Over the last few years I've written a large number of magazine articles and a book, Code Craft (which you can find out about on this page). To some people that's a really big deal. It makes other people yawn.

The articles have mostly appeared in ACCU magazines, and are available through the ACCU (if you're a programmer not in this organisation, join it - it's excellent). Some have appeared in CUJ and other publications.

I've also written quite a lot of book reviews. Check out Pete Goodliffe's book reviews, as published in C Vu.

Books 

• Code Craft, my software development book, is described here.
• I have contributed three items in O'Reilly's 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.
• I've contributed a chapter to O'Reilly's Beautiful Architecture called A Tale of Two Systems.
• I'm working on some as-yet unannounced book projects, too. Watch this space!
  

Becoming a Batter Programmer and Professionalism in programming series

 This is a column that I've been writing for the ACCU's C Vu magazine. It investigates issues of "professionalism" surrounding programming. In early 2011 I changed the name to Becoming a Better Programmer as it more clearly reflects what I write about.

1. Layout of source code
   in: C Vu Volume 12 No 2, April 2000
2. Team work
   in: C Vu Volume 12 No 3, June 2000
3. Being specific
   in: C Vu Volume 12 No 4, August 2000
4. Code reviews
   in: C Vu Volume 12 No 5, October 2000
5. Documenting code
   in: C Vu Volume 12 No 6, December 2000
6. Good design
   in: C Vu Volume 13 No 1, February 2001
7. in: C Vu Volume 13 No 2, April 2001
8. The programmer's toolbox
   in: C Vu Volume 13 No 3, June 2001
9. Defensive programming
   in: C Vu Volume 13 No 4, August 2001
10. Software testing
    in: C Vu Volume 13 No 5, October 2001
11. Software development: Fantasy, fiction or farce
    in: C Vu Volume 13 No 6, December 2001
12. Recipe for a program
    in: C Vu Volume 14 No 1, February 2002
13. How long is a piece of string?
    in: C Vu Volume 14 No 2, April 2002
14. There and back again
    in: C Vu Volume 14 No 3, June 2002
15. The outer limits
    in: C Vu Volume 14 No 4, August 2002
16. in: C Vu Volume 14 No 5, October 2002
17. The code that Jack built
    in: C Vu Volume 14 No 6, December 2002
18. Engineering a release
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 1, February 2003
19. A passing comment
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 2, April 2003
20. Software evolution or software revolution?
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 3, June 2003
21. Software architecture
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 4, August 2003
22. Finding fault
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 5, October 2003
23. To err is human
    in: C Vu Volume 15 No 6, December 2003
24. The need for speed (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 1, February 2004
25. The need for speed (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 2, April 2004
26. The need for speed (part three)
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 3, June 2004
27. And now for something completely different...
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 4, August 2004
28. An insecurity complex (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 5, October 2004
29. An insecurity complex (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 16 No 6, December 2004
30. Code Monkeys (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 1, February 2005
31. Code Monkeys (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 2, April 2005
32. An exercise for the reader
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 3, June 2005
33. A review to a kill
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 4, August 2005
34. Together we stand (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 5, October 2005
35. Together we stand (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 17 No 6, December 2005
36. Together we stand (part three)
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 1, February 2006
37. The curse of good code
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 2, April 2006
38. Mental gymnastics
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 3, June 2006
39. Effective version control (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 4, August 2006
40. Effective version control (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 5, October 2006
41. Effective version control (part three)
    in: C Vu Volume 18 No 6, December 2006
42. Programming is...
    in: C Vu Volume 19 No 1, February 2007
43. Playing by the rules
    in: C Vu Volume 19 No 2, April 2007
44. How professional are you?
    in: C Vu Volume 19 No 3, June 2007
45. Please release me (part one)
    in: C Vu Volume 19 No 4, August 2007
46. Please release me (part two)
    in: C Vu Volume 19 No 5, April 2007 
47. (series continues to present day, more details to come) 

C++ Programming Articles

• Hardware register access in C++
  in: CUJ, May 2005. Read it here
• STL-style circular buffers by example
  in: Overload 50, to be published
  See also circular buffer library
• STL-style circular buffers by example, part two
  in: Overload 51, to be published
• Techniques for debugging in C++
  in: Overload 46, December 2001
  See also dbg library
• A framework for object serialisation
  in: Overload 37, May 2000
• Experiences of implementing the observer design pattern, part one
  in: Overload 37, May 2000
• Experiences of implementing the observer design pattern, part two
  in: Overload 38, July 2000
• Experiences of implementing the observer design pattern, part three
  in: Overload 41, February 2001
• An application of pointers to members
  in: Overload 36, March 2000
• Adding 'threads' to Anthem
  in: CAUGERs Volume 6 No 6
• Adding polymorphic classes to the Anthem 'threads' model
  in: C Vu Volume 12 No 2, April 2000

Miscellaneous magazines

• Creating a framework for the iPhone

• The Ghost of a Codebase Past

• Idioms and Idiosyncrasies

• Finding fault
  in: Hardcopy, Issue 23. March 2004