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Suggested Reading: The Timeless Way of Building

This book written by Christopher Alexander some 30 years ago has a priori nothing to do with programming. Through the book he explains his vision of patterns in architecture, how to give certain qualities to buildings; how to make them (and us) feel alive, whole.. beautiful... or 'have' as he puts it: the quality without a name.

Beauty, purpose, life and wholesomeness are some of the qualities that we, as programmers, also strive to achieve when we are coding.

I must say that the author makes some very interesting points that can be applied to many areas of your life!

A wonderful book to appreciate and to read again and again!

Here's a link:
http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Way-Building-Christopher-Alexander/dp/0195024028

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May 12. 2009 02:20

I realy like to read book about philosophy about our life

Sulumits Retsambew

May 23. 2009 01:03

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TUKANG NGGAME

May 26. 2009 20:37

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August 29. 2009 12:36

I really appreciate the kind of topics you post here. Thanks for sharing us a great information that is actually helpful. Good day!

Latin Namoro

September 28. 2009 03:40

Yeah, being a programmer building a program, he has to make his best efforts to make sure there are very few bugs in the program which are also very minor and just make it strong enough. Like we humans do with our selves, we do have our weaknesses too but we try to fix them and make ourselves stronger too and achieve the quality of life.

The Ridges real estate

October 28. 2009 03:27

the timeless way of Building is such a good read. thanks for the post!

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December 12. 2009 21:21

Nice post. I really love reading books and I'm so thankful you shared that to us.I'm pretty sure I can get some info out from that book.

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December 29. 2009 01:25

Wonderful illustrated information. I thank you about that. No doubt it will be very useful for my future projects. Would like to see some other posts on the same subject!

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March 2. 2010 07:55