Wednesday, March 19, 2008
I just finished reading Dreaming In Code by Scott Rosenberg today. In short; I liked it! The book is an exploration of the pitfalls of developing and managing software projects. It follows several years of development on the Chandler Project by the OSAF asking questions such as: Why are software projects rarely delivered on time? […]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Hackers and Painters is a collection of Paul Graham’s essays which where published as a hardback book in 2004. I really enjoyed this collection of essays and since reading it have begun to follow Paul’s website and read each new essay as it is published, having recently read it for a second time I thought […]
Saturday, August 11, 2007
User Interface Design for Programmers Joel Spolsky - Apress (2001) This book does exactly what it says on the cover. It is a concise (144 pages including index etc) introduction to the areas of UI design that matter to programmers (as opposed to designers and HCI types). The 18 chapters are all less than 10 […]
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Work have a library of interesting books which I intend to start making my way through. I’ll review them, and any other books I think people should read, here.