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I bought a couple books today. I picked up Managing Humans and Real World Haskell.

Managing Humans really needed a better editor. Maybe I’m not in the manager mindframe enough to understand it, but it jerked around and contradicted itself.

I’m hoping the Haskell book isn’t as disappointing. I’ve been wanting to understand functional programming for a long time, but never got around to picking up a book that explained how to model real programs that rely on input from the outside world.

You’ve read Refactoring. You’ve seen Prefactoring on the bookstore’s shelf. Well, after you’ve fact’d it all up, it’s time for Defactoring.

My new book, which introduces such techniques as overriding your framework’s core eventloop and running dynamic_cast<> on each widget that passes through to see if it’s the widget you’re looking for.