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Roger D. Hubris Ate My Hamster
This month, Verity lampoons the excesses of the dear, departed dot-coms: "June 6, 2000, 8 PM local time. Roger D. Hubris is spending a rare few moments of solitary relaxation on the upper cigar verandah of his corporate airship Twice Yearly Upgrade as she drifts into the sunset above the vineyard-sodden plains of Southern France, Europe."
Agony
Verity has put on her Agony Aunt hat and answered a selection of your letters. Because programmers are real people, have feelings, too, are worth it, yada, yada, yada.
Old Possum's Book of Pragmatic Programmers
- .NET
The New Adventures of Verity Stob: Dick Puts Us Straight
Dick Loop-Invariant, the last mainframe programmer of The Old School, has recently retired to Duncardpunchin, a home on the coast for his ilk. He and his ilk now both live together happily with their life-long collection of unlikely rhymes from Marilyn Monroe songs, and when Verity went to meet him, Dick was delighted to reminisce, and to plug his book.
May 2002 - Letters
Apr02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob
Ms. Stob was recently persuaded by a kind friend to watch Mike Leigh's film Topsy-Turvy on DVD, and now preaches Gilbert and Sullivan with the tiresome zest of the newly converted. And we seem to detect their influence in her work...
Mar02: The New Adventures of Verity Stob
I have finished all the programming. Like a Good Girl, I have put the source into version control. And I have even — do stop smirking or it will stick — done some testing. There is nowhere else to go now but down into Documentation Dell, Dakota. I'll get started in a moment or two, as soon as I can think what to put. Any second now.
Feb02: Verity Stob
"'Microsoft has eliminated words from its thesaurus so as to 'not suggest words that may have offensive uses or provide offensive definitions for any words.' Entering a word like 'idiot' yields no hits in Word 2000 unlike the numerous hits in Word 97. I don't think there's anything evil here..."
Jan02: Verity Stob
On occasion, Ms. Stob takes a look at the structure of important real-world applications. This month she examines the corporate automated telephony program, the subtleties of which are best shown with a state-transition diagram.
The New Adventures of Verity Stob
Fictionalised computer programs often bear little resemblance to their real life counterparts—which makes them the ideal basis of a pleasant pastime, claims Verity Stob.
