Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Review. Show all posts
It looks like we are living in a fantastic time concerning programming languages. Creating a new language has never been easier then before. With the two great platforms Java and .Net it's not extremely difficult any more to generate intermediate code from the language you are dreaming of. And even the pragmatic bookshelf has a book in writing on "language patterns" to cover this topic.Thus I
Book Review: The passionate programmer and Pragmatic Thinking & LearningRecently I am getting more and more attracted by the books from "The Pragmatic Programmers / Bookshelf" (link). So I share my thoughts with a review of three books for you. Here I review:Chad Fowler, "The Passionate Programmer", 2009Andy Hunt, "Pragmatic Thinking and Learning", 2008So let's start:1) Chad Fowler is well known
Recently two fresh books fell into my hands:The Productive Programmer, Neal Ford, 978-0596519780Clean Code, Robert C. Martin, 978-0132350884The first book is a very ambivalent one.Pros: It covers a wide range of areas how to be more productive. And so you can find topics like ACCERLERATION, FOCUS, AUTOMATION, Test-Diven Design, Code Analyse, up to very philosophical points. The real strong point
The last couple of years major Open Source ESBs, including MuleSource and ServiceMix, have been expanded and are used in critical business solutions. Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen offer a book which gives an overview about Open Source ESBs and which combination of Open Source technologies with ESBs are used. The main open source solutions covered in this book are Mule and ServiceMix. Therefore
I am happy that the guys from Sonatype are continuously improving their free book on the "de facto standard" Apache Maven build-automation framework: "Maven: The Definitive Guide". The book covers most topics typical Maven users will encounter, including generation of documentation (site) and writing Maven plugins (mojos).I think this book is very useful for the newbie as well as for more
As promised 10th Dec here is the second book review. Recently we discussed beautiful code, and now we have: Kent Beck, "Implementation Patterns", Addison-Wesley, ISBN-13: 978-0321413093Of course Kent Beck is well known in the software-engineering and development space. He wrote books aboutBetter SmalltalkPatternsEclipseJUnit Pocket GuideRefactoringTest Driven Development,and of course he might be
Recently two interesting books have been published:1. Andy Oram & Greg Wilson, "Beautiful Code", OReilly, ISBN-13 978-05965100462. Kent Beck, "Implementation Patterns",Addison-Wesley, ISBN-13: 978-0321413093Let's have a look at the first one. The second one will be looked at in the next review posting here.There have been a lot of rumors before "Beautiful Code" has been published. Perhaps because
In this presentation Eric (specialist in domain driven design and autor of the book domain driven design ) steps through a Cargo sample, where he give an example how to identify objects and put them in a relation. When dealing with domain driven design you will realize that complexity is in the domain and this complexity will be also found in the model.Eric point to a very important thing in
Ok, today is the day of micro-postings, however, this might be interesting and good news for some developers. Apache Maven got a new online-book. Maven is a great tool for build-automation, a deployment tool, a dependency management tool, a documentation generator and reporting framework and is implementing build-lifecyle-best-practices and propagates the convention over configuration idea and so
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