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David Farley is the author of "An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town" and the co-editor of the essay collection "Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories." He's a Contributing Writer at AFAR magazine and his writing appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, New York, and Slate.com, among other publications. His stories have been anthologized many times, including in The Best American Travel Writing 2013. He teaches writing at New York University. ...more

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	An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church's Strangest Relic in Italy's Oddest Town 3.67 avg rating — 341 ratings — published 2009 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Software Architecture Metrics: Case Studies to Improve the Quality of Your Architecture by Christian Ciceri, David Farley (Goodreads Author), Neal Ford (Goodreads Author) 3.47 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2022 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Underground Worlds: A Guide to Spectacular Subterranean Places 3.87 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Modern Computer Architecture and Organization: Learn x86, ARM, and RISC-V architectures and the design of smartphones, PCs, and cloud servers, 2nd Edition by Jim Ledin, David Farley (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.43 avg rating — 46 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Travelers' Tales Prague and the Czech Republic: True Stories by David Farley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jessie Sholl (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jan Morris 3.74 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doctor Fun 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nowhere Magazine Issue 6 by Yang Jian, Larry Fagin, Merrill Gilfillan it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Merry Christmas Color by Number Adult Coloring Book: Festive Holiday Coloring Book with Santa, Snowmen, Reindeer, Elves, Trees and More! 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“For most human endeavor, the production of “things” is the hard part. It may take effort and ingenuity to design a car, an airliner, or a mobile phone, but taking that initial prototype design and idea into mass production is immensely more expensive and complicated. [...]
Unless we are foolish in our software development choices, for us, production consists of triggering the build! [...]
"Production” is not our problem. This makes our discipline unusual. It also makes it subject to easy misunderstanding and misapplied thinking, and practices, because this ease of production is so unusual.”
― David Farley, Modernes Software Engineering: Bessere Software schneller und effektiver entwickeln

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message 1: by Barbara

Aug 16, 2010 09:52AM

I interviewed David Farley for Bookpod. He was witty and well informed about the irreverent subject: http://www.bookpod.org/in-search-of-t...

I welcome your feedback about this "audio story" and about the Bookpod series.

There's a pdf of the episode too.

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