Adam Tornhill's Programming Pages

I am now actively writing on Substack at Code for Humans and Machines (https://adamtornhill.substack.com/).

My Five Worst Bugs: Lessons Learned In System Design

Release of my new book, Software Design X-Rays.

Review of Claude Shannon biography.

An announcement of my new book.

An introduction to the J language.

A review of the book The Definitive ANTLR 4 Reference.

A review of the book Peak about deliberate practice.

The second part in my article series that explores novel approaches to large-scale software development.

A a new article series to explore novel approaches to large-scale software development.

A review of a detailed tour of the Apollo Guidance Computer.

A great book that dissects some supposed truths about software development.

Review of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software.

Review of A Machine Made This Book.

Review of the book Building Microservices.

Review of the book Refactoring for Software Design Smells.

Review of the book Clojure for Machine Learning.

An article on temporal coupling analysis.

Review of the book Programming Collective Intelligence.

An introduction to data analysis with Clojure, Incanter and Zoo.

A review of the book Mastering Clojure Macros by Colin Jones.

An annotated best of collection from some Code as a Crime Scene analyses.

Motivation, publishing and how to stay focused without ruining your life

An article about the social aspects of software architecture.

An interview about my new book Your Code as a Crime Scene.

My first impressions of the Pharo language.

A review of Learn You a Haskell for Great Good.

A review of the WCF Cookbook.

My new book, Your Code as a Crime Scene, is out.

Attractiveness matters in code too.

A view of what Elixir has to offer an Erlang programmer.

A review of a book that fails to meet my expectations on DSL coverage.

A book that presents a natural next step for the intermediate Clojure programmer.

A radically different approach to both language and OO design with metaobjects.

How does music affect your performance as a programmer?

A combined book review with musings about metrics in general.

Clojure for data mining and analysis.

Addressing multi dimensional complexity of large-scale projects.

A a hands-on approach to real, large-scale development in Common Lisp.

Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming, an all time favourite.

I just published an early version of Code Maat, an open-source command line tool used to mine and analyze data from version-control systems (VCS).

Today, in our frantic, high-paced modern society, psychopathic traits may be more of an advantage than ever.

In this book, organizational psychologist Babiak and the world-renowned expert on psychopathy Hare describe the potential damage a psychopath does to an organization as well as advices and strategies to cope with and to avoid recruiting psychopaths in the…

With its no-prerequisites approach, OCaml from the Very Beginning offers a first step onto the functional road that will be useful no matter what technology you ultimately decide to invest in.

One of the challenges of traditional Test-Driven Development (TDD) is to maintain an overall sense of direction while taking baby-steps towards the goal.

The Nature of Code is a beautiful introduction to simulations of natural systems.

Born in the MIT Media Lab, Processing is a language and environment for creative coding.

Consistency is a key-characteristic of all well-designed software.

Our world of mainstream software development is driven by fashion.

Languages evolve idioms for a reason.