Out of the Tar Pit
May 9, 2014A while ago I read "Out of the tar pit", which is an excellent paper written by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks. In this paper, the authors discuss different types of complexity in ...
Read more ...Byte Magazine Archives
July 26, 2013Earlier this week I accidentally stumbled on archive.org where they are hosting an extensive backlog of old issues of Byte magazine. This magazine was an American microcomputer ...
Read more ...Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
July 19, 2013A while ago, I was thinking about which programming language I wanted to learn next. At first I was doubting between Scala, Ruby or perhaps Clojure. But I couldn’t reall...
Read more ...Steve Jobs - The Biography by Walter Isaacson
August 7, 2012At first I was a bit skeptical whether I should spend time listening to the audio version of this book. I’ve heard and read both great things as well as bad things about the boo...
Read more ...Outliers – The Story of Success
July 17, 2012A couple of weeks ago, I digested the audio version of Outliers – The Story of Success, written by Malcolm Gladwell. In this book, the author tells the story of ...
Read more ...Book Review: Just for Fun
February 28, 2012A while ago, my colleague Wouter recommended this book titled Just for Fun – The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary written by Linus Torvalds. The author ...
Read more ...Book Review: The Unix Programming Environment
February 22, 2012A couple of weeks ago I finished reading The Unix Programming Environment, written by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike. The main reason that I picked up t...
Read more ...Book Review: The Clean Coder
September 6, 2011Earlier this week I finished reading Uncle Bob’s latest book The Clean Coder. Robert C. Martin is a great writer and I very much enjoyed reading his previous boo...
Read more ...Book Reviews: CoffeeScript and JavaScript Web Applications
August 16, 2011While catching up on my reading backlog, I particularly enjoyed reading two new books I bought recently which I’m going to briefly discuss in this blog post. 1....
Read more ...Book Review: Hands-on Node.js
June 28, 2011Last week, I finished reading Hands-on Node.js written by Pedro Teixeira. I very much enjoyed reading this concise introduction to Node.js, and although it’s targeted towards be...
Read more ...A Quartet of Book Reviews
May 27, 2011Since a couple of months or so, the amount of time spent for my daily commute to and from work nearly tripled. I also decided to travel by train instead of using my car ...
Read more ...Book Review: C# in Depth–2nd Edition
March 22, 2011I really learned a lot from reading the first edition of C# in Depth, so I was very glad that I finally found some time to make my way through the second edi...
Read more ...Book Review – Driving Technical Change: Why People on Your Team Don't Act on Good Ideas, and How to Convince Them They Should
February 25, 2011I already finished “Driving Technical Change” a few weeks ago, but I got so caught up with other stuff that I almost forgot to actually sit down and write a review for ...
Read more ...Book Review – Extreme Programming Explained
January 21, 2011Last week I finished reading the first edition of Extreme Programming Explained, written by Kent Beck. I explicitly wanted to read the first edition, that I purc...
Read more ...Book Review – JavaScript Patterns
January 8, 2011Earlier this week I finished reading JavaScript Patterns, written by Stoyan Stefanov. After I very much enjoyed reading his previous book titled Object-Oriented ...
Read more ...Book Review - The Nomadic Developer
November 26, 2010Just before I recently decided to turn a new page in my professional career, I came across this book called The Nomadic Developer: Surviving and Thriving in the ...
Read more ...Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
October 20, 2010After having listened to the recording of a speech by Daniel Pink, I quickly decided to purchase the audio version of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. ...
Read more ...Book Review: jQuery in Action (2nd Edition)
October 15, 2010I wanted to pick up a book on jQuery for quite some time now so I decided to give jQuery in Action a try. Besides all the nice things I’ve heard and read about jQuery, I...
Read more ...Book Review: Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
August 23, 2010Having this book on my shelf for quite some time now, I finally decided to to make my way through reading Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering written by Robert L...
Read more ...Book Review: Debug It!
August 18, 2010Throughout my career as a professional software developer, I’ve spent quite a lot of my learning time to sharpen my debugging skills. I’ve always considered this as on...
Read more ...Book Review: Object-Oriented JavaScript
August 11, 2010A good number of folks have recommended me to pick up Object-Oriented JavaScript after I put out this book review on JavaScript – The Good Parts. They told m...
Read more ...Book Review: Switch - How to Change Things When Change is Hard
July 2, 2010After hearing about this book in an interview with Mary and Tom Poppendieck, I decided to immediately purchase the audio version on Audible and listen to it during my daily comm...
Read more ...Book Review: JavaScript – The Good Parts
May 24, 2010Today I finished reading JavaScript – The Good Parts written by Douglas Crockford. That picture on his website of him speaking with Chuck Norris on the background should...
Read more ...Book Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action
April 9, 2010Earlier this week I finished reading ASP.NET MVC in Action written by Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman and Jimmy Bogard. I came across several good reviews about ...
Read more ...Review Amazon Kindle DX
November 20, 2009As my bookshelf has grown out of proportion over the last years, I basically had two options left. First option was to build an extra room onto my house that could serve as a pr...
Read more ...Book Review: Enterprise Service Bus
October 30, 2009About a year ago, I was lucky enough to attend the Kaizenconf in Austin. When I joined the discussions on ESB Patterns, Dru Sellers and Chris Patterson (also kno...
Read more ...Book Review: Enterprise Integration Patterns
August 18, 2009I just finished reading Enterprise Integration Patterns written by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf. This book follows the same concept used by Martin Fowler and his marvelo...
Read more ...Half-a-Book Review: IronRuby in Action
May 18, 2009Earlier this year, Ivan Porto Carrero did a quite enjoyable presentation on IronRuby for the Dutch ALT.NET user group. I recently picked up the early access edition of his book ...
Read more ...Half-a-Book Review: SOA Patterns
April 18, 2009A couple of months ago, I bought the early access edition of SOA Patterns after Colin Jack recommended it on Twitter. So far, only the first five chapters are available, but I s...
Read more ...Book Review: The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
March 28, 2009Yesterday, I finished listening to the 4-Hour Workweek and I really liked it. That's right, I said 'listening' because I have the audio version of the book. While the titl...
Read more ...Book review: LINQ in Action
February 23, 2009Yesterday I stopped reading LINQ in Action after I read just the first two parts about LINQ to Objects and the last part about building your own LINQ provider. Although ...
Read more ...Book Review : Beyond Code
November 10, 2008I read Beyond Code during my flight to Austin for the Kaizenconf. It was a quite enjoyable book that focuses on how to distinguish yourself as a software developer. As you may ...
Read more ...Book Review: C# in Depth
October 20, 2008I just finished reading C# in Depth: What you need to master C# 2 and 3. Although the book is only 358 pages, it's title is certainly not exaggerated. It feels like I've...
Read more ...Book Review: Clean Code
October 2, 2008I just finished reading the magnificent book Clean Code - A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. I must say, if I would have a software company of my own, then I would forc...
Read more ...Book Review: Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
September 20, 2008I just finished reading Release It!. I know that Ayende is really fond of this book, and I can't blame him. Like most books I've read over the last couple of years, this book i...
Read more ...Book Review: Agile Principles, Patterns and Practices in C#
August 30, 2008I already had this book lying around on my desk for about 2 years now. Boy, am I a douche bag for no reading it sooner. I welcome this book into my personal hall of fame...
Read more ...Book review: Code Leader - Using People, Tools and Processes to Build Successful Software
July 12, 2008Like Karl Seguin's most excellent book about the Foundations of the Programming (which is highly recommended), this book covers the basics that each programmer should live and b...
Read more ...Book review: NHibernate in Action
June 14, 2008Writing this book review feels kind of weird because it hasn't actually hit the shelves yet. It is accessible however through the Manning Early Access Program. This book provid...
Read more ...Book review: The Pragmatic Programmer
April 16, 2008I think I'm going to be brief about this one. Everything you ever heard or read about this book is true. If you don't have this book already, then go get it right now because yo...
Read more ...I've won!
March 30, 2008The Elegant Code Essay contest that is. I just won a free copy of Beautiful Code. You can read my essay here. Many thanks to the nice people of Elegant Code.
Read more ...Book review: The .NET Developer's Guide to Directory Services Programming
March 6, 2008This is THE book on Active Directory and LDAP programming in .NET. Why? Because it's the only book that covers System.DirectoryServices. This book contains a lot of tips & ...
Read more ...Book review: Working Effectively with Legacy Code
November 27, 2007There is a reason that this book is on the recommend reading list of the ALT.NET Wiki. For some reason, I had this book lying around on my desk for almost a year before I starte...
Read more ...Book review: Windows Developer Power Tools
July 23, 2007Over the weekend, I finished reading Windows Developer Power Tools. Its this huge and heavy book with 1207 pages of 170+ free tool goodness. The danger of buying a book like thi...
Read more ...Read "Beautiful Code" and make this a better world
July 12, 2007Good code should read like a good book. Combine these two and you get a book like Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think. I've had it on my wishlist for a wh...
Read more ...How to read a book
June 25, 2007Charles Petzold gives some great advice at how to read a book. He mentions some of the tips 'n tricks I already learned over the past couple of years: Don't get distracted in ...
Read more ...Build a solid core
April 8, 2007Essential reading from Jean-Paul S. Boodhoo about building a solid core. This post contains a number of truths that I want to point out. Many developers need to spend more time...
Read more ...Books, books, books ... so many books
July 22, 2006I am currently reading The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky. I simply love it. I’m coming to this point that I more appreciate this kind of books...
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