Contents tagged with Books
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Book Review: Learning NServiceBus
We are ramping up on our development of a new version of existing system that
will utilize NServiceBus for communication between its
various parts.
Learning NServiceBus
is a great resource to get going, especially if you need
in short time to go from 0 to 100. The books falls a
little short on testing IMO, but it gives you enough to
move in the right direction. In case you are planning to
deviate from a standard transport (MSMQ), you won’t find
a lot of help in this book. Though frankly, outstanding
NServiceBus team and amazing community behind it will
answer any of your questions, if those were not already
answered. Since NServiceBus is now under Particular,
this is the new
user group
you want to send your questions to.
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ASP.NET 4 CMS–Book
I have looked for a book about CMS concepts and was excited to spot ASP.NET 4 CMS. As much as I was excited initially, that much I was disappointed as going through the book. Here a few things I did not find pleasant about it:
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Growing Object-Oriented Software Guided by Tests – Book
An interesting book about not just how to develop with
TDD, but also how to grow a project that utilizes TDD
process. When developing code using TDD, you are
unavoidably face the difficulties of maintaining 2
“project”s – production code and tests/specs. This is a
Java code book, but principles are the same and
applicable to .NET as well. Good read, though I would
not tie too many hopes to the book. After all, you
cannot learn how to shave on someone’s else beard.
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Pro ASP.NET MVC 2 Framework
I have started this book long time ago, but never got to end of it. Finally, I had a
chance to do so. What a great book. The cover says “The
Expert’s Voice in .NET”, and I found Seven Sanderson a
real expert in ASP.NET MVC.
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C# 4.0 in a Nutshell–Book
I like to refresh my memory on the basics. A lot of
times you’ll look at something that you already know
slightly different every single time. So is true with
this book. It’s a great reference for C# as well as
cover for the new features introduced in 4.0 (one of
those
I have already blogged
about).
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Drive–Book
It started with Jonathan talking about the video he saw, Drive: The surprising truth
about what motivates us. I really liked it, and decided
to proceed to the book. The book is outstanding, hits in
the target. Among other things, I can definitely use it
to explain a good portion of things that happened to me
in the past. What is interesting, is what Daniel Pink
describes as “Drive”, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi describes
as “Flow” (another book to read). I really liked the
language and associations Pink has used in the book –
software and computers. This makes analogies and
examples extremely simple. Good read.
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Effective REST Services via .NET – Book
This a very good introduction into RESTfull services on .NET platform.
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The Agile Samurai – Book
It is a great honour to work with the person who wrote the book I
just recently finished reading. The Agile Samurai is a
mix of project management and software development. It’s
a reality check helper if you are trying to run agile
process in your company/team/project. The intention of
this post is not to review the book, this is what I will
do later at Amazon. Jonathan has managed to make me
think of certain things in a different manner, maybe a
little bit more realistic. There are a few new tools I
can put under my belt (Inception Deck) to move forward with. The most important message from
the book IMHO was not taking Agile literally as written
- fluctuate, experiment, and question.
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Pro BizTalk 2009
I have finished reading
Pro BizTalk 2009
book from APress. This is a great book if you’ve never
dealt with BizTalk in the past and want to have a quick
“on-ramp”. Although the book is very concerned about
right way of building traditional BizTalk applications,
it also dedicates a chapter to ESB Toolkit and does a
good job in analyzing it. The fact that authors were
concerned with subject such as coupling, hard-coding,
automation, etc. makes it very interesting.
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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.
