I've developed this bad habit of reading about a book (usually in blog posts), thinking "hmm, that should be interesting", going to Amazon, ordering it and then forgetting all about it. The whole process takes less than 2 minutes. I have recently bought the following books, all of which i still have to finish:
- 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know: i love the 97 Things series, and i think it's important to figure out how project managers think (just as it's important for men to figure out how women think) so i had to pick this one up. I am about halfway through at the moment.
- Debug It!: Too many developers have trouble figuring out where to look when something goes wrong. I'm proud not to be a part of that group (on most days), though i keep my eyes and ears open for any kind of debugging tips so i just had to pick this one up.
- Growing Object-Oriented Sofware, Guided By Tests: i never knew about this book, but i happened to glance over it in a list of recommended books based on another book that i was buying at the time. Once i spotted the "Kent Beck Signature Book"-series logo i clicked the "Add to shopping cart" button. That's right, i'm that big of a Kent Beck fanboy.
- Advanced .NET Debugging: This is the book i got suckered into buying today... why? because Tess Ferrandez recommended it. Yup, i'm that easy. Seriously though, how could it be bad?
- Writing Secure Code: 2nd Edition: I started reading this about 2 months ago. I'm currently at page 154. It's that boring.
- Enterprise Integration Patterns: As cool as i suspect this book to be, i still haven't made it past the first chapter. Which i started about 3 months ago. It's not that it's boring, i actually think that messaging is very cool... but for some reason i can't get myself to read this thoroughly when there are other things to do that are more relevant to what i need at work.