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I speak at a lot of conferences and I often get promo codes from the organisers for people to buy cheaper tickets. I kind of ignored this so far, but several people asked about this at a recent workshop, so I decided to set up a mailing list for anyone…
book reviews Archive
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Agile Testing (Crispin/Gregory) is a great book, long overdue
Posted on February 23, 2009 | 2 CommentsIt has been a while since I published a book review on this blog, not because I stopped reading but because none of the books that I read meanwhile really stood out. I’m glad to say that Agile Testing by Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory finally breaks that trend –... -
Programming Collective Intelligence
Posted on June 9, 2008 | No CommentsIt has been a while since I published a book review on this web site. I have read a lot of books in the mean time, but none of them seemed worth to recommend. Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Segaran not only captured my attention, it also captured my imagination. -
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Posted on January 18, 2007 | No CommentsWhy High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity The central theme of this book is how the IT industry resembles an asylum taken over by inmates – with software products completely missing the goals of their customers due to a combination of programmer psychology and... -
Death March
Posted on December 4, 2006 | 1 CommentDeath March, Second Edition by Edward Yourdon is an interesting study of high-risk software projects, which would normally be expected to fail... -
Pragmatic Ajax
Posted on October 27, 2006 | No CommentsPragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer, by Justin Gehtland, Bel Galbraith and Dion Almaer is a great introduction into the world of Web 2.0. In about 300 pages, this book covers most of the topics required to get started with Ajax-based development, from principles to debugging and integration with major server platforms.
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