Category: Books
Review: The Productive Programmer
This book presents a grab bag of practices and techniques for boosting your programming productivity, regardless of language and platform.
Designing the Moment sets the reader on the road towards better user experiences in common scenarios on the web. This is achieved through the use of casual writing and real-world examples.
Technical Books to Read in 2010
Laying out my planned reading material for the year to boost my programming skills.
This book provides insight into the workings of C#, and instructs the reader how to get the most out of the language.
A book that educates coders on best practices to produce clean code. Heavy reading, but satisfying too.
Review: Test-Driven Development by Example
Test-Driven Development by Example is enough introduction to start one working in code by writing tests first. This book goes into just enough detail for a coder to build quality code with confidence – by ensuring the quality is in the code to start!
Review: The Art of Unit Testing
A well-written book that takes novice or intermediate unit-testers to a higher level.
As a user of numerous web sites and applications, I know how annoying forms can be to deal with. As a web developer, I equally know how important it is that web forms are laid out and structured in a way to be usable. In-depth material on this subject is not easy to find, so I pounced on this book when I found out it was available.
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Ed.
This book gives a good introduction to the concept and process of unit testing, using examples in C# and NUnit.
Professional Refactoring in Visual Basic
This is a useful and unique book focused on a specific practice: refactoring code in VB.NET.
