Books On My Reading List

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What does any self-respecting European development geek do when the British Pound's value is so low? That's right, he orders some books from amazon.co.uk to take advantage :)

I now have the following books lying around here, all waiting to be read:

I can't wait to read each one of them, but the book i'm currently reading is Ayende's Building Domain Specific Languages In Boo. I've only read the first 4 chapters so far, but it has already been fascinating.

How about you? Which books do you plan/hope to read in the near future?

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  • http://blog.igrokthat.net C+++

    Well, I just posted (http://blog.igrokthat.net/?p=43) about the books I’m going to read, partly based on your recommend book list, and the book on DSL with Boo is also part of it :)

  • http://yoot.be Steve Degosserie

    LOL … Looks like we took the same kind of good resolution for the new year ;o)
    http://blog.yoot.be/post/My-Books-for-2009.aspx

    By the way, if you don’t know it yet, you might want to have a look at http://www.bookdepository.co.uk, it’s often cheaper than Amazon, and they deliver to Belgium for FREE !!!

  • http://elegantcode.com Jan Van Ryswyck

    The ones I’m planning to read in the not so distant future:

    - SOA Patterns
    - Enterprise Service Bus
    - Enterprise Integration Patterns
    - SOA in practice
    - Beginning Ruby
    - Rails for .NET developers

    I’m currently reading LINQ in Action, but I’m not liking it very much.

  • http://blog.viss.be Marc Vangrieken

    In the next months, I’ll read

    - Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process
    - Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models (Addison-Wesley​ Object Technology Series)
    - Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley​ Signature Series)
    - Object Design: Roles, Responsibilitie​s, and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley​ Object Technologiey Series)

    Maybe we should do an EIP book club!

  • http://kozmic.pl Krzysztof Kozmic

    LOL.
    Your first sentence made my day. This is exactly what I did one month ago. I bought (among others) sister book of “Ship it!” – “Release it!”. I’m reading it now. And I love it. Let me know how you like Ship it! when you read it.

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    Release It is great… and yeah, if i like Ship It you’ll definitely read about it ;)

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  • http://www.jroller.com/talonx Hrish

    Here’s my list – things have been piling up for quite sometime :)

    1. Inside the Java Virtual Machine
    2. Beautiful Code
    3. The Productive Programmer
    4. Interface Oriented Design
    5. Working Effectively with Legacy Code
    6. The Thoughtworks Anthology

  • http://budts.be/weblog/ teranex

    Hi Davy,
    If you have read ‘Writing Secure Code’ maybe you can give a short session about it after a company meeting? I would certainly be interested :)

    Currently I’m reading ‘Running Linux’, as I fully switched to using Linux at home now, i want to know more about the inner workings of the system.

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    @Teranex

    that book is almost 800 pages… there’s no way i’m going to summarize that in a short session. Guess you’re gonna have to read it yourself ;)

  • http://budts.be/weblog/ teranex

    @davy I first have to finish ‘running linux’, which is also 800 pages ;)

    • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

      800 pages for what essentially boils down to “why bother?” :P

  • http://www.jphamilton.net J.P. Hamilton

    Ship It! is a great book. I read Pragmatic Programmer, Practices of an Agile Developer, and then Ship It! and it was a natural extension to what I had been reading.

    The only thing on my agenda:
    re-read Enterprise Integration Patterns, Refactoring to Patterns, and xUnit Patterns

    Kind of bummed, because all I have are re-reads. Anyone know if any good books are coming out later this year?

  • Standing on the beach with a gun in my hand

    - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (in the original english version).
    – A Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander.

    But I buy all my books in shops, never online, strangely enough, so if I can find one of the above this year I’m happy.

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