Book Reviews
My friend Timo recommended the book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks” to me a couple of months ago. During my parental leave I’ve finally found time to read -and more important- code the exercises. The first language is Ruby. Ruby is object-oriented, dynamically and strongly typed. It supports duck typing and is a good fit…
Being sick at home can become quite boring after a couple of days so I was happy today as I opened the mail box: (Yes, the physical one?) the new t3n magazine! Yeah! Nice cover! First of all I remove all advertising garbage by shaking the magazine, but lo and behold, there are some nice…
In 2016 I started to build up my library and got a lot of recommendations for cool books. (Thanks Timo, Michy, Jürgen, Achim) Here is my list
Calling this book a “book” is a bit exaggerated. It contains only 60 pages which I assume you can read in under one hour. Nevertheless if you haven’t encountered the work of Peter Drucker yet, this is the place to start. The Author Peter Drucker is best known for his concept of “Management by Objectives”…
As a child and teenager I read a lot, mostly fictional books. I often went to the library and got lots of books as a birthday or Christmas present. Astrid Lindgren Tonke Dragt Wolfgang Hohlbein On of my favorite authors at that time was Ken Follet. I read through the 1000+ pages of the Pillars…
About the Author Chad Fowler is best know for being CTO of 6Wunderkinder after its exit to Microsoft. Before he was Senior Vice President of Technology at LivingSocial. The Book Fun fact: the first edition of this book was titled “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways To Save Your Job” Fowler found this title…
I think I first came across the Peter Principle in the context of The Dilbert Principle. Where Scott Adams states in a satirical fashion that “leadership is nature’s way of removing morons from the productive flow”, Peter and Hull just say that everybody in a big enough hierarchy always gets promoted to a position where…
I became aware of James Bach through the Google Techtalk “Becoming a Software Testing Expert”. Then I quickly got his book “Lessons Learned in Software Testing”. In this book Bach presents with his colleagues Cem Kaner and Bret Pettichord 293 tips and tricks (“lessons”) from the test practice. Divided into 10 chapters, this book covers…
Today I introduce you to one of my favorite books, “Rework – Business Smart and Simple” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The two authors are the founders of 37signals (now basecamp) and have developed the framework Ruby on Rails, on which most of their products are based. After devouring their first work Getting…
We continue with motivational literature. After having lured you with reviews of the biographies of Richard Branson and Gene Simmons, today is a book from local climes. Why Dieter Bohlen? “Phew,” I hear some say, “I’m supposed to read or even buy a book from this dude? Of course this is the parting of the…