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:: LAAS Web Site - Release 4.0 - September 2007 ::

Recent Readings

This section cotains my recent readings. Some of them are in Italian, but in this case they are just a transltion of an existing english book.
The books are ordered by date.

UML E DESIGN PATTERN NOTAZIONI GRAFICHE E SOLUZIONI PER LA PROGETTAZIONE by BIGATTI MASSIMILIANO This is an italian book written by an italian programmers. The book is very interesting and the approach make it easily readable. Main topic is Desing Pattern.

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Applications Advanced Topics by Dino Esposito See my article

My Job Went To India And all i got was this lousy book by Chad Fowler See my article

Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson The Ruby on Rails bible. If you want to learn Rails and deeply analyze the development process behind the framework then you must have this book. The book starts with a long tutorial (about 160 pages); at the end of the tutorial the authors you will find a set of chapters about the framework, the Active objects, the main libraries and so on.

Ruby per applicazioni Web by Marco Ceresa This is my first book about Ruby. It's a good book, written in italian by an italian developer. The main argument of the book is Ruby (the syntax, the libraries and the environment); the book is oriented to web development. I think this is a good start point in order to learn Ruby. Italian developers: let's buy this book!

Professional ADO.NET 2.0 Programming with SQL Server 2005, Oracle, and MySQL by Various authors If you are a .NET developer, you must have this book. Basically, the book is written for SQL Server users, but you can easily find some tricks in order to use the .NET Library with Oracle and SQL Server. I think that if you are using .NET framework on Windows Server, then you have to use SQL Server; if you are developing on Mono, then MySQL is the best choice. And Oracle? Simply use Java :-)

Mastering Oracle SQL 2nd Edition by Sanjay Mishra,Alan Beaulieu This book is useful if you are new to PL/SQL programming. If you have just developed some kind of procedure or function, then in this book you will find some useful tips and tricks able to improve your code.

Extreme Progeamming Adventures in C# by Ron Jeffries This book is useful in order to understand that: first of all, if you are a developer then your life will be hard! Extreme Programming is a new approach to software development that exclude software design and brings developers directly in front of their computers. The sentence is: develop, develop and develop, then try your code and solve the bug. If you need some kind of Software Design Specifications then you are a loser! You will write your software specs after the release of your code. Really, I hate Extreme Programming !

Applicazioni .NET by G. Shepherd - J. Roberts - R. Williams - R. Sorensen Buying this book I expected to find some really useful Sample Applications (such as Web services); this is not ! I think this book is not so useful !

Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference by Dino Esposito This is one of the best book I've ever read about software development. It covers all you need to know about server side development using the .NET framework and ASP.NET 2.0. All the arguments are clearly exposed. Let me say that it's not Microsoft Oriented; it emphasize the power of the framework and should be useful also to Mono Developer

Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell How code should be written ? Read this book and you will find the answer. Really a good book, but I think that the best readers are young developers with less than 2 years of experience in developing software. In my opinion, too many things in this book are obvious.

Software Project Survival Guide How to Be Sure Your First Important Project Isn't Your Last. by Steve McConnell Project Management at the state of the Art. I think that all the people involved in Software Development Process should read this book.

L' arte dell'inganno by Mitnick Kevin D.; Simon William L. Interesting reading about the art of "social engineering".

Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity by Joel Spolsky Really a funny book ! A "must" for all the Project Manager who know the meaning of "source code developement".

Mono: A Developer's Notebook by Edd Dumbill, Niel M. Bornstein I've started with this book my experience with Mono, C#, Gtk# and MonoDevelop. I think it's really a good reading for all people who want to learn more about mono. Very useful!

Codice Libero (Free as in Freedom) by Sam Williams A good "free" book with an interesting interview to Richard Stallman. The book is available for a "free" reading in various format, both the Italian translation and the original format.

LAAS official web site - release 0.4 @ September - 2007