Mon, 30 Oct 2006
Interface-Oriented Design
Ken Pugh, Interface-Oriented Design,
The Pragmatic Programmers
With the rise of distributed computing you'd expect
there to be some interest in interfaces -- not particularly
the graphical kind but the kind where bits of code talk
to each other to get a job done.
This book guides you through the concepts and types
of interfaces first by looking at a real world process
and then modelling it. Attention is also paid to patterns
in one chapter.
The whole idea of this is to highlight interface issues
rather than present a new all-encompasing paradigm.
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Graffitti Woman
Nicholas Ganz, Graffitti Woman, Thames and Hudson
The subject of graffitti is liable to raise the blood pressure
of some people. It's either the gratuitous wrecking of public spaces
by one-celled organisms or interesting social commentary executed
in a colourful and masterful manner. Even the second group will have
to admit that for every Banksy there are approximately two million
troglodytes who could be better occupied by several years of community
work cleaning walls and such.
This book presents a selection of female graffitti artists and
their work. The fact that there are females actually doing this
will probably come as a suprise to some people as the idea of a
lone guy with his spray cans outrunning the forces of cleanliness
and dodging would-be muggers is probably the one stuck in most
people's minds. For better or worse, this book corrects that
impression.
What of the work? Some of it is gussied up tagging and some is
really quite accomplished. You'll have to see for yourself.
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