A Space to Think...

An idea that I've been playing with for some time finally managed to get out of my head and onto the web in this blog posting on Head First labs. Enjoy!

Just wanted to post a quick congratulations to my brother, Richie Miles, for bagging a great new role with MTV UK and Ireland.

This job is well deserved payback as Rich has been paying his dues as a runner and working hard as a writer for while now. Nice one Rich!

I've been lucky enough to be asked to blog a few of my thoughts on the Head First labs blogs, and here is the first post in a week-long series that I'm putting together.

To get the ball rolling I thought I'd talk about what Head First Software Development doesn't do, which is get bogged down in particular process terminology and baggage. This was a conscious decision, and we hope it makes the book a better, more useful, more relevant and less academic guide for the practicing software developer.

Enjoy!

Hi everyone!

It's been a really long while now since I last posted here, but I do have good reason. No, I've not just been lazy, in fact I've been so busy everything else took a back step for a while there.

But now I'm back and to show you I haven't just been off enjoying the pubs around Guildford (although I do intend to in the coming weeks, as well as getting married of course... more on that in the next post) I thought I'd make a belated announcement that Dan Pilone and I have finished off an published our book, "Head First Software Development".

Writing this book was a real labour of love (more love than labour, but believe me the workload was there!) but now that it's finished I can honestly say that I am extremely pleased with the way this book turned out. If there was one book I would have liked in my early days, this would have been it. In fact, if there's one book I can use lessons from right now, this book is up there too. That's how proud of it I am, and also how useful I really think it is.

Ok, that's it for now but I am most definitely back in the swing of things so look out for xome interesting updates to this blog and others as I now get a chance to devote some time to things other than InDesign*

Cheers!
Russ

*InDesign is the main tool used by Head First team to create the Head First series. 

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