Seth’s tips on podcasting

This is a small set of interesting ideas that struck me from David Nebinski’s interview with Seth Godin on podcasting – well, actually on his new book The Practice, which I am enjoying a lot – will blog about it soon. There are so many other...

Mind the age and context of the book

Usually IT books don’t age very well, things change very fast in the sector. This is specially true of books on particular tools, libraries, frameworks… but even books about methods and techniques require critical thinking when studying them. If the book...

SOA in Practice

Just done reading this nice book: SOA in Practice, by Nicolai M. Josuttis. I find it a good book to ask yourself if your architecture smells good or stinks. It does not include source code so it is more about the SOA tenets than explicit samples. Before reading the...

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmer is a masterpiece written by Joel Spolsky in 2001. Although might be considered old, it is still absolutely useful and great. Some chapters are available online. I’d recommend this book to any software developer and also to...

The Business of Software

Are you an entrepreneur? Tired of your job? Are you a developer thinking of starting your new software company? If so, you must read Eric Sink’s book: The Business of Software. I’ve just finished reading this VERY interesting book oriented to those...