Shane Sherman

I just released a new site called My Game Ideas. Here’s the little summary/description of the site…

If you’re a gamer, I’m sure you’ve had many ideas for games before. Maybe it’s just a minor change to an existing game, or an entire new concept for a game. It seems these days there’s less creativity in […]

I have added a new top level category called Communications & Protocols that has the following child categories:

General Network Programming
HTTP
SOAP
TCP/IP
Wireless/Mobile Programming

I know there are a lot of other Protocols, but I think these are the main ones that probably have the most books written about them. If there are more that you think I should […]

I recently received an e-mail from someone who requested that I add a “Books for Young Programmers” category to ProgrammingBooks.org. I thought it was an awesome idea and created it. I then tried to think of some programming books catered for kids, and I couldn’t think of any. When I first started programming at age […]

The programmingbooks.org launch was a success. Thanks to everyone that participated and used the site! Since Friday afternoon it’s had roughly 50,000 page views. I got some great feedback and I am in the process of using the same engine for other kinds of things.

Even though I’ve been programming Ruby on Rails for over 2 […]

I got a lot of feedback from my previous article, The 5 Books that Every Programmer Should Read. As with all “top x” lists, many people disagreed with me, and had strong opinions about other books I didn’t list. This gave me the idea for:
ProgrammingBooks.org

Features include:

Ability to rank your own top 5 books you think […]

I have a bad habit of buying limited edition art prints, getting them custom framed, and hanging them all over my house. It’s good in that my walls aren’t boring, but bad for my poor wallet. I have an elaborate system setup so I know as soon as possible when a new print is released […]