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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit - The Book
  After reading “ Implementing Lean Software Development : From Concept to Cash”, I decided to look at the original book . It is as good as the successor. IMO reading the original one first even better than just skipping to the new version. Mary...

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Building Software vs. Building a House
Found this great excerpt in a book: Principles are guiding ideas and insights about a discipline, while practices are what you actually do to carry out principles. Principles are universal, but it is not always easy to see how they apply to particular...

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The Art of Unit Testing – The Book
I have finished reading the book and wanted to write a short review, but the best I could come up with is a list of cons and pros. Lame, I know, but this will give you a hint at least. pros Smooth introduction, complexity is added step by step “Strict...

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Code Leader – The Book
On my flight I had a chance to finish reading “ Code Leader ” by Patrick Cauldwell. The book is a good source for ideas and concepts that “solid” developers should employ on a daily basis. Topics such as TDD, build vs. buy, CI, choosing the right tool...

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xUnit Test Patterns - The Book
I have a deep respect to people writing books. Not only it's a commitment, but a hard work that may not be appreciated, despite all the efforts invested into creation of a such. Saying that, some books are just not as good as the hype around them. Unfortunately...

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db4o
I was exposed to Domain-Driven Design not that much time ago. Prior to that, I was struggling with the object-relational impedance mismatch while developing objects based applications. First attempt to get relational database close to the applications...

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The Productive Programmer
Just finished reading " The Productive Programmer " by Neal Ford. Mixed emotions about the book. On one hand it's packed with good practices and decent tips to follow, on another hand haven't I watch the presentation on InfoQ, reading the book...

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Domain Modeling Books
Anyone can recommend on good Domain Modeling (not design) books? Thank you.

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C# in Depth
Finished reading "C# in Depth" by Jon Skeet. Good reading, especially if you have to  catch up from C# 1.0 or 2.0 to the latest 3.0. The other one I would like to read now will have to be a mix of this book (without 1.0/2.0 materials) and...

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More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
This is an interesting book to read in case your reading queue is empty and you want to brush up some aspects of C# (2/3). I can't recommend this book as a general reading, as it's way too narrowed to specific subjects (or implementation of those). Saying...

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