I have been away from my blog for a long while, although I'm still new to blogging.
I had a lot of work to be done. All projects where behind schedule, due to bad planning and wrong deadlines, and no time for any activity.
Now, All projects are about 85-95% complete or started to deliver already.
It was a good & useful, and horrible experience, a lot of learned lessons to memorize.
I have ordered a set of books and I received them yesterday. In the next posts, I expect to write my ideas and impressions about these books.
I think that practical experience preceded long reading sessions to come will be a great help to make the maximum use of this material.
The idea about selecting those books that I consider some of them as part of software engineering landmarks and must-read ones, like books of Kent Beck, Martin Fowlers, Eric Evans, and others; sure.
I spend long time reading their articles and following their blogs. Enough, and late also, It is time to read the complete ideas, their books.
There are still about 15 books on my wish list. But, I'm happy that the wish list is less by 5 items now :)
Wish list contains books about Agile Development, Effective Use Cases Writing, and other topics
Books are; in expected reading order:
- Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D
- Brett D. McLaughlin, David West, Gary Pollice, Gary Police
- Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780596008673
- Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
- Craig Larman, Foreword by Philippe Kruchten
- Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 9780131489066
- Test Driven Development: By Example
- Kent Beck
- Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780321146533
- Domain-Driven Design: Tacking Complexity In the Heart of Software
- Eric Evans, Martin Fowler, Foreword by Martin Fowler
- Hardcover
- ISBN-13: 9780321125217
- C# 3.0 Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition
- Joseph Albahari, Ben Albahari
- Paperback
- ISBN-13: 9780596519223
