Ben Griswold on February 11th, 2008

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 [...]

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Ben Griswold on January 29th, 2007

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 [...]

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Ben Griswold on October 29th, 2006

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 [...]

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