While I was walking up the slopes with Frans to watch the World Championships Big air qualifications in Arosa, Switzerland during our annual Software Architecture Workshop, we talked about the support for Domain Model patterns in his product LLBLGen Pro. I shared my thoughts on language extensions and...

Extreme Programming Explained is overview and guide to extreme programming (XP). The author of this book – Kent Beck – is well known XP evangelist with great experiences on the field. XP is not very simple thing to start with when one has worked some years on “classic” way. Kent shows us the way to XP...

Another great book to read is Implementation Patterns from famous Kent Beck. I found this book to be good addition to Code Complete 2 . Code Complete is mostly about readable and manageable code. Implementation Patterns is about code itself - how we are writing classes, methods, loops and other code...

Building Object Applications That Work by Scott Ambler is great book for every developer who is working with object-oriented systems. This book is recommended reading also for system architects, designers and managers to get better understanding of object-oriented world. The author of this book, Scott...

This is the first entry of my books sections in this blog. The first book I want to introduce is Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. This book is extremely useful when there is need to fix systems with legacy code base. Okay, for me there are two types of legacy code: a) legacy...

I finished yesterday another great book: Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects from pragmatic series. This book is not theory book that leaves you with many questions and no idea how to move along. Instead, you get an good idea about how to develop software and manage software projects...

This winter I read book Death March by Edward Yourdon . Death March is about death march projects and how to survive them. There are also chapters describing decisions that you should never make when managing death march project. And there are great tips that help you avoid bad mistakes in death march...

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is good reading for all developers and good addition to Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects . The Pragmatic Programmer is about developers everyday work and provides solutions and ideas about how to solve problems we may face...

Josh has posted an interesting review of Geoffrey Moore's classic "Crossing the Chasm" - this is a must read for any software product company.   Jonathan Cogley is the CEO of Thycotic Software, an agile software consulting and product development company based in Washington DC.  Secret...

   Couple of years ago I brought two books for my company. Today I can say that I made a small investment that still works pretty well. These books are titled as The Data Model Reosurce Book and author of these books is Len Silverston. First volume of Data Model Resource Book introduces common...