Archive for the 'Books' Category

Book: Framework Design Guidelines (aka FDGCIPRNLMDS)

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

The book ‘Framework Design Guidelines’ is high on many .NET programmer’s recommended reading lists, so I decided to finally try it out. To me, it scored bad points for its awfully long subtitle (Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries — Microsoft .NET Development Series). We’ll refer to it as FDGCIPRNL as a form [...]

Book: Revoltution in The Valley

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

As a companion the the iWoz book, I also read Revoltution in The Valley – The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made. It was not a page-turner like “iWoz”, but just as interesting to read. Just like with the book by Woz, I already knew some of its contents — this time by accidentally [...]

Book: iWoz

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

I recently read this book by Steve Wozniak: iWoz. It’s an exceptionally interesting biography, if you care for technology and some personal computing history. I listened to Wozniak via IT Conversations before (it’s the highest rated talk over there), so I already knew some of the anecdotes and developments, but the humor and engaging style of the [...]

Haml

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I’ve been reading my “Agile web development with Rails” book, which I bought at FOSDEM in early 2006. It had been lying around half-unread every since. Of course, by now the latest Rails releases have deprecated some stuff that’s recommended in the book, but almost everything is still compatible. Trying out the examples in [...]

Boek: De Avonturen van Bill Clifford

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Ik heb dit boek van Godfried Bomans na jaren opnieuw gelezen (en ervan genoten).

(e)Book: Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby

Tuesday, February 7th, 2006

I have read this crazy ebook by Why the lucky stiff, about the Ruby programming language.

Boek: Praktische gids voor je Digitale Camera

Friday, January 27th, 2006

Ik heb dit boek van Simon Joinson net gelezen, en het is een aanrader om een goed algemeen beeld te krijgen van fotografie en digitale technieken.

Book: Effective C#

Friday, December 16th, 2005

I have read (and enjoyed) the book ‘Effective C#’ by Bill Wagner.

Book: TDD in Microsoft .NET

Tuesday, August 30th, 2005

The book ‘Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET’ is a good introduction to the topic.

Boek: Het nieuwe informatierecht

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2005

Dit boek heb ik zopas uitgelezen, en terecht!