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Since I’ve started working in my Silverlight book , I’ve been really busy. So busy that I completely forgot to post my review about Jeffrey Richter ’s CLR via C# book. Well, to be honest, there’s really not much I can say about it…let me see…basically,
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A few days ago I’ve mentioned that my ASP.NET 4.0 book was available for pre-order in the FCA site . It has finally been released during Techdays (Portuguese MS event), so you can order it from the web site or buy it in a book store. As you can deduce
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Yesterday I’ve finally finished reading Stuart Sutherland’s Irrationality . I’ve found it really entertaining and I do recommend its reading to anyone that wants to better understand what (ir)rationality means. Stuart Sutherland makes his point (we all
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It’s still not for sale, but you can be notified when it’s out. Btw, here’s its cover: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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I’ve just finished reading Chris Smith’s book Programming F# . This is the second book I’ve tried reading on the subject and this time I’ve made it! Now, I’m not really a functional programming guy, but I must say that I see some interesting advantages
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In this last weekend I was a little burnt out, so I decided it was time to relax. And that’s why I’ve decided to have a go at Tom DeMarco’s Deadline: a Novel About Project Management . I guess this is an interesting (and different) way of presenting several
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I’ve just finished reading Scott Berkun ’s latest book . Scott is a really good communicator and you can say that I’ve been a fan of his work since his first best seller (Making things happen), which, btw, I’ve reviewed here a long time ago. You’ll be
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This is a post to my Portuguese readers (ie, for those guys and gals that have read my Portuguese books). I’m still preparing material for a possible ASP.NET 4.0 book and I would really appreciate some feedback on the previous editions (that is, if you
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This was one of the books I’ve read during my summer vacations. Dan Roam tries to show us how we can use visual thinking to solve problems. I found it interesting and enlightening, though I must confess that I still haven’t tested all of his ideas in
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I’ve just finished re-reading (I’ve read if for the first time around 2000) this fantastic book which was written by Bjarne Stroustrup , who is the responsible for the design of C++. I haven’t used C++ professionally for over 6 years now! However, I’ve
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One of the books I’ve read during my vacations was Code: the Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software , by famous author Charles Petzold. Even though this is a 2000 book, it was only in 2009 that I did find some time to read it. And let me tell
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Generally, I tend to review English written books in this blog. However, and since we’re on the verge of choosing a new PM for the next four years, I’m reviewing this fantastic book here and I’ll do it in Portuguese. In practice, this means that if you
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I’ve just finished reading Douglas Crockford ’s book and I can tell you that is a fantastic book. Notice that the book concentrates on the language itself, so don’t buy this book and expect to find a good reference for learning DHTML. The book is full
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This was another of the books I’ve managed to read during my last vacations. It’s an interesting book which presents several puzzles (supposedly) used by Microsoft during their hiring process. Besides presenting the answers to the puzzles, author William
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During my last vacations, I’ve manager to read a couple of books. One of them was Steve McConnell’s Software Estimation book. The author starts by making an important point regarding estimation: art vs science. It then starts building on several important
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