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Programming Collective Intelligence 8 Jul 2011 | 12:00 pm
Making sense of information is something that Amazon understand. According the James Marcus (hired by Amazon in 1996), Jeff Bezoz began as a “firm believer in the power of content” but gradually chang...
Founders at Work 1 May 2010 | 12:00 pm
Interviews with the founders of 30 successful (in the most part) companies. For me, Founders at Work is proof that Amazon's whole “other people who bought this also bought this” feature must make the...
Coders at Work 7 Dec 2009 | 01:00 pm
I would imagine that if most people compiled a list of books that they can't put down , programming books wouldn't feature too heavily. Coders at Work is an exception. It is the programming equivalent...
Continuous Integration 17 Nov 2009 | 01:00 pm
Continuous Integration seems a popular topic at the moment judging by the success of my recent blog post on the subject. Much of the theory of that post comes from this excellent book, another in the ...
User Stories Applied 3 Nov 2009 | 01:00 pm
User Stories Applied is the second Mike Cohn book on Agile development I have read (in addition to Agile Estimating and Planning ) and is another incredibly useful resource. It’s a book that explains ...
The Pragmatic Programmer 11 Jun 2009 | 12:00 pm
Ask a programmer to recommend an influential book on software engineering and The Pragmatic Programmer will invariably appear somewhere near the top. Published in 1999, and therefore relatively up-to-...
The Mythical Man Month 12 May 2009 | 12:00 pm
This enduring classic is often a feature of “top 10” lists and still resonates 34 years after it first appeared. The book is organised into a number of essays on various aspects of software engineerin...
Building Scalable Web Sites 30 Apr 2009 | 12:00 pm
“Building Scalable Web Sites” provides a fascinating insight into the complexities of building large-scale web applications. Written nearly three years ago (May 2006) by Cal Henderson, the engineering...
Agile Estimating and Planning 17 Apr 2009 | 12:00 pm
Agile Estimating and Planning tackles the key concepts behind implementing an agile process in a clear and coherant fashion, without getting involved in intricacies of specific agile methodologies (eg...
Getting Real 13 Apr 2009 | 12:00 pm
The brainchild of Chicago based 37signals (creator of Basecamp amoung others), Getting Real provides a fresh take on building web applications. According to 37signals, it explains “the smarter, faster...
