My Current Bookshelf

LinkDemand 2004-06-26

William.Blog() — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:06:00 GMT

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Andrew Stopford — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:18:00 GMT

Nice to see John Goughs book there :) What about the Probablistic Reasoning Intelligent Systems?

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Mark Jordan — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:51:00 GMT

Dude... thanks for the Christmas list. Only thing that is missing is the ISBN numbers so that I can print it out and hand it directly to my wife! 8^)

Seriously, this really will be my Christmas list for this year. So many quality books, and too little time.

P.S. to my wife... in leiu of books, please provide Amazon gift certificates 8^).

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Jeff Parker — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:15:00 GMT

Mike,

I know you have recomended to me a lot of good books in the past. So I do take all your recomendations seriously on sources for knowledge. But you know what I could really use is some of your blog recomendations.

Lets face it the Microsoft Blog community has really taken off and is an amazing source of knowledge. I spend more time a week I think reading the blogs there, than i do reading MSDN anymore. It also seems every time I go out there there are new blogs. Beside the knowledge out there, you begin to realize with some of the other stuff, like a mini paper arcade for example a lot of the MS Bloggers are geeks like the rest of us. Plus the MS bloggers being geeks find a lot of interesting and humorous stuff out there on web that they often share which makes it an even more interesting place.

Unfortunately the blogs are not very well categorized. So who's blogs do you recomend? Who's blogs do you find interesting?

For example I love to read Raymond Chen "The Old New Thing not actually a .NET blog" which he covers a lot of hard core in depth core windows things. While I admit there are a few time I find myself asking what in the hell is he talking about? It is still good reading.
http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/Rss.aspx

And another one I found today which is a new one proves to be very interesting. Or at least is off to a good start is Rick Brewster
http://blogs.msdn.com/rickbrew/Rss.aspx

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jason sherron — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:27:00 GMT

Phew, I feel much better about myself after reading your review on "Object Thinking". I, too, had huge expectations based on the previews, and I felt EXACTLY like you do when I was finished. Up until right now, I was almost ashamed, feeling like I had "missed the point". Thanks for giving me back a little self-confidence!

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Mark Levison — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 21:30:00 GMT

An interestinglist of books. I gues its time for me to dive into the Brad's book. I bought POSA a few years ago with my own cash. I've been quite disappointed and its been gathering dust ever since. A few more books I would add to your list: "Effective Java" by Josh Bloch - most of what it is could be applied to C#. Finally for a refreshing perspective on Agile methodologies try Alistar Cockburn (perhaps his Crystal Clear book which is now in draft form http://alistair.cockburn.us/crystal/books/cc/crystalclear.zip).

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M. — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:01:00 GMT

Spooky. At first I thought that somebody sneaked into my place, pictured my bookshelf and sneaked out. Even the color of the wood matches. But then I looked closer and saw that there is some 10% difference between yours and mine in book content.

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Greg Robinson — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:48:00 GMT

Sure this isn't a photo of my shelf? Great minds 'read' alike.

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Greg Robinson — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 22:51:00 GMT

BTW:

"Based on its description, I was really looking forward to this book. And after reading a couple of chapters, I decided to give it a little more time. And I kept reading. And yes, there is some interesting history, and there are mildly interesting tangents into philosophy, but overall, Mr. West seems to want to listen to himself talk and drop names. He makes some good points about what it means to truly be an object in an object-oriented system, and there are kernels of good information sprikled throughout the text. But, in the end, this book wasn't written for the audience. It was written for Mr. West. Read Domain-Driven Design instead (or Object Design for that matter)."

+1; I am having a difficult time staying interested in this one.

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Michael Swanson — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:39:00 GMT

Greg:

I'd trust your instincts on this one. Bail out while you still can. :)

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Michael Swanson — Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:46:00 GMT

Andrew:

"Probablistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems" is a book that I bought to help me understand Bayesian inference techniques for the NxOpinion project I keep mentioning (http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2004/jan04/01-21NxOpinion.asp). It is a *very* deep text that talks about making plausible decisions when faced with uncertainty. Of course, it is all based on probability and statistics. I'd be lying if I told you I had read the whole thing. I've only read through small sections...if I read it too long, blood starts to ooze from my brain. Of course, that's my own deficiency. I can't properly assess it, but I can say that it came highly recommended.

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jaybaz [MS] WebLog — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 06:36:00 GMT

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Marco Dorantes — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:38:00 GMT

Gold! pure gold!

May I make a suggestion?

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns
by Kent Beck
ISBN: 013476904X

It is not just about Smalltalk, perhaps the Smalltalk part is very small

TITLE: Programming Pearls
by Jon Louis Bentley
ISBN: 0201657880

serious thinking about programming

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