[DUG] Design Patterns book

[Colin Johnsun]

I have three books on my reading list that I have picked up and put
down many times over the past year or so. They are directly related to
Delphi or but are worth reading from a general point of view of
becoming a better programmer.

Here are my three books:

The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove. The book uses examples in C#
and .Net but this is a great book about how to write *good* unit tests
and some of the pitfalls to avoid. This is not so much about the
mechanics of writing unit tests but more about the best practices
involved in creating unit tests.

The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin. It's the follow up book to Clean
Code also by "Uncle Bob". In this book he talks about the ideals of
being a "software craftsman". All about the technique, tools and
practices to make us better programmers.

Continuous Delivery by David Farley and Jez Humble. Great book on
automating the whole software build process all the way to delivering
the final product. The idea is not so much that you have to always
deliver the final product in this agile method but the fact that you
can.

Cheers,
Colin

On 29 August 2011 07:39, Alister Christie <alister at salespartner.co.nz> wrote:
> For those interested, you can get the GOF Design Patterns ebook for $US10
> today.  I've not (yet) read it, but it's one of those books that everyone
> references.  The other one would be Refactoring by Martin Fowler (which I
> have read).
>
> What are other people reading at the moment.?
>
> The last few books I've read have been Bob Swarts Intraweb book, the
> Intraweb manual and a couple of books on jQuery Mobile.
>
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