{"id":124,"date":"2011-02-08T00:02:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T23:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/?p=124"},"modified":"2024-10-14T14:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T12:33:13","slug":"what-ive-been-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/what-ive-been-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"What I\u2019ve Been Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link id=\u201c1593156456\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]Mobilize: Strategies for Success from the Frontlines of the App Revolution[\/amazon_link]. Centered on the iOS platform, it\u2019s a good guide from an experienced marketeer on how to profit&nbsp;from the land grab that is mobile application development. A more quantitative approach would have fit better. Very useful.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link id=\u201c0399535934\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads[\/amazon_link]. A history of the impact on society of the phone book: it was as important as the Internet is today, introducing a whole new way to relate to the world. Just like now, if you weren\u2019t on the phone book, you didn\u2019t exist. <em>D\u00e9j\u00e0 vu <\/em>all over&nbsp;again.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link id=\u201c0321549252\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]Surreptitious Software: Obfuscation, Watermarking, and Tamperproofing for Software Protection[\/amazon_link] Written in an academic way, but full of practical examples&nbsp; at the same time, you\u2019ll love this one if you, like me, write meta-code, code that does funky things to other code. Loved the \u201c<em>Dynamic Watermarking<\/em>\u201d&nbsp; and \u201c<em>Hardware for Protecting Software<\/em>\u201d chapters.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">[amazon_link id=\u201c0201038048\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]The Art of Computer Programming, Volume <span class=\"caps\">4A<\/span>: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1[\/amazon_link]. Archimedes started combinatorics 2200 years ago, and Knuth wrote the definitive review of its algorithms. Beautiful typesetting, timeless selection of algorithms and full of examples to master the subject: a masterwork.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[amazon_link id=\u201c1593156456\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]Mobilize: Strategies for Success from the Frontlines of the App Revolution[\/amazon_link]. Centered on the iOS platform, it\u2019s a good guide from an experienced marketeer on how to profit&nbsp;from the land grab that is mobile application development. A more quantitative approach would have fit better. Very useful. [amazon_link id=\u201c0399535934\u201d target=\u201c_blank\u201d ]The Phone&nbsp;Book:&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cerezo.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}