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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die 224 reviews
Chip Heath, Dan Heath
Random House, 2007
A must-read for anyone involved in communication/presentation
+ Get your communication to "stick" just like an urban legend
+ Veteran reviews Made to Stick by Heath.
+ If you could make yourself significantly more powerful by reading 336 pages, wouldn't you?
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Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)19 reviews
Michael Nygard
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2007
Buy it
+ Brilliant architecture book that pretends to be yet another programmer guide
+ Interesting, but inconsistent
+ Sound Advice
+ Must read for any web software engineer
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The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)24 reviews
Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006
Effectively tackles all aspects of website design
+ Patterns for web interface design
+ Well laid out and explained
+ By Far the best Book on Designing winning web sites available
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future202 reviews
Daniel H. Pink
Riverhead Trade, 2006
A Whole New Mind
+ Conceptualization
+ Compelling Read
An overwhelming wake up call for the "go to school, get good grades, get a good paying job" thinkers. I want to give this book to my kids especially my youngest who is interested in getting her MBA.
The new staple for a changing educational and economical future.
If you don't read this book, ...
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The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things 8 reviews
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2007
How intelligence will be installed in new devices
+ Augmenation, not automation
This book was very interesting, as all of Don Norman's books are. In this book he goes into detail about how future designers will need to design future devices, how they can make them more useful and more human. He talks a lot about how what sounds like seemingly 'no-brainer' new features ...
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The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals463 reviews
Michael Pollan
Penguin, 2007
Amazing Read
+ The True Cost of Eating Your Lunch
+ Changed My World View
+ Eye-opener/mouth-closer
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design 9 reviews
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, ...
Wiley, 2007
Nearly a complete course in the "Cooper Method"
+ If it was all obvious, there wouldn't be a book about it!
+ Essential Reading
I read (and still have) the previous two editions of this book. Unlike the usual "complete revised and updated" hype for new editions, this one has had some serious re-work and expansion.
The whole structure of the book is new and very close to being a complete course/textbook in the Cooper ...
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Test-Driven Development: A Practical Guide (Coad Series)14 reviews
David Astels
Prentice Hall PTR, 2003
Great work covering TDD from the ground up to adv. topics
+ Very helpful but not perfect
+ Great book!
+ Finally, not just another book about web applications!
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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)) 34 reviews
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
Not for the faint hearted
I like this book but it is a flawed thing.
Worth the read but not convinced it is worth the cost.
I started more than half the chapters and skipped on because either it was too obtuse or specific to a given language/problem or too general to be useful.
However there are also some great ...
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Java Concurrency in Practice 51 reviews
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
The best book on Java concurrency out there.
+ Superb book.
+ Excellent primer for an oft overlooked and misunderstood topic
+ Excellent book for Java 1.5 Concurrency
+ Best Java Concurrency Book -must read.
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The Productive Programmer (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))13 reviews
Neal Ford
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008
Concise work for productive, common sense development
+ useful and inspiring
+ Easy read full of helpful advice
+ Solid concepts backed with slightly biased information
+ Simply Briliant!
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The Design of Everyday Things149 reviews
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2002
A Must Read for every Designer
+ One of the best books any designer could read
+ Vey fast delivery very prompt service
As a human being we think we know other people and how they see and use products. This book tells many amusing anecdotes about products that were not successful because the designer made the things is a way he would have liked and not in the way real users use it. The book is written full of humor ...
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High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers32 reviews
Steve Souders
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
High Performance Web Sites
+ Great book on web site performance
+ Great Content, but not much unique in book-to-Web comparison
+ It works! After this lecture my site becomes 90% faster
+ High Performance Web Sites
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Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications36 reviews
Toby Segaran
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
An Eye Openning Inspiring Book
+ A visionary book that illuminates the Internet
+ Wow
I got more from this book than I have from any other book I read in the past couple of years!
It covers in a streamlined form a huge array of algorithms powering the contemporary web - from recomendation engines to a search engine that includes as one of its features the Google PageRank ...
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Ship it! A Practical Guide to Successful Software Projects
Jared Richardson, William Gwaltney
Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2005
Ship It! is a collection of tips that show the tools and techniques a successful project team has to use, and how to use them well. You'll get quick, easy-to-follow advice on modern practices: which to use, and when they should be applied. This book avoids current fashion trends and marketing hype; instead, readers find page after page of solid advice, all tried and tested in the ...
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature39 reviews
Steven Pinker
Viking Adult, 2007
Excellent
+ Still a Good Read in Spite of its Flaws
+ Good but dense
Take One: Steven Pinker is the premier purveyor of the parsed poesy of plain prose.
No, that won't do. No matter how accurate that statement is, its excessive alliteration is bound to sound too cutesy for such an engaging read as his latest foray into the way mankind thinks and speaks.
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master129 reviews
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
A must read for every programmer
+ Must-read for anyone working with or creating software
+ needed knowledge
The book is a must read for every serious programmer. Authors shares their expertise in software development and the book is filled with a lot of advises and tehnologies to be used in software development process. If you are a pragrammtic programmer or want to become one, the book is a must read. ...
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The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things8 reviews
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books, 2007
How intelligence will be installed in new devices
+ Augmenation, not automation
This book was very interesting, as all of Don Norman's books are. In this book he goes into detail about how future designers will need to design future devices, how they can make them more useful and more human. He talks a lot about how what sounds like seemingly 'no-brainer' new features ...
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The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)24 reviews
Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 2006
Effectively tackles all aspects of website design
+ Patterns for web interface design
+ Well laid out and explained
+ By Far the best Book on Designing winning web sites available
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About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design9 reviews
Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, ...
Wiley, 2007
Nearly a complete course in the "Cooper Method"
+ If it was all obvious, there wouldn't be a book about it!
+ Essential Reading
I read (and still have) the previous two editions of this book. Unlike the usual "complete revised and updated" hype for new editions, this one has had some serious re-work and expansion.
The whole structure of the book is new and very close to being a complete course/textbook in the Cooper ...
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