008 Comment: Spanish translation of The Road.

Title: The Rails Way Author: Obie Fernandez Progress: Finished Start: December 2007 Comment: This book is outstanding, Rails has now two must-reads.

Title: The Ruby Way (2nd Edition) Author: Hal Fulton Progress: Finished Start: December 2007

Title: Practical JRuby on Rails Web 2.0 Projects Author: Ola Bini Progress: Finished Start: November 2007 Comment: I skipped a lot of material

Title: Los más bellos cuentos zen Author: Henri Brunel Progress: Finished Start: November 2007

Title: High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers Author: Steve Souders Progress: Finished Start: Novembre 2007

Title: Rails 2: New features for your applications Author: Ryan Daigle Progress: Finished Start: October 2007

Title: Lectures on the Hyperreals: An Introduction to Nonstandard Analysis Author: Robert Goldblatt Progress: Paused Start: October 2007

Title: RESTful Web Services Author: Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby Progress: Finished Start: September 2007

Title: Programming in Haskell Author: Graham Hutton Progress: Finished Start: August 2007

Title: En el desierto no hay atascos: Un tuareg en la ciudad Author: Moussa Ag Assarid Progress: Finished Start: August 2007 Comment: Spanish translation of Y a pas d'embouteillages dans le désert ! : Chroniques d'un Touareg en France

Title: Yet Another Haskell Tutorial Author: Hal Daumé III Progress: Halted Start: August 2007

Title: Perl Hacks Author: chromatic, Damian Conway, Curtis "Ovid" Poe Progress: Finished Start: August 2007

Title: Seis piezas fáciles Author: Richard P. Feynman Progress: Finished Start: August 2007 Comment: Spanish translation of Six Easy Pieces

Title: Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition Author: Steve Kemper Progress: Finished Start: July 2007 Comment: The first time I rode a Segway I knew I would buy one as soon as I could afford it (I did). I was really intrigued about the story behind such an extraordinarie invention, it promised genius and transpiration. This book explains it, thank you guys for documenting and sharing this.

Title: The Idea Factory: Learning to Think at MIT Author: Pepper White Progress: Finished Start: June 2007

Title: Hablando de física a la salida del cine Author: Antoni Amengual Colom Progress: Finished Start: May 2007 Comment: AFAIK there's no English translation of this book

Title: Partir Author: Tahar Ben Jelloun Progress: Finished Start: April 2007 Comment: Catalan translation of Partir

Title: Children and the Martial Arts: An Aikido Point of View Author: Gaku Homma Progress: Finished Start: April 2007

Title: Rubyisms in Rails Author: Jacob Harris Progress: Finished Start: April 2007

Title: Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age Author: Paul Graham Progress: Finished Start: April 2007 Comment: My friend jao lent me this thought-provoking book, thank you dude!

Title: Proofs from THE BOOK (Second Edition) Author: Martin Aigner, Günter M. Ziegler Progress: Paused Start: March 2007

Title: Una breve historia de casi todo Author: Bill Bryson Progress: Finished Start: February 2007 Comment: Spanish translation of A Short History of Nearly Everything

Title: Caminar para mantenerse en forma Author: Nina Barough Progress: Finished Start: February 2007 Comment: Spanish translation of Walking for Fitness. I've started to walk regularly and this book has been a good guide to better understand this sport

Title: Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine Author: Randall Hyde Progress: Finished Start: January 2007

Title: Mi visión del mundo Author: Albert Einstein Progress: Finished Start: September 2006 Comment: Spanish translation of The World As I See It, a present from my friend Jesús Cerquides

Title: Rails Plugins: Extending Rails Beyond the Core Author: James Adam Progress: Finished Start: January 2007

Title: Ruby Cookbook Author: Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richarson Progress: Finished Start: November 2006

Title: Cartas a una joven matemática Author: Ian Stewart Progress: Finished Start: December 2006 Comment: Spanish translation of Letters to a Young Mathematician, linked above

Title: RJS Templates for Rails Author: Cody Fauser Progress: Finished Start: September 2006

Title: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics Author: John Derbyshire Progress: Finished Start: September 2006

Title: Ship it!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects Author: Jared Richardson, William Gwaltney Jr. Progress: Finished Start: September 2006

Title: Practices of an Agile Developer Author: Venkat Subramanian, Andy Junt Progress: Finished Start: August 2006

Title: From Java to Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know Author: Bruce Tate Progress: Finished Start: August 2006

Title: Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide to Its Use and Abuse Author: Torkel Franzén Progress: Finished Start: August 2006 Comment: I wrote a summary

Title: Rails Recipes Author: Chad Fowler Progress: Finished Start: July 2006

Title: watir.rb Author: Paul Rogers, Bret Pettichord Progress: Finished Start: July 2006 Comment: That's Ruby source code

Title: Snow Crash Author: Neal Stephenson Progress: Finished Start: June 2006 Comment: Roger Casaponsa lent me this book, I had a great time thank you dude!

Title: Historias de cronopios y de famas Author: Julio Cortázar Progress: Finished Start: April 2006

Title: Head Rush Ajax Author: Brett McLaughlin Progress: Finished Start: April 2006

Title: Ruby for Rails: Ruby Techniques for Rails Developers Author: David A. Black Progress: Finished Start: April 2006

Title: El mestre us convida a un concert: Concerts per a joves Author: Leonard Bernstein Progress: Finished Start: April 2006 Comment: Catalan translation of Leonard Bernstein - Young People's Concerts

Title: Zen in the Martial Arts Author: Byjoe Hyams Progress: Finished Start: March 2006

Title: The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers Author: Ben Yandell Progress: Finished Start: March 2006

Title: Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application Author: 37signals Progress: Finished Start: March 2006

Title: Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML Author: Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman Progress: Finished Start: February 2006

Title: SQLite Author: Chris Newman Progress: Finished Start: February 2006

Title: Programming Languages Pragmatics (Second Edition) Author: Michael L. Scott Progress: Paused Start: January 2006

Title: The Art of Project Management Author: Scott Berkun Progress: Paused Start: November 2005

Title: Erykah Badu: The First Lady of Neo-Soul Author: Joel McIver Progress: Finished Start: December 2005

Title: Agile Development with Rails Author: Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson Progress: Finished Start: December 2005

Title: Diario de un bebé Author: Daniel N. Stern Progress: Finished Start: December 2005 Comment: Spanish translation of Diary of a Baby

Title: El legado espiritual del templo Shaolin Author: Andy James Progress: Finished Start: November 2005 Comment: Spanish translation of The Spiritual Legacy of Shaolin Temple, linked above

Title: The Mac Xcode 2 Book Author: Michael Cohen, Dennis Cohen Progress: Paused Start: November 2005

Title: Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity Author: Soko Morinaga Progress: Finished Start: November 2005

Title: Database In Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners Author: C.J. Date Progress: Halted Start: November 2005 Comment: I was looking for something more formal

Title: Extending and Embedding Perl Author: Tim Jenness, Simon Cozens Progress: Finished Start: November 2005

Title: Criptonomicón: 1. El código enigma Author: Neal Stephenson Progress: Halted Start: October 2005 Comment: First book (of three) of the Spanish translation of Cryptonomicon. It hasn't hooked me.

Title: Perl Best Practices Author: Damian Conway Progress: Finished Start: October 2005

Title: Damunt les espatlles dels gegants Author: Josep Pla i Carrera Progress: Finished Start: October 2005

Title: Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns (Second Edition) Author: Doug Lea Progress: Halted Start: September 2005 Comment: Too dense and conceptual for what I wanted.

Title: L'Ombra del Vent Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón Progress: Finished Start: August 2005 Comment: Catalan translation of The Shadow of the Wind

Title: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-free Productivity Author: David Allen Progress: Finished Start: August 2005

Title: Migraña Author: Oliver Sacks Progress: Finished Start: August 2005 Comment: Spanish translation of Migraine, I wrote a summary.

Title: Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How The Mac Was Made Author: Andy Hertzfeld Progress: Finished Start: August 2005

Title: El arte de permanecer sentado Editor: John Daido Loori Progress: Finished Start: August 2005 Comment: Spanish translation of The Art of Just Sitting

Title: Advanced Perl Programming (Second Edition) Author: Simon Cozens Progress: Finished Start: August 2005

Title: Guia Galàctica per a Autoestopistes Author: Douglas Adams Progress: Finished Start: July 2005 Comment: Catalan translation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Title: The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web Author: Dave Shea, Molly E. Holzschlag Progress: Finished Start: July 2005

Title: Programming Ruby (Second Edition) Author: Dave Thomas, with Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt Progress: Finished Start: June 2005

Title: Visual Complex Analysis Author: Tristan Needham Progress: Paused Start: June 2005

Title: The Mozart Effect for Children: Awakening Your Child's Mind, Health, and Creativity with Music Author: Don Campbell Progress: Paused Start: June 2005

Title: The Now Habit Author: Neil Fiore Progress: Finished Start: May 2005 Comment: I wrote a summary.

Title: Fermat's Enigma Author: Simon Singh Progress: Finished Start: May 2005

Title: Learn To Remember Author: Dominic O'Brien Progress: Finished Start: April 2005

Title: Higher-Order Perl Author: Mark Jason Dominus Progress: Finished Start: April 2005

Title: The Art of UNIX Programming Author: Eric S. Raymond Progress: Finished Start: March 2005

Title: Mind Hacks: Tips & Tools for Using Your Brain Author: Tom Stafford, Matt Webb Progress: Finished Start: February 2005

Title: El monje que vendió su Ferrari Author: Robin S. Sharma Progress: Finished Start: February 2005

Title: Apple Software Design Guidelines Author: Apple Computer, Inc. Progress: Finished Start: January 2005 Comment: The original document is no longer available

Title: Las cenizas de Ángela Author: Frank McCourt Progress: Halted Start: January 2005 Comment: I didn't like the style. Declarative sentences in present tense.

Title: Python Cookbook Editor: Alex Martelli, David Ascher Progress: Finished Start: December 2004

Title: Miles Davis y Kind of Blue: La creación de una obra maestra Author: Ashley Kahn Progress: Finished Start: December 2004

Title: On Intelligence Author: Jeff Hawkins, Sandra Blakeslee Progress: Finished Start: October 2004

Title: The Hidden Power of Social Networks: Understanding How Work Really Gets Done in Organizations Author: Rob Cross, Andrew Parker Progress: Finished Start: October 2004

Title: La práctica de la concentración Author: Taisen Deshimaru Progress: Finished Start: September 2004

Title: A Semantic Web Primer Author: Grigoris Antoniou, Frank van Harmelen Progress: Finished Start: August 2004

Title: Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion (Revised Edition) Author: Robert B. Cialdini Progress: Paused Start: August 2004

Title: Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X (Second Edition) Author: Aaron Hillegass Progress: Paused Start: August 2004

Title: Learning Python (Second Edition) Author: Mark Lutz, David Ascher Progress: Finished Start: June 2004