[DUG] Design Patterns book

[Colin Johnsun]

Whoops I meant that they are NOT directly related to Delphi.

On 29 August 2011 14:05, Colin Johnsun <colin.adug at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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