The Craftsman Articles are a series of posts written about clean code. Their original home is dead on the internet, but with the power of the way back machine and helpful people, there are backups made, like the one linked. The posts follow the apprenticeship of Alphonse as he learns...
Software Craftsmanship by Pete McBreen is yet another book on software crafting ideals and practice. This one in particular, however, focused more on the differences between the idea of software craftsmanship and software engineering. It approached the terminology and how each affects management and programming methodology. The author considers software...
Because I was a bit bored and saw it on a shelf, I decided to read Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. I was drawn to it because of its title as I recalled hearing about it from somewhere and as I thought of Moby Dick when I heard it. I really...
So I read The Secrets of Consulting by Gerald M. Weinberg. I’m not sure if they were secrets, per say, but rather a plethora of wisdom that extends far beyond consulting, but hey, that doesn’t make for nearly as much of a good title as the current title does. Marketing....
The other day, meaning last Tuesday, I read the book titled The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande. No, it wasn’t a manifesto composed of a large checklist, but a book detailing how checklists can improve a variety of different industries and even save lives. The premise intrigued me, so that...
So I read Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz, which I found instructive in many areas and mildly lacking in others. What I really liked in it was how it broke down class design and the theory of it. I was neither a large OOD fan, nor...