Updated Reading List

4 commentsWritten on March 1st, 2009 by
Categories: Books

As i mentioned recently, i'm taking advantage of the low value of the British Pound by ordering quite a few books through amazon.co.uk. I've recently ordered even more books, so i now have the following books lying around, waiting to be read:

  1. 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: this is one is pretty cool so far... lot's of great, short tips which makes it ideal to read while you're taking a dump (Borrower Beware!)
  2. NHibernate In Action: This looks like it will be the definitive resource for using NHibernate properly.
  3. Data-Driven Services With Silverlight 2: gotta increase that Silverlight knowledge.
  4. Framework Design Guidelines, Second Edition: this one was also on the previous list
  5. Ship It: this one was also on the previous list
  6. Enterprise Integration Patterns: this one was also on the previous list
  7. Writing Secure Code: this one was also on the previous list

I plan to read them in that order (unless you can convince to me change the order)

I also have a copy of Refactoring To Patterns lying around, which i borrowed from work... no idea when i'll actually get to it though.

  • http://mrpmorris.blogspot.com Peter Morris

    I am currently reading NHibernate in Action. It’s a relatively thin book so doesn’t take very long to read. What I will say though is that you need to read a chapter before trying anything. At first I was frustrated because I tried getting an overview by reading through only the examples and following along, but the book (initially at least) seems to show you the code you end up with and then incrementally add code which will eventually make it work.

    Pete

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    yeah i’ve read the same remark on the nhusers list… if you’ve never used nhibernate before, i can imagine that that part might be a bit confusing

  • http://elegantcode.com Jan Van Ryswyck

    Remind me to not borrow any books from you :-)

  • http://davybrion.com Davy Brion

    yes, i hope _everyone_ got the hint :p