Books
We have a small library at Eau de Web, about two or three shelves' worth, mostly about programming. There are a few non-technical, very interesting titles, like Blink, but most of them are Python/Zope/Web oriented. Now, it so happens that I had a wishlist of books that had been building up, mostly from blog pages – Mark Bernstein, Tim Bray, etc – and our little library was missing all of them. So I told management about this problem and the books were ordered from Amazon. (For the record: there's 9 of us in the company; the "management" department is rather small.)
They arrived today, all five of them:
- Beautiful Code (many contributors)
- Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming In Code
- Tim Berners-Lee – Weaving The Web
- Brian Kernighan & P. J. Plauger – Software Tools
- Tracy Kidder – The Soul Of A New Machine
Here's to hoping I'll read them all anytime soon :)
Reader Comments
I'm interested in "Dreaming in Code" too... :)
If you found the books from this list: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000020.html
try to read them too.
Start with "Peopleware", a great book about management, but unfortunately, the people that need to read it, don't do it.
I'm currently reading "Code Complete", a great book about programming. I strongly recommend this too.
Lucky for me that this books are available on my company's small library.
Right now the books at hand far outweigh my time to read them :) Another one just came up on the list: Michael Feathers - Working Effectively With Legacy Code.