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Best Book I've Read In A Long Time
(Best technical book, anyway…) The Art of Agile Development by James Shore and Shane Warden. Excellent content presented very clearly. This is the book to show a worried team or sceptical manager....
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Following on from Best Book I’ve Read In A Long Time… I’m working my way (dipping into each as the mood takes me, so in no particular order) through these guys: Scaling Lean & Agile Development:...
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The Open Group’s SOA Source Book is a collection of source material for use by enterprise architects working with Service-Oriented Architecture. Useful grist for the mill…
View ArticleIf A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, What About A Comic Strip?
First there was Dilbert. Then xkcd. Now we have Feature Injection Comics. Actually good, useful, serious stuff. I wonder if trainee Gen-Y Brain Surgeons use comics? “Hey dudes, don’t cut through the...
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Keep Taking The Valium, Guys
Just finished reading Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP: And I thought I was a master of ranting! Compared to these guys, I am nothing! Nothing, I tell you! There’s actually some...
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Another Book Finished
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware. This topic is not really my “sort of thing” (I generally find that these books quickly devolve into platitudes and neat little homilies)....
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97 Homilies And Platitudes, At $0.77 Each
Just purchased and read 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: “In this truly unique technical book…” you will get a collection of homilies and platitudes about life as a software architect....
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Another Book Read: Version Control With Git
Version Control With Git. Mostly skimmed, rather than read, to be truthful…it’s that sort of book: good to keep around for when you’ll need it but not really a “fun read” (unless your soul has a...
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Another Book Read
This time it’s Ruby Phrasebook by James Clinton. The price was right: AUD$19.95. I’ll keep this beside me when I’m Ruby-ing, it’s a useful memory-jogger to have. <aside> I confess: I’m still...
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