Since we've been using meta to follow the steps of the first Code Review Secret Santa, I thought it would be fair to use the meta to reveal your identity to your victim recipient.
I think that discovering who was our Secret Santa would create stronger bonds between the community! :)
So let's go, post as an answer who's Santa you were!
References:
You said you liked books, but I didn't want to get you a programming book (I feel certain you already have a whole lot of them). You said you liked "mementos" of sorts, things that represent a place in some way. You also said you liked photography.
So I thought I would combine some of those things, and give you a photo and history book about Louisville, Kentucky, my "home away from home" :-)
Yup, you guessed right. I read the GoF book last century, and again this one, and it is one of those timeless classics which are hard to find in the computing world. It still makes sense, and it's a valuable resource (So useful that googling GoF takes you right to it .... ;-)
The Hacker's Delight is another favourite of mine, and it has a lot of technical detail that's also timeless, but for different reasons - it's so low level that as long as there are bits and bytes, there'll be a reason to read it.
Hope you find them both useful, and that they teach you something new.
Surprise! (I was dumb enough to add a signed personal note, so nothing left to be revealed.) Picked something from your wish list to make sure you get something you actually like, + something I strongly recommend (Zero To One), as a surprise. I hope you're enjoying your gifts!
Shipping an anonymous gift to the other side of the planet has been pretty thrilling! I'm such a big mouth though, I'm pretty sure you already figured out I'm the one that sent you Robert C. Martin's Clean Code - I hope you enjoyed it, it's a book you'll keep referring to, both in coding and in reviewing.
Joe Wallis, I've been Secret Santa'ing you! :)
I hope you enjoyed your gift and the Secret Santa experience. I think I've had just as much fun shopping on Amazon UK than receiving my own gift :p
Asking you questions about your picture, board games and dragons was enjoyable.
Unfortunately custom rubber ducks are surprisingly expensive,
so I went out on a limb and got you dragons,
I hope you enjoy HTTYD enough to enjoy them!
As I'm sure you know, I'm not a big board gamer, so I hope you enjoy the game too!
Apologies that it came so late.. I did order it several weeks before it arrived, I won't be ordering from where I bought it again :-)
On the upside you now have approximately one DeskByte worth of Cloud Storage!
Surprise! I did actually consider getting you a new keyboard, but figured something that personal should really be left to individual choice. Enjoy the books!
I knew you liked old-school games. Bought your gift from an artist not too many states from your location.
Have fun with it, whether you want to keep it as a trophy or actually put it to use. It should be of decent quality.
Hello! I had a hard time deciding what to get you at first, but when you added What-If XKCD to your wishlist I knew I had to get it for you, as I had read it myself.
I hope you enjoy[ed] the book! It's definitely a great read. :)
I hope you enjoy your books, it was a bit weird for me because I don't do C++, but I had some help.
I hope they serve you well on your way to C++ wizardry :-)
