Books
Currently reading list of technical and non-technical books.
So, here's a little shameless self plug for a book that Bryan Sampica and I are writing...also, I'm using this blog post as a warm up for my writing this evening! Yes, like I just mentioned, I'm co-authoring a book for Wrox with Bryan entitled, ASP.NET 3.5 Programmer's Reference. The purpose of the book is to get you the novice/beginner introduced to the features of ASP.NET 3.5, and hopefully teach you a few tricks things along the way. The book is due out in November, so that means that my summer (evenings) is pretty much booked up. I must...
I haven't done this in a while, so I apologize. Here's my current reading list for technical/non-technical books: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Thus far is a pretty good book. When I picked it up, it sounded like a great book since it tries to answer the "how" of the unexpected. For some reason, I'm always a sucker for these type of books. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson I love biographies because they provide a different insight on a person's life. I've only managed to...
Good To Great - Jim Collins I've been meaning to read this book for quite sometime now, so why not now? I've had lots of friends tell me that it's good and that I should read it. Any of my three readers out there, what do you think of this book? The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture - John Battelle This seemed like a pretty good read from the reviews and back cover synopsis. Once again, readers have you read/heard anything on this book? All in the...