Andrew's (Tumbling) Interwebdiary

Although I hate how sometimes InfoQ’s articles read like commercials (and this is no exception, but at least it’s for an open source project), this article is still pretty good at explaining why I should care about Atom. Most of the things I’ve read in the past talk about blog syndication or other things for human consumption and, while important, they just don’t excite me as much.

Simple and elegant protocols that can build distributed and fault tolerant systems which can be consumed by machines as well as human-oriented clients however: oh yes…

I’m about 1/3 the way through this now and I’d highly recommend it to discerning programmers everywhere.

The book gives a lot of background information that you’d not get just reading the paper by itself. Turing’s paper doesn’t start until page 64 – everything before that is an introduction to number theory (with emphasis on Cantor and Hilbert).