For the sixth book in my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, I chose the classic The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the original designers of the C language. This might seem like a surprising selection to some, but every once in a while I get bit by the back-to-basic bug. I [...]
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I’m only a little behind in reading for my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, but I seem to be falling quite a bit behind in actually writing up book reviews. Here’s a belated review from my May book, Working Effectively With Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. I chose this book because I had heard people [...]
I just finished my April book from my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, so I thought I would share some thoughts on Ruby For Rails by David Black. In my last book review post, I mentioned that I was going to finally tackle functional programming this last month with Real World Functional Programming: With Examples [...]
I just finished my March book from my 2010 developer-oriented book reading list, so I thought I would share some thoughts on Clean Code by (Uncle) Bob Martin before moving on to my April book, Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#. Rating – (out of 5) Prerequisites – The code samples [...]
I just finished my February book from my 2010 tech book reading list, so I thought I would share some thoughts on Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit by Mary and Tom Poppendieck before moving on to my March book, Clean Code by (Uncle) Bob Martin. Rating – 1/2 (out of 5) Prerequisites – This [...]
As promised, here’s my review of the January book, the CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter, from my 2010 tech book reading list. Rating – (3 out of 5 stars) Prerequisites IL Tutorial – Although most of the samples in the book are in C#, there are several key code samples in IL and the [...]
In a recent post, I raved about Jon Skeet’s book, C# in Depth. I thought it had all the yummy goodness of a six-shooter and then some. Soon after I wrote the post, I discovered that Jon is currently working on a second edition to the book that will include new chapters devoted to C# [...]
I recently downsized my technical library and got rid of about 20 brick-sized technical books. Some of the books covered obsolete technologies, but I got rid of most of them simply because I’d rather access the information that they covered through a search engine on an as needed basis rather than by slogging through a [...]
If you think that software developers represent the pinnacle of alpha geekdom, then try taking this simple quiz… Have you ever been asked to calculate the probability that your professor would wake up on Mars the next day? (yes, it can be done) Is the Math that you work with too complicated to be placed [...]
