ThoughtWorks Anthology revealed

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I previously wrote about my curiosity about The ThoughtWorks Anthology. The book now have it's own web page: ThoughtWorks Anthology.

The ThoughtWorks Anthology

Friday, February 8th, 2008

According to the latest mail I got from The Pragmatic Bookshelf, one of their upcoming titles is The ThoughtWorks Anthology, but I couldn't find anything about it on the web. Out of pure curiosity I've sent an inquisitive mail to see if I can find out more about it. ...

I want to read “Peopleware” again

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Bruce Eckel recommends Peopleware — Productive Projects and Teams (by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister) in his recent weblog entry The Mythical 5%. When I ordered a bunch of book recently I was thinking of including both The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick Brooks and Peopleware, but I didn't. It ...

Beautiful Code

Monday, December 17th, 2007

I've been reading Beautiful Code from time to time during the autumn. It's mixed bag and I actually skipped some chapter that was too deep into maths for my taste. Chapter 22: A Spoonful of Sewage was an instant favorite; it is a a fascinating head-first dive into a ...

Old and new Ruby and Agile books

Friday, December 14th, 2007

A bunch of computer books I had ordered arrived to the office last week. Since I'm working on-site at my client I'm not at the office very often so didn't pick them up until today. The books are: Agile Software Development With Scrum by Mike A. Beedle and Ken Schwaber Agile Web ...