Category Archives: Books

A raytracer in python – part 1: basic functionality

September 5, 2011 – 11:53 pm

Some time ago I visited Sydney, and I made a tragic mistake: I entered the University bookshop. Why a mistake, you say? I am book maniac. As soon as I enter a book shop (live or on web) I end up spending up to a thousands euro every time. This time, it was not the [...]

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Pirates Pirates!

May 16, 2009 – 10:45 pm

So I discovered that I apparently entered the sacred shrine of those people whose work is available in the warez underground. I don’t think I am allowed to state my personal opinion on this regard. Suffice to say I think this means for sure that I reached a fair level of achievement. Quick, someone get [...]

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Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics

August 27, 2008 – 7:56 pm

I am proud to announce that Springer has finally released on the web (and Amazon as well) the descriptive information of the textbook I took part on: Computing for Comparative Microbial Genomics. It was a fantastic and incredible experience, for which I will always be grateful to Dave Ussery, my supervisor at Technical University of [...]

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New books in my bookshelf

September 8, 2007 – 4:11 pm

I just added two new books in my bookshelf: Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design and The Mythical Man Month and Other Essays on Software Engineering. I am currently reading the latter. There are very valid reasons for this book to be a classic. It provides a great description on how real-world project management works, and [...]

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