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http://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783 At about 180 pages or so, it is a quick read. I have heard lots of talk about Lean, Kanban, etc. and thought it was time to sit down and read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's 2003 book on the topic. I found the book to be intensely...
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Ken Pugh's Interface-Oriented Design (Pragmatic Programmers) presents an approach to designing applications that focuses first on the interfaces, the places where pieces of the application interact. The interfaces here are not primarily user interfaces, but module-to-module interfaces and service interfaces...
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Cross-posted from my github pages blog . Rachel Davies, one of the author's was kind enough to comment there. My manager let me borrow his copy of Pragmatic Programmer’s Agile Coaching . I’ve read a good number of Agile process and management books. I’m partial to the Pragmatic Programmer...
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Last year on this day, I wrote a review of 2008 and some goals for 2009. I had not yet started blogging for Los Techies yet, but that started at the beginning of the year. Looking back on those goals, I think I did fairly well: Write a website application using Ruby on Rails : I did not write a full...
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So, back in August (or was it September?) the members of Los Techies were offered a sweet deal from The Pragmatic Programmers - pick any book (free), read it, and write a review. There were no strings attached so we could give our honest opinion. I picked Pragmatic Thinking and Learning (Andy Hunt) and...
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I've just finished reading the rough cut of RESTful Web Services Cookbook by Subbu Allamaraju and Mike Amundsen and thought I'd write a very quick review. Ultimately the book fills a gap in the market by providing practical advice on designing high quality HTTP/REST solutions and I found the recipe approach...
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I'll cut straight to the chase, I definitely recommend SOA Patterns to anyone interested in SOA. Even though its currently only available in MEAP, and is a bit rough and ready, and isn't complete, it's still great stuff and well worth your time. Now I've said that I'll give a quick...
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Since we are using REST on top of WCF on my current project I was glad to see that this book had been written as I was hoping it would answer some questions I had. However my first issue with this book was the title. As I say we're using WCF but WCF isn't the only way to implement REST in .NET...
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I recently finished reading… Deploying .NET Applications: Learning MSBuild and ClickOnce (Expert's Voice in .Net) I was interested in this book mainly to find an easier way to deploy ClickOnce applications via an automated build. Most of my build automation experience has been with Nant, so I figured...
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I recently finished reading... Data-Driven Services with Silverlight 2 I have been wanting to get in to the world of WCF for some time now, but wasn’t really sure how to get started. This book was good at explaining how to get into WCF quick and easy. The sample apps that the author goes through and...
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I recently finished reading... Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People I first heard about Neuro-linguistic programming ( NLP ) while I was reading The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists . I thought that it sounded like an interesting...
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I recently finished reading... Object Thinking by David West As usual I fold down pages that contain paragraphs that interest me... below are a few excerpts from the book that I enjoyed! "Better people" has been recognized as the most promising silver bullet for addressing the software...
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture defines Lazy Load as: An object that doesn't contain all of the data you need but knows how to get it. A while back I was trying to figure out how to lazy load objects from a container, so that I didn't need to depend on the objects dependencies...
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I finished reading... Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin Series) by Robert C. Martin, Micah Martin Read more about this book... What an excellent book, seriously! It was written by Robert C. Martin and his son Micah. The following is a list of excerpts from the book...
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A few weeks ago I started feeling a little over whelmed by the volume of interest in what I was up to. After reading a chapter from Tim Ferris' book, I decided to disconnect. It was the most effective advice I could have ever received. I went cold turkey . I turned off my phone and put it in a drawer...