book reviews Archive

  • It 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 –...

    Agile Testing (Crispin/Gregory) is a great book, long overdue

    It 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 –...

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  • It 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.

    Programming Collective Intelligence

    It 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.

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  • Why 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...

    The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

    Why 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...

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  • Death March, Second Edition by Edward Yourdon is an interesting study of high-risk software projects, which would normally be expected to fail...<!--more-->

    Death March

    Death March, Second Edition by Edward Yourdon is an interesting study of high-risk software projects, which would normally be expected to fail...

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  • Pragmatic 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.

    Pragmatic Ajax

    Pragmatic 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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