If I were to guess, I receive 2.25 bookstore gift cards and 1.25 books around Christmas each year. Nearly 100% of the tangible books have been non-technical in nature. This year’s book — Beer School: Bottling Success at the Brooklyn Brewery — was a present from my soon-to-be sister-in-law. As I don’t tend to read [...]
Last week’s post about The Anti-team by Jemery Miller reminded me of a book I picked up a while back: Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers by J. Hank Rainwater. In his book, Rainwater offers tips and management techniques on everything from code reviews to managing a distributed workforce. With good humor, he discusses dozens [...]
What is “Rubber Ducking?” The phrase was made famous by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas in the book The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master. A book, by the way, which is required reading for all coders. In fact, it is time I reread it. You may already be familiar with this term, but in [...]