Books On My Reading List
Posted by Davy Brion on February 1st, 2009
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:
- Framework Design Guidelines, Second Edition
- Silverlight 2 In Action (yes that’s right… Silverlight… the ‘cool kids’ might not like it, but it really is an interesting platform that’s only going to get better and better in the next couple of years)
- Enterprise Integration Patterns (i’ve been getting more and more intrigued with messaging so i figured it was time to spend some time learning more about this)
- Writing Secure Code (i know waaaaay too little about writing secure code so this was also something i’ve wanted to study for a while now)
- Ship It!
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?
February 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
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
February 1st, 2009 at 1:16 pm
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 !!!
February 1st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
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.
February 1st, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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, Responsibilities, and Collaborations (Addison-Wesley Object Technologiey Series)
Maybe we should do an EIP book club!
February 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pm
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.
February 1st, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Release It is great… and yeah, if i like Ship It you’ll definitely read about it
February 1st, 2009 at 10:01 pm
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February 2nd, 2009 at 4:44 am
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
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:18 am
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.
February 2nd, 2009 at 9:28 am
@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
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm
@davy I first have to finish ‘running linux’, which is also 800 pages
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:51 pm
800 pages for what essentially boils down to “why bother?”
February 2nd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
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?
February 3rd, 2009 at 9:43 pm
- 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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