Thesaurus Rex, my word application for Android devices is out! Essentially a thesaurus with ranking, it’s a simple app that ranks words for you and tries to answer that eternal question: What is a better word for _____ ? Download it from here.

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This is a professional book about writing software by Joel Spolsky, he of the “Joel on Software” fame. It’s a compilation of articles and blog posts about writing software and contains some good advice. Arguing about style is so pointless, the entire problem can be circumvented by simply making the style part of the language. [...]

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Snow in August is a strange book in the sense that it veers between two different genres so rapidly, it’s almost as if the agent insisted that the ending match some marketing expectations that had been laid out but not fulfilled. It is Brooklyn after the war and Michael Devlin is the son of Irish [...]

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What if you were an anti-slavery tomboy in the United States, in the years leading up to the Civil War, and lived in a pro-slavery state? Things would get pretty hairy pretty quickly and that’s just what happens in The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton. Lydia Newton is married off to Thomas Newton [...]

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This is a novfel of ancient Ireland, according to the title’s subtext and it is extremely efficient as a vehicle of the lore and lexicon of old Eire. Sister Fidelma is a sleuth who is faced with a murder mystery and has to get to the bottom of it. A ship comes under fire from [...]

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