The book Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think is
about to be released, says Greg Wilson, one of its editors (the other is Andy Oram, who was my editor for Producing Open Source Software). I wrote a chapter for this new book: Subversion’s Delta Editor: Interface as Ontology, about the svn_delta_editor_t interface in Subversion. When the book is released, I’ll put the chapter online under a free license (a lot of the other authors are planning to do that too, I believe). All profits from the book go to Amnesty International.
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