Here’s a quick roundup of books that I’ve read this year. Also see my review of The Software Craftsman by Sandro Mancuso. Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi A book I read after seeing the recommendations by Daragh Byrne and Xavier Morera on Simple Programmer. This is a deep book, that is quite long and heavy. Very thought-provoking. I think I will read…
I write this article as a student of Domain Driven Design, and welcome comments from experience DDD practioners. When I’m on holiday I usually take something fairly brain dead with me to read, such as a Lee Child book. So I felt a bit eccentric reading this on the sun lounger while everyone else read…
Rapid Development is a book written by Steve McConnell that I decided to take a chance on after I enjoyed reading Code Complete. If you work in software development, whether as a developer, a tester, a manager, or as a business analyst, buy this book! I got this book 2nd hand for £5. It’s such…
I finally got to the end of Code Complete by Steve McConnell. I started reading it over a year ago. It’s a very big book! Now you either already own this book or you are wondering whether to buy it. There are two purposes for this book: 1. Read it 2. Reference it The first…
Originally posted on Home of the Mikado Method:
For quite some time now we (Daniel and Ola) have been working on a book together. As you may have guessed it’s about the Mikado Method. Some of you are already familiar with our work through workshops, this blog or maybe the early version of a PDF…
I am currently reading JavaScript the good parts by Douglas Crockford. I have a few others on my planned reading list such as: Domain driven design by Eric Evans, Steve Freeman and Nat pryce growing object oriented software guided by tests – http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Guided-Tests/dp/0321503627 Michael Feathers – working effectively with legacy code. Have you read any…
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