Category Archives: Book reviews

Ship It!: A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects is focussed on one core idea: “The List”. The place in which you track your (and your teams) to-do and done work. I do not agree with everything written in the … Continue reading →

Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management first let’s you look behind the closed doors of all those private meetings and then provides you a set of techniques that allow you to be(come) a better manager. All 160 pages were … Continue reading →

Brownfield Application Development in .NET is one of the better books i have read recently. The first part is about the ecosystem (version control, automated build, continuous integration, testing, defect management, … ), the second part is about the code … Continue reading →

97 Things Every Programmer Should Know was the last book that i wanted to read at the pool during summer holidays. As with all 97 things books you get a lot of valuable tips but i found this book not … Continue reading →

Not going to waste time re-iterating what’s in the book because you can find that here: Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash. Just make sure that you get your copy and read it from beginning to end. Afterwards … Continue reading →

The first part of the book covers some tools that may improve your productivity (but nothing that i did not use already). The second part covers development techniques (again, nothing new under the sun). Despite the author’s intentions i found … Continue reading →

A while ago i noticed that Davy Brion recommended Debug It!: Find, Repair, and Prevent Bugs in Your Code so i decided to give it a read. Although i really liked the suggested process for investigating bugs where you have … Continue reading →

A while ago i noticed that more and more of my work is related to coaching and managing other developers. In order to become better at that i ordered my copy of Manage It!: Your Guide to Modern Pragmatic Project … Continue reading →

Around new year i found out that i would be working with SQL Server 2008 so i needed a crash course. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals is really not intended to be that, but it does cover the basics and … Continue reading →

Given the fact that i have been developing software for MS-Windows the last couple of years i found it important to learn a bit more about the internals of the operating systems on which my applications run so i ordered … Continue reading →