Archive for the ‘Books’ Category

Do not be the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man of software development

Just a quick nod to a great post over on Coding Horror about the importance of interaction design… I just couldn’t stop laughing about this quote from Alan Cooper.
The Ultimate Unit Test Failure:
But when it comes time to marshal the solution to the problems, we find ourselves slamming into this kind of Stay-Puft Marshmallow [...]

No Man’s Land – A must for fast growing businesses, tech startups, and E-Commerce departments

No Man’s Land is a business book aimed primarily at entrepreneurs whose companies have reached the dreaded plateau in sales/profit/customer acquisition/etc. The author, Doug Tatum, calls this lull the “No Man’s Land” where companies either decide to stay small, restructure and break out, or wither and die. The book definitely serves it’s purpose, [...]

Pragmatic Programmer Presentation

A great set of slides about the book The Pragmatic Programmer”, which an oldie but a goodie from way back in 1999.
Pragmatic Programmer presentation posted:
I’ve posted the slides from a presentation I gave at work to our software development team on the Pragmatic Programmer book. This collection of common-sense practices has become kind of a [...]