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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Martin Fowler
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Must have reference for all developers
Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this ...
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Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
Title should be: Java Thread Bible
After reading this book you will probably thank God that you haven't been using threads, but with that being said this book contains all the information you need to start writing code that walks the straight and narrow path.
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The iPhone Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone SDK (Developer's Library)
Erica Sadun
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
The “iPhone Developer’s Cookbook” introduces Apple’s iPhone SDK to readers and provides step-by-step details on how to build programs that run on the iPhone and iPod touch. Each "Recipe" focuses on the use of a class and provides completely re-usable code that readers can copy and implement in their own applications. More ...
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press)
Jon Bentley
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Programming insight
Derived from a popular series of columns from the ACM flagship magazine (Communications of the ACM), this book takes you as near as possible to a professional programmer's way of thinking.
Each chapter walks through the internal process a programmer follows to solve ...
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994
THE design patterns book
This book is a classic and doesn't require any further presentations. It is THE Design Patterns bible and every OO programmer should read at least a couple of times.
The samples are in C++ and sometimes Smalltalk but that really doesn't change anything even if you ...
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Mike Cohn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
Well-written, practical advice
This book is one of the better collections of how-to's and practical applications I've read on Agile user stories. It mixes in just enough of the theory to understand the importance and distinctions of epics, stories, tasks, and spikes without overly focusing on them. ...
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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
Aaron Hillegass
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
A must have.
This book is excellent. The explanations are short and very clear. The author makes cocoa really easy to learn, step by step. There are good and instructive exercices he calls challenges.
You can really get to work right after reading this book and completing the so ...
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
A Fork in the Road of my Career
Since I was young I wanted to be a programmer. I got my first development job only a few years ago, and have spent much of my free time reading blogs and the like. The problem with that was there were too many conflicting schools of thought on too many different ...
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley ...
Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
Must have for any C++ Programmer
This is a great book which covers a lot of useful topics for every C++ professional. I have been programming in C++ for a while so some of the topics Scott Mayers discussed were already familiar but I still picked up a lot from this book. From a beginner to ...
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Frederick P. Brooks
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
Excellent & Highly Recommended Book
I have read this book twice now. Once in college and once again now 5 years later. While I did not get much out of it 5 years ago, now that I have been in the industry a few years, it is a VERY good re-read.
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Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
This is the book
This book has completely smashed every possible expectation I had when I set out to read it.
Let me put it simply. There comes a time in every software developers' life when he contemplates the age old question of, "If I were to be stranded on an island and I could ...
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Essential Windows Communication Foundation (WCF): For .NET Framework 3.5 (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
Steve Resnick, Richard Crane, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
WCF how to with VS2008
A remarkably well organized and easy to read WCF how-to with respect to VS2008. Starts out with a basic service comparing code and configuration implementations. Subsequent chapters evolve gracefully reducing complexity to incremental understanding. Resulting SOAP ...
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Writing Effective Use Cases (The Agile Software Development Series)
Alistair Cockburn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
Good Investment
Alistair Cockburn has a gift for writing. His explanations are very easy to follow and the writing style makes it seem like you are reading novel. I tried a number of books on use cases and this is by far the best. It contains a number of different styles. I used this ...
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Must have in any developers collection
I was referred to this book from a colleague after a quick discussion on "Replace temp with Query" in our projects code base.
I thought I knew it all as a software developer, but reading this book, I soon came to realize that as a software developer I was leaving a ...
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Professional Excel Development: The Definitive Guide to Developing Applications Using Microsoft(R) Excel and ...
Stephen Bullen, Rob Bovey, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
A great how-to book for serious Excel users
When picking up this book, I was an advanced Excel user. Having discovered most of its features by trial-and-error, and coming from a fairly solid programming background, I understood well the interaction between the underlying object model and the sheets appearing on ...
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