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Book Review: Essential LINQ

During my recent vacation, I read the final print version of Essential LINQ , by Charlie Calvert and Dinesh Kulkarni. Normally, I try to answer the question, “Who should read this book?” That answer eluded...

Posted 13 July 2009 11:08 AM by wwagner | with no comments

Filed under: LINQ, C#, books, C# General, DevCenterPosts, BookReviews

Book Review: Mike Cohn X 2

I’m covering two books by Mike Cohn in this post: User Stories Applied , and Agile Estimating and Planning . I’m reviewing them together because I read both of them at the same time, and some of the content...

Posted 09 February 2009 10:08 PM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Book Review: Working with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

  I don’t think Working With Legacy Code gets the respect and readership that it should.  I believe that’s because most of us have a working definition of legacy code that implies something we...

Posted 31 October 2008 08:41 AM by wwagner | 2 comment(s)

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Yet another Book Post: The C# Programming Language 3rd Edition (Annotated)

I was recently notified that the 3rd edition of the C# Programming Language is out. This version has is new in several ways. Obviously, it includes a description of all the new C# 3.0 language features...

Posted 23 October 2008 11:52 AM by wwagner | 1 comment(s)

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Book Review: Mary & Tom Poppendieck

Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash A while back, I read Mary and Tom Poppendieck's "Implementing Lean Software Development: From Concept to Cash". That tag line...

Posted 28 June 2007 03:18 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Review of Poppendieck's Lean Software Development: An Agile Approach

A great book for convincing your company, or your customers, more agile A little more than a month ago, at CodeMash, I had the pleasure of spending quite a bit of time with Mary & Tom Poppendieck discussing...

Posted 13 March 2007 04:10 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Another Book Review

.NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol II I received a care package from Addison-Wesley the other day: My reviewer copy of the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference, Vol...

Posted 30 August 2005 05:38 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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Yet another book review

Balena & DiMauro: Practical Guidelines and Best Practices for Visual Basic and Visual C# Developers. Yes, I have been reading quite a bit. This is a very good book for relative newcomers to .NET development...

Posted 16 August 2005 05:07 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Book Preview

Or, is it a review? Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina have finished writing "Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries". I was lucky enough to...

Posted 14 August 2005 11:38 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Book Review

Keith Brown - The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security. This book is divided into six sections. Most important is “The Big Picture”. Every developer (whether you use .NET, or another...

Posted 02 August 2005 06:46 PM by wwagner | with no comments

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Book Recommendation: Graphics Programming with GDI+

Just because a friend asked recently. A colleague of mine had some fairly detailed questions about graphics programming in .NET. My favorite refernce is Graphics Programming with GDI+, by Mahesh Chand...

Posted 16 March 2005 05:32 AM by wwagner | with no comments

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