When I looked up the publishing date for this book, I was surprised to find out that the book is 11 years old. The content feels as if written today. The authors’ advice is as relevant as ever. I am sure that it will stay relevant at least for the next 10 years.
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Burkhard on Qt Embedded Systems: No. 15
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Book Review: “A Philosophy of Software Design” by John Ousterhout
“Complexity is anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify the system.” John Ousterhout, The Philosophy of Software Design, Chapter 2 Complexity is also known as technical debt, which quickly grows into technical inflation. Strategic programmers understand that they must do everything to make progams easy...
Book Review: “Accelerate” by Nicole Forsgren et al.
The book Accelerate – Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations by Nicole Forsgren et al. is an eye opener and game changer for everyone involved in software development. Nicole provides empirical evidence why teams that apply best practices like test and deployment automation, continuous integration, loosely coupled architectures and team empowerment by far outperform...
Book Review: “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
My favourite business book of 2018 is It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. The reason why people work crazy hours is not that there is […] more work to be done all of a sudden. The problem is that there’s hardly any uninterrupted, dedicated time to...