The Small Shelf
The “small shelf” is a shelf in my library where I store my favorite books on Software Development. I like to write code and I am not looking forward to stop, so there are no books there about management (at least, yet).
At the moment, the titles are (from right to left):
- Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
- CLR via C# 3rd Edition
- Framework Design Guidelines 2nd Edition
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Domain-driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
- Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
- Dependency Injection in .NET
- xUnit Test Patterns: Refactoring Test Code
- Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
- Real-World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C#
Due to the small dimensions of the shelf, when I want to store a new book I have to remove one so I need to carefully consider which one I should remove. Pretty neat process isn't it?
Here are some books not in the shelf, the three from the bottom where recently removed. That doesn't mean they are not good, or I don't like them, or I haven't read them (in any way).
By they way, these are (from bottom to top):
- NHibernate 3.0 Cookbook
- The Old New Thing: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
- Kanban
- HTML5 and CSS3: Develop with Tomorrow's Standards Today
- Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development
The last two are new, I received the past weeks.
I am curious with HTML5, I think in the following years there is going to be a switch to a unified presentation model using the combination of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. I also believe that using this model, any access to external systems/services/etc is going to happen in a RESTful way. For that reason, on my Kindle device among other is REST in Practice: Hypermedia and Systems Architecture. I use Kindle a lot, specially when I'm on the plane.
Finally, I currently maintain three Amazon.co.uk wish lists, which I have publicly available:
The last one helps me a lot, since I can save there the book titles I come across and later I can decide what I will buy.