Book Review: Continuous Integration
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During the last squeezed reader awards, Burke Cox (CEO of Stelligent) was very kind and sent me a signed copy of Paul Duvall’s new book - Continuous Integration: Improving Software Quality and Reducing Risk.
I was really looking forward to this book for two reasons. First, the topic was right up my alley […]
Book Review: Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow
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Last winter, I decided to update my Java web skills from Struts to Spring. I enlisted in a workshop that was using the book Expert Spring MVC and Web Flow as it’s textbook.
Having context of Spring (and IoC/DI in general), Ruby on Rails MVC, and .NET web development; as I looked through […]
Book Review: Practices of an Agile Developer
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Long story short, Practices of an Agile Developer is a book I would easily classify in the ranks of Code Complete and The Pragmatic Programmer.
First up, what a great pairing of authors - Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt. Instantly, I knew I was in for a treat.
This book starts out […]
Book Review: Agile Retrospectives
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Perfectly fitting with the style of the Pragmatic Programmer series, Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great is a book for helping teams run effective and fun retrospectives.
Whether you call them postmortem, postpartum, or retrospective meetings; these meetings can help your team iteratively move forward by looking back.
After reading the first few chapters of this book […]
Book Review: Effective C#
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Although not his first book on C#, Bill Wagner really became noticed in the .NET community after writing Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#.
First off, this is not a C# reference guide. Instead, this is a collection of concrete arguments for using particular C# structures over their counterparts.
The greatest thing I […]
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